Best-bets for April 30: taut dramas on Hulu, Fox, more

1) “The Veil” opener, Hulu. This starts with a bleak, barren stretch of snow. In a refugee camp in Turkey, a woman is suspected of being a lethal ISIS leader. Now a spy has arrived. We don’t know her real name or her mission; she doesn’t know what to think of the suspect. What emerges are tautly written moments for two gifted people, Elisabeth Moss (shown here) and Lebanese actress Yumna Marwan. Read more…

1) “The Veil” opener, Hulu. This starts with a bleak, barren stretch of snow. In a refugee camp in Turkey, a woman is suspected of being a lethal ISIS leader. Now a spy has arrived. We don’t know her real name or her mission; she doesn’t know what to think of the suspect. What emerges are tautly written moments for two gifted people, Elisabeth Moss (shown here) and Lebanese actress Yumna Marwan.

2) “The Cleaning Lady,” 8 p.m., Fox. This show has done a great job of adjusting to the between-seasons death of one of its stars, Adan Canto. Now Arman, whom he played, is dead, his widow is crumbling and Thony is aligning with another handsome chap, this one with a semi-deranged sister. It’s a complicated story (too much so, at times) that reveals another deception in tonight’s final minute.

3) “The Good Doctor,” 10 p.m., ABC. After a two-week break, the show is back for the last four episodes of its final season. Tonight, Shaun’s patient needs a kidney transplant; but is the potential donor – who thinks he’s Jesus – competent to decide?

4) “Password,” 10 p.m., NBC. The contestants include a master coupon-user who has never seen “Star Wars” or “The Godfather” and a former beauty queen (“I’m very competitive”) who wins bass-fishing contests. Despite the show’s usual flaws, it’s fun.

5) ALSO: “Crime Nation” (8-10 p.m., CW), closes its season with a look at the 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students. At 10, PBS’ “Frontline” views deaths related to police restraint methods. On a much lighrer note, “Express Way With Dule Hill” (9 p.m., PBS) views the immense impact of music in Appalachia.

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