Like the 1954 film with the same name (but with an exclamation point), the new series “Them” (Amazon Prime, streaming) is broadly speaking of the horror genre. As such it has such familiar elements as a scary basement, and a weird witch-like visitor. But the true horror of the story of a Black family that moves from North Carolina to Los Angeles all-white East Compton in the 1950s is the racism they face from their white neighbors. It’s got lavish production values and a solid cast and an underlying ugliness to the white supremacy that overwhelms other scare factors. It’s from a creator named Little Marvin and produced by Lena Waithe.
Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer team up as a pair of superheroes in the comedy “Thunder Force” (Netflix, streaming), a new film that also features Jason Bateman and Bobby Cannavale.
The supernatural Western “Wynonna Earp” (Syfy, 10 p.m.) ends its run after four seasons.
Ken Burns dominated most of public television this week with his Hemingway series; tonight comes his brother Ric Burns look at the bestselling neurologist Oliver Sacks on a new “American Masters” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings).
The South Korean import “Night in Paradise” (Netflix, streaming) about a man fleeing mobsters who ends up on an island where he meets a terminally ill woman.
The latest serial killer to be commemorated in a documentary is “Ed Gein: The Real Psycho” (Discovery+, streaming). It joins such programs as “John Wayne Gacy: The Smell of Death 100 Special” (Oxygen, 8 p.m.), and “The BTK Serial Killer 100 Special” (Oxygen, 9 p.m.).