The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
Changing the Game
Transgender athletes are testing what youth sports is all about. This penetrating documentary charts the trials and triumphs of three accomplished high schoolers. Mack Beggs becomes a Texas state champion wrestling as a girl while transitioning to male. Connecticut teenager Andraya Yearwood, born male, faces stiff criticism while competing as a sprinter against girls. Sarah Huckman, a New Hampshire teen, excels at two sports while finding her voice as a transgender activist. Available Tuesday, June 1, Hulu The Legacy of Black Wall Street
A century after the 1921 race massacre in Tulsa, a two-part special turns the focus away from the white mob violence to tell two related stories. The city’s Greenwood District was known as Black Wall Street because innovators had built it into an economic powerhouse. And after the 36-block area was burned to the ground, Black survivors migrated west to create a new future. Begins Tuesday, June 1, at 9 p.m., OWN
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal:
The Movie
Sailor Moon, middle school–age superhero, introduced a generation of young American TV watchers to anime and magical girl powers. Twenty-six years after she and her fellow Sailor Guardians last teamed up in a big-screen adventure, the enduring fashion icons and LGBTQ pioneers have returned in a movie that has played as a double feature in Japan. Here the superheroes’ foe is the Dead Moon Circus, a chaos-sowing group that emerges in the wake of a solar eclipse. Available Thursday, June 3, Netflix
Breaking Boundaries: The Science of
Our Planet
The systems that sustain life on Earth are under threat. In this clarifying documentary, environmental scientist Johan Rockström is joined by legendary naturalist David Attenborough to lay out several fast-approaching tipping points to ecological collapse. They identify the current decade as the moment when humanity must steer away from disaster by altering how we farm, eat, and harness energy. Fortunately, there are also signs that the green revolution may be reaching tipping points of its own. Available Friday, June 4, Netflix Sweet Tooth
Gus, a boy born with deer antlers, is growing up in a post-apocalyptic America where other “hybrids” are being hunted down by humans who fear them. In a new show based on a DC Comics series and co-produced by Robert Downey Jr., Gus has just been orphaned when he trusts his future to a man who saved his life and promises to lead him to a sanctuary in Colorado. With Nonso Anozie and Will Forte. Available Friday, June 4, Netflix
Other highlights
HouseBroken
A new half-hour adult animated series follows a small menagerie of house pets in group therapy, with voices by Sharon Horgan, Lisa Kudrow, and Tony Hale. Monday, May 31, at 9 p.m., Fox The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga return as paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren in the new installment of the blockbuster horror franchise featuring a teenage murder defendant who claims demonic possession. Available
Friday, June 4, HBO Max
Feel Good
A new season begins for Mae Martin’s semiautobiographical series about a nonbinary comedian fighting addiction and building a relationship with a woman named George. Charlotte Ritchie co-stars. Available Friday, June 4, Netflix