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APRIL 22
2018

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CBS All Access, 3:00 a.m. ET

In tonight’s new episode, the lawyers at Redding, Boseman and Lockhart take on an incendiary case, one in which an African-American undercover cop was shot, and crippled, by another Chicago officer. Representing the other officer is legendary lawyer Solomon Waltzer, played by the real-life legendary Alan Alda.

 
  
 
 

BBC America, 8:00 p.m. ET

Episode 3 of this playful and perverse new series – TV’s most twisted take on a serial murderer since Dexter – starts with the latest target of hit woman Villanelle (Jodie Comer) indulging in some kinky fun during a business trip checking himself into a “medical facility” staffed by a dominatrix. Unfortunately for him, the establishment’s usual purveyor of pain and pleasure has been replaced for the day – with Villanelle, wearing a black wig and flashing the smile of a professional killer who enjoys her work perhaps a bit too much. And for this week’s Killing Eve, that’s just the opening scene…

 
  
 
 

Showtime, 8:00 p.m. ET

Last week’s season premiere was almost breathtaking, because it was virtually breathless: John Heilemann, Mark McKinnon and new Circus correspondent Alex Wagner (replacing the disgraced Mark Halperin) covered three countries in the half-hour premiere: Russia (talking with both an official state media executive and an undercover worker at one of Russia’s fake-news rumor mills), England (getting reaction to the poisoning of two Russians on British soil), and the U.S., where President Trump chided Russia’s Vladimir Putin in a tweet for the first time, and all three countries expelled diplomats in a scary game of  Cold War chess. And this week, the game both continued and reversed, making tonight’s episode, with Trump’s Russian reversal and all the James Comey coverage, a must-see.

 
  
 
 

HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: Season 2 of Westworld begins the same way Season 1 did, with Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) and Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) in a laboratory environment, quietly discussing dreams and asking some very big questions. Except this year, the unsettling dream is Bernard’s, and the relationship between these two, as well as their understanding of their inner drives and desires, has changed significantly. Westworld expands slowly but very surely in this year’s first handful of episodes, eventually taking us to another of the futuristic amusement park’s fantasy environments, Shogun World – but the inner voyages in Westworld continue to be the most significant of all. Especially this season, as the women, in particular, take charge of their own destinies. To read and hear my review on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, visit the Fresh Air website. And for a full review here on TVWW, see Ed Bark’s Uncle Barky’s Bytes.
 
  
 
 

Showtime, 9:00 p.m. ET

Last week’s episode included a president planning to fire some cabinet members abruptly and a Russian plot to weaken the U.S. government by spreading distrust and fake news. That’s one of the things I love about Homeland – it’s so soothing, at the end of another busy week, to just forget about the headlines and relax with a show that’s pure fantasy. Oh, well. At least, by the end of the episode, Carrie and Saul (Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin) were sharing not only scenes, but a top-secret mission, and heading off to save the world. Again…

 
  
 
 

HBO, 10:30 p.m. ET

This comedy gets more comically complex every week, with increasing levels of power struggles, people adopting roles, and the two lives of Bill Hader’s Barry – hit man and struggling Los Angeles actor – finding more and more ways to intersect. Barry has showcased Hader beautifully, but the show is generous to his co-stars as well. Last week, a scene in which Barry’s acting teacher, played by Henry Winkler, meets Paula Newsome’s Detective Moss for dinner at an upscale restaurant was a delicious little chunk of television. Moss was all business, searching for information about a murder victim, but Winkler’s Gene Cousineau slipped on a seductive persona – playing the part of a confident man intent on charming Moss – and it worked. And in so doing, Winkler appeared to be having such a great time acting, and an even greater time playing an acting teacher who was acting to get through a bit of real life.

 
  
 
 

HBO, 11:00 p.m. ET

Last week on Last Week, John Oliver ended the show with a very welcome respite from political news. After noting that a Russell Crowe “divorce auction” held by the actor in Australia had resulted in such winning bids as $7,000 for the leather jockstrap worn by Crowe in the 2005 boxing film Cinderella Man, Oliver admitted that several items from that auction, including the jockstrap, had in fact been purchased by Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Then he noted that, because of its remote location and a paucity of strong Internet coverage, Anchorage was one of the only remaining American cities with a Blockbuster Video store – and if the manager of that store would call Last Week within 48 hours, the show would donate all the purchased auction items as store displays to help that Blockbuster stay in business. The good news: The manager indeed called, and the deal to transfer the goods, leather jock and all, is on. Wouldn’t you love to be a staff writer on Last Week Tonight right now, working for Oliver, for whom, clearly, no idea is too outrageous, or too outside the box? For that matter, wouldn’t it be fun to be Oliver’s accountant, where all this nonsense would be justifiable line-item budget deductions?

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.