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LOKI

In Disney+’s wildest arvel series, Thor’s brother, trickster god Loki, plays hero (maybe)

Blindspotting: SERIES PREMIERE 9/8c, Starz

Ashley, played by the effortlessly appealing Jasmine Cephas Jones, is having one unhappy new year: Her partner of 12 years, Miles (Rafael Casal), gets arrested for drug possession, wrecking their almost middle-class life in Oakland.

The Cube: SERIES PREMIERE 9/8c, TBS

NBA All-Star Dwyane Wade (above) pivots from boxing out players to boxing them in with this new game show.

Holey Moley 3D in 2D: SEASON PREMIERE 9/8c, ABC

Breaking news from the world of extreme mini golf: Uranus, voted fan-favorite hole on this competition series’ outrageous course, will not return this summer.

The Republic of Sarah: SERIES PREMIERE 9/8c, The CW

The sleepy New England town of Greylock, awash in autumn rain and color, wants to become its own country to stop a soul-sucking mining corporation from bulldozing it.

WHAT'S WORTH WATCHING

Your day-by-day guide to the week’s best television

THE MANY FACES OF MORIARTY

By 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle was a worldwide literary sensation. But he was also a man dogged by an unlikely enemy, and that enemy’s name was Sherlock Holmes. Frankenstein-like, the fictional detective haunted his creator, tormenting him, and would not leave him alone. For it must be said that Conan Doyle was a man of high literary aspirations, with a yearning to write books of both “serious” literature and psychical research. But the demand for new Holmes stories prevented him from realising this ambition. Speaking of this period in his career, Conan Doyle observed in an interview for Tit-Bits in December 1900 that “My low work was obscuring my higher.”

WILL DEAN

From an isolated cabin in a boggy Swedish forest, Will Dean conjures a fascinating series and now an intense standalone full of claustrophobia and creepiness.

STEPHEN MACK JONES

If the meaning of life is a puzzle awaiting assembly, then writers are purveyors of its pieces.

Madness on Campus

Helen Eustis’ The Horizontal Man

What About Murder?

Reference Books Reviewed

SUJATA MASSEY

Sometimes, an idea needs time to incubate until it’s ready to grow. That was the case with Sujata Massey’s series about Perveen Mistry, a woman attorney practicing in India during the 1920s.

TIME TRAVEL, CATS, AND AN OLD MANUSCRIPT

Have you ever wished that you could go back in time and change something in your past or visit the future and find out what it has in store for you? Have you questioned what would happen if time travel was available to everyone? Could 9/11 have been prevented? Could the spread of COVID-19 have been eradicated before it ended so many lives?

GRIPPING RESEARCH

I said my first words in a bar—“orange sody.” I eventually outgrew my love of Whistle orange soda, but I have a lifelong interest in bars.

JOHN COLLIER Fact & Fancy

Every generation or so, John Collier (1901-1980) is rediscovered. A poet, screenwriter, and novelist, Collier is best remembered for his short stories. His collection Fancies and Goodnights won an Edgar Award in 1952 for Best Story (which in MWA’s early years was occasionally awarded to a volume of stories).

CAROLINE KEPNES

It’s more than a book title. It’s an uncomfortable truth that pop culture’s most flawed yet-fascinating (and highly literate) serial predators seem to understand about their appeal, whether Thomas Harris’ Hannibal Lecter or Caroline Kepnes’ Joe Goldberg.

FBI – Two of a Kind

Playing agents on FBI is serious business. But when Missy Peregrym and Zeeko Zaki get together to talk about their roles, the conversation is a lot more fun than fierce.

The Conners

SEASON FINALE Wednesday, May 19, 9/8c, ABC

Pride & Joy

With backyard vows, a bride in red and one last dance with danger, Scott Bakula’s NCIS: New Orleans lawman gets his happy ending

The Neighborhood

SEASON FINALE 8/7c, CBS

The Underground Railroad

FRIDAY, MAY 14

The Woman in the Window

FRIDAY, MAY 14

Line of Duty

TUESDAY, MAY 18

WHAT'S WORTH WATCHING - Death & Nightingales

SERIES PREMIERE Sunday, May 16, 10/9c, Starz

Superman & Lois

After a COVID-related scheduling shift, the impressive freshman drama about the first family of DC Comics finally returns! As a superpowered threat runs amok in Smallville, Clark Kent (Tyler Hoechlin, above) is still trying to balance being the Man of Steel and a better father to his twin sons, Jonathan (Jordan Elsass) and Jordan (Alexander Garfin)—the latter of whom has inherited dad’s more alien abilities.

Mom's the Word

Allison Janney and the cast of Mom share the outrageous moments (the Valentine’s dinner! the Tylenol spitting!) that made it a hit

In Treatment

SERIES PREMIERE 9/8c and 9:30/8:30c, HBO

Elvis Reenters The Building

In rural Ohio, a performer bookends a year of struggle and survival.

K-Dramas on Netflix: A Beginner's Guide to the Best Shows

The South Korean culture pop culture wave that has been taking over the world conquers the small screen

Ralph Breaks the Internet – Flail Against the Machine

In the robot apocalypse, the family that logs off together stays together.