NBC, 8:00 p.m. ET
If you avoided this series last season, and even avoided last week’s Season 2 premiere, it may be because the premise sounded just too weird or cute: a young woman awakens from a brain scan to discover she can intermittently see and hear the inner emotions of people around her, as conveyed in song and dance. Or you may have just thought there’s nothing worth watching on the commercial broadcast networks any more. Either way, in this case, you’re wrong – and I urge you to watch this touching, tender series, if only to witness Jane Levy’s marvelous performance as Zoey. This season, she’s mostly on her own, having lost two mentors very important to her – but Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, like its title character, is not only unusually sensitive and empathic, but inspirationally resilient.
NBC, 9:00 p.m. ET
There’s a significant flashback reveal in tonight’s episode – one that explains how Randall, one member of this show’s extended family, came to be in the same maternity ward as the others. For fans, it’s a long-awaited, key part of the backstory.
Fox, 9:00 p.m. ET
SEASON PREMIERE: Season 2 of this Fox series finds a way to give more freedom, and thus more menace, to the serial murderer played by Michael Sheen. Prodigal Son frequently not only stretches credibility, but snaps it – yet Sheen is such a riveting actor, he’s reason enough to keep watching. He’s killer.