Worth Watching: A Vigil for Kate on ‘This Is Us,’ Daddy Issues on ‘NCIS,’ ‘Bachelor’ Finale and ‘Videos After Dark’ on ABC
A selective critical checklist of notable Tuesday TV:
This Is Us (9/8c, NBC): The latest Pearson family trauma revolves around Kate (Chrissy Metz), who has gone into premature labor at 28 weeks. Not the best time for twin Kevin (Justin Hartley) to relapse and fall off the wagon, making for an excruciatingly tense and awkward vigil in “The Waiting Room” (the episode title). With the whole clan walking on eggshells — Randall (Sterling K. Brown) and Beth (Susan Kelechi Watson) are barely speaking, over work and money matters — and Rebecca (Mandy Moore) reliving her own worst day ever in a hospital waiting room, the emotional stakes as usual are very high.
NCIS (8/7c, CBS): Straight-arrow medical examiner Jimmy (Brian Dietzen) is in an ethical pickle, when his father-in-law Ed (guest star Larry Miller) asks him to tamper with evidence in a murder investigation. And while Tony is long gone, his father Anthony DiNozzo, Sr. (Robert Wagner) is back on the scene. He’s one of Ed’s poker buddies, and is eager to help with the case, whether they need it or not.
A Star Is Born (8/7c, Turner Classic Movies): Still reeling from the Oscar snubs of Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga at this year’s Oscars? It’s nothing new. Turner Classic Movies’ star of the month, Fredric March, was Oscar-nominated as the tragic Norman Maine for the first film version of A Star Is Born in 1937, leading this week’s March tribute. (He lost to Spencer Tracy in Captains Courageous.) The March salute continues with his performance in the same year opposite Carole Lombard in the tart comedy Nothing Sacred (10/9c) and as the embattled Jean Valjean in 1935’s Les Miserables (11:30/10:30c), opposite Charles Laughton’s Javert.
The Bachelor (8/7c, ABC): It took two nights to close out the latest season, but Colton will finally make a decision on the two-hour finale, with Colton joining Chris Harrison in studio for a live chat. And what Bachelor finale would be complete without passing the baton to another retread to announce the identity of the next Bachelorette?
Videos After Dark (10/9c, ABC): Bob Saget is back introducing videos on ABC, but much like his stand-up persona is considerably edgier and snarkier that he could ever be on America’s Funniest Home Videos or Full House, this new series of video clips from producer Vin Di Bona’s vault promises — or threatens — a darker humor, with meaner animals, less adorable tykes and more mature mishaps. This episode is a “sneak peek” preview of a series to be launched later this year.
Inside Tuesday TV: From Dublin, Ireland, local jokester Jimmy Carr lets the shocking one-liners fly in the Netflix stand-up special Jimmy Carr: The Best of, Ultimate, Gold, Greatest Hits… A new season of Fox’s MasterChef Junior (8/7c) introduces 24 new junior cooks in a two-hour premiere… Necar Zadegan (Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce) takes center stage in CBS’s NCIS: New Orleans (10/9c) as Hannah, when she and her family are placed in protective custody after a terrorist arrives on the scene with a personal vendetta.
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it all sounds awful - good evening to hit the library
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Not much to watch for me on Tuesdays other than Blackish which isn't anywhere near as good as it was the first couple of seasons but I'm more than happy that I get to watch classic marvel movie 1998's Blade and Columbo tonight!
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Guess I'll watch NCIS and FBI (it's the evening of the alphabet on CBS: NCIS, FBI, and NCIS-NO). Anyway, I'll be watching two out of the three. I'm a little tired of the Tony DiNozzo Sr character on NCIS. I don't care if he *is* played by Robert Wagner, I think his appearances on this show are bordering on the ridiculous. And tonight's appearance might push him over that line.
Anyone watch Magnum last night? There was an interesting nod to the original show.
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I loved seeing the original TC cutting the current TC's hair. what a hoot!! Glad we got another season of the new Magnum..
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Yeah, it was cool. But I wish they hadn't had him say he was afraid of helicopters, or had never been in one, or whatever. They should have had him say something like "I used to love flying choppers." 😛
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Tuesdays are still crazy! New episodes of The Flash, Roswell, This Is Us, and New Amsterdam! Plus, a new season of MasterChef Junior starts tonight! Then, there are Miracle Workers and Hoarders if time allows! Oh! And I can't forget my new guilty pleasure: Mexican Dynasties!
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The promos for New Amsterdam look like the "disaster" episodes of Grey's Anatomy/Station 19.
Did you watch The Passage? I absolutely loved it. Especially the action packed ep 9. The ending was satisfying , even if FOX/Disney cancels. Of course I want another season , far and away my favorite new show this season.
Enemy Within is getting better as it progresses. The mole is about to be caught, but she won't go down without a fight.
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Every hospital show has to have one disaster and/or epidemic episode a season. It's a rule!
Passage was great. If it does continue, I have to wonder how different it will be with the 100 year leap!
I didn't watch Enemy Within, and I'm not likely to have time to watch it this week. It's going to take me the rest of the week just to watch my favorite shows from tonight!
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The flash forward scene at the end gave us a glimpse of what S2 will look like.
I'm ready for it!
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Yes, it did give a glimpse, but that ain't nothin'!
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I didn't read the book. But I have a feeling what S2 will be like.
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In the last scene of The Passage...she said she had been searching for "The Agent" for the past 97 years...
Why didn't she just stay by his side after she injected the anti-virus serum???
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Maybe something major separated them? Maybe it will be explained if the show continues?
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