Friday TV: Welcome Return for ‘Patriot’
Some TV series come with enough reset in new seasons to allow new viewers. That is not the case with “Patriot” (Amazon, streaming), the sly and engaging spy series set…
Thursday TV: Healing PTSD with Poetry
Veteran’s Day weekend kicks off early with the documentary “We Are Not Done Yet” (HBO, 8 p.m.) about the process of a poetry workshop among 10 veterans struggling with PTSD.…
Wednesday TV: British Import ‘Clique’
Aisling Franciosi, who played Lyanna Stark in “Game of Thrones,” stars in a new six-part thriller “Clique” (Pop, 8 p.m.) as a college student who with her friend (Synnove Karlsen)…
Tuesday TV: Election Results, Lots of Them
Besides helping set the direction for the country, your vote today will be counted on in the myriad of election result programming planned tonight. While in the past midterms generally…
Monday TV: Truth, Reconciliation in Maine
The forced separation of Native American children from their families in the 20th century led to an attempt at healing in a government run truth and reconciliation commission in Maine…
Sunday TV: Mickey Mouse, Nonagenarian
I’m quite sure they’re going to mess up “Mickey’s 90th Spectacular” (ABC, 8 p.m.), bringing in a bunch of no-name current celebs from Meghan Trainor and Zac Brown and Tori…
Saturday TV: Instead, LeBron Speaks Out
It was Laura Ingram’s bigoted dismissal of LeBron James’s political views that provides the title of his documentary “Shut Up and Dribble” (Showtime, 9 p.m.), a three-part documentary about athletes…
Friday TV: Julia Roberts in ‘Homecoming’
The new “Homecoming” (Amazon, streaming) is a welcome yarn from Sam Esmail, creator of “Mr. Robot,” and starring Julia Roberts as an operative in a secretive government-sanctioned facility that deals…
Thursday: Female Directors 100 Years Ago
A two week salute to pioneering first females in film — who all worked more than a century ago — begins on Turner Classic Movies with three films by French-born…
Wednesday TV: Scary Times in New York
Halloween is prime time for introducing scary new series, such as the new “Tell Me a Story” (CBS AllAccess, streaming), an anthology series base on a Mexican show that takes…