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Dear Abby: My brother (eight years younger) has been hooked on drugs and in and out of jail for decades. Our father passed away five years ago. My brother lived with him in a different state until then. Prior to that, he stole from our mother and from me repeatedly.
He’s a criminal and is currently in jail. When he’s not in jail, he is homeless. Of course, the only time we hear from him is when he needs money. To top it off, my special-needs son recently passed away. Of course, my wife and I are devastated, although we have come to terms with the fact that he is in a better place.
With my brother back in jail, the focus has gone back to him. I have always tried to be a good brother, but I have now completely washed my hands of him. At this point, I need peace in my life, and as long as he is in mine, I will never have it. This crushes my mother, but it’s how I feel. Right or wrong, I don’t feel that just because someone is family, it gives them the right to make others miserable. I would love to know your thoughts on this. – Better Brother In Florida
Dear Brother: Please accept my sympathy for the loss of your beloved son. That you feel you cannot handle the added stress of interacting with or supporting your drug-addicted brother is understandable.
Do not allow your mother to guilt you into doing anything with which you are uncomfortable. If your mother decides to take him in when he’s released, caution her to first remove any items of value from her home.
Dear Abby: Four years ago, a former friend, “Karla,” offered me a nice oak side chair of hers. Karla said she had no use for it and assured me she wouldn’t want it back. I accepted the chair and have used it since then.
When it was given to me, the back cushion was missing and the seat cushion was hard. After a couple of years, I bought nice fabric and had the chair repaired and reupholstered. It cost me $175. If I had thought the chair was on loan only, I wouldn’t have done that. I sent her a pic of the finished improvements, and she replied that it looked nice.
A year later, she abruptly ended our friendship. She was angry with me because I had confused her airport arrival time and she had to wait an hour. Twice I apologized profusely, but Karla has not responded. (That was 14 months ago.)
Ten days ago, I received a text from one of her friends, telling me Karla wants me to return the chair she “let me borrow.” The friend wanted to know when I could deliver it. I’m completely taken aback. She GAVE it to me! What is your take on this pickle? – Baffled In Texas
Dear Baffled: Ignore the text. If Karla wants the chair returned, she should ask you herself. If she does, and if you agree to it, be sure she repays IN CASH the money you spent to have the chair refurbished.
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Alex Rider
Amazon Freevee Season Premiere The eight-episode third and final season of this action series based on the popular teen book franchise. This time, the titular teenage spy (played by Otto Farrant) is on the tail of his greatest enemy: the elusive criminal network known as Scorpia. Under new leadership, this cabal plans to extort the British government using their catastrophic new super-weapon. Free of the Department and aided by friends Tom (Brenock O’Connor) and Kyra (Marli Siu), Alex embarks on a personal mission to destroy Scorpia, but he doesn’t realize that his ties to both organizations run deeper than he ever thought possible.
The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem
Netflix
From the rise of QAnon to the Jan. 6 riots, this documentary explores how a group of bored teenagers built an online community out of their shared loneliness but accidentally shattered consensus reality in the process.
Parasyte: The Grey
Netflix New Series
While this sci-fi thriller from South Korea is inspired by the popular manga Parasyte by Hitoshi Iwaaki, it is set in a new locale with fresh characters and charts its own unique course as it tells the story of parasitic life-forms infiltrating Korea. The series follows a woman who grapples with her newfound coexistence with a parasite, as well as Team Grey, a group dedicated to fighting the mysterious parasites that live off humans.
Scoop
Original Film
Inspired by real events, this dramatization offers an inside account of the tenacious journalism that landed an earth-shattering interview with Prince Andrew (Rufus Sewell) about his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The film goes inside the story with the women who would stop at nothing to get it.
S.W.A.T.
CBS, 8 p.m.
After the shocking shooting of a member of 20-Squad, Hondo (Shemar Moore) and the team launch a citywide manhunt for the robbery crew responsible in the new episode “Last Call.”
First Time Fixer
Magnolia Network, beginning at 8 p.m.
Season Premiere
Jane and Josh live in Austin, Texas, but their dream is to have a vacation getaway in Palm Springs, California. For their first renovation project, they’ve purchased a drab and dated desert house in hopes of turning it into their ideal “funsie” retreat.
Mary & George
Starz, 9 p.m. New Series
The seven-part limited series stars Julianne Moore as Mary Villiers, who in 17th-century England molded her beautiful son, George (Nicholas Galitzine), to seduce King James I (Tony Curran) and become his all-powerful lover. Through outrageous scheming, the pair rose from humble beginnings to become some of the richest, most titled and influential players the English court had ever seen.