Top of the Lake (Sundance, 9 p.m.) — Series premiere. Mondays get a lot less awful with this new intriguing sounding six-part miniseries, about a detective (Mad Men‘s Elisabeth Moss) who, along with a guru (Holly Hunter), gets embroiled in a case involving a missing teenager in New Zealand. I bet Xenu did it.
Dancing with the Stars (ABC, 8 p.m.) — Season premiere. This year’s celebrity dancers include Andy Dick, D.L. Hughley, Jacoby Jones, Wynonna Judd, and Kellie Pickler. No JVDB, no care.
How I Met Your Mother (CBS, 8 p.m.) — Robin wants Barney to sell his “bachelor pad,” a term I’ve only heard spoken on TV, like “no, YOU’RE out of order” and “you have two weeks to live.”
Mike & Molly (CBS, 9:30 p.m.) — “Samuel and Carl try to meet women by hosting a St. Patrick’s Day party.” Timely.
Bates Motel (A&E, 10 p.m.) — Series premiere. This is the prequel to Psycho, from Carlton Cuse and starring Freddie Highmore and Vera Farmiga. The twist: mother and son live happily ever after and Bates Motel becomes — spoiler alert — the Motel 6 chain we tolerate when Holiday Inn is booked today.
Burning Love (E!, 10 p.m.) — If you haven’t already, listen to Burning Love‘s Ken Marino do his Nina Simone impression on last week’s Comedy Bang Bang. It’s — and I don’t say this lightly — f*cking transcendent, brah.
LATE NIGHT GUESTS: Selena Gomez and Killer Mike on Letterman; Morgan Freeman on Leno; Jennifer Love Hewitt and Steven Yeun on Kimmel; Seth Green on Ferguson; and Nic Cage and Mike Birbiglia on Fallon.
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It is fantastic and improbable that Killer Mike is on Letterman. Great rapper, and super nice guy, totally deserves it!
Agreed.
I am so looking forward to watching Top of the Lake tonight.
I’ve seen tonight’s episode of Bates Motel and the one takeaway I have from it is this: Norman and his mommy are gonna bone each other hard at some point.
please let us know if top of the lake is any good. i don’t what to think. it probably gets dvr’d and then sits there for weeks until I give up and delete it. however, if good reviews are had, it might be viewed earlier.
the reviews for it are already pretty outstanding
I’ve had no advanced warning (I mean before now) of Top of the Lake, so that’s worth a recording. Especially since in an allergy medicine induced epic fit of viewing I watched every single thing on my DVR. Time to restock!
DVR Alert: Doctor Who’s Jenna Louis-Coleman is on Ferguson, too.
Elizabeth Moss is the poster child for why aspiring actors should not do commercials.
“This comment is for real.”
How so? You think it held her back? Stints on the West Wing and Mad Men are pretty plum jobs.
I don’t think it’s held her back at all. But when Mad Men became popular that old commercial played non-stop (and it played non-stop when it was a new commercial as well.) I personally can’t see her without thinking of that commercial, and I doubt I’m the only one.
I always thought Evangeline Lily was the poster child for that.
i haven’t a clue what commercial you guys are talking about.
Excedrin migraine formula, or something
Or at least don’t do commercials that are so intense. I feel like she revealed her soul to me in her migraine monologue. Uncomfortable.
They still show that ad!!! I remember when I was just starting to watch Mad Men and I thought she looked familiar and then when I saw that commercial I couldn’t believe they were still playing it! Side note, it always really bums me out when I learn that people I like are Scientologists…she is on that list.
Oh, Top of the Lake – You had my interest until you said “Holly Hunter”