NBC announced this week that the 10-episode final season of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" will begin Aug. 12. |
This weekend I have … a half-hour, and I want a comedy |
 | | Don Cheadle in a scene from "Black Monday."Nicole Wilder/Showtime |
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When to watch: Sunday at 10 p.m., on Showtime. |
The Wall Street satire "Black Monday" returns this weekend for its 10-episode third season, as fast and silly and jazzy as any contemporary comedy and twice as fun. Beyond its goofiness, "Black Monday" has real narrative momentum. And while you could just start watching this season and still get plenty of pleasure from the show's performances alone, the story is increasingly involved, and you'll get more out of it if you start at the beginning. If you want something between the zaniness of "Ted Lasso" and the recreational sleaze of "Billions," watch this. |
… a half-hour, and I want a drama |
 | | Uzo Aduba and John Benjamin Hickey in the new season of "In Treatment."Suzanne Tenner/HBO |
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When to watch: Sunday at 9 p.m., on HBO. |
If you've ever wished for a cop show that was just the fraught interrogation scenes, or a movie that was just the big emotional fights and none of the boring parts, watch "In Treatment." The therapy drama was originally an Israeli series, then it was adapted for American audiences back in 2008, and now HBO has revived the show for a fourth season. Uzo Aduba stars as Brooke, a Los Angeles therapist ensconced in an Instagrammable midcentury house where she treats some patients remotely and some in person. There's a lot of varsity acting on "In Treatment," and the combative dialogue is tight and thrilling. Each episode is more or less one session, and the show airs in two-episode chunks Sundays and Mondays. |
… a few hours, and I want a spectacle |
 | | Rafal, center, represents Poland in this year's Eurovision Song Contest.Thomas Hanses/EBU |
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Eurovision makes "American Idol" and "The Voice" look like grim Puritan rituals, staid and dull in their flat modesty. Indulge instead in the pageantry — and original songs — of this international pop music contest that is beloved around the world but still not quite mainstream in the United States. Like everything else, Eurovision was canceled last year, and now after so many months of austerity and alienation, it feels even more celebratory and glorious than usual. The first two rounds aired Tuesday and Thursday, and 26 countries moved on to the finale, which airs Saturday. |
Your newly available movies |
 | | Tig Notaro in "Army of the Dead."Clay Enos/Netflix |
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For the second time this year, another Synder cut has been released on streaming: "Army of the Dead," Zack Snyder's uneven return to the zombie-movie subgenre 17 years after his "Dawn of the Dead" remake. But our critics recommend more low-key alternatives, including a documentary profile of a Muslim coffin builder in Newark ("Two Gods") and a colorful Romanian buddy comedy ("Two Lottery Tickets"). |
Some independent films are available via "virtual cinemas," which share the rental fees between distributors and theaters. Unless otherwise noted, other titles can generally be rented on the usual platforms, including Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, Vudu and YouTube. SCOTT TOBIAS |
With its sticky pacing and divinely unsubtle soundtrack, "Army of the Dead" is an ungainly, yet weirdly mesmeric lump of splatter-pop filmmaking. Its grim images of quarantined refugees and rotting hordes summon a bleakness at odds with its most fun creation: an elite zombie power couple with functioning brains. — Jeannette Catsoulis (Read the full review here.) |
As a relationship movie, not just for the pair but those around them, "Four Good Days" is more complex than its outward trappings and preachier scenes suggest. — Ben Kenigsberg (Read the full review here.) |
The many red herrings and the dark-secret finale recall the reliable, compulsive appeal of a page-turner, although the tensions don't always feel fully translated to the rhythms and demands of a film. — Nicolas Rapold (Read the full review here.) |
With depth of feeling and warm black-and-white photography, Zeshawn Ali's humble documentary "Two Gods" fully acknowledges how death is a part of life. — Nicolas Rapold (Read the full review here.) |
The film comes to life when the three friends start interrogating the colorful characters at the apartment complex, including fortune tellers, sex workers and a group of stoners — all ripe for hilarious vignettes driven by misunderstanding. — Kristen Yoonsoo Kim (Read the full review here.) |
 | | Arturo Muselli in a scene from "Gomorrah."Gianni Fiorito |
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- Season 4 of the Italian crime drama "Gomorrah" is now streaming on HBO Max.
- "The Me You Can't See," a documentary series about mental health, produced by and including Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry, is now streaming on Apple TV+.
- "Master of None" returns for its third season Sunday on Netflix. Season 1 came out way back in 2015 and Season 2 in 2017.
- The season finale of "Bob's Burgers" airs Sunday at 9 p.m. on Fox. Don't fret; "Bob's" has already been renewed for two more seasons.
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