Whatâs on TV This Week: âJudas and the Black Messiahâ and Shark Week
Shaka Kingâs historical drama about the Black Panthers airs on HBO. And Discovery spends a week with sharks once again.
Daniel Kaluuya in âJudas and the Black Messiah.âCredit...Glen Wilson/Warner Bros. Pictures
July 5, 2021, 1:00 a.m. ET
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, July 5-11. Details and times are subject to change.
Monday
OBSESSION (1976)
10:15 p.m. on TCM. In âVertigo,â Alfred Hitchcock used his directorial virtuosity to make viewers think one character was an entirely different character. In âObsession,â Brian De Palma used his directorial virtuosity to make viewers think he was Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay, written by Paul Schrader, follows a New Orleans businessman (Cliff Robertson) who meets a woman (Geneviève Bujold) who is a doppelgänger of his late wife, Elizabeth. He tries to transform his new love interest into his old one. Critical opinion on the movie was mixed at the time it was released, but some writers have since assessed it more favorably: In a 2016 article for The New York Times, the critic Stephen Holden wrote that the plot of âObsessionâ takes âextremely emotional hairpin turns that Hitchcock would never have dreamed of.â The score that the famous Hitchcock collaborator Bernard Herrmann wrote for âObsession,â Holden added, âis the luscious icing on the cake.â TCM is showing the film alongside De Palmaâs