True Blood finale fights the Authority—but will the Authority always win?
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Sunday, August 26. All times are Eastern.
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True Blood (HBO, 9 p.m.): The fifth season of True Blood turned a corner in its second half, getting out of the boardroom and the torture chamber and back into the business of being premium cable’s most reliably bugnuts hour. With the Authority storyline poised for a wild-and-gory conclusion, can the show maintain its hopped-up-on-fairy-blood momentum? Carrie Raisler certainly hopes so.
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Rev. (Hulu, 5 p.m.): Adam’s marriage is in trouble—which means a season finale must be coming around the bend! Before it arrives, however, the other half of this week’s episode gives Todd VanDerWerff a crash course in the politics of the Church of England.
Hell On Wheels (AMC, 9 p.m.): As if years of myth-building hadn’t already proven it, Hell On Wheels sets out to illustrate that the Wild West was a “Slaughterhouse.” Alasdair Wilkins lays down the drop cloths.
Breaking Bad (AMC, 10 p.m.): AMC didn’t release screeners for this week’s episode of Breaking Bad, so Donna Bowman will be just as surprised as you are when the meaning of this cryptic Aaron Paul tweet is revealed. Until then, speculate wildly!
Copper (BBC America, 10 p.m.): Farihah Zaman, meanwhile, has already seen this week’s Copper, and she leaves you this preview: “A good old-fashioned jab of opiates.” Take that as you will (or take it like a good old-fashioned jab of opiates).
The Newsroom (HBO, 10 p.m.): Intrepid correspondent Todd VanDerWerff swoops in to put the first season of The Newsroom to bed, writing about it on the Internet like that coward, Neal. The Internet! Harrumph.