The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields
Between 1984 and 1991, the bodies of four young women were found in the same vacant field off the interstate that runs between Houston and Galveston, Texas. The latest three-part Crime Scene documentary investigates the haunting case, which has produced occasional breakthroughs but no identified killer and no certainty about whether or not the crimes are tied to dozens of others along the same corridor. Available Tuesday, Nov. 29, Netflix
My So-Called High School Rank
High school students today are under enormous pressure to be better than perfect. Two teachers at a California school created the musical Ranked to spotlight the crisis, and the show was spreading to schools around the country when Covid shut America down. This documentary tells the story by zooming in on teen participants everywhere. And if you know musical theater, you know the shutdown wasn’t enough to break their spirit. Tuesday, Nov. 29, at 9 p.m., HBO
Willow
The revival of all things ’80s rolls on with a new sequel series based on Willow, a 1988 Ron Howard–directed fantasy adventure film that brought a George Lucas tale to life. Star Wars and Harry Potter alum Warwick Davis returns as the diminutive title character, who when last seen was a farmer and wannabe sorcerer who somehow triumphed over an evil sorceress. Now a new generation of questers asks him to join them in their own fight against dark forces. Available Wednesday, Nov. 30, Disney+
Slow Horses
The misfits of British intelligence turn out to be thrilling company, at least with Gary Oldman in charge. Oldman returns for Season 2 of this series as Jackson Lamb, the crusty leader of an MI5 unit that’s a dumping ground for disgraced agents, and this time his team might be Britain’s best hope for thwarting the grand plot of a newly awakened Russian sleeper cell in London that appears to be taking out targets one by one. Kristin Scott Thomas co-stars as Lamb’s boss. Available Friday, Dec. 2, Apple TV+
George & Tammy
When George Jones and Tammy Wynette got together in 1968, they were the hottest country music couple to come along since Johnny and June Carter. Jessica Chastain and Michael Shannon play the pair in this gripping limited series, which captures the passion that brought two of country’s supreme artists together and how hard it became for the “Stand by Your Man” songstress to heed those words when Jones spiraled downward. Sunday, Dec. 4, at 9 p.m., Showtime
Other highlights Irreverent
Colin Donnell stars in a new series about a criminal fugitive from Chicago who faces trouble from all sides when he flees to Australia and poses as the new pastor of a small church. Available Wednesday, Nov. 30, Peacock
Sr.
Robert Downey Jr. helps construct a portrait of his father, a renegade filmmaker of the 1960s, in this moving documentary that becomes a touching meditation on father-son relationships. Available Friday, Dec. 2, Netflix
Three Pines
Alfred Molina stars in a new series based on Louise Penny’s novels about Quebec detective Armand Gamache. Available Friday, Dec. 2, Amazon Prime