Let’s all watch Legends and come up with terrible spy names!
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Wednesday, August 13. All times are Eastern.
TOP PICK
Legends (TNT, 9 p.m.): In Legends, Sean Bean plays a deep undercover FBI agent who specializes in transforming himself into a different person with every single mission. If it sounds like it’s Human Target but with the opportunity for more jokes about Sean Bean dying in “everything,” that’s because it probably is. But that’s not what makes the show a top pick. The fact that Ali Larter plays a character named Crystal Quest is. Crystal. Quest. Hopefully she follows Sean Bean’s lead and transforms herself into a new character every week. Week one: Crystal Quest. Week two: Destiny Wondergem. Week three: Something else with a stone in the name, just like on The Famous Jett Jackson.
ALSO NOTED (AKA DIAMOND PARK)
So You Think You Can Dance (FOX, 8 p.m.): The Top Eight perform, and we all pretend like we don’t miss tWtich. But we do. We do miss tWitch.
Extant (CBS, 10 p.m.): Extant Halle Berry Watch Update #1. Halle Berry is still on CBS’ Extant. (We know that this didn’t occur last week, and that was because of a brief blip in the time-space continuum. Sonia Saraiya will review both last week and this week’s episodes tonight, while pregnant with an alien space baby, while patting the head of her robot child, and gazing into the distance.)
BAPs (Lifetime, 10 p.m.): BAPs Halle Berry Watch Update #2. Halle Berry still has nothing to do with Lifetime’s BAPs, which is probably why tonight’s episode is titled “Sip And See Disaster.” The world drinks wines and mourns.
REGULAR COVERAGE (AKA SAPPHIRE WEAVER)
The Bridge (FX, 10 p.m.)