Anything but love
Jill Soloway has followed up "Transparent" with "I Love Dick," another graphic and unapologetic comedy that treats sex as anything but romantic. Kathryn Hahn plays a married filmmaker who swoons over a cowboy artist named Dick, played by Kevin Bacon, at an intellectual retreat. Soloway and co-creator Sarah Gubbins seem so obsessed with getting to the naked truth — figuratively and literally — that getting laughs is often relegated to the back burner, but Hahn is a pistol.
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Epic records
It's been a terrific season for docu-series about music history, thanks to PBS' "Soundbreaking: Stories From the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music," and CNN's "Soundtracks: Music That Defined History." Now comes "American Epic," a more studious but still fascinating journey. Robert Redford narrates this three-parter on 1920s recordings made mostly in rural parts of the United States. Stop yawning. This is rich territory, especially if you focus more on the rhythm and less on the unfamiliar names.
8 p.m. Tue., TPT, Ch. 2
A dog's life
After her breakout performance in Season 1 of "Fargo," Allison Tolman earned the right to headline a sitcom. But despite her best efforts in "Downward Dog," she ends up playing second fiddle to a manic depressive mutt whose thoughts are shared with innocent humans, as in us. This is supposedly a comedy, but you can't help but wonder if the dog is praying for his owner to lace his bowl with cyanide.
8:30 p.m. Wed., KSTP, Ch. 5
Neal Justin
