Tuesday TV: ‘Hard Knocks’ While It Lasts
While the return of NFL is iffy at the moment, the “Hard Knocks” franchise is still here chronicling teams readying for a season anyway. Perhaps signaling a short season (that’s…
Monday TV: Examining an Indian Family
After bingeing “Indian Matchmaking” (Netflix, streaming) I’ve gained some understanding about how marriage plays a central role in Indian culture. It also explains why the family of filmmaker Archana Phadke keeps…
Sunday TV: Shark Week Seeks Ideas
For more than three decades, Shark Week has been serious and ridiculous. It begins more on the latter side this year with its oddball kickoff “Tyson vs. Jaws: Rumble on…
Saturday TV: Charlie Chaplin Times
Here’s one good full-day antidote from crummy times: Charlie Chaplin all day on Turner Classic Movies. The 19 movies for today’s Summer Under the Stars start with the 106 year…
Friday TV: Diego Luna’s Dinner Parties
The actor Diego Luna of “Narcos: Mexico” and “Rogue One: Star Wars” assembles carefully chosen dinner parties to discuss issues of the day on his new seven-episode series “Pan y…
Thursday TV: Seth Rogen in a Pickle
The first big movie on the streaming service is “An American Pickle” (HBO Max, streaming) in which Seth Rogen plays an immigrant who falls into a pickle vat in 1920,…
Wednesday TV: Big Brother Lockdown
I’m a little more excited than I should be for the return of “Big Brother” (CBs, 8 p.m.), albeit an “all-star” season means a lot of too-familiar retreads in the…
Tuesday TV: No Draining This Swamp
Directors Daniel DiMauro and Morgan Pehme, who made “Get Me Roger Stone,” have a way of insinuating themselves into the right. Their latest film “The Swamp” (HBO 9 p.m.) takes…
Monday TV: Dire Stories of Immigration
Unusual access was granted to filmmakers Christina Clusiau and Shaul Schwarz to document the crisis over three years for the six-part documentary series “Immigration Nation” (Netflix, streaming). And unusual restraint…
Sunday TV: Finding Odd Connections
“Radiolab” researcher Latin Nasser tries making his own discoveries on the new series “Connected” (Netflix, streaming) drawing broader associations between seemingly desperate elements in the most entertaining way possible. A…