This week: a Sigourney Weaver drama, six series start new seasons, and ‘Demons and Saviors’ debuts
1. I’m a fan of Sigourney Weaver, so I’m going to give her new Amazon miniseries, “The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart,” a try. It’s a seven-part Australian mystery based on the Holly Ringland novel, with Weaver’s June, a flower farmer, taking in her 9-year-old granddaughter, Alice, after the child loses her mother and her abusive father in a mysterious fire. Weaver + Aussie Accent = Yes Please, Mate. The moody miniseres premieres on Friday.
2. There are a bunch of returning series this week, including some of my favorites. “Reservation Dogs” (Hulu, Wednesday) continues to follow the group of Indigenous kids, now back from California and living on their Oklahoma reservation. This season, the show’s third and last, will feature Graham Greene. Season two of the British teen series “Heartstopper” (Netflix, Thursday) picks up with friends-now-boyfriends Nick and Charlie navigating the next chapter of their relationship. The British dark comedy “Breeders” (FX, Monday at 10 p.m.), featuring the fantastic pairing of Martin
Freeman and Daisy Haggard, returns for its fourth and final season. The aerobics opus “Physical” (Apple TV+, Wednesday) starring Rose Byrne is back for its third and final season. The 16-episode sixth season of Lena Waithe’s “The Chi” (Paramount+, Friday, and Showtime, Sunday at 9 p.m.) will be split in two, with the second eight episodes coming at a later date. And the star-filled “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” (HBO, Sunday at 9 p.m.) — accused by some, including Magic Johnson, of inaccuracy — returns with seven episodes that cover 1980-1984.
3. For some, there can never be too many truecrime docuseries. So here’s a new three-parter for them, this one about Christina Boyer, the so-called “Poltergeist Girl” and “Telekinetic Mom,” who claimed to have telekinesis and who is now serving a prison term for having murdered her 3-yearold daughter in 1992. Called “Demons and Saviors,” the series follows a group of amateur sleuths obsessed with exonerating her. It premieres Thursday on Hulu.