Friday TV: Politics, Texas Teen Style
Leave the rancor of the current political season for the one created at the 2018 Texas high school confab “Boys State” (Apple TV+, streaming), where the conservative-leaning delegates are surprisingly…
Thursday TV: Selena Gomez Tries to Cook
The pop star and actress may have skills in those areas but Selena Gomez doesn’t know much about being in the kitchen. So here’s “Selena + Chef” (HBO Max, streaming),…
Wednesday: The Murder of Yusuf Hawkins
The 1989 murder of a black teen by a white mob in Bensonhurst is recounted in the new documentary “Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn” (HBO, 9 p.m.) that strikes a…
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…