MONDAY’S BEST PICKS
8 PM G All American Spencer and
Billy (Daniel Ezra, Taye Diggs) both realize they’re going to have to earn the respect of the football team after the players don’t give them the hero’s welcome they expected in the new episode “How to Survive in South Central.” Jordan (Michael Evans Behling) is surprised to discover who the new football coach at Beverly is, especially after the latter makes some decisions that jeopardize
Jordan’s status as the starting quarterback.
8:30 PM $ Bob Hearts Abishola Bob’s (Billy Gardell) hopes for a happy future with his beloved Abishola (Folake Olowofoyeku) hit yet another obstacle when Tayo (guest star Dayo Ade), her estranged husband visiting Detroit from Nigeria, stubbornly insists that he never will agree to giving her a divorce in the new episode “Honest Yak Prices.” Christine Ebersole, Matt Jones, Maribeth Monroe and Gina Yashere also star; Joel Brooks and Conphidance also guest star. 9 PM $ All Rise Lola (Simone Missick) has to go on maternity leave after starting early labor while on the bench, but she still tries to participate remotely in Judge Benner’s (Marg Helgenberger) special training about brain science and the law in the new episode “Almost the Meteor.” Elsewhere, Mark (Wilson Bethel) hits another obstacle in his highstakes case against a sheriff’s deputy, but Luke (J. Alex Brinson) sees an ally in his experiment with restorative justice when he goes up against Emily (Jessica Camacho) on an armed robbery case.
9 PM ( FOOD) Kids Baking Championship Chinese five-spice powder — a mix of star anise, Szechuan peppercorns, fennel, cinnamon and clove — provides a balanced hit of sweet, savory, bitter and sour in the new episode “The Spice Is Right.” For this challenge, hosts and judges Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman task the seven young bakers still standing to create Chinese five-spice desserts to stay in the game.
9 PM ( ID) Atlanta Justice The homicide team is called out in the middle of a summer afternoon to the scene of a senseless murder, as a 9-year-old girl becomes the innocent victim of a drive-by shooting, during which bullets sprayed her home as she sat working on her new laptop, in the new episode “Death of Innocence.” Meanwhile, on the other side of town, construction workers find a slain teenager who was fatally shot and left in plain sight of a shortcut to school.
9 PM ( TNT) Snowpiercer Season 1 of this action thriller ended with the survivors of the revolution trying to pick up the pieces and maintain a fragile peace among the now-blended classes as they braced for an attack by Mr. Wilford (Sean Bean). Season 2 brings an entirely new power struggle to the fore, causing a rift between those loyal to Layton (Daveed Diggs) and those ready to follow Wilford, who has a new train loaded with new technology. Elsewhere, Melanie (Jennifer Connelly) leads the charge on a shocking new discovery.
10 PM * The Good Doctor The medical team collaborates on treatment for a driven gymnast whose intensive training is taking a serious toll on her health in the new episode “Parenting.” Elsewhere, Shaun (Freddie Highmore) meets Lea’s (Paige Spara) parents for the first time. Eden Summer Gilmore, Kristoffer Polaha, Barclay Hope, Julie Warner, Brian Marc, Noah Galvin and Summer Brown guest star; Antonia Thomas also stars.
10 PM ( AMC) The Salisbury Poisonings This four part docudrama revisits an actual 2018 incident in the British town of Salisbury, the epicenter of one of the major political events of the still-young 21st century, as double agent and spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, were the target of an assassination attempt using a lethal nerve agent called Novichok. The substance was discovered to be so lethal that half a teaspoon could kill 20,000 people. Anne-Marie Duff, Rafe Spall, MyAnna Buring, Mark Addy, Annabel Scholey, Johnny Harris and Stella Gonet star.
10:01 PM ( TNT) Snowpiercer Season
1 of this action thriller ended with the survivors of the revolution trying to pick up the pieces and maintain a fragile peace among the now-blended classes as they braced for an attack by Mr. Wilford (Sean Bean). Season 2 brings an entirely new power struggle to the fore, causing a rift between those loyal to Layton (Daveed Diggs) and those ready to follow Wilford, who has a new train loaded with new technology. Elsewhere, Melanie (Jennifer Connelly) leads the charge on a shocking new discovery.