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@TVGMMattRoush Watching the new Law & Order: Organized Crime spinoff, I was more thrilled by the opening credits than the show itself. While watching this glum revenge story, I kept thinking, why isn’t Christopher Meloni back on Law & Order: SVU? The

NCIS: New Orleans SERIES FINALE Sunday, May 23, 10/9c, CBS It was a leap of faith,” Scott Bakula says of heading to the Big Easy with wife Chelsea Field last fall. They were going to shoot an NCIS: New Orleans storyline we’d all been waiting for: the

A streaming device is your living room’s secret weapon. Plug in any of these sticks to your television—you just need an HDMI port and Wi-Fi—and it’ll immediately give you many more choices for what to watch and crisper sound and picture, all for a re

Mom SERIES FINALE Thursday, May 13, 9/8c, CBS IT’S DIFFICULT TO mine heartfelt laughs from a topic like addiction recovery, but CBS’s long-running hit Mom had fans hooked from the start. Created by sitcom king Chuck Lorre (who counts Young Sheldon an

SERIES PREMIERE Sunday, May 16, 10/9c, Starz HOW MUCH CAN happen in a 24-hour period? This three-part Irish drama—a 2018 adaptation of Eugene McCabe’s devastating novel—endeavors to find out as forces collide on Beth Winters’ 23rd birthday to form a

Late-Night Pick 11/10c, Start TV Will-they-or-won’t-they electricity doesn’t lose much voltage upon repeat viewing, so Nashville newbies and fans alike who are now watching on Start TV each get to experience plenty. Among the 2012–18 country music dr

Fantasy-prone Duncan (Amy Poehler) and the fam go on vacation as Duncanville returns. But the real trip? A Parks and Rec reunion. Adam Scott, Aubrey Plaza, Retta and Nick Offerman join the toon fun. May 23, 8:30/7:30c, Fox “I’m the one you call when

Hacks SERIES PREMIERE Thursday, May 13, HBO Max DID YOU HEAR the one about the fading stand-up legend who needed a snarky twentysomething to boost her career? As Sin City’s bawdy Deborah Vance, Jean Smart is en route to a painful punchline. “She has

@TVGMMattRoush There’s value, and mystery, in all of that alien junk falling from space Mondays, 10/9c, NBC I CAN’T WAIT to see how each episode of Debris will begin. The endings are another story, but oh, how those opening teasers tantalize. Everyda

MOVIE PREMIERE 8/7c, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Retired detective Jeff Jackson (Jesse Metcalfe) is back on the case after a worried waitress (Britt McKillip) who previously sought his help winds up dead (spiked kombucha!). Now he has to sort out who

FRIDAY, MAY 14 ORIGINAL MOVIE Amy Adams faces doom with a view in this Hitchcockian thriller based on the 2018 novel of the same name. The Golden Globe–winning actress (above) stars as Anna Fox, a child psychologist who spends most of her time holed

The Last Supper, an albino and an endless trail of art-history factoids help Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou hunt down the Holy Grail in director Ron Howard’s 2006 hit adaptation of Dan Brown’s runaway page-turner. Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara bring late

THE UPSHAWS Married dad Bennie Upshaw (Mike Epps) deals with a feisty wife (Kim Fields) and a loud, wisecracking sisterin-law (cocreator Wanda Sykes, above right), who’s a silent partner in Bennie’s auto shop. “When is the silence gonna start?” he as

FRIDAY, MAY 21 ORIGINAL DRAMA Some of today’s best actors—including Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman and Anne Hathaway (left)—star on this inventive new anthology series. For the most part, though, they never share screen time. As the title suggests, sol

THURSDAY, MAY 13 NEW DOCUMENTARY It’s “Disneyland for seniors.” That’s what the world’s largest retirement community, located in Central Florida and the subject of this amusing 2021 documentary, is often dubbed. In many ways the Villages does seem li

Two Americans (Max Minghella and Emile Hirsch) on a trip to Moscow have bigger problems than the business partner (Joel Kinnaman) who screwed them over: Aliens invade Earth! Frustrated with faulty intelligence, a U.S. Army officer (Matt Damon) takes

ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY Costars of late Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman (above) recall his immense talent. Even Oscar winner Viola Davis, who appeared with him in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, made sure to bring her A game for the movie: “You know you h

PICK OF THE WEEK! SEASON FINALE Wednesday, May 19, 9/8c, ABC HERE COME THE brides? The blue-collar comedy wraps its third season with not one but at least two marriage proposals. Of course, that doesn’t guarantee anyone will say yes. “There’s potenti

8/7c, HBO Movie Pick Grab your golden lasso and your shoulder pads. In this divisive 2020 followup to 2017’s universally adored Wonder Woman, director Patty Jenkins puts an ’80s spin on the franchise after the World War I–set origin story. Hero Diana

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SEASON FINALE 8/7c, CBS Solving a challenging physics problem and annoying his professors is a typical day for 11-year-old East Texas Tech freshman Sheldon Cooper (Iain Armitage). But in the sitcom’s fourth-season ender, when twin sister Missy (Raega