Arts & Entertainment

Super Bowl, Episodes, Shameless

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Super Bowl, 6 p.m., Fox

Steelers. Packers. As much as I don’t care about this, I do like that it is two sort of old-school teams playing each other. You know, back form the days when football was played outside, on grass, by real men.

 Episodes, 9:30 p.m., Showtime

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Matt Leblanc is playing himself better than I have ever seen an actor play himself. It is serious genius.

 Shameless, 10 p.m., Showtime

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Parts of this remain cringe-worthy (Joan Cusack’s character, for one), but the plots and the characters and the scenarios are brilliant and very, very funny. Streamlining would be good, I think, but I love the Gallaghers.


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