1) “Brilliant Minds,” 10 p.m., NBC. Dr. Wolf (Zachary Quinto) again probes odd recesses of the human mind. He again has some great moments … then pushes things to excess. That’s typical of a character (and a show) that sometimes tries too hard. Still, this emotional episode (shown here) – centering on a biker with memory loss – is worth watching.
2) “Superman & Lois” season-opener, 8 and 9 p.m., CW. It’s the fourth and final season, but we might wish the show had stopped with three. The first hour is loud and brutal, as Superman keeps crashing into a rock monster; the second is morose. Lex Luthor (superbly played by Michael Cudlitz) bedevils Lois and her teen sons, one who has emerging powers.
3) “Dancing With the Stars,” 8-10 p.m., ABC. This isn’t one of the weeks when ABC shares Monday-night football, so the network scrambles. It has an extra episode of this show (which airs Tuesdays) and has the 10 p.m. season-opener of the interesting hidden-camera show, “What Would You Do?”
4) “The Voice,” 8-10 p.m., NBC. Some of the top non-fiction shows collide tonight. It’s “Voice” vs. “Dancing” vs. CBS’ “60 Minutes,” which has a transplanted, election-oriented hour, followed at 9 by “The Price is Right.”
5) “Rescue HI-Surf,” 9 p.m., Fox. There’s shark peril tonight – a subject the show avoided in its first three episodes. Also, a sand pit is potentially lethal. The rescues are involving (and follow a new “9-1-1: Lone Star”), but the four younger lifeguards remain both uninteresting and unlikable.
— Mike Hughes, TV America