Viola Davis Gets Real in ‘Last Defense,’ Return of ‘Bold Type,’ ‘Face Off’

A selective critical checklist of notable Tuesday TV:

The Last Defense (10/9c, ABC): Having explored flaws in the justice system in a fictional manner on How to Get Away With Murder, when Annalise Keating argued before the Supreme Court in a spring Scandal crossover with Kerry Washington, Emmy winner Viola Davis now focuses on two real-life death-row cases in a docu-series she’s executive producing with husband Julius Tennon. The Last Defense opens with a look at the case of Darlie Routier, a Dallas housewife sentenced to death after the stabbing murders of her two sons in 1996. Later in the season, the series will look at the 2001 conviction of Julius Josnes, a 21-year-old African-American scholarship college student, charged with the carjacking murder of a white father of two in Oklahoma.