Transition Time on ‘Transplant,’ ‘Poker Face’ Marriage ceremony Mayhem, Return of the Sandman, ‘Duster’ Finale

Transplant

This episode of the Canadian medical drama is one followers can be speaking about for fairly a while. It’s changing into extra apparent that the top of the sequence is looming — the sequence wraps its fourth and last season on July 17 — as our favourite employees members at York Memorial Hospital are contemplating life-changing alternatives. June (Ayisha Issa) makes an announcement that rattles her bosses, whereas Owen (Jim Watson) and Bash (Hamza Haq), whose residency is about to finish, every give critical thought to new profession paths. Medical metaphor of the week: an aged couple who’re actually caught to one another, inflicting Bash and Mags (Laurence Leboeuf) to take inventory of their very own relationship whereas she continues to recuperate from her current coronary heart transplant.

Poker Face

The celebs preserve popping out for this pleasant Columbo-esque mystery-comedy, with the primary of a two-part Season 2 finale happening at a lavish wedding ceremony, the place a hitman who appears to be like an terrible lot like Justin Theroux (there’s a twist) stalks the obnoxious groom (Haley Joel Osment), who’s associated to somebody who Charlie (Natasha Lyonne), the human lie detector, is aware of all too effectively. Which explains why FBI agent Luca (Simon Helberg) is on the scene, with colleagues together with Lili Taylor and Taylor Schilling. Proving that it’s at all times a calculated danger to get too near Charlie, her ditsy new good friend Alex (Patti Harrison, terrific) is working the gig as a caterer, which makes her an ideal patsy when issues go awry.

The Sandman

Get up, fantasy followers. It’s the start of the top for the luscious adaptation of Neil Gaiman‘s comics, with the second and last season damaged into two components. The six-episode first quantity finds Dream (Tom Sturridge) persevering with his epic quest to avoid wasting the nocturnal realm that he oversees by righting the wrongs of his previous. That is no fly-by-night operation, as a result of the story concludes with 5 extra episodes on July 24, with a bonus episode every week later following his sibling, Loss of life (Kirby Howell-Baptiste).

Duster

There’s loads of peril and motion within the Season 1 finale of the 1970-set motion romp, with Jim (Josh Holloway) speeding to avoid wasting undercover FBI companion Nina (Rachel Hilson) after her cowl is blown. She’s additionally at risk from Chad (Dan Tracy), a unclean fellow agent ordered by the mysterious “Cowboy” (J.R. Yenque) to take down the troublesome younger girl. After which there’s the matter of the all-important Watergate tape, with Jim as a pawn between rival mob bosses Saxton (Keith David) and Sal the Greek (Jack Topalian). The physique depend is excessive because the sequence races to its twisty conclusion. Let’s hope there’s extra.

Independence Day

Arduous to imagine that subsequent 12 months, this blockbuster summer season sci-fi hit turns 20 years previous. Will Smith, Invoice Pullman (because the president), Jeff Goldblum, and Judd Hirsch high a first-rate solid in director Roland Emmerich‘s thriller about American heroes who launch a counterattack towards an invading alien military on our nation’s birthday. Not the worst technique to spend the night earlier than the vacation (airs at 8/7c).

INSIDE THURSDAY TV:

• Rod, White & Blue: A Twilight Zone Celebration (6 am/5c, Heroes & Icons Community): Take a respite from the insanity of our occasions by retreating into Rod Serling‘s world of fantasy and allegory, with a four-day marathon of basic Twilight Zone episodes from 1959-64, airing via Monday at 6 am/5c.
• Bob’s Burgers (8/7c, Fox): Bob (voiced by H. Jon Benjamin) participates in a Bachelor-style competitors to inherit Mr. Fischoeder’s 100-year-old tortoise. Additionally new: Household Man (9/8c), the place canine Brian (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) wins a ship on The Value Is Proper and sails it to Texas, the place he goes full throttle at upsetting the locals.
• Revival (10/9c, Syfy): A brand new order targets the “Revivers” within the small Wisconsin city the place the lately deceased have returned to the land of the dwelling. For Em (Romy Weltman), the sheriff’s daughter, this finds recollections that set off a sequence of occasions with brutal outcomes.

 ON THE STREAM:

• Felony Minds: Evolution (streaming on Paramount+): Within the season’s penultimate episode, the community of serial killers closes ranks because the BAU takes new steps to unmask the “Disciple.” However first they’ll have to guard former cult chief Voit (Zach Gilford), who Rossi (Joe Mantegna) now sees as “a psychopath who’s grown a conscience.”
• And Simply Like That… (streaming on HBO Max): Charlotte (Kristin Davis) isn’t the one one dealing with mortality near house, when Lisa (Nicole Ari Parker) suffers a household tragedy. In much less momentous information, Seema (Sarita Choudhury) makes the error of taking up the unimaginable Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) as her first consumer in her new real-estate enterprise.
• Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League (streaming on Max): A sequel to 2018’s anime movie Batman Ninja returns the caped crusader to feudal-era Japan to confront the Yakuza League, a brand new drive comprised of the warped remnants of his biggest allies.
• Countdown: Taylor vs. Serrano (streaming on Netflix): Uma Thurman narrates a documentary that follows boxers Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano as they prepare for his or her Madison Sq. Backyard bout, airing stay on the streamer on July 11.
• Binge Alert: Hulu begins streaming six seasons of the comedy hit Neighborhood, whereas 4 seasons of the brain-teasing Mr. Robotic arrives on Netflix.