TV tonight: 'The Flash,' 'About a Boy,' 'Frontline'
The Flash
CW, 8 ET/PT
TV's latest superhero series got off to a fast start last week. Now we'll see if it can maintain that momentum, as a setback leads Barry (an excellently cast Grant Gustin) to question whether he's cut out for the life of a hero. He'd better not ask Joe (Jesse L. Martin), because the answer is certain to be "no" — and then where would the show be?
About a Boy
NBC, 9:30 ET/PT
When we left this promising if wildly uneven adaptation of the popular movie, Will had moved to New York to be with his girlfriend. In the second-season opener, he returns to San Francisco for a visit he intends, at least for now, to be temporary. Odds are that "temporary" will turn to "permanent" fairly soon, but who knows? Maybe the show will surprise us.
Frontline: The Trouble with Antibiotics
PBS, 10 ET/PT (times may vary)
Want something to worry about that, at the moment, is far more of a health risk here than Ebola? Frontline examines the growing problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which, tonight's documentary says, infect an estimated 2 million people here a year, killing at least 23,000. The issue debated tonight is whether the use of antibiotics in food animals has any link to antibiotic resistance in people — and whether the government is doing enough to find out.