‘Killing Eve’ Rocks, ‘Howards End’ Enthralls, ‘Good Fight’ Packs a Punch, ‘Westworld’ Returns
A selective critical checklist of notable weekend TV:
Killing Eve (Sunday, 8/7c, BBC America): The action moves to Berlin in a pivotal episode of this happy spring surprise, a thrillingly entertaining cat-and-mouse spy story. Eve (Sandra Oh) and Bill (David Haig) are hot on the trail of international assassin Villanelle (Jodie Comer), who appears to be getting dangerously reckless. The killer is playful enough that she uses Eve’s name as an alias, but could she be luring her adversaries into a trap?
Howards End (Sunday, 8/7c, Starz): In the next-to-last chapter of Kenneth Lonergan’s acclaimed adaptation of the E.M. Forster classic, Margaret (Hayley Atwell) gives her “only connect” speech as she considers joining her life to that of the emotionally repressed Henry Wilcox (Matthew Macfadyen). Sister Helen (Philippa Coulthard) doesn’t approve, and plots an unpleasant surprise at the wedding.
The Good Fight (Sunday, streaming on CBS All Access): No show attracts a higher caliber of guest star than the smartly topical Good Wife spinoff. Alan Alda guests as Solomon Waltzer, a revered elder-statesman lawyer who’s a lot sharper than he looks. Facing Diane (Christine Baranski) and Julian (Delroy Linda) in the case of an officer-involved shooting of an undercover cop, Solomon seems benign and possibly off his game, until his tactics bring the insidious practice of micro-targeting fake news into focus. Issues of unequal justice roil the firm, even as Diane’s marriage to Kurt (Gary Cole) is once again challenged.
Westworld (Sunday, 9/8c, HBO): The tables have turned in the thrilling second season of the acclaimed sci-fi drama, with the newly awakened Artificial Intelligence android “hosts” in violent revolt against their human masters. Now that they can choose their own destiny, is there any hope for humanity if these newly sentient beings escape the confines of the theme park? (See the full review.)
Inside Weekend TV: The Laff network salutes the late Harry Anderson Saturday with a 12-episode “All Rise for Harry” Night Court marathon (1 pm/12 c). … Good Morning America’s Lara Spencer heads to Cleveland, seeking local delights and flea-market bargains in the Travel Channel special Eat, Drink, Haggle (Saturday, 2 pm/1c). … NBC’s Dateline (Sunday, 7/6c) revisits the sex abuse scandal within the U.S. women’s gymnastic program in a special investigative episode, “Silent No More,” featuring the first interview on the subject from team coordinators Bela and Martha Karolyi. Gold medalists McKayla Maroney and Aly Raisman. … AMC’s martial-arts extravaganza Into the Badlands returns for a third season (Sunday, 10/9c), with Sunny (Daniel Wu) back in the Badlands, seeking a cure for his son. How long before he’s caught up in the civil war between The Widow (Emily Beecham) and Chau (Eleanor Matsuura)? … It sometimes feels like Fox’s Family Guy (Sunday, 9/8c) has been on forever, and in a fanciful change of pace, it celebrates a 60th anniversary (not quite) with a retrospective looking back at events of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s.
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Yea!!! The MOVIES ON TV are back!!!
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Can you see the whole description? My display cuts off the right side of them. It doesn't really matter that much since I can't get any of the channels they're on.
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Don...with Win-10 and Edge browser...I get the COMPLETE descriptions...with the same amount of space to the RIGHT of them as the space to the LEFT of the left items on the page.
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Killing Eve is an absolute delight! Unforgotten on Masterpiece is also wonderful!!
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Delroy Lindo, not Linda. Plus: "Gold medalists McKayla Maroney and Aly Raisman." Yes? That's a sentence fragment, not a sentence. I'd guess there's a missing predicate like "are interviewed as well" or "speak out again".
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We caught up on some DVR and Netflix last night, but haven't started Killing Eve yet. Tonight is at least Westworld and, well, Last Week Tonight [edit] -- if possible, but given my early start to the day it'll probably wait until tomorrow. I gave up on Walking Dead, which I think I left off my quick rundown of comics adaptations on TV a while back, a couple of seasons ago now and never watched the spinoff.
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The Laff Network? What is this...network of the week? It seems like every week he mentions a network or a streaming service I've never heard of.
My Sundays are still so packed full of shows that I can't watch them all. I think I'll just give up on trying to watch Instinct and Deception and stick with shows I already know I like such as Fear the Walking Dead and Into the Badlands.
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I think I used to get Laff channel. As you can imagine, nothing but sitcoms, most of them pretty much middle-of-the-road. I don't think I still get that channel, not that I miss it.
I'll watch Ransom tonight and then The Zoo. Sunday night will be all CBS for me.
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Oh, no...don't plan on it! The last time you did that you got sick and didn't catch up on anything! Just say, "I'll do it if I get around to it." 😉
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I don't love Fear, but there are things about it that I like. I still don't like Kim Dickens' character, but her son has gotten more likable. At least he finally took a bath and changed clothes!
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"Laff" is a subchannel or Digital net, that you can get over the air.
Mostly reruns of old comedy shows, I never watch it but I get it.
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I'm too far from a city to get anything over the air now.
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