Wild cards
In Treatment (HBO, 9 p.m. and 9:25 p.m., back-to-back episodes, fourth-season finale): “Uzo Aduba is a powerhouse performer, as witnessed in her Emmy-winning work on
and
Mrs. America. The actress has an innate ability to enrapture audiences with an emotive performance. Her new series further allows her to fully occupy the frame and do just that: Aduba leads HBO’s revival of
In Treatment, which initially ran for three seasons from 2008 to 2011. This reboot (essentially a fourth season) features Aduba’s Dr. Brooke Taylor as the lead instead of Gabriel Byrne’s Dr. Paul Weston. Brooke conducts therapy sessions from her upscale Los Angeles apartment while dealing with personal problems. The show offers the immersive stories of Brooke’s three volatile patients, mostly succeeding in digging into their psyches as well as Brooke’s, even if the journey is convoluted at times.
(The CW, 9 p.m.): The Pierce family has had a really rough go of it this season, and with the penultimate episode of
Black Lightning, things seem to have gotten a lot worse. But this is the finale, so there’s no time for reflection. And it turns out that we have not yet seen the last of Jefferson Pierce.
Kyle Fowle will bid farewell to Salim Akil’s electrifying series with one last recap.
Whitstable Pearl (Acorn, 3:01 a.m., series premiere, first two episodes): Kerry Godliman (
After Life) stars as a “big-hearted local restaurant owner who… just opened up a detective agency, a dream long delayed by an unplanned pregnancy that left her police career in tatters.” Øystein Karlsen of
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Uzo Aduba in In Treatment (Photo: Suzanne Tenner/HBO); Naomi Ackie and Lena Waithe in Master Of None (Photo: Netflix); Kate Winslet in Mare Of Easttown (Photo: Michele K. Short/HBO)
Graphic: The A.V. Club
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, May 23. All times are Eastern.
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Top picks
In Treatment (HBO, 9 p.m. and 9:28 p.m., season-four premiere, back-to-back episodes): “Uzo Aduba is a powerhouse performer, as witnessed in her Emmy-winning work on
and
Mrs. America. The actress has an innate ability to enrapture audiences with an emotive performance. Her new series further allows her to fully occupy the frame and do just that: Aduba leads HBO’s revival of
and
Mrs. America. The actress has an innate ability to enrapture audiences with an emotive performance. Her new series further allows her to fully occupy the frame and do just that: Aduba leads HBO’s revival of
In Treatment, which initially ran for three seasons from 2008 to 2011. This reboot (essentially a fourth season) features Aduba’s Dr. Brooke Taylor as the lead instead of Gabriel Byrne’s Dr. Paul Weston. Brooke conducts therapy sessions from her upscale Los Angeles apartment while dealing with personal problems. The show offers the immersive stories of Brooke’s three volatile patients, mostly succeeding in digging into their psyches as well as Brooke’s, even if the journey is convoluted at times.