‘Face Off’ Finale, ‘Frontline’ on Charlottesville, ‘Carter’ on WGNA
A critical checklist of notable Tuesday TV:
Face Off (9/8c, Syfy): The number (and season) 13 wasn’t lucky for this terrific competition series of fantasy/horror make-up artists, which packs up its kit one last time in the series finale. (Here’s hoping Syfy, which overexposed the show with too-frequent runs some years, will consider a more measured comeback somewhere down the line.) In part two of the “Through the Looking Glass” Battle Royale finale, the remaining artists and their teams create a short film for the judges — the motherly Ve Neill, gruff Glenn Hetrick and urbane Neville Page — and a winner will be named.
Other season finales of note: The CW’s grueling fantasy The 100 (8/7c) wraps its fifth season with long-suffering Clarke (Eliza Taylor) and her gang once again fighting for survival, only to glimpse an even darker threat awaiting them for Season 6. … Freeform’s buzzy The Bold Type (8/7c) concludes its second season with Sutton (Meghann Fahy) heading to Paris for Fashion Week, where Kat (Aisha Dee) is busy on two fronts: working to make a Paris party a success to please Jacqueline (Melora Hardin), while trying to mend her relationship with Adena (Nikohl Boosheri).
Frontline (10/9c, PBS, check local listings at pbs.org): Continuing an impressive run of urgently topical documentaries, Frontline collaborates with ProPublica on an investigation into Documenting Hate: Charlottesville, exploring the roots of the deadly alt-right rally in Charlottesville last year amid the post-election rise of the neo-Nazi and white-supremacy movements.
Carter (WGN America, 10/9c): If ABC’s light summer mystery series Take Two leaves you intellectually exhausted, check out this even sillier mock-procedural from Canada with a similar premise. This time it’s a male TV detective — Jerry O’Connell as wide-smiling Harley Carter — who runs from Hollywood scandal back to his Canadian roots, where he plays amateur sleuth, solving cases with his childhood pals, detective Sam Shaw (Sydney Poitier Heartsong) and burly sidekick Dave (Orphan Black‘s Kristian Bruun). No matter how often Sam tries to convince Harley that life isn’t like a bad crime drama, this cheesy and contrived TV show proves otherwise.
Inside Tuesday TV: Series star Shawn Hatosy directs what looks to be a pivotal episode of TNT’s Animal Kingdom (9/8c), in which Smurf (Ellen Barkin) recruits her boys for a fateful surprise caper, while Pope (Hatosy) finally confronts the truth about Baz’s murder… ABC offers a reality-TV twist on Lost with Castaways (10/9c), a survival series in which 12 people are dropped into various Indonesian isles, eventually learning there are others in their midst. As they navigate the South Pacific terrain, the show flashes back to their lives before the adventure began. If there’s a smoke monster, I’m in… NBC’s reality charmer Making It (10/9c) continues with Nick Offerman and Amy Poehler tasking the Makers to create a terrarium that reflects their hometowns in miniature, then tapping into their more playful side to craft a kids’ collection including a fort and toy. This may be the happiest show of the summer.
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C
Got Talent, Animal Kingdom, and Million Dollar Listing for me. I guess I\'ll give Carter a try. I\'ve always liked Jerry O\'Connell.
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R
Haha, interesting. I\'ve never particularly liked Jerry O\'Connell. Let\'s see if I can stomach him being the lead in a show. (And no, I can\'t really explain why I don\'t care for him.)
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C
I guess you weren\'t a big fan of Sliders then.
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R
Guess you could say that, since I never watched it. :-D
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C
I liked him on \"My Secret Identity\", a silly but charming little show, I was a kid, maybe if I see it now I\'d think differently.Did you watch it?
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C
I don\'t remember it.
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G
He never bothered me before. Much like that actor from The Crossing. Not exceptional actors , but serviceable.
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G
Sometimes its physical . Perhaps if he looked more like Eddie Cibrian you may have liked him more : )
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R
Maybe so. ;-) On the other hand, since I\'m no longer watching Eddie Cibrian\'s show...... maybe not.
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G
You quit Take Two? I thought the last couple of episodes were very good.
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C
Sliders wasn\'t a movie. It was a TV series that was on for 5 years (1995-2000).
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R
Yeah, it\'s not for me.
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G
You gave it a fair shot.
I can\'t get over the fact that Reverie\'s season and likely series finale is tomorrow . Those 10 eps zipped by!
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G
I thought Carter was cute. Just not happy it\'s on against Making It.
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CWs The Outpost. That\'s it for me I think.
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Well now, since you seem to like TV shows about actors who used to play TV detectives, and go on to solve crimes in real life, I\'d think you\'d want to watch Carter. :-D
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Guess I\'ll watch The Outpost and probably try Carter. Neither are particularly Tier One shows for me.
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G
Did you watch Salvation last night? If so, what are your thoughts about it?
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C
I think Darius was acting like a real jerk last night.
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G
Yes, he was. He wasn\'t in the promo for next week. It looks like he abandoned the show before CBS , lol!
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G
He looked extremely upset, even more than usual. Either he was acting or was really in a bad mood. Perhaps he received info that the show will be canceled. Hope I\'m wrong and he is just a very convincing actor.
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R
Yea, I watched it. Like DonMI, I agree that Darius was being a jerk. The question is, is that all part of a plan? Honestly, it was hard to figure out what was happening and where the story was (is) going. Either Darius realized he really WAS being a jerk and slipped out of the White House to get back to being Darius Tanz again--and working on the asteroid problem--or he\' went on an impromptu \"mental health day.\" Again, it IS possible that his ego-driven hissy-fits were part of a larger plan that he didn\'t share with anyone, but that\'s not too likely. My guess is that he felt he had to get away from the pressure of the White House for a while and get himself together. And maybe get back to his original life as a creator and solver of problems.
His assistant, Jillian... I have NO idea what\'s up with her and that weird cult. I guess it\'s only a matter of time before we learn that she was led there purposely, and that weird cult leader is up to something nefarious.
On the plus side, it was fun watching Harris in a physical fight with that woman he\'d been sleeping with.
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G
Also when Grace was supposedly shot multiple times and there was a commercial break, I knew she wouldn\'t be injured or dead. Characters went \"crazy\" in this episode.
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Yeah, that was a bit obvious that Grace wouldn\'t get shot.
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