The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
38 at the Garden
Linsanity lives! Ten years ago, Jeremy Lin emerged from the end of the New York Knicks’ bench to go on a fairy-tale run that briefly made midseason NBA basketball deliriously fun. This documentary revisits the frenzy, recounting how the undrafted Taiwanese-American point guard from Harvard lit up the league during a stretch that exploded stereotypes and peaked with a 38-point performance against Kobe Bryant’s Lakers. Tuesday, Oct. 11, at 9 p.m., HBO
Rosaline
Before he ever crushed on Juliet, Romeo had a thing going on with Rosaline. In this irreverent comedy based on that Shakespearean footnote, Booksmart’s Kaitlyn Dever stars in the titular role as a teenage royal so determined to steal Romeo back from her cousin Juliet that her scheming triggers a tragic string of deaths by poisoning. With Isabela Merced, Kyle Allen, and Minnie Driver. Available Friday, Oct. 14, Hulu
Shantaram
Charlie Hunnam goes from the biker drama Sons of Anarchy to a sweeping adventure in 1980s Bombay in this series adaptation of a 2004 potboiler that was an international best-seller. Hunnam plays a character based on Australian novelist Gregory David Roberts, a former heroin addict and bank robber who escaped prison, landed in Bombay, and had his fate changed by love for a beautiful woman. Mishaps land the dashing fugitive in the city’s slums, where he works to better his neighbors’ lives but also mixes with the criminal underworld. Available Friday, Oct. 14, Apple TV+
High School
Twin sisters Tegan and Sara didn’t know they were on their way to becoming an iconic indiepop duo when they hit 10th grade. But what training: In this new young-adult drama series based on the Quin twins’ 2019 memoir, TikTok stars Railey and Seazynn Gilliland play Tegan and Sara as teenagers, when they were engaged in a protracted sisterly feud, braving the cold of Calgary, Alberta, discovering that they are attracted to girls, and learning to play guitar. Available Friday, Oct. 14, Amazon Freevee
Annika
Nicola Walker is the reason to tune in to this new Masterpiece series, starring as a detective who heads the newly formed marine homicide squad in Glasgow. Walker, recently of Last Tango in Halifax, makes it all work, whether she’s helming a speedboat, advising a daughter on how to survive age 15, or delivering a feminist reading of Moby-Dick directly to the camera. Sunday, Oct. 16, at 10 p.m., PBS; check local listings
Other highlights
Sue Perkins: Perfectly Legal
The British TV hostess, best known here for The Great British Baking Show, confronts middle age by throwing herself into a series of dangerous adventures in South America. Available Thursday, Oct. 13, Netflix
The Curse of Bridge Hollow
Stranger Things’ Priah Ferguson stars in a lighthearted spooky tale about a family that moves to a small town where Halloween decorations come to life. Available Friday, Oct. 14, Netflix
Halloween Ends
The latest movie in the Halloween franchise will—once again—ostensibly end the decadeslong battle between serial killer Michael Myers and Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode. Available Friday, Oct. 14, Peacock