Friday TV: A Bunch of Teen Movies
Each of the bigger streaming services are competing by premiering new teen today. The teen movie equivalent of “The Purge” comes in the new “The Binge” (Hulu, streaming), which isn’t…
Thursday TV: Tales of ‘Class Action Park’
A documentary about a New Jersey amusement park that earned a reputation for being the most crazily dangerous of the 1980s, Action Park, gets a documentary treatment that may play…
Wednesday TV: The Paralympics Story
Just as we missed the Olympics this year, we are now missing the Paralympic Games. A documentary about the competition may fill that hole in “Rising Phoenix” (Netflix, streaming) about…
Tuesday TV: Final Episodes of ‘Trinkets’
A second season starts for “Trinkets” (Netflix, streaming), based on the young adult novel by Kirsten Smith, about three teen girls who meet at a mandated Shoplifters Anonymous meeting. “The…
Monday TV: ‘Love Island,’ Quarantined
Dating isn’t easy in the lockdown, and it’s not easy for dating shows either. Instead of a luxurious resort on an island, the second season of the U.S. version of…
Sunday TV: A Trip Into the NXIVM Cult
Any look into the weird NXIVM world would be interesting, but the nine-part “The Vow” (HBO, 10 pm.) benefits from a wealth of footage from almost every stage of the…
Saturday TV: Rom-Com in Covid Times
. The lingering lockdown requires a whole new level of creativity when it comes to making TV shows. “Love in the Time of Corona” (Freeform, 8 p.m.) was obviously written…
Friday TV: ‘Lucifer’ Arises on Netflix
You can’t keep the devil down. Cancelled on Fox, “Lucifer” (Netflix, streaming) re-emerges on a streaming service for its fifth season — or at least the first half of the…
Thursday TV: Finally, it’s Joe’s Big Night
The 2020 Democratic National Convention (PBS, 8 p.m.; CNN, MSNBC, CSPAN, 9 p.m.; ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox News, 10 p.m.) winds up its odd virtual event — which worked surprisingly…
Wednesday TV: Dodgeball and Democrats
With reality competition shows built around tag, mini-golf and cannonball, it’s about time that there’s one for dodgeball. But not just dodgeball, this is “Dodgeball Thunderdome” (Discovery, where the prize…