What’s on TV Tuesday: The ‘Bachelorette’ Finale and Whitney Cummings
THE BACHELORETTE 8 p.m. on ABC. The 15th season of this reality dating show may be remembered more for a relationship that didn’t work out than for the one the bachelorette, Hannah Brown, ultimately chooses. Earlier this season, as Brown was deciding between her final four suitors, one of them, Luke, questioned her faith and morality while telling her that he’d want to leave the show if she had been intimate with any other contestants. What followed was a dramatic, sex-positive defense from Brown that culminated in Luke’s departure, after she told him that she did have sex “and Jesus still loves me.” In the second night of this two-part finale, Brown could end up engaged to one of the final two contestants, but her resounding refusal to be judged may outshine any televised proposal.
60 DAYS IN: NARCOLAND 10 p.m. on A&E. This spinoff of A&E’s incarceration series, in which volunteers become undercover prisoners for 60 days in jails across the country, shifts its focus to America’s opioid epidemic. In “Narcoland,” six participants will embed with law enforcement officers and spend time in local jails to see how drug trafficking is affecting communities along Interstate Highway 65, which runs through Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana.
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WHITNEY CUMMINGS: CAN I TOUCH IT? Stream on Netflix. Whitney Cummings has been busy over the past couple years working on her TV projects “Whitney” and “2 Broke Girls,” as well as “The Female Brain,” her debut as a film director. But she recently found some time to return to stand-up with her fourth comedy special. In it, Cummings covers sexual harassment, weighing how men and women are reacting to the #MeToo movement. She also gives a passionate endorsement of using lipstick as a deterrent against a would-be attacker, and offers her thoughts on why society should give sex robots a chance.
THE CURSE OF LA LLORONA (2019) Rent on Amazon; purchase on Amazon, Google Play, YouTube and Vudu. Linda Cardellini’s character may have been instrumental in a family’s suffering in “Dead to Me,” but in this “Conjuring” installment, it’s her character’s family that finds itself under attack. The villain in this story (and source of most of the jump scares) is La Llorona (Marisol Ramirez), a woman who, after being abandoned by her husband and killing both of her children out of grief, was cursed to walk the Earth as a weeping demon. Like La Llorona, Anna (Cardellini) is also a single mother to two children, Chris (Roman Christou) and Sam (Jaynee-Lynne Kinchen). It’s after Chris’s unfortunate run-in with the ghost that La Llorona becomes a regular visitor at his house, haunting almost every room. “Like the better titles in this series, it leans on primal fears — the unknown, the certainty of death — and solid actors who can deliver the silliness straight,” Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The Times. “Even better is how it explores and exploits the divide between comedy and horror.”
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