TUESDAY
MAY 9
2017

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET

SPECIAL PREMIERE: I had listed this in Sunday’s Best bets by mistake. Netflix actually premieres this special today – so I’ll repeat what I wrote a few days ago. Netflix continues its bumper crop of standup comedy specials by presenting the very dry, very clever Norm Macdonald in a new standup special. The promo for it consists of the former anchor for “Weekend Update” on Saturday Night Live musing about how weird it is that the accepted abbreviation for “identification” is “ID.” As abbreviations go, he points out, the D is doing all the work. If that strikes you as funny (as it does me), then this special is for you.

 
  
 
 

ABC, 8:00 p.m. ET

SEASON FINALE: Just as I’m picking up my cap and gown for college graduation ceremonies, so is Axl. The difference is, I’m a professor, so there’s no pressure, whereas Axl is so thrown by the thought of entering the “real world” for good that he assents to a heart-to-heart talk – with his mom (Patricia Heaton). And Sue, halfway through her own college experience, is a bit depressed by it all, but not for long, as her day, and the season for The Middle, ends with a sudden explosion of song.

 
  
 
 

NBC, 8:00 p.m. ET

Tonight’s the elimination night, when the Top 10 becomes the Top 9. That’s good news for 90 percent of this season’s surviving contestants – but for the Bottom 10 percent, it’ll hurt a lot.

 
  
 
 

CW, 9:00 p.m. ET

Tonight, Liv (Rose McIver), whose brain-eating survival habits lead her to temporarily absorb the memories and personalities of the corpses upon whom she feasts, isn’t so much snacking on brains, as on scatterbrains. She eats the brains of a woman best described as a “hot mess” – which has Liv, before long, acting like a warmed-over mess.

 
  
 
 

ABC, 10:00 p.m. ET

The heroes of S.H.I.E.L.D. have made their way out of the Framework alternate reality, and back into the “real world.” But their problems don’t end there. In fact, with one of the main villains in the Framework having survived and escaped along with them, those problems could indeed get worse. Aida (Mallory Jansen) has succeeded in becoming human now, and has taken Fitz (Iain De Caestecker) with her on her new journey… whether he wants to go or not.

 
  
 
 

FX, 10:00 p.m. ET

Last week’s episode had the American sleeper agents questioning and investigating themselves – not Elizabeth and Philip (Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys), who are closer than ever, but their fellow-spy fake adopted son Tuan (Ivan Mok), whose movements had become suspicious. For now, they’re accepting his story and trusting him – but this week, another suspicious revelation comes to light. And this time, the one who discovers it is Elizabeth and Philip’s daughter, Paige (Holly Taylor). Like mother, like daughter…

 
  
 
 
 
 
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David Bianculli has been a TV critic since 1975, including a 14-year stint at the New York Daily News, and sees no reason to stop now. Currently, he's TV critic for NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and is an occasional substitute host for that show. He's also an author and teaches TV and film history at New Jersey's Rowan University. His 2009 Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour', has been purchased for film rights. His latest, The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific, is an effusive guidebook that plots the path from the 1950s’ Golden Age to today’s era of quality TV.