WYNONNA EARP -- Season:2 -- Pictured: Melanie Scrofano as Wynonna Earp -- (Photo by: Michelle Faye/Wynonna Earp Season 2, Inc./Syfy)

Best-bets for July 26: Earp goes solo; Solo goes too

1) “Wynonna Earp” season-opener, 10 p.m., Syfy. Life gets complicated for Wynonna (Melanie Scrofano, shown here). Her great-great-grandfather Wyatt just had to face gunfighters; she’s supposed to hunt demons and dispatch them back to Hell. Last season, her half-sister Waverly was kidnapped. To find her, Wynonna must enter Eden on a stairway that’s magic and maybe invisible. There’s lots of dry humor and then a fierce demon battle. Read more…

1) “Wynonna Earp” season-opener, 10 p.m., Syfy. Life gets complicated for Wynonna (Melanie Scrofano, shown here). Her great-great-grandfather Wyatt just had to face gunfighters; she’s supposed to hunt demons and dispatch them back to Hell. Last season, her half-sister Waverly was kidnapped. To find her, Wynonna must enter Eden on a stairway that’s magic and maybe invisible. There’s lots of dry humor and then a fierce demon battle.

2) “Solo: A Star Wars Story” (2018), 6-9 p.m., then “The Alienist,” 9 and 10 p.m., TNT. This has to be one of the weirdest transitions since … well, Obama to Trump. First is the movie, with the adventures of the young Han Solo. Then “Alienist” takes us to 1897 New York. Two pioneers – Sara, a detective, and Dr. Kreizler, a psychiatrist and hypnotist, try to solve a kidnapping. It’s a slow, dark tale, with dialog so stiff that the actors (including Dakota Fanning as Sara) have little room for emotion.

3) “Celebrity Family Feud,” 8 p.m., ABC. Next Sunday, the game shows will take a basketball break, so you might as well catch them now. One battle has pro boxers face each other; the other has the comedy cast of “American Housewife” against the young stars of the musical “Descendants 3.”

4) “NCIS: Los Angeles,” 9 p.m., CBS. Bar Poly is back as Anna Kolcheck, Born in Russia, raised in Illinois, Anna is a former cop, sometimes a U.S. agent and sometimes Callen’s lover. Now she warns him that he’s in danger and must work with an arch-enemy to stop a trafficking ring.

5) “The Chi,” 9 p.m., Showtime. In a gorgeous moment, Ronnie’s grandmother recalls her days of running a thriving Chicago jazz club. “We were just happy to be black,” she says, “and away from the South.” Then “The Chi” reverts to modern highs and lows. Kevin celebrates his birthday, torn by thoughts of his missing sister. (Scenes of her in captivity are especially painful.) We see the joy of a skating rink, the rage of a mayoral election, the violence of a money grab. It’s busy and involving.

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