Whatâs on TV This Week: âCity Hallâ and âThe Masked Dancerâ
Frederick Wisemanâs latest documentary airs on PBS. And âThe Masked Dancerâ debuts on Fox.
Mayor Martin J. Walsh of Boston, as seen in Frederick Wisemanâs âCity Hall.âCredit...Film Forum
Dec. 21, 2020
Between network, cable and streaming, the modern television landscape is a vast one. Here are some of the shows, specials and movies coming to TV this week, Dec. 21-27. Details and times are subject to change.
Monday
WONDER WOMAN (2017)
6 p.m. on Cartoon Network. Superpowered sword and shield meet World War I weaponry in this DC Comics blowout, the first stand-alone âWonder Womanâ movie with Gal Gadot. (The second, âWonder Woman 1984,â comes out this weekend.) Directed by Patty Jenkins, this take on the superheroâs origin story takes place primarily in the early 20th century, introducing Gadotâs character as a mythical Amazon warrior who lives with other Amazons on a Mediterranean island. That island is magically insulated from the rest of the world â until an American fighter pilot (Chris Pine) crash-lands there, tailed by German soldiers. The hodgepodge of mythology (of both the Greek and the comic-book varieties) and history that follows makes for a movie that âcleverly combines genre elements into something reasonably fresh, touching and fun,â A.O. Scott wrote in his review for The New York Times. The filmâs âearnest insouciance recalls the âSupermanâ movies of the â70s and â80s more than the mock-Wagnerian spectacles of our own day,â Scott added, âand like those predigital Man of Steel adventures, it gestures knowingly but reverently back to the jaunty, truth-and-justice spirit of an even older Hollywood tradition.â