Entertainment Weekly - February 24 - March 3, 2017

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Series Debut

My Brother,

My Brother and Me

STREAMING SEESO

Three siblings—

Griffin, Justin, and

Travis McElroy—

host a “comedy

advice” program in

West Virginia, with

famous celebs like

Lin-Manuel Miranda,

the Property Broth-

ers, and John Green

slated to appear

as guests. Take that,

East Virginia!

Season Finale

How to Get

Away With Murder

9–11PM ABC

The Shondaland

drama’s third season

comes to a close

tonight, giving Viola

Davis plenty of

time to work on

her Oscar accep-

tance speech.

Infidelity

in Suburbia

8–10PM LIFETIME

A bored housewife

has a passionate

affair with an

irresistibly hot con-

tractor who’s

been renovating

her home while

her husband is

away. Basically,

the porn version

ofFixer Upper.

The Graham

Norton Show

11PM–MIDNIGHT

BBC AMERICA

The British host is

joined by Jamie Dor-

nan ofFifty Shades

Darker, plus Keanu

Reeves and Whoopi

Goldberg, both of

whom are definitely

not in that movie.

Series Debut

Sun Records

10–11PM CMT

You can’t fault CMT for ambition: Its new

scripted series aims to tell no less than the

origin story of rock & roll through the lens of

Sun Records, the iconic Memphis label that

introduced the world to the likes of Elvis

Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee

Lewis, and Ike Turner. As Sun founder Sam

Phillips, Chad Michael Murray is all Southern

charm and steely core, and the show has fun

stacking its cast of future legends (Johnny

finds the gee-tar! Elvis discovers his pelvis!).

But next to the soapy melodrama ofNash-

ville or the cocaine-dusted ’70s Gomorrah of

HBO’s doomed Vinyl,Records feels oddly

sedate—rolling along, and only moderately

rocking.B—Leah Greenblatt

Series Debut

The Blacklist: Redemption

10–11PM NBC

TheBlacklist spin-off finds the

most elusive criminals from

Red’s (James Spader) list—

Tom Keen (Ryan Eggold) and

Mr. Solomon (Edi Gathegi)

among them—banding together

to right wrongs in a bid for

redemption. But their leader,

Scottie Hargrave (Famke

Janssen), may be in for a sur-

prise, as viewers have been told

that Tom is her missing son. But

maybe not? “As much as there’d

be excitement if she found her

son, there’d also be some pain,

hurt, and confusion,” Janssen

says. “I don’t trust anything

that anybody says, and neither

should you.”—Natalie Abrams

The American

Black Film

Festival Honors

8–10PM BET

Denzel Washington

gets honored

with a legacy

award. My man!

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Series Debut

Patriot

STREAMING AMAZON

The wordquirky was invented just so critics could

describe stuff likePatriot, an offbeat spy caper that

abstracts American identity crisis into nutty absurdity.

Michael Dorman is breakout great as a melancholy agent

who expresses angst through confessional folk music,

making his dad-boss (Terry O’Quinn) nervous. He uses a

job with a pipe company to disrupt an Iranian election—

a comedy of errors that mystifies with deliberately paced

nonlinear storytelling and delights with droll style and

surprising warmth.Patriot’s quirkfest requires patience,

but rewards your allegiance over time.B+—Jeff Jensen

The 89th Oscars

8:30PM–END ABC

The Oscars may be for movies,

but they’ll likely make for some

stellar television this year. For

one, there’s the host: Jimmy

Kimmel knocked it out of the

park (er, auditorium) at the

2016 Emmys. And, of course,

there’ll be a red carpet full of

A+ outfits. But this year, I’m

betting the speeches—usually

the boring part!—will be the

highlight. After all, if Meryl

Streep could get under Donald

Trump’s skin so easily at the

Golden Globes, imagine what

kind of damage she and her

colleagues will unleash at the

freakin’ Oscars.

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SUN RECORDS

: CMT;

THE BLACKLIST: REDEMPTION

: VIRGINIA SHERWOOD/NBC;

PATRIOT

: ELIZABETH MORRIS/AMAZON;

THE 89TH ACADEMY AWARDS

: JEFF LIPSKY/ABC

ILLUSTRATIONS BYMAX DALTON