TUESDAY’S BEST PICKS
8PM & 2022 Winter Olympics Tonight in Beijing, women’s figure skating gets underway with the short program, in which Russian teens Kamila Valiyeva and Alexandra Trusova are favored to dominate the podium. Team USA’s best hopes lie with 16-year-old Alysa Liu, the twotime U.S. national champion and an upand-coming star. Also here are the third and final runs of the two-man bobsled, the men’s slalom in alpine skiing and the men’s team pursuit in speed skating. 8PM _ The Resident During a gender reveal party, a tragic accident puts Jessica’s (Jessica Miesel) brother-in-law in critical condition in the new episode “Viral.” Meanwhile, Conrad, Irving and Trevor (Matt Czuchry, guest stars Tasso Feldman and Miles Fowler) work to help a social media influencer whose life is endangered following a risky cosmetic surgery. Elsewhere, Bell (Bruce Greenwood) is cleared to perform his first surgery since his return, and Billie (Jessica Lucas) must confront her past head-on. 8PM (FX) MOVIE Bloodshot Based on a Valiant Comics character, this 2020 superhero action movie stars Vin Diesel as Ray Garrison, a Marine who is killed in action, then brought back to life with new superpowers by an organization that plans to use him as a weapon. Sam Heughan (“Outlander”), Eiza González, Toby Kebbell, Guy Pearce and Lamorne Morris also star in the film, which launched a projected cinematic universe with Diesel expected to reprise his role in sequels.
8PM (HGTV) Fixer to Fabulous The new episode “Amazing Custom Projects” finds co-host Dave and Jenny Marrs looking back on the most unique projects they’ve built for special homeowners over the years. From a hidden wine cellar to a garage art studio, the couple has created individualized spaces and items, including a custom boat dock for a cancer survivor, a back deck a pair of young newlyweds can use for entertaining and a kids’ dream backyard play area.
9PM ^ American Experience The new episode “The American Diplomat” chronicles the lives and legacies of three African-American ambassadors — Edward R. Dudley, Terence Todman and Carl Rowan — who rose above historical and institutional racial barriers to earn high-ranking appointments in the Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy presidential administrations. At the height of the U.S. civil rights movement, all three of these men were asked to personify the best in American ideals abroad even as they were confronted by discrimination back home, where the U.S. State Department was “pale, male and Yale.” 9:30 PM * black-ish Dre (Anthony Anderson) is sent spinning into a gloom spiral after he finds out that a white co-worker (guest star Reid Scott) has a more formidable sneaker collection than he does in the new episode “Sneakers by the Dozen.” Meanwhile, against the advice of Pops (Laurence Fishburne), Bow (Tracee Ellis Ross) lets Diane (Marsai Martin) skip school for the day. Marcus Scribner and Miles Brown also star.
10 PM ^ Frontline Civil rights scholars are very familiar with the sad fates of Emmett Till, James Chaney, Medgar
Evers and four little girls in Birmingham, Ala., all of whom were slain in acts of racially motivated violence. The new episode “American Reckoning” takes an engrossing look at the U.S. civil rights era using rare archival footage and the story of a local NAACP leader’s murder in Natchez, Miss.