The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
At 12, she appeared on the cover of Playboy. By 16, she was an international sex symbol who was hailed by Time as the face of the 1980s. Brooke Shields is now 57 and ready to tell the story of what that time in her life was like, and how she survived her exploitation by film directors, photographers, designers, and even her mother. In this two-part documentary, the actress and model also talks publicly for the first time about being sexually assaulted by a Hollywood movie executive. Available Monday, April 3, Hulu
Dave
At its best, the rap music of Dave Burd, aka Lil Dicky, is simultaneously funny, cringey, and bighearted. So is the comedy series based on Burd’s Lil Dicky persona. As the show’s third season begins, the rapper is ready to bring his gawky, privileged, Eminem-meets–Bob Ross flow to the masses as he begins a tour to support his album Penith. Wednesday, April 5, at 10 p.m, FXX
The Good Mothers
For those born into the ruthless Calabrian crime syndicate, betrayal is a certain death sentence. This buzzed-about Italian series dramatizes true events of roughly a dozen years ago, when one wife and mother in the misogynistic clan died brutally after turning state’s evidence. Seizing the moment, a female prosecutor launched a bold bid to recruit other women to take the same potentially deadly risk of turning against the syndicate to end its abusive hold on their families and nation. Available Wednesday, April 5, Hulu
Tiny Beautiful Things
What happens when a trainwreck of an adult becomes an advice columnist? In this new series based on a best-selling book by Cheryl Strayed, Kathryn Hahn plays Clare, a Strayed stand-in who’s flailing as a writer, wife, and mother of a teenage daughter when a friend suggests she takes over an online advice column. Clare uses the opportunity to throw open the doors on her own life, regaling a growing audience of readers with funny, moving tales of her own failings and wise counsel she learned to heed herself. Available Friday, April 7, Hulu
Transatlantic
The fall of France in 1940 imperiled countless Jewish refugees who had entered the country seeking refuge from Nazi brutality. This new series focuses on a young U.S. magazine journalist, Varian Fry, who helped create a rescue committee in Marseille that focused on artists and intellectuals and eventually helped orchestrate the daring escape of 2,000 people, including Hannah Arendt, Marc Chagall, and André Breton. The show, based on a recent novel, can be expected to take liberties in fictionalizing Fry’s personal life. Debuts Friday, April 7, Netflix
Other highlights
Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies
A prequel to Grease arrives in a new musical series that traces how four Rydell High outcasts recast themselves as the school’s satin jacket– wearing bad girls. Available Thursday, April 6, Paramount+
Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker John McEnroe is talked about as the bad boy of tennis, but Boris Becker is the ex-champ who just ended a prison sentence, as this documentary details. Available Friday, April 7, Apple TV+
Art in the 21st Century
A new season of the docuseries will offer a gas station performance by Miranda July and a look at Alex Da Corte’s brightly colored installations. It will begin with an episode featuring Michelle Obama portraitist Amy Sherald. Friday, April 7, at 10 p.m., PBS; check local listings