![]() Marge wants a separation on "The Simpsons" (8 p.m., Fox, TV-PG). Scheduled on the season premiere of "60 Minutes" (7:30 p.m., CBS): interviews with Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. And that's not easy when she's the chief suspect. After a sudden explosion, it's Alex's job to find the terrorists among her colleagues. Also premiering tonight, "Quantico" (10 p.m., ABC, TV-14) follows a rookie class of FBI agents, including Alex Parrish (Priyanka Chopra). But isn't that exactly why so many watched "Dynasty" back in the day? Coming so soon, that scene is not just difficult to take seriously it's downright laughable. It's also the kind of show that begins with a prolonged flashback tucked into a split-second car accident scene. "Blood" features grand mountain scenery, no shortage of boomtown rowdies and a natural role for Don Johnson. It doesn't take Sigmund Freud to see that that role will be assumed by Billy LeFever (Chace Crawford), a blue-collar striver who arrives with a dream, a hot wife (Rebecca Rittenhouse) and a pickup truck filled with washing machines. "Blood" gets its dime store Oedipal psychology out of the way in the first 10 minutes, when a disappointed Hap tells Wick, "You don't deserve to be my son." Scott Michael Foster plays Hap's ne'er-do-well offspring, Wick. Amber Valletta plays his young and gorgeous wife, Carla, whose looks disguise her scheming financial savvy. He's a self-made oil tycoon, known as the "baron of the Bakken," named after the oil-rich region running through picturesque stretches of North Dakota and Montana. They're also the reasons so many petro-soaps, from "Written on the Wind" to "Dynasty" to "Dallas," descend into camp.ĭon Johnson ( "Miami Vice," "Nash Bridges") returns to episodic television as Hap Briggs. All of these elements converge in the new prime-time soap "Blood & Oil" (9 p.m., ABC, TV-PG). Big oil and big melodrama are as natural as natural gas: the nail-biting tension of wildcatting the lure of gushers and spectacular wealth the eye candy of roughnecks and the women who love them the violence of a boomtown economy the garish excess of the nouveau riche. ![]() Brass) to return for this finale "CSI" homecoming event. Look for Petersen, Helgenberger and Paul Guilfoyle (Capt. And who can forget the "CSI" about "furry" fetishists? There was Grissom's friend Lady Heather, a dominatrix. "CSI" also had a way of incorporating the behaviors of kinky demimondes into its storylines. The series tackled the toxic side effects of fracking for natural gas before it became widely known. While "Law & Order" featured stories "ripped from the headlines," "CSI" had its share of topical "message" episodes. But then again, the "CSI" audience wasn't looking for pretty young things.įew people watched "CSI" for the dialogue, but the signature franchise never reached the level of groan-worthy howlers uttered by David Caruso on its "CSI: Miami" spin-off. Marg Helgenberger's Catherine Willow had a good, long run on "CSI" at an age when many actresses are relegated to mother-in-law roles. William Petersen's "Gil" Grissom had the looks and complications of a character actor. Like most good cop shows, its stars were not Hollywood-gorgeous. ![]() ![]() It also introduced a fascination for mortuary science, popular morbidity and gross-out realism that permeates popular culture to this day. Set in the neon pinball arcade of nighttime Las Vegas, its crime scenes were slicker, its laboratories beyond the budget of any law enforcement agency and its explosions louder. Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, "CSI" upped the level of production values for TV procedural dramas. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (9 p.m., CBS, TV-14) will wrap up tonight with a two-hour episode.ĭebuting in October 2000, "CSI" was a top-10 show in its very first season and remained one for the next 10 years, with seven of those spent in the top five. "American Idol" will take its valedictory lap next spring. And the 2015-16 season will bring an end to two shows that have all but defined television in this young century. There are too many movie franchises rebooted and TV series remade to feel entirely fresh. The "new" television season comes with a feeling both borrowed and blue. ![]()
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