Evil returns, Rick And Morty are back, and Kevin? Well, Kevin Can F**k Himself
Plus: The Legends Of Tomorrow go “Back To The Finale” and the Kardashians won't be kept up with any longer
TV Lists Kevin Can F**k Himself
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, June 20. All times are Eastern.
Top picks
Kevin Can F**k Himself (AMC, 9 p.m., two-hour series premiere): “Schitt’s Creek Emmy winner Annie Murphy returns to TV in Kevin Can F**k Himself, the second show this year (after WandaVision) to pull back the curtain on glossy sitcom artifice. KCFH (created by Valerie Armstrong, executive produced by Rashida Jones) brilliantly deconstructs the sitcom trope of the schlubby blue-collar guy married to the laid-back hot wife. In this case, Murphy’s Allison is married to cable installer Kevin (Eric Petersen) in a working-class section of Worcester, Massachusetts, complete with nosy neighbors, snooty bosses, and loads of canned laughter. But when Allison steps off set, the show switches to what her reality looks like outside of it, chronicling her desperate attempts to expand past the constraints of a multi-cam life.” Read more of Gwen Ihnat’s thoughts in our June TV preview. Saloni Gajjar’s recaps will run weekly, and will follow the AMC release schedule—so if you’re watching on AMC+, sorry for the suspense.
Evil (AMC, 3:01 a.m., second-season premiere): “Evil refrains from turning into a predictable procedural. It gradually digs into its supernatural territory—possible exorcisms, ghostly dreams, a ghoul baby—while keeping viewers guessing about the existence of these phenomena, instead using them to flesh out the characters’ psyches. Season two moves from CBS to Paramount+ (yes, it’s another subscription service; yes, Evil is worth it) and sharpens the focus on the deep-rooted impact of evil, be it otherworldly or man-made.” Read more of Saloni Gajjar’s pre-air review of this series from The Good Wife creators Michelle and Robert King.
Rick And Morty (Adult Swim, 11 p.m., fifth-season premiere): Grab yourself some Wendy’s or maybe a pickle or something and snuggle in for “Mort Dinner Rick Andre.”
Regular coverage
DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow (The CW, 8 p.m.): Just a quick note to say that tonight’s Legends is titled “Back To The Finale: Part II.” Bless this show.
Olympic stuff
U.S. Olympic Trials, “Swimming” (NBC, 8 p.m.): Aspiring Olympians have been swimming a lot and tonight they will swim some more, hopefully with little arm floaties on because that would be exquisitely good television.
U.S. Olympic Trials, “Track” (NBC, 9p.m.): And in this hour they will run very fast, hopefully also with little arm floaties, but on their feet instead.
Wild cards
Keeping Up With The Kardashians (E!, 9 p.m., series finale): The Kardashians will see themselves out, thank you very much.
The Girlfriend Experience (Starz, 8 p.m. and 8:29 p.m., third-season finale, back-to-back episodes): The third, tech-inspired season of Steven Soderbergh’s anthology series comes to a close tonight, so say your farewells to Iris (Julia Goldani Telles) now.
Bless The Harts (Fox, 7:30 p.m., series finale): Christopher Meloni joins the Harts for their final episode, in which the fam tries to figure out how old Maya Rudolph’s Betty really is before they all pile into an RV that Wayne (Ike Barinholtz) got for free for some family time. What could go wrong?
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Since TUAYPCW is defunct, I finally watched The Mandalorian. It is indeed very enjoyable but not exceptional. This illustrates how far Star Wars had fallen that people lost their minds over it.
https://mattthecatania.wordpress.com/2021/06/19/has-everybody-already-seen-the-mandalorian/
That show was the living incarnation of “this’ll do.”
I highly recommend watching The Olympics trials live. If you stream, you can use the NBC sports app and find the “Olympic channel“ that covers what’s happening, with excellent commentators so that you never feel lost as to what you are watching.The swimming and track events have been spectacular this weekend. The US team has some amazing talent working to secure their spots to compete in Japan. World records have been, and tonight more probably will be, broken. I definitely recommend recording your shows, or if you watch shows on streaming services, save them for later and just give the coverage of the Olympics trials a shot. The feats that these athletes accomplish are often dumbfounding. If you’ve ever been swimming or ever been running, you are more than capable of appreciating this Olympic coverage because you know just how damn hard it is to swim and run, especially when you have to get into such great physical shape in order to do something no one else on the planet can do.also, it’s not hard to follow swimming or running. You don’t need to understand rules. There’s a starting line on the finish line. You don’t need to understand all the intricacies of things like football and basketball to appreciate most of the events in the Olympics. Plus, the sports casters and commentators are quite deft at explaining any potential confusion over rules or irregularities, so you, me and everyone else in the audience never really feels lost.TLDR; Watch the US Olympic trials finale tonight, if nothing else. You will see the best Americans compete, see most of them fail to secure a spot to Japan because the Olympic trials are and absolutely brutal gauntlet that only lets something like two out of eight people competing in each heat advance to the next stage. So tonight in the finals, you will see the best of the best clinch their places on the American team. You will see some break their personal records, some break world records, and, ultimately, you get to enjoy the whole zeitgeist of the meaning of the Olympics and global civilization at-large in the year 2021, of nations coming together not to fight but to compete and perform extraordinary feats for you, the audience, a.k.a. humanity.
Did I get banned from AV Club? I’ve been here forever! How the heck did I get banned from AV Club?
Are we SURE that the Kardashians won’t be back? At this point, it feels like Kardash-day the 13th, part 27! They’ll never truly be gone.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/09/entertainment/kim-kardashian-hulu-show-soon-intl-scli/index.html
I KNEW that The AVClub was giving me false hope!
Even if the show was absolute garbage, I’d still commend them for really going through with producing a show called Kevin Can Fuck Himself. The fact that it’s actually pretty good is just an added bonus.
What kind of TV show puts “Fuck” in the title?I watched the trailer and it’s the third new ‘comedy’ I have seen that has an insufferable laugh track. Do contemporary writers think that shit is ‘meta’?
Maybe the same people behind “Don’t Trust the Bitch in Apartment 23″?
I mean, it’s literally meta. It switches from cheesey tropey sitcom when the husband’s around to realistic setting and lighting when the wife is alone and having to deal with the consequences of his behaviour.Did you watch some kind of weird trailer that only showed the sitcom bits?
I watched the trailer up at the top of this story. The woman says “No liquor tonight; just beer.”Reminds me of Tom Selby (of the Peaky Blinders) telling his crew “No brown liquor tonight- just beer” in preparation for a rumble with the Cheapside Sloggers (?). I don’t know what kind of mischief these folks are getting up to though. Maybe a neighbor didn’t return some hedge clippers?
At the very end of the clip, in the last like 10 seconds, you see the reality switch to the wife’s world which is more realist (no laugh track, natural light, etc) and is about how she deals with being in a toxic sitcom like relationship.
The premise is a sort of meta-sitcom.
Star for Peaky Blinders reference.
Bless the Harts was pretty good tonight. I loved the ending. Sad to see it go 🙁