Your weekly guide to TV’s best and worst one-hour shows.
You can still make it to that barbecue: here’s my
strategic guide for Labor Day weekend:
“Continuum” (Friday, 10 p.m., Syfy)
After Kiera (Rachel Nichols) seemingly got Alec’s (Erik Knudsen) girlfriend, Emily (Magda Apanowicz) killed last week, her boy genius may have a hard time forgiving or forgetting. And since he’s the one holding onto the last piece to the time-travelling device that looks like a petrified chocolate orange, he’s also the key to getting her home. The season finale changes the dynamics of the relationships in this time-traveling series, although the one constant you can depend on is William B. Davis, who continues here to make a career out of playing the Smoking Man, his indelible character from “The X-Files.”
“Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited”
(Saturday, 8 p.m., BBC America)
In the lead-up to that ultra geeky momentous occasion, the installation of the latest Doctor, the BBC is tossing out a bunch of specials. If you’re keeping track, then you don’t need Mama to tell you that we’re up to Doctor No. 12, and if you didn’t know that, you’re probably questioning Mama’s coolness for knowing that fact. Saturday’s special is all about the eighth Doc, who was Paul McGann. You may — or may not, because you have a life — recognize McGann from his role as the former romantic rival for Luther’s ex-wife — until she was murdered, of course, on the very depressing, very good cop show “Luther.” That series returns Tuesday for its final four-episode season, airing on consecutive nights.
“Breaking Bad”(Sunday, 9 p.m., AMC)
No one really thought broken Jesse would simply get to leave behind his miserable existence and start over again in Alaska, did they? But his loss is our gain, as the fantastic Aaron Paul gets the chance to stick around for the final five episodes in the only series Mama can’t DVR because she needs her Walter White fix as badly as any of the junkies who are buying his meth.
“All My Children”(Monday, The Online Network)
Mama’s first choice would have been “Under the Dome,” but since most of us can’t watch the CBS series until Time Warner and CBS decide to play nice, Mama goes with her first runner-up, the first-season finale of this one-time network soap that survived to see another season on the Internet, which has improved its watchability since it cut back on the number of episodes each week.
— Tiffany Wendeln Connors