Best-bets for Oct. 16: Buffalo roam, humor returns
1) “The America Buffalo,” 8-10 p.m., PBS; rerunning at 10 and concluding Tuesday. This is classic Ken Burns (almost). It has deep insights, great visuals, painful details. Missing (until near the end) is optimism Burns (shown here) usually offers. We see the buffalo (and, separately, native Americans) pushed to the edge of extinction. Late in Tuesday’s finale, decency emerges. We’re left with some hope for the buffalo, the natives and the human soul. Read more…