Here’s what’s going on in the television world on Sunday, February 21st. All times are from the east.
Best Choices
Bob burgers (Fox, 9 pm, mid-season premiere): It is heartbreaking, dear readers. But hey, the hamburger of the day is waiting for you, so that’s a good thing! Right?
This Valentine’s Day themed winter premiere was originally scheduled for last week, but assuming there are no major car races going on, it should finally air tonight. Like the extraordinary recapitulator Les Chappell, we can’t wait.
Allen V. Farrow (HBO, 9 pm, limited documentary premiere): “HBO’s Allen V. Farrow it is an impressive series of documentaries; your emotional intensity should come with a trigger alert. The docuseries examines allegations of sexual abuse against Oscar-winning director Woody Allen made by adopted daughter Dylan Farrow in 1992, when she was just 7 years old. This case has been overly covered by the media for decades, but Allen V. Farrow tries to go beyond the headlines by presenting intimate interviews with Dylan, his mother Mia Farrow (Allen’s former partner), the brothers Ronan and Fletcher Farrow, as well as other family friends, witnesses, experts, journalists and investigators. For the most part, docuseries is a powerful undertaking. It gives Dylan a safe space to report traumatic experiences, go down the rabbit hole of the Farrow-Allen custody battle and find out more about Allen’s marriage to Mia’s adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn. Most importantly, it acts as a damning mirror for the society that allowed Allen to prosper after the accusations became a major public scandal. Read the rest of Saloni Gajjar’s pre-broadcast review here. The four-part series will air weekly on Sundays.
Regular coverage
American gods (Starz, 8pm)
A quick programming note: Currently, you can broadcast the mid-season premiere of Living Dead through AMC Plua, so if that Plus is among the many good points in the list of streaming subscriptions, you can watch it now. However, our recap will be published next Sunday, when the episode will air on the appropriate AMC.
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Stephen Robinson will be back on the cover The equalizer midseason and finale episodes.
Wild cards
Men in kilts: a roadtrip with Sam and Graham: food and drink (Starz, 9:00 pm): We played in this series of affable trips (a bro-ad trip? Maybe?), But seriously, if you want top-notch landscape porn, charming accents and sightings on your knees, Starz has it all for you.
The history of the songs, “Céline Dion: Story Of Her Songs” (Reelz, 9:00 pm): What can you expect from this look in La Céline’s songs? Well, probably some cold moments, some flashes of light, some things she’ll never do again, but then it always felt right.