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Tuesday Top Picks

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Tips for Today After fruitful couple of days, only two recommendations for today: 1. The Jim Jefferies Show 2. Cunk on Britain (UK)

Monday Top Picks

Tips for Today 1. The Terror 2. Superior Donuts 3. Plebs (UK) 4. Travel Man: 48 Hours In Oslo (UK) 5. American Dad

Sunday Top Picks

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Our favorites for sunday: 1. Silicon Valley 2. The Durrells 3. Ash vs. Evil Dead 4. Barry 5. Family Guy 6. The Simpsons Ash vs. Evil Dead

Friday Top Picks

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Only some UK entertainment shows for today: 1. Have I Got News for You (UK) 2. Gogglebox (UK) 3. The Graham Norton Show (UK) Have I Got News For You

Thursday Top Picks

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Four solid shows today: 1. Supernatural 2. Not Going Out (UK) 3. Siren 4. Champions Not Going Out

Wednesday Top Picks

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Tips for Today Two brilliant and one OK show today: 1. The Americans 2. The Magicians 3. Krypton

The Counterpart

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The story This is a strange one. You cannot quite compare it to any mainstream show, but at the same time it feels familiar. Fringe maybe? Not really. It's not that shallow at all. I would say that it reminds me of a cancelled BBC America's drama "The Game". It has that familiar atmosphere and dynamics. And a lot of British actors which, as we all know, means quality. "The Counterpart" follows a story of Howard Silk (J.K. Simmons)  and his wife, Emily (Olivia Williams). He is very much still in love with her and brings her daily flowers to a hospital, where she ended up after a traffic accident. Emily is in a coma and not responsive. Howard is a man with almost no friends and with a job in a bureaucratic UN agency based in Berlin. That's where the story gets interesting. One day, Howard meets his identical counterpart. It turns out that the East German scientist created a copy of their dimension. I say their, because the Howard's is a copy, which