Sunday TV: Cheadle in ‘Black Monday’
There’s a lot of energy behind “Black Monday” (Showtime, 10 p.m.), a frantic Wall Street comedy that purports to explain why the big crash of 1989 happened by looking at…
Saturday TV: Benedict’s ‘Brexit’ Turn
At the moment where the UK seems in crisis over its plan to leave the European Union (or lack of it), the intriguing film “Brexit” (HBO, 9 p.m.) shows how…
Friday TV: A Nuanced ‘Butterfly’ on Hulu
Anna Friel stars in the new British series “Butterfly” (Hulu, streaming) as a mother as odds with her estranged husband (Emmett J Scanlan) about how to raise their youngest child…
Thursday TV: Fix Up Your Own Backyard
Landscape designers James DeSantis, Melissa Braiser and Garrett Magee join forces on the new “Backyard Envy” (Bravo, 10 p.m.) to fix up lawns and patios, but one of the first…
Wednesday: ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Season Five
Two episodes herald the fifth season start of “Schitt’s Creek” (Pop, 10 p.m.), the comedy created by Eugene and Dan Levy about a formerly wealthy family now relegated to a…
Tuesday TV: Return to ‘Roswell, N.M.’
The rebooted “Roswell, New Mexico” (CW, 9 p.m.) starts much the same way the original “Roswell” did on CW nearly 20 years ago — a young woman returns to town,…
Monday TV: Vampire Twist in ‘The Passage’
Scientists are working on a virus that could save humanity but could also destroy it. All they need is a test subject. A federal agent (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) is sent out…
Sunday TV: ‘True Detective’ Finally Returns
Nic Pizzolatto’s “True Detective” (HBO, 9 p.m.) brought with it a grim foreboding, a visual splendor and a kind of philosophic approach to dogged criminal investigation of lurid crime, using…
Saturday TV: I Believe I’m ‘The Fly’
It’s the most famous high-pitched plea in movie history: “Help me!” It happened in the classic 1958 horror film “The Fly” (TCM, 8 p.m.), the one with Vincent Price (Jeff…
Friday TV: ‘Sex Ed’ Amid Netflix Onslaught
New online today is the British teen comedy series “Sex Education” (Netflix, streaming) about an awkward kid (Asa Butterfield) whose mom (Gillian Anderson) happens to be a sex therapist. The…