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Will “Super Fun Night” (8: 30 p. m., WATN-TV Channel 24 be embraced as a comedy breakthrough? Dismissed as mean-spirited? Or both?
Australian actress Rebel Wilson (“Pitch Perfect”) stars as Kimmie, a quirky and insecure low-level lawyer elevated to the big time who harbors a serious crush on a new colleague, the British lawyer Richard Royce (Kevin Bishop). Any resemblances to the Jane Austen-inspired “Bridget Jones” movies are strictly intentional. Last year’s standout comedy “The Mindy Project” did pretty much the same thing.
Only Kimmie is a supersized Bridget Jones, who takes the self-mortification humor of “Mindy” to grotesque extremes. An unabashed fan of geeky movies, Kimmie has trouble engaging in the grown-up world. She limits her social life to girls’-night-ins with similarly awkward friends Marika (Lauren Ash) and Helen-Alice (Liza Lapira). Together, these pals form a trifecta of stereotyped losers: Kimmie, the fat fan-girl; Helen, the Asian dork; and Marika, the tomboy whose lesbian inclinations remain a secret only to herself. These characterizations are shot through with vicious condescension — much more than with the ensemble on “The Big Bang Theory.”
Some may argue that it’s time a big woman got to work the territory that plus size male comics have dominated, from Jackie Gleason to John Belushi to Kevin James. But rather than infuse “slob” humor with a female sensibility, Wilson often resembles a drag performer. And the sight of a woman imitating a man playing a woman is more about a gender minstrel show than “empowerment” -- and frequently more disturbing than amusing.
The new “Ironside” (9 p.m., WMC-TV Channel 5) resembles its classic TV namesake about as much as the new “Goldbergs” does — not much at all.
Blair Underwood stars as Robert Ironside, a detective who lost the use of his legs after being shot on duty. In the original series that starred Raymond Burr, Ironside was the victim of a sniper’s bullet. The shooting was evoked every week during the show’s credit sequence. Here, we learn about the fateful shooting in prolonged flashbacks. Unlike Burr’s Ironside, who lived by his wits and detective skills, Underwood’s character remains a powerful physical specimen. Despite his paraplegic status, he roughs up suspects.
An inexperienced physician arrives in a small village in the thick of the Russian Revolution in the new series “A Young Doctor’s Notebook” (9 p.m., Ova- tion), starring Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe.
OTHER HIGHLIGHTS
Miles goes missing on “Revolution” (7 p.m., WMC-TV Channel 5).
Axl’s absence liberates Sue on “The Middle” (7 p.m., WATN-TV Channel 24).
“Arrow” (7 p. m., WLMT-TV Channel 30) glances back.
American League Wild Card winners play a one-game series (7 p.m., TBS).
A celebrity chef (Cybill Shepherd) worries about a stalker on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” (8 p.m., WMC-TV Channel 5).
Gloria’s superstitions emerge on “Modern Family” (8 p.m., WATN-TV Channel 24).
A killer hand on “CSI” (9 p.m., WREG-TV Channel 3).
A reality TV nightmare on “Nashville” (9 p.m., WATN-TV Channel 24).
The search for a new pet turtle on “Duck Dynasty” (9 p.m., A&E, TV-PG).
Charlotte meets a stranger who knows too much on the season finale of “The Bridge” (9 p.m., FX).
“Miley: The Movement” (9 p.m., MTV) profiles an overexposed “talent.”
Joel McHale answers fan’s questions on “The Soup Investigates” (9:30 p.m., E!).