Friday TV: Toni Collette in Peril on Netflix
Toni Collette plays a mother who is advising her rudderless 30-year-old daughter (Bella Heathcote) one minute and then, after a violent crime puts her in the news, advising her to…
Thursday TV: The Saga of Theranos
Amanda Seyfried tries on the odd character of Elizabeth Holmes in the eight-episode limited series “The Dropout” (Hulu, streaming), based on the podcast of the same name. That it’s created…
Wednesday TV: A Wrong Turn in Greenland
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Joe Cole star in “Against the Ice” (Netflix, streaming), a drama about an ill-fated Danish expedition to the Arctic to disprove the U.S. claim on Greenland. The…
Tuesday TV: State of the Union, and Oscar
President Joe Biden delivers his first official State of the Union (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, PBS, CNN, C-SPAN, MSNBC, CNBC, 9 p.m.) to a joint session of Congress at an…
Monday TV: ‘Better Things’ Final Season
Pamela Adlon adds an extra dash of humanity to the fifth and final season of “Better Things” (FX, 10 p.m.) as she tries to maintain amid the swirl of her…
Sunday TV: Uber Story, ‘Super Pumped’
The first of what will be a lot of new series about pushy tech-world entrepreneurs, “Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber” (Showtime, 10 p.m.) stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the cofounder…
Saturday: John Mulaney and LCD on ‘SNL’
It’s a big episode of “Saturday Night Live” (NBC, 11:30 .m.) with John Mulaney returning to host for the fifth time and LCD Soundsystem as musical guest. At 10 there’s…
Friday TV: Some ‘Vikings’ of Another Era
One hundred years after the activity on “Vikings” comes the spinoff “Vikings: Valhalla” (Netflix, streaming) with name brand fighters of the 11th century. Sam Corlett stars as Leif Eriksson, and…
Thursday TV: As If ‘Law & Order’ Never Left
It’s been a decade since the original “Law & Order” (NBC, 8 p.m.) has been on with new episodes, but you’d hardly know it. Spinoffs continue — indeed, both “Law…
Wednesday: Frederick Douglass Speeches
Five actors — Jeffrey Wright, Nicole Behave, Colman Domingo, Jonathan Majors and Denzel Whitaker — read the words of the monumental abolitionist in the special “Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches”…