Wednesday TV: Quirky ‘Government Cheese’
David Oyelowo stars in the quirky new series “Government Cheese” (Apple TV+, streaming), about a convicted burglar newly released from prison who invents a new kind of power drill. Set in…
Tuesday TV: The Comics Art of Art Spiegelman
The career of the cartoonist who rose from underground comix to win a Pulitzer Prize with his heartfelt and personal graphic novel “Maus,” is presented in the splendid documentary “Art…
Monday TV: ‘Holy Marvels with Dennis Quaid’
Holy Week brings a second season start for “Holy Marvels with Dennis Quaid” (History, 10 p.m.) looking into the stories behind cherished artifacts. First, though, he looks into the notions…
Sunday TV: Season Two of ‘The Last of Us’
Last week’s finale of “The White Lotus” drew 6.2 million, but an even bigger audience is likely to show up for tonight’s season two premiere of “The Last of Us”…
Saturday TV: ‘Doctor Who’ is In for More
The fifteenth season begins of the revived “Doctor Who” (Disney+, streaming) the second with Ncuti Gatwa as the doctor, and first for a new companion (Varada Sethu) who is on…
Friday TV: Jon Hamm in ‘Your Friends & Family’
Jon Hamm is back in his “Mad Man” form, as a high powered hedge fund manager. Except this time around, he takes a fall after a divorce and firing. To…
Thursday TV: A Comedy from the Arctic Region
From way, way up near the Arctic circle comes the new comedy “North of North” (Netflix, streaming), with Anna Lambe as an Inuk woman looking to break out of her…
Wednesday TV: ‘The Dark Side of Kidfluencing’
The shady, unregulated world of child influencers, who are often nudged into sexier situations to lure bigger audiences — often by the parents filming them -- is the basis of…
Tuesday TV: The Last of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
Perhaps, like me, you stopped watching “The Handmaid’s Tale” (Hulu, streaming) after modern political reality started to emulate its dark dystopia a little too much. Nonetheless, here’s the sixth and…
Monday TV: How They Made ‘A Goofy Movie’
I missed the part when the 1995 animated feature “A Goofy Movie” became some sort of generational touchstone. But the coming of age film involving one of the oldest Disney…