Saturday TV: Chris Gethard Confesses
The inventive comic Chris Gerhard may be best on his own talk show, which began on public access, went online and will now be going to truTV. In the meantime,…
Friday TV: ‘Sense8,’ ‘Last Kingdom’ Return
The mind-blowing sc-fi of “Sense8” (Netflix, streaming) returns for a second season, now that the worldwide collection of psychically linked people with special powers — who can freely inhabit eachother’s…
Thursday TV: Luke, Leia and All That
If you’re wondering why a random spring Thursday has been named Star Wars Day, well, May the Fourth be with you. The result is the first six movies being shown…
Wednesday TV: Andy Cohen Looks Back
Mathematically it was 20 years ago, but 1997 doesn’t seem that long ago. Still there was enough there for nostalgia and cable’s ubiquitous host mines it on the season premiere…
Tuesday TV: New ‘Victorian Slum House’
Some of the best reality shows have come on PBS. Not just “The Great British Baking Show” but the early participatory history such as “Colonial House,” “Pioneer House” and “Manor…
Monday TV: The Scourge of Painkillers
HBO Documentaries were early on reporting the pervasiveness of opioid addiction and continue to be on the case, looking at the sharp rise in overdoses in what is now considered…
Sunday TV: Weird New ‘American Gods’
In the new “American Gods” (Starz, 9 p.m.), Ian McShane returns to series TV with a series based on Neil Gaiman’s fantasy about an ex-con and the return of mythological…
Saturday TV: Correspondents and Not
The year’s big night of political satire was pulled when the president said he wouldn’t play along, particularly on the 100th day of his term. So The White House Correspondents…
Friday TV: ‘Dear White People,’ the Series
Justin Simien’s adaptation of his own movie of the same name, “Dear White People” (Netflix, streaming) is a 10-episode series about a group of students at a fictional Ivy League…
Thursday TV: ‘The President Show’
The White House Correspondent’s Dinner and its alternatives Saturday are upstaged two days early with “The President Show” (Comedy Central, 11:30 p.m.), in which Anthony Atamanuik channels the bizarre cadences…