Weekend TV watch
“American Crime” ends its third and most likely final season Sunday at 10 p.m. on ABC. John Ridley’s superb anthology drama has explored human trafficking in all its forms — migrant labor, teenage sex workers and the exploitation of domestics. There might have been too many stories for the show to make its points, but the acting has soared. Lili Taylor and Timothy Hutton, as a couple at war with each other, have just been destroying the screen. Speaking of Ridley, the Academy Awardwinner
helmed the two-hour documentary “Let It Fall: Los
Angeles 1982-1992” (tonight at 9 on ABC), which revisits the verdicts in the Rodney King case on its 25th anniversary. National Geographic Channel offers its own take on that turbulent moment with its documentary “LA
92” (Sunday at 9 p.m.). The satire “Dear White
People” (series streaming today on Netflix) picks up from the 2014 film of the same name and follows several college students who find themselves navigating the weirdness and the aggressions of our “post-racial”
America. So it’s “Get Out” with more laughs and slightly fewer body-snatchings.
“Full Frontal with Samantha Bee’s Not the White House Correspondents Dinner” (tomorrow at 10 p.m. on TBS, with an uncensored encore streaming at 11 p.m. on Twitter) asks the question, says Bee, “What if Washington, D.C.’s annual nerd prom were hosted by a lady nerd and had way more curse words? Also, what if it actually honored a free press and gave the finger to those who would try to diminish it?” Sounds like a fun time.