By Mitch Silver
Now that “Homeland,” “Downton Abbey,” and “True Detective” are done for the year and “Mad Men” hasn’t started up again, may I suggest some shows I like that you might like too? That is, if you’re not totally consumed by March Madness and the battle rounds on “The Voice.” With the treasure trove TV has to offer these days, the light from the box is truly winning.
“Until Rust Cohle came along, Raylan Givens could claim the crown of television’s most existential lawman. Add in the equally edgy antihero Boyd Crowder, who speaks like he swallowed a thesaurus, and ‘Justified’ has a lot of the qualities that made ‘True Detective’ so consistently appealing. Like Hart and Cohle, Raylan and Boyd know each other better than they let on, and need each other more than they’d confess even to themselves.” It’s a show the late, great Elmore Leonard bequeathed to us in his will.
But enough of rooting for the good guys. “The Americans” (Wednesdays, 10) is on FX as well (I think my remote is stuck), and it concerns Soviet sleeper agents, living as a normal American family in the D.C. area, who find themselves forced to choose between their faux family and Mother Russia. But I told you about them the last time.
Friday is what Newton Minnow was talking about when he described television as a “vast wasteland.” Don’t bother with live TV; instead fire up your On Demand channel and check out something like “Those Who Kill,” the police procedural on A&E. Or maybe catch up on the basketball tournament. I’m picking Louisville.
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