Thursday TV: Final Season of ‘Younger’
Now in its seventh season, “Younger” (Paramount+, streaming) isn’t getting any younger. Still, the comedy starring Sutton Foster, Hilary Duff and Debi Mazar begins its final season online, with episodes…
Wednesday TV: New Jamie Foxx Sitcom
Jamie Foxx stars in a new sitcom “Dad Stop Embarrassing Me!” (Netflix, streaming), playing a bachelor who is a sudden father to a teenage daughter played by Kayla-Drew. David Alan…
From Charlottesville to the Insurrection
A new “Frontline” (PBS, 10 p.m.), presented in partnership with ProPublica, issues its report on the Jan. 6 insurrection on the Capitol, which came while reporter A.C. Thompson, who had…
Also on Tuesday: Surveying ‘Our Towns’
James and Deborah Fallows books on small American hamlets, came with a book tour visiting many of the same places, chronicled in a documentary with the same name as the…
Monday TV: Murders in a Swedish Cult
The latest true crime documentary is an import. “Pray, Obey, Kill” (HBO, 9 p.m.) is a five-part series about a pair of 2004 Swedish murders in a rural religious compound…
Film: Teen’s Afterlife in ‘My True Fairytale’
There is something that makes you pause about a movie called “My True Fairytale.” The oxymoron of the title is stretched even further when you learn it’s about a teen…
Sunday TV: Joss Whedon’s ‘The Nevers’
Joss Whedon is behind the fanciful and imaginative new series “The Nevers” (HBO, 9 p.m.), about a Victorian-era home for women with extraordinary abilities, as caused by a strange celestial…
Saturday TV: First of Seven Deadly Sins
Looking for a new series of films to present, Lifetime settled on Victoria Christopher Murray’s books based on the seven deadly sins. The first one up sounds the most randy:…
The Limits of Low Budget ‘In Action’
Eric Silvera and Sean Kenealy have a nice rapport. Which is a good thing, since it’s just about the only quality they can offer in their feature debut “In Action.”…
Friday TV: New Horror Anthology ‘Them’
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…