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Click & Close Ads Last summer, the first season of HBO’s “True Detective” got TV audiences familiar with Matthew McConaughey’s dramatic chops while he and Woody Harrelson tracked a serial killer and philosophized on life, the universe and everything under the hot Louisiana sun. Season two, which begins Sunday, moves to California, where the murder of a businessman links three police officers and a criminal trying to go legit. Vince Vaughn is the criminal, Frank Semyon. It’s his business associate who is killed, and that throws his plans to operate above the law into a bit of a tailspin. Investigating the murder is Colin Farrell’s character, detective Ray Velcoro, a cop who’s entrenched in a corrupt department and under the thumb of a local crime boss. Rachel McAdams is sheriff’s detective Ani Bezzerides, whose strict code of ethics put her at odds with the system she serves. And Taylor Kitsch is Paul Woodrugh, a motorcycle cop and war veteran who unwittingly sparks an investigation after discovering a crime scene. As with the first season, the focus isn’t only on the solution to the initial crime, though the investigation operates as a motor to keep the story moving. The bigger picture is how these four characters find themselves in their present situations, and unable to escape events of their pasts. The layered storytelling results in some moody and compelling television. “True Detective,” season two, premieres at 8 p.m. Sunday on HBO (cable Ch. 401). Also on HBO: HBO isn’t stopping with a new season of its hit show; stay put after “True Detective,” and the network has two fresh comedies for your viewing pleasure. The first, at 9 p.m. Sunday, is “Ballers,” featuring Dwayne Johnson as retired football superstar Spencer Strasmore who is navigating life after playing the game. With his associate, Joe, played by Rob Corddry, Strasmore serves as adviser, financial and personal, to current and former players. The cast itself includes several former players: Johnson played for the University of Miami; Donovan W. Carter, who plays Vernon, played at UCLA; and John David Washington, who plays Ricky (and is the son of Oscar-winner Denzel Washington), played football at Morehouse College. If the party scenes seem a little over the top, at least the scenes on the field should have some authenticity. Following “Ballers” at 9:30 p.m. Sunday is “The Brink,” a political potboiler that plays the looming possibility of World War III as comedy. The fate of the world rests on the shoulders of three men: Walter Larson (Tim Robbins), the U.S. Secretary of State who wants to avoid war so he can get back to the fun of life; Alex Talbot (Jack Black), the Foreign Service officer who is a bit over his head out in the world; and Zeke Tilson (Pablo Schreiber), the ace fighter pilot who just wants to know who his next target is. The satire — and it is full-on satire — offers viewers a chance to laugh at those ultra-serious topics of combat, diplomacy and the politics of war. What else is new? It’s all-out war for the robots of “Battlebots,” a new reality series on ABC. Two machines enter, one survives to fight another round, and the winners in the championship rounds at the end of the six-episode series win cash. The homegrown robots duke it out starting at 8 p.m. Sunday on ABC (Ch. 27).Click & Close Ads
Click & Close Ads Summer mainstay “Big Brother” returns to watch over its housemates at 7 p.m. Wednesday on CBS (Ch. 3); it also will air Thursdays and Sundays. “Suits” returns for its fifth season starting at 8 p.m. Wednesday on USA (cable Ch. 34). An upcoming episode will feature a cameo by Charles Barkley. “Mr. Robot,” a new show starring Christian Slater as the leader of an underground hacker collective and Rami Malek as the programmer he recruits to destroy the company for which he works, premieres after “Suits” at 9 p.m. Wednesday on USA (cable Ch. 34). Game show “Boom!,” in which contestants answer trivia questions to avoid having a bomb (filled with maple syrup, or guacamole, or another gooey mystery substance) dropped on them, premieres at 7 p.m. Thursday on Fox (Ch. 47). And Marg Helgenberger joins the cast in the third season of “Under the Dome,” based on Stephen King’s novel about a community shut off from the rest of the world, beginning at 8 p.m. Thursday on CBS (Ch. 3).Click & Close Ads
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