Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Friday, October 21, and Saturday, October 22. All times are Eastern.
Top picks
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (CW, 9 p.m., Friday): Last season’s finale saw Rebecca finally hooking up with Josh—and then confessing that she’s essentially been stalking him all year. And that’s just as Greg admits that he truly loves Rebecca—after his drunken attempt to be the cool, detached guy drove her to Josh. Meanwhile, Paula looks ahead to a life where masterminding Rebecca’s love life isn’t the one thing that distracts her from how unhappy she is in hers. (At least White Josh and Darryl seem happy.) Like the similarly delightful Jane The Virgin, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend sees love’s chaos transforming its characters’ lives into the heightened exploits of fiction, with creator and star Rachel Bloom turning Rebecca’s world into a musical instead of Jane’s telenovela. As Allison Shoemaker’s been telling us in her reviews, the result is funny, heartbreaking, and complexly human (often at the same time).
The Onion Presents: The Iconic Images Of Election 2016 (Fusion, 9 p.m., Friday): What will be the lasting impression of this contentious election season? Will it be a portrait of the first woman presidential nominee, staring ahead at the challenges to come while looking back at the long road America has run to get to this point? Will it be that same woman candidate being stalked at a presidential debate by her Republican adversary, looming behind her for all the world like a bloated Michael Myers with his mask spray-painted sour orange? Will it be an innocuous cartoon amphibian inexplicably loaded down with Nazi paraphernalia? Only our funnier cousins at The Onion know for sure, so check out this satirical rundown of just what the hell is going on around here. [Note: Fusion, like The A.V. Club, is owned by Univision Communications.]
Joe Rogan: Triggered (Netflix, 3:01 a.m., Friday): Standup and ultimate fighting hype man Rogan takes to the stage to, judging by the title of his new special, bluster at us for being too sensitive. And possibly for mentioning that the former NewsRadio star has finally completed his physical transformation into UFC head Dana White.
Great Performances: Hamilton’s America (PBS, 9 p.m., Friday): For everyone who didn’t get to see Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton on Broadway, this documentary about the making of the game-changing, undeniably stunning musical is going to have to suffice. Meanwhile, there’s never a bad time to listen to “Wait For It.”
Shadows Of The Dead (Syfy, 9 p.m., Saturday): Syfy describes this original horror movie thusly: “A group of teenagers try to escape a creature that lives among the shadows and is hunting them down one by one.” Sample dialogue:
- Teen #1: “It can only kill us from the shadows!”
- Teen #2: “Don’t worry, I have this flickering candle!”
- Teen #3: And I have this battery-powered fan in case you get too hot from the candle!”
- All: “We are gonna live forever!”
Weiner (Showtime, 9 p.m., Saturday): This documentary about the titular former congressman gets its cable debut. In his initial review, Noel Murray was effusive in how directors Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg put the media on trial without ever letting serial sexter Weiner off the hook as they follow his attempted political comeback—right up to the point where another sex scandal makes him a laughingstock once again. No word if his most recent, post-documentary scandal is going to get a cinematic postscript.