When his latest assignment hits a speed bump in the rural backwater of Bemidji, he decides to enjoy the detour by messing with the minds and fates of unprepared locals. Lester Nygaard, a henpecked, easily bullied milquetoast of a born loser (Martin Freeman, squirming with exquisite pathos) whose meek existence gets upended after he randomly crosses paths with Malvo in a hospital waiting room. From the ripples of Malvo's wry malevolence emerge two endearing heroes: dogged Bemidji cop Molly Solverson (Allison Tolman in a star-is-born breakthrough) and a more forlorn officer from nearby Duluth, Gus Grimly (Colin Hanks), a single dad who questions his mettle after his first unnerving encounter with the sinister interloper. Max Greenfield, so indelibly Schmidt on New Girl - who takes the news about Nick and Jess particularly badly - shows some range in a Mindy guest role as a sheepish first-grade teacher whom Mindy aggressively hits on while prowling a singles bar. A new season of PBS's Pioneers of Television opens with a pop-cultural survey of comics who went from Standup to Sitcom (8/7c, check tvguide.com listings), featuring Jerry Seinfeld, Tim Allen, Roseanne Barr, Bob Newhart, Bill Cosby and Ray Romano - whose Everybody Loves Raymond was inducted last week into the National Association of Broadcasters' Hall of Fame, an event at which I moderated a Raymond panel (and guess what, the show holds up). From there it's a transition, as Seinfeld puts it, from the least collaborative medium to the most - and Romano recalls how difficult it was to feel comfortable getting laughs with someone else's words. The Address (9/8c, check tvguide.com listings), a piece of living history set at a Vermont boys' boarding school that specializes in treating language-based learning difficulties, as students embark on an annual rite-of-passage challenge to recite the complete Gettysburg Address from memory. ESPN kicks off a new 30 for 30 documentary series of Soccer Stories with Hillsborough (8/7c), a 25th-anniversary remembrance of the English soccer stadium disaster that claimed 96 lives in 1989.
Tuesday Tv: You Betcha, Fargo's Terrific
By Matt Roush, TV GUIDE, Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Entertainment
Tue, 04/15/2014 - 7:41am
Topics: bemidji lester nygaard martin freeman molly solverson allison tolman duluth gus grimly colin hanks max greenfield schmidt new girl nick jess pbs's pioneers television standup sitcom jerry seinfeld tim allen roseanne barr bob newhart bill ray romano everybody loves raymond national association broadcasters hall fame the address gettysburg address espn soccer stories hillsborough english i a malvo mindy seinfeld romano raymond tv check
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