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■ THE Tick Amazon Prime video
Season Premiere! In Season 2, now that the Tick (Peter Serafinowicz) and Arthur (Griffin Newman) have freed the City from the Terror, they must defend it from new villains and old enemies.
■ chilling ADVENTURES of SABRINA Netflix New Episodes! Episodes 12-20 of the first season of the series based on the graphic novel drop today.
■ OUR PLANET
Netflix
New Series! Natural history film icon Sir David Attenborough narrates this documentary series that showcases our planet’s most precious species and fragile habitats. The latest in 4K camera technology presents amazing sights on Earth in ways they’ve never been seen previously, in this production from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Silverback Films, whose director, Alastair Fothergill, created the original, acclaimed Planet Earth and Blue Planet series. This project was four years in the making and filmed in 50 countries across every continent.
■ QUICKSAND
Netflix
New Series! In Netflix’s first Swedish original series (also known as Storst av allt), a tragedy takes place at a prep school in Stockholm’s wealthiest suburb, and a normal high school student, Maja Norberg (Hanna Ardéhn), finds herself on trial for murder. When the events of that day are revealed, so too are the private details about her relationship with Sebastian Fagerman (Felix Sandman) and his dysfunctional family. The series is based on the bestselling novel by Malin Persson Giolito, which was named Best Nordic Crime Novel of the year for 2016.
■ UNICORN STORE
Netflix
Original Film! Brie Larson (Captain Marvel) makes her feature-length directorial debut with, and stars in, this comedy about a woman named Kit who, after moving back in with her parents, receives an invitation to a store that will test her ideas of what it really means to grow up. Larson’s Captain Marvel costar Samuel L. Jackson is also among the cast, along with Joan Cusack and Bradley Whitford.
■ FRESH OFF THE BOAT: “UNDER THE Taipei SUN”
ABC, 8 p.m.
In the 100th episode, Eddie (Hudson Yang) ships off to Taiwan for the cultural exchange program, ignoring his parents’ advice about how hard it was for them to come to America for the first time. After all, he’s been to Taiwan before — what could go wrong? Plenty, when he ends up separated from his group with no money and next-to-no language skills.
■ MACGYVER: “MURDOC + HELMAN + HIT”
CBS, 8 p.m.
In the new episode “Murdoc + Helman + Hit,” Macgyver (Lucas Till) and the Phoenix team are forced to ask Murdoc (David Dastmalchian) for help when Nicholas Helman (Michael Des Barres) resurfaces to carry out a killing spree.
■ CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND The cw, 8 p.m.
Series Finale! After four seasons, The CW’S dark and musical rom-dramedy starring Rachel Bloom takes its final bow. The series followed NYC attorney Rebecca Bunch (Bloom), who, after a chance encounter with her childhood summer camp crush, upended her life and moved to West Covina, Calif., where she discovered that life isn’t all fun in the sun. In January, CW President Mark Pedowitz explained, “One of the great beauties of Crazy Ex is it’s both lighthearted and it’s the darkest stuff you’ll see in your entire life.”
■ BLINDSPOT: “THE NIGHT of THE DYING BREATH”
NBC, 8 p.m.
The team races against the clock to save Jane (Jaimie Alexander) from a killer’s nightmarish scheme.
■ Speechless: “THE S-T-A-- STAIRCASE”
ABC, 8:30 p.m.
When JJ’S (Micah Fowler) attempts to make a good impression on Izzy’s (Kayla Maisonet) parents fail, he changes course to make a bad one instead. Maya (Minnie Driver) is jealous when Melanie (Sarah Chalke) is the recipient of a public display of mom-love.
■ HAWAII Five-0: “ke ALA o ka P? (WAY of THE GUN)”
CBS, 9 p.m.
In the new episode “Ke Ala O Ka P? (Way of the Gun),” during Five-0’s search for a teen girl who purchased a gun from a junkie, they discover that the firearm, over the course of decades, has affected all of their lives.
■ YES, IT’S Really US SINGING: THE “CRAZY EXGIRLFRIEND” concert Special!
The cw, 9 p.m.
Immediately following the series finale of Crazy Ex-girlfriend, the crew presents a concert event featuring some of the series’ most popular original songs. Throughout its four-season run on The CW, Crazy Ex-girlfriend created over 150 wildly inventive songs that tackled issues ranging from female sexuality to relationship woes, storytelling clichés and the real-life problems of fit, hot men.
■ Gold RUSH: PARKER’S TRAIL
Discovery channel, 9 p.m.
Season Premiere! In Season 3 of the Gold Rush spinoff, gold miner Parker Schnabel and his team of friends head deep into the tropical highlands of Papua New Guinea in search of gold, and finding it will be more challenging than he imagined. Parker is not only going to Papua New Guinea because it is considered one of the toughest, most untapped gold-rich environments in the world, but also for personal reasons: He wants to reconnect with the history of his late grandfather, John Schnabel, who served in the Air Force in the South Pacific during World War II.
■ THE Blacklist: “olivia olson”
NBC, 9 p.m.
The task force searches for a woman who specializes in hostile takeovers of criminal organizations and may have intelligence connected to an international conspiracy involving presidential advisor Anna Mcmahon (guest star Jennifer Ferrin). Meanwhile, Aram (Amir Arison) enacts a daring plan to gain leverage over Red (James Spader).
■ GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET: “la TRAVIATA”
PBS, 9 p.m.
See Michael Mayer’s richly textured production of Verdi’s classic opera, starring soprano Diana Damrau as the tragic heroine Violetta and Juan Diego Flórez as her hapless lover Alfredo. Yannick Nézetséguin conducts.
■ Blue Bloods: “RECTIFY”
CBS, 10 p.m.
Frank (Tom Selleck) must decide whether or not to implement a more rigorous fitness test for the NYPD in the new episode “Rectify.”
■ WARRIOR cinemax, 10 p.m.
New Series! Inspired by an idea from martial arts legend Bruce Lee, this gritty, action-packed crime drama is set during the brutal Tong Wars of San Francisco’s Chinatown in the second half of the 19th century. It follows a martial arts prodigy (Andrew Koji) who emigrates from China to San Francisco under mysterious circumstances, and becomes a hatchet man for one of Chinatown’s most powerful organized crime families.
■ WYATT cenac’s PROBLEM AREAS
HBO, 11 p.m.
Season Premiere! The comedian/cultural critic dedicates his docuseries’ 10-episode second season to the American education system. First, Cenac visits West Virginia, where he investigates last year’s statewide teachers’ strikes and questions why this workforce doesn’t get the respect it deserves.
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