Lift up your voice and give praise for the second coming of Gillian Anderson—and all five episodes of The Fall
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Tuesday, May 28. All times are Eastern.
TOP PICK
The Fall (Netflix, midnight): For a dispiritingly long period of time, it appeared that Gillian Anderson would never escape the long shadow of The X-Files. (Or the creepy, shadowy-conspriacy shadows within that shadows.) But 2013’s shaping up to be quite the comeback year for the woman who was Agent Dana Scully, with a recurring role on the surprisingly great Hannibal, a spot on NBC’s recent midseason pickup, Crisis, and the première of the BBC detective series, The Fall. All five episodes of the series (which also features The Good Wife’s Archie Punjabi) plopped on Netflix overnight—Ryan McGee will let you know whether or not her latest crime-solving exploits are good enough to officially declare 2013 “The Year of Anderson.”
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Awkward. (MTV, 10 p.m.): Jenna gives a revealing reading at the local coffeehouse, which should be no more embarrassing than Myles McNutt spit-taking half-caf non-fat soy latte (no whip) all over his computer screen during the episode’s big scene.
TV CLUB CLASSIC
The Shield (11 a.m.): Brandon Nowalk saw that the first of this week’s episodes is titled “Scar Tissue,” and now he can’t stop singing the Red Hot Chili Peppers single of the same name. Too bad he could never quite nail down those lyrics; it just keeps on coming out like “Scar tissue that I wish you saw / sarcastic biddy blah blah blah / Close a case with Vic and crew ’cuz / with the blood I shed? Is this one of those Chili Peppers songs about shedding blood? Seems like it should be, with a title like that.”