SUNDAY
OCTOBER 14
2018

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

TBS, 7:00 p.m. ET

The Boston Red Sox won 108 games during the regular season, and the Houston Astros won 103. Given that impressively high level of efficiency, you’d expect their postseason play to be crisp. Instead, in yesterday’s opener for the American League pennant, the only crisp thing was the weather. The Astros won 7-2, but play was sloppy on both sides – especially the Red Sox. Today is Game 2, with plenty of room for improvement.

 
  
 
 

BBC America, 8:00 p.m. ET

I briefly, and erroneously, had this listed under yesterday’s Best Bets – but as several of you noted, and took time to help me see the error of my ways, this second episode of the new Doctor Who season airs Sunday, tonight. (Thanks for everyone who wrote in. Good to know you’re still out there, and paying such close attention.) So what I wrote yesterday now, finally, applies: Last week, this long-running British sci-fi series unveiled the 13th actor to play the title role – and while the first dozen casting choices made the Doctor a he, the current incarnation of the Time Lord marks the first time the Doctor is a she. Jodie Whittaker stars, and, as both she and this new version of Doctor Who continue to take shape, embodies a certain type of TV history.

 
  
 
 

Showtime, 8:00 p.m. ET

Will Kanye West’s White House visit this week get any coverage here? You can’t help but wonder… and hope.

 
  
 
 

CW, 9:00 p.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: One of the executive producers of this new remake of the popular (and, by TNT, endlessly rerun most mornings) Charmed fantasy series was also behind CW’s Jane the Virgin, so you’d expect a light and funny touch when remaking this series about a troika of wicca sisters. Instead, this 2018 version of Charmed leans, and in its first outing falls, in the opposite direction. It’s so on point with its determination to cover everything from #MeToo and minority empowerment to bullying and the current White House occupant that all those boxes are ticked off in the pilot. And the three young sisters, once they learn of their latent witchly powers and the supernatural forces amassed against them, are ticked off too. Sarah Jeffery, Melonie Diaz, and Madeleine Mantock play the literally empowered siblings, and Rupert Evans plays their British guardian angel of sorts – the Giles to their coven of Buffys. It could lighten up, and be more subtle and more entertaining, in future episodes. But for now, for starters, it didn’t put a spell on me… For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.
 
  
 
 

AMC, 9:00 p.m. ET

Last week, in the Season 9 premiere, Maggie (Lauren Cohan) had a really rough time of it as a new community leader, and after being at the end of her rope, put an adversarial character at the end of his – and had him hanged. In tonight’s episode, with that act of justice and/or revenge still on her mind, she seeks out Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), the man who forced her to kneel, along with all her friends, as Negan brutally murdered her beloved Glenn. Negan’s been confined to solitary imprisonment, but Maggie, confronting Negan for the first time since he bashed Glenn’s brains out, may well impose her own sentence…

 
  
 
 

HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET

Tonight is the episode in which (Maggie Gyllenhaal) realizes her relatively lofty X-rated filmmaking ambitions by hitting the streets of New York – not to sell her body in exchange for investment funds for the movie (she’s done that already), but to shoot, guerrilla style, the actual film, a modern-day, very bawdy retelling of “Little Red Riding Hood.” Her version is called, and is, “Red Hot,” and stars a fellow prostitute, Lori (Emily Meade, pictured), in the title role. I’ll be watching tonight’s episode on my largest widescreen TV – the better to see it with, my dears…

 
  
 
 

HBO, 10:00 p.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: This new HBO comedy series is noteworthy, as it begins, because it stars two actors not best known for comedy – though Jennifer Garner has starred in romcom films that are light comedies, and David Tennant, in his reign as Doctor Who, has displayed a constant and winning comic flair. They play a dysfunctional married couple who go camping, and have a series of misadventures, in a series based on a British miniseries starring, and created by, Julia Davis of Nighty Night. For full reviews, see Ed Bark's Uncle Barky's Bytes and David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.
 
  
 
 

ABC, 10:01 p.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE:  Alec Baldwin, who has hosted seasons of The Essentials on Turner Classic Movies, as well as his own podcasts, jumps into the talk show fray – but unlike most actors and others trying out the form, and shifting from interviewee to interviewer, is doing it on broadcast TV, and in prime time. His opening guests, with whom he speaks one at a time, are both actors: Robert De Niro, who directed and co-starred with Baldwin in 2006’s The Good Shepherd, and Taraji P. Henson, who has not, I don’t think, acted opposite Baldwin yet, even when she guest hosted Saturday Night Live.

 
  
 
 

HBO, 11:00 p.m. ET

Will Kanye West’s White House visit this week get any coverage here? You can’t help but wonder… and hope.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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David Bianculli

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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.