1) “Extended Family,” 8:30 p.m., NBC. After a quarter-century as a writer-producer-actor, Mike O’Malley gets to craft the ultimate St. Patrick’s Day episode. Yes, it’s two days late and (sometimes) a tad silly. But ii does double-duty: It has the usual cliches – Jim’s dad (shown here), after all, has an Iriish bar in Boston – but follows with a sharp reality check.
2) “Password,” 10 p.m., NBC. On a night stuffed with crime shows, NBC goes light – “Night Court” and “Extended Family” (a week from their season-finales), the “Voice” and this sorta-pleasant game show. There are flaws here: It’s too easy to simply use a rhyme; there’s too much of an advantage to going second. Still, Jimmy Fallon, Chance the Rapper and host Keke Palmer make it fun.
3) “The Cleaning Lady,” 8 p.m., Fox. Thony is desperate to get her sister-in-law Fiona (and Fionas’s teen son) back from the Philiippines. In exchange for help, she’s agreed to do clean-up work for a drug cartel. Now come some harsh twists for both Thony and Fiona, in an involving and unrelenting hour.
4) “Alert: Missing Persons Unit,” 9 p.m., Fox. There are things to like about this series: It’s virtually an anthology, with elaborate stories each week; and it gets terrific work from Scott Caan, as an ex-soldier, working for his ex-wife, Still, there were credibility issues last week and again now. That starts with a boxer who would have been suspended, then adds more iffy detaiils.
5) “Shogun,” 10 p.m., FX. This may be the most morose TV episode ever. It starts with the gory aftermath of war, then delivers a dinner more stark than even a Thanksgiving at your crazy uncle’s house. There are deaths caused by natural disaster and cultural misunderstanding, It’s all brilliantly filmed, in its own darkly corrosive way.
— Mike Hughes, TV America