It’s an honor just to be nominated for an Academy Award, sure, but here’s where that Oscar nomination will get you on TV:
“Archer Vice” (Monday, 10 p.m., FX): Oscar-nominated songster Kenny Loggins — nominated in 1985 for Best Original Song for “Footloose” — is forced by Archer (H. Jon Benjamin) to give Lana (Aisha Tyler) the perfect baby shower gift by performing. He’ll perform his “Top Gun” megahit “Danger Zone,” the theme that plays in Archer’s otherwise empty head in this relaunch of the series as the gang ditch the spy agency for lives as drug dealers.
“Those Who Kill” (Monday, 10 p.m., A&E): This new series based on a Danish crime series by Elsabeth Egholm stars James D’Arcy and Chloe Sevigny, who received a Best Supporting Actress nomination in 1999 for “Boys Don’t Cry.” In this 10-episode series, Sevigny plays a Pittsburgh homicide detective who tracks down serial killers.
“Rizzoli & Isles” (Tuesday, 9 p.m., TNT): After being MIA for more than a year, Jane’s (Angie Harmon) dad returns — who’s played by Chazz Palminteri, a nominee in 1994 for Best Supporting Actor in “Bullets Over Broadway.” He shows up with some shocking news for Jane in the middle of her and Maura’s (Sasha Alexander) investigation into a murdered singer.
“Bates Motel” (Monday, 9 p.m., A&E): Vera Farmiga was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in 2009 for “Up in the Air,” but the first job she took after that George Clooney film was on “Bates Motel.” She still gets the opportunity to show off her acting chops in this series that tells the back story of the legendary Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) of “Psycho” fame. In the second-season premiere, she’s creepily snuggling with her son as this twisted teenager continues his descent into serial killer.
“True Detective” (Sunday, 9 p.m., HBO): First-time nominee Matthew McConaughey (“Dallas Buyers Club”) may have the showier role in this bayou buddy-cop drama, but co-star Woody Harrelson is the one with two Oscar nominations, a Best Actor nomination for “The People vs. Larry Flynt” in 1996 and a Best Supporting Actor nod for “The Messenger” in 2009. But his character, Martin, nevertheless managed to lose his wife to a one-night stand with McConaughey’s Rust.
“Justified” (Tuesday, 10 p.m., FX): Walton Goggins is an actual Academy Award winner — he snagged a statue for the 2001 short film “The Accountant,” which he co-produced and starred in. The film won the Oscar for Best Live Short Film. And despite Boyd’s (Goggins) shocking murder of cousin Johnny (Dave Meunier) at the end of last week’s episde, Raylan (Timothy Olyphant) hasn’t had a moment to deal with his favorite nemesis, as he’s had to deal with the fallout from Art’s (Nick Searcy) retribution.
“Girls” (Sunday, 10 p.m., HBO): In the category of this year’s nominees, Lena Dunham’s Hannah visits her ailing grandmother, played by June Squibb, who earned her first Oscar nomination at age 84 for Best Supporting Actress as Bruce Dern’s abrasive wife in Alexander Payne’s “Nebraska.” Sarah Steele also guest stars this week as Hannah’s overachieving cousin.
“Switched at Birth” (Monday, 8 p.m., ABC Family): Marlee Matlin, who won the 1987 Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in “Children of a Lesser God,” returns as Emmett’s (Sean Berdy) mom in this drama about two high-school girls — one deaf — realizing that the hospital gave them to the wrong families when they were born. The hearing-impaired Daphne (Katie Leclerc) this week considers pre-med for college as her hearing counterpart, Bay (Vanessa Marano), deals with the artistic limitations of her injury. Matlin’s “Dancing with the Stars” dance partner Gilles Marini also appears in the episode so they can perform a Viennese waltz.