One Night In Miami. (Amazon Prime Video, 12:01 a.m., Friday): “The film opens with a series of insightful vignettes that peek in on each figure at a particularly low point. That includes a young Cassius (Eli Goree) publicly struggling to prove his prowess in the boxing ring, as well as Sam’s (Leslie Odom Jr.) hard-fought performance at the Copacabana turning tense by the anti-Blackness of the crowd and staff. Pulling some of the focus away from the play’s singular setting does have a slight drawback: It gives the film a somewhat slow start, rather than the anticipation that it was likely intended to build. However, it does task each figure with facing their deepest insecurities as Black men in America a conscientious touch that adds additional context to their eventual gathering.” Read the rest of Shannon Miller’s review of
Search Party sets out on its fourth season to find Dory
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Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Thursday, January 14. All times are Eastern.
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(HBO Max, 3:01 a.m., season-four premiere, episodes 1-3): This is the second season we’ve gotten of the Alia Shawkat-starring comedy thriller since it made the jump from TBS to HBO Max; season three aired way, way, way back in June of 2020. That may seem like a tiny age, but think of it this way: Season two finished in December of 2017, so it might feel like a long time, especially by our current standards what is time, anyway? but we’re really getting spoiled here. So when you hit episode three and realize there’s no fourth episode for you to immediately watch, try not to be frustrated.
Netflix’s latest true-crime docuseries, Night Stalker, centers on the pursuit of Richard Ramirez, the serial murderer and rapist who terrorized Los Angeles in the summer of 1985.
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Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Monday, January 11. All times are Eastern.
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The Bachelor (ABC, 8 p.m., 25th-season premiere): Last week, our reviewer Gwen Ihnat was pleasantly surprised when she dropped in on the 25th
Bachelor premiere; after a string of bland leads, it looks like the franchise has found a winner with the first Black Bachelor, Matt James: “Part of his appeal that can be traced to the fact that Matt is a Bachelor Nation newbie: never appeared on