Saturday TV: The Durst Lifetime Movie
Katharine McPhee is Kathleen Durst in the made-for-TV movie “The Lost Wife of Robert Durst” (Lifetime, 8 p.m.), about the first marriage of the real estate heir who was the…
Friday TV: More Margaret Atwood
Is Margaret Atwood the new queen of the limited series? Following the success of the adaptation of her “The Handmaid’s Tale” on Hulu, here is an adaptation of her lesser…
Thursday TV: Another Swipe at ‘S.W.A.T.’
The networks’ success in reviving old TV titles continues with “S.W.A.T.” (CBS, 10 p.m.), a TV drama that first aired for one season in 1975 before being turned into a…
Wednesday TV: Breaking in a New Hawk
Helen Macdonald dealt with her grief over the sudden death of her father by rekindling their mutual love for wild birds and trying her hand at trying to train a…
Tuesday TV: Halloween and Beyond
Halloween means horror all day on Turner Classic Movies with “White Zombie” (8:45 a.m.), “Mad Love” (10 a.m.), “Dementia 13” (11:30 a.m.), “13 Ghosts” (1 p.m.), “The Fearless Vampire Killers”…
Monday TV: Good Time for Poe Update
Denis O’Hare portrays Edgar Allan Poe on a timely edition of “American Masters” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings), who despite his connection to horror, actually published more comedies. Kathleen…
Sunday TV: ‘The Deuce’ Season Finale
It’s been the best thing on TV this season, with the richest array of characters and action, but there was something quite slow about “The Deuce” (HBO, 9 p.m.) developing…
Saturday TV: David S. Pumpkins Again
What began as a quirky, funny and weird skit last year is now turned into “The David S. Pumpkins Animated Halloween Special” (NBC, 11:30 p.m.). Tom Hanks returns to give…
Friday TV: Michael Jackson, Re-Animated
Michael Jackson’s 1983 video for “Thriller” might have been perfect Halloween fare, right down to Vincent Price’s cackle. But it still wasn’t quite long enough to qualify as an hour…
Thursday TV: Back to the ’80s
The anticipated second season of “Stranger Things” (Netflix, streaming) drops in its entirety, with (almost) all of the youthful characters in the Duffer Brothers’ ‘80s series returning, along with its…