TV tonight: ‘Bachelorette,’ ‘Mike Molly,’ ‘Beauty’

The BacheloretteABC, 8 ET/PT

It’s time for the ever-popular trips home to meet the respective families — who, if they know anything about the show at all, are most likely yearning to ask, “Why are you wasting our time?” followed by a request for a heads-up on anything particularly sleazy or stupid the daters have done that may cause the family embarrassment. But odds are most of them will smile and be polite, because they realize that’s their best chance of not looking like fools themselves on TV — and because most of them will want to promote harmony on the very off chance this Bachelorette ends up being a member of the family

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Mike & MollyCBS, 9 ET/PT

If you like Melissa McCarthy, in or out of Tammy, you’ll most likely get a laugh out of her performance in this repeat, as Molly visits Victoria at her workplace and works her way through various pot-and-funeral-parlor gags. McCarthy is one of our brightest comedy lights, but pay attention tonight to what a sweet, balancing presence Katy Mixon has become as Victoria.

Beauty and the BeastCW, 9 ET/PT

This fantasy ends its second season with the threat that our Beast-boy might have to die. Considering the show has been renewed, you can probably file that threat under “empty.”

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