Binging Orange Is The New Black is the new binging Arrested Development
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Thursday, July 11. All times are Eastern.
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Orange Is The New Black (Netflix, midnight): Who could’ve expected that Jenji Kohan’s follow-up to Weeds would more than just “Weeds in a prison”? (And no, the space between seasons six and seven doesn’t count as “Weeds in prison.”) Certainly not The A.V. Club’s own Todd VanDerWerff, whose review of this prison-set series’ early episodes marks them as one of the first, unqualified successes of the Netflix Original Programming era. And now you can test that theory by watching the whole thing alongside Myles “Fool me once, Kohan” McNutt, who’ll have a full-season review just as soon as he polishes off the last of Taylor Schilling’s adventures in the penal system.
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Wilfred (FX, 10 p.m.): Ryan’s in search of a roommate with Wilfred in tow—though they shouldn’t try to court Rowan Kaiser, a noted cat enthusiast who probably doesn’t want his furry best friends mauled by an Aussie in a dirty dog costume.
Graceland (USA, 10 p.m.): Another week at Graceland, another undercover assignment for the agents living in Graceland—which this week entails two agents posing as “an amorous couple.” Genevieve Valentine hopes they pose as an amorous couple from history, like Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI or Pepe Le Pew and a female cat who’s been accidentally painted to look like a skunk.
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Monty Python’s Flying Circus (11 a.m.): Inside The What’s On Tonight? Studio: Every week that Flying Circus is in rotation, your What’s On Tonight? correspondent runs down the list of sketches featured in the week’s double header, then riffs on the one whose mere title is enough to induce laughter. But he doesn’t have any strong memories of any of the scenes featured in “Déjà Vu (Or: Show 5)” or “The Buzz Aldrin Show (Or: An Apology),” and for that he’d like to issue an apology. He would like to apologize for the way in which he and Zack Handlen have been represented on this programme…
Gilmore Girls (1 p.m.): Look, David Sims has been around the block a few times, so believe him when he tells you this: Ain’t no such thing as a box social that doesn’t go awry. You’d think the Gilmores would’ve seen Oklahoma! enough times to know that!