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Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, December 23. All times are Eastern.
Top pick
Escape At Dannemora (Showtime, 10 p.m.): The last, excellent episode of Escape At Dannemora—and they’ve nearly all been excellent—finally delivered what the show says on the tin, and showed us Matt (Benicio Del Toro) and Sweat (Paul Dano) escaping at Dannemora. But this series being as excellent as it is, the thrill wasn’t limited to all that goes on in director Ben Stiller’s staggering 10-minute tracking shot, which opens the episode. Here’s our own Laura Bogart on “Chapter Five”:
This episode is taut, not only because it stages a prison break (the first one at Clinton Correctional in 86 years, a jubilant Sweat tells Matt), but because it weds the stakes of that escape to the fears and the desires that have driven and dominated these characters for so long.