I’m excited about Black Earth Rising (Friday), a BBC drama about a survivor of the Rwandan genocide who becomes a human rights attorney and ends up working on a case involving an African militia leader. For whatever reason, John Goodman is in it, which is weird for a British show but I’m not complaining.

You’ve got your choice between two juicy scandals this week: Ryan Murphy’s limited series American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace (Thursday) and the documentary FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened (Friday) about the ill-fated “luxury music experience” that turned into a living nightmare. Or,…

Good thing you’re busy Kondo-ing your crap this week, because the best Netflix has to offer is Solo: A Star Wars Story (Wednesday), which I’d like to get excited about, but the sheer volume of “Star Wars stories” available to me on Netflix makes the arrival of yet another a nonevent. I will probably find my way to …

The end of year offerings from Netflix were grim, so it is with pleasure that I welcome the bumper crop of entertainment in this week’s harvest. We’ve got the full complement of Indiana Jones flicks arriving on Tuesday (I see we are now calling the first installment “Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark,”…

You know that disgusting drawer full of random ketchup packets, receipts, rubber bands and other assorted crap dumped from your pockets or purse at the end of the day? Some people call it the Junk Drawer. Others call it the Everything Drawer, or the Odds and Ends Drawer or simply “That Drawer.” I call it the Drawer of…

Everyone wants to hijack your January. Most people want you to stop drinking for the month, on the premise you’ve been overdoing it over the holidays and need to dry out. Others think it’s time to go vegan. I’m sure someone you know is trying to convince you to go to hot yoga every day of January to sweat out “the…

There is only one thing to get excited about on Netflix this week and if it’s not your cup of tea, may I suggest Mrs. Maisel on Prime Video? Like the best Christmas present a streaming video service could ever give you, Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Infinity War arrives on December 25. It’s probable you’ve seen it, as it…

Call me basic but I am into an Ellen DeGeneres standup special, her first in 15 years (Tuesday). This profile of her in the New York Times makes it sound as if she’s taking the gloves off and getting real with us, America. Did you know she doesn’t like when strangers come up to her and try to make her dance with them? …

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Tonight is the company holiday party. Don’t fuck it up.

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Every single goddamn day for the past year I have entered the lottery to win the privilege of paying $75 for one ticket to see Springsteen on Broadway, and every single day for the past year I have lost that effing lottery. The only other way to score seats has been to pony up $2,000 per ticket from those loathsome…

For those of us who cannot get enough of Anthony LaPaglia, who may or may not have signed up for a free trial of Sundance Now only to watch him in a little-known and little-loved series called Riviera, this week brings good news. LaPaglia is back on the small screen on Friday as a Montreal mob boss in Bad Blood, in…

I will not, for love or money, be watching Bumping Mics with Jeff Ross & Dave Attel, but I’m aware that these are two “comedian’s comedians” and there are a lot of people who do not find them tedious and self-indulgent. So, feel free to watch these two dudes “roast each other, the audience, and special guests”…

I have high hopes for Motown Magic (Tuesday), an animated series executive-produced by Smokey Robinson about an 8-year-old boy who “discovers he can bring street art to life.” The soundtrack is, naturally, all Motown hits, so we may have a promising candidate for “kids’ show that doesn’t drive parents bananas” on our…

There are two Netflix originals about which I’m legitimately psyched this week, which is a nice change of scenery. Two promising streaming options, and that’s not even counting the reboot of She-Ra (Friday)!

You know how the exact moment Thanksgiving is over you find yourself wandering the aisles of CVS while “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” blasts over the PA and you’re filled with overwhelming dread, another year come and gone and what have you done with your life? Of course you do. Well, this year is different. This…

Let’s cut the crap and stop pretending there’s anything you want to watch this week besides The Great British Baking Show: Collection 6 (better known as Series 9 in the UK). It’s the most soothing show that ever there was and we all know it.

Don’t let Halloween on Wednesday stop your scary movie stream-a-thon—Netflix is dropping Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Cape Fear, Scary Movies 2 & 3, and the truly terrifying Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo all on Thursday, November 1.

We’re heading into the tail end of October, that swampy backwater where Netflix unloads the remainder of its least distinguished “originals” and hopes for the best. The big debut this week is part 2 of Making a Murderer, which I’m having a hard time getting excited about. Will Wanderlust, a new show in which Tori…