THURSDAY’S BEST PICKS
8 PM & Superstore On the day of
Cloud 9’s heavily promoted “In-store-vaganza,” Dina (Lauren Ash) finally gets the chance to step up to the plate and call the shots at running the store, much to the dismay of some of her colleagues, in the new episode “Prize Wheel.” Elsewhere, Garrett and Cheyenne (Colton Dunn, Nichole Bloom) search for the origin of a mysterious smell in the store, while Jonah (Ben Feldman) finds himself excited about a new opportunity.
8 PM _; 8:20 PM ( NFL) NFL Football
A clash of NFC West playoff contenders is on tap tonight at CenturyLink Field, where Russell Wilson and the Seattle Seahawks hope to get a leg up in their home game against Kyler Murray and the Arizona Cardinals. The Cards drew first blood in these teams’ season series last month in the desert, when they came from 10 points down in the fourth quarter to ring up a thrilling 37-34 victory in overtime.
8 PM ( MTV) Jersey Shore: Family Vacation The roommates return for their fourth season, which picks up in the aftermath of the stormy Season 3 finale, with a pandemic thrown in for good measure. The wedding of Angeline in that finale included a shocking speech that left the family fractured, so the boys attempt multiple reconciliations in the new season. As part of their plan, DJ Pauly D takes over an entire resort and, with an assist from Mike “The Situation,” Vinny and Ronnie, he hopes to reunite the girls and the whole extended family. 9 PM G Supernatural When “Supernatural” premiered on what was then The WB network in 2005, creator Eric Kripke mapped out a three-season plan for the show, which he later expanded to five. Now, Sam and Dean Winchester (Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles) end their ghost-busting road trip, as the longestrunning live-action American fantasy series in TV history closes a 15-season run. Whatever happens in this series finale, we can borrow an epitaph from another cult hit, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” for a final word on Sam and Dean: “They saved the world a lot.”
9 PM ( E!) Total Bellas In a new episode called “Bellas Break Free,” despite Nicole’s reluctance, Brie pushes her sister to resolve lingering tensions with the rest of their family. Nicole starts getting uncomfortable after she notices Artem spending what she considers too much time with her mother, Kathy. Elsewhere, Brie finds herself reflecting on the difficult birth she had with Birdie.
10 PM $ Star Trek: Discovery After the crew of the Discovery is unable to save another Federation ship from destruction by a Klingon vessel that is using cloaking technology, Burnham, Tyler and Saru (Sonequa Martin-Green, Shazad Latif, Doug Jones) go searching for a solution in the new episode “Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum,” which means “if you want peace, prepare for war.” The trio are looking for a natural crystalline transmitter they hope can be used as a kind of sonar to detect the hidden enemy ships. Jason Isaacs also stars.
10 PM ( TLC) When Skin Goes Wrong Viewer advisory: This new reality series may be enough to make your skin crawl. TLC goes back to the “body horror” well with this new entry, which follows British dermatologist Emma Craythorne as she diagnoses and treats patients with skin conditions, some of them extreme, like something you might expect to see out of a medieval plague docudrama. A lot of peeling, picking and popping ensues. As the saying goes, for those who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they will like.
10:01 PM * A Million Little Things Season 3 finds the main characters addressing fallout from events at the close of Season 2, with Rome and Regina (Romany Malco, Christina Moses) struggling to find a way forward now that the birth mother of the child they planned to adopt has backed out of their agreement. Gary’s (James Roday Rodriguez) new relationship with Darcy (Floriana Lima) thrusts him into the unfamiliar role of instant father figure, leading to a life-altering decision. Elsewhere, the question of whether Eddie (David Giuntoli) is dead or alive is answered.