1) “Wild Cards” season-finale, 8 p.m,, CW. For the new, low-budget version of CW, this has been a bright spot, wth likable people in clever plots. But there are only 10 episodes in the first season and talks have dragged on about a second. Giacomo Gianniotti (shown here) plays a cop, working with a semi-reformed scam artist (the delightful Vanessa Morgan). Now he’s drawn into a case from her shaky past.
2) “Family Law” (9 p.m., CW) and “Resident Alien” (10 p.m.,Syfy). This is also the season-finale for “Law,” a gentle mixture of personal and courtroom drama. Tonight, Elizabeth Bowen plays someone trying to meet her child, who was switched at birth. Afterward, you can see Bowen again as the “Resident Alien” deputy sheriff. It’s an excellent episode, focusing onn a lovelorn Harry..
3) Animal Control,” 9 p.m., Fox. Lots of comedy styles are blended deftly. There’s silliness, with a costume party gone bad, and character humor, with Frank (Joel McHale) badgered by his brother (Thomas Lennon), a cop. There are animal sight gags (a lazy turtle, an ambitious dog) and the start of a plot involving animal smugglers.
4) “Trafficked” season-finale, 9-10:13 p.m., National Geographic Channel. Mariana van Zeller usually finds other people in crisis, but this time the story is about her. Last summer, she was probing the gold trade in Niger (a West African country bordering Nigeria), when a coup paralyzed the nation. Her efforts to get home included desperate phone calls and some daring pilots.
5) “Palm Royale,” Apple TV+. Maxine (Kristen Wiig) obsesses on joining a country club in 1960s Palm Beach. The result — a comedy-drama with three episodes today and seven more weekly – has lots of glitter and starpower. It ranges from Ricky Martin to Carol Burnett, with Allison Janney, Josh Lucas and Laura Dern. It’s slow, however, to get us to empathize with Maxine’s empty-headed quest.
— Mike Hughes, TV America