1) “The Simpsons,” 8 pm., Fox. Once a year, “Treehouse of Horror” offers tales that are sometimes witty, sometimes gory, always wonderfully bizarre. Now – a week later than usual – we get a new batch. The first two are fairly good and a bit gruesome: Marge plunges into the game universe (shown here) to save Bart; Lisa solves a crime. The third one is the real gem, offering a world full of Homer-ic people.
2) “JFK: One Day in America,” 8-11 p.m., National Geographic. As the 60th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination (Nov. 22) nears, we see events unfold. Much of the footage is familiar, but there are fresh insights from two Secret Service agents, a cop, a reporter and more. We meet the co-worker, then a teen-ager, who gave Lee Harvey Oswald a ride to work that day. “Lee was a big talker,” he says, but “he would not initiate a conversation.”
3) “The Gilded Age,” 9 p.m., HBO. The Russells – a new-rich family in the old-rich 1880s New York – find complications: George fumes about unions; Bertha schemes for leverage in the opera-society crowd. Their daughter has a proposal from the closeted Oscar; their son, fresh from college, makes a surprising business (and maybe romance) connection. With one exception (Nathan Lane’s false-sounding accent), it’s a beautifully acted hour.
4) “Yellowstone,” 8-10 p.m., CBS; and “Lawmen: Bass Reeves” debut, Paramount+. Taylor Sheridan has become the new master of taut westerns. Tonight, we see productions, modern – in “Yellowstone,” Beth buys land to protect the ranch and grooms a political candidate – and old: Starting an eight-week series, David Oyelowo (“Selma”) portrays a real-life ex-slave who was a deputy marshal for 32 years.
5) ALSO: At 8 p.m., ABC has “Coco” (2017), the animated gem set on Day of the Dead (which was earlier this week). At 8:30, Fox’s “Krapopolis” has a fairly funny episode, with the young ruler falling for the ageless enemy of his mother. And all night, PBS has strong dramas. “Hotel Portofino” (8 p.m.) sees Cecil scheme for control of the hotel … “World on Fire” (9) finally gets Kasia back into wartime action … “Annika” (10) has a body in a block of ice.