Day: October 20, 2023

Daily Best Bets

Best-bets for Oct. 22: “Fear,” “Family,” foul father

1) “Fear the Walking Dead” return, 9-10:08 p.m., AMC, repeats at 11:23. When this show started, Madison (Kim Dickens, shown here) was an average (perhaps) school counselor. Then she battled zombies heroically, was apparently killed … and emerged three years later — collecting children for PADRE, then reversing her life and helping them escape. Now the final six episodes begin as she faces an old foe plus PADRE. It’s a tense, taut and well-crafted hour. Read more…

By Mike Hughes / October 20, 2023
Stories

He’s ranged from the Navajo Nation to Mars

Aaron Yazzie’s life juggles the old and the new.
We’re talking very old. He grew up in the Navajo Nation, which his ancestors may have reached six centuries ago.
And very new. He designed key elements of the rover that grabs samples on Mars.
“Mars looks exactly like the Navajo Nation,” Yazzie (shown here) said. “When I was growing up, just playing in those mesas with my cousins and my brothers, I … was sort of creating this muscle memory for when I eventually got to NASA.”
Now he’s featured in the opener (9 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 24) of the second season of PBS’ “Native America.” The four episodes feature: Read more…

By Mike Hughes / October 20, 2023