The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
American Experience: The Vote
On the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, a two-part, two-night documentary focuses on the final decade of American women’s long battle for the right to vote. The privilege wasn’t simply bestowed. Movement leaders held hunger strikes and pioneered various forms of nonviolent protest. They also won crucial political support by accommodating the racial politics that denied suffrage to AfricanAmericans. Monday, July 6, and Tuesday, July 7, at 9 p.m., PBS; check local listings
Mucho Mucho Amor
Walter Mercado was a godlike figure in Spanishlanguage TV world—if God dressed in flowing white capes. For decades, beginning in 1969, the Puerto Rican native was the gender-ambiguous astrologer trusted by abuelas from San Juan to East Harlem, and this sprightly documentary caught up with him, before his death last year, to revisit his ascent from “child healer” to telenovela actor to soothsaying sensation. Available for streaming Wednesday, July 8, Netflix
Greyhound
Tom Hanks would have a formidable career based on his war movies alone, and he builds on that reputation with this naval thriller once intended for the big screen. Hanks plays a newly promoted U.S. Navy officer in command of a large supply fleet that will spend five days of an Atlantic crossing with no air cover as German U-boats aim to sink every vessel. Available for streaming Friday, July 10, Apple TV+
The Old Guard
Charlize Theron is emerging as this era’s Stallone. As the Oscar-winning actress hits her mid-40s, she again polishes her action-hero credentials with this comic book–based thriller about an immortal warrior who leads a small band of dogood soldiers similarly gifted with a mysterious ability to heal from even grievous wounds. Just as the group adds a new recruit, played by Kiki Layne, they become the targets of a corporate foe eager to steal their secret. Available for streaming Friday, July 10, Netflix
Brave New World
NBC is launching its new streaming service, Peacock, with a parade of new shows led by this nine-part adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s classic novel. In the apparent utopia of New London, nearly universal happiness has been achieved by prohibiting privacy, family, and monogamy. But at least one member of the highest caste has misgivings, and he becomes a threat after visiting the former U.S., now known as Savage Lands, and bringing back a true skeptic. With Harry Lloyd, Alden Ehrenreich, Jessica Brown Findlay, and Demi Moore. Available for streaming Wednesday, July 15, Peacock
Stateless
In a limited series created by Cate Blanchett, a woman fleeing an Australian cult lands in a desert refugee camp. Blanchett lets co-stars Fayssal Bazzi and Yvonne Strahovski shine. Available for streaming Wednesday, July 8, Netflix
The Capture
A potential deep-fake video recording might pin murder on a former soldier in this new series set in a surveillance-mad London. Available for streaming Wednesday, July 15, Peacock
Correction
Last week’s issue listed the live July 4 PBS broadcast A Capitol Fourth and wrongly implied a connection between that 8 p.m. concert event and President Trump’s July 4 Salute to America.