The Week ’s guide to what’s worth watching
Choir
The Detroit Youth Choir is inspirational, both on and off the stage. Rich in joyful sounds, this six-part docuseries gets up close with the mostly teenage members of the group as they take on a new challenge in the wake of a second-place finish on America’s Got Talent. An invitation to bring the group’s song-and-dance act to New York City’s Carnegie Hall feels like the opportunity of a lifetime, but only 50 members will make the cut. Wednesday, Jan. 31, Disney+
Genius: MLK/X
Genius, the series that has previously dramatized the lives of Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso, and Aretha Franklin, now turns to Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, weaving together the stories of the two most prominent leaders of America’s Black civil rights movement. Kelvin Harrison Jr. (The Trial of the Chicago 7) portrays King, whose formative experiences led him to champion nonviolent resistance, while Aaron Pierre (The Underground Railroad) plays King’s more militant counterpart. Thursday, Feb. 1, at 9 p.m., National Geographic
Kokomo City
An award-winner at Sundance last year, D. Smith’s documentary is unlike any movie you’ve ever seen. Credit her subjects, a quartet of Black trans sex workers who hold nothing back in talking about the rewards and the ever-present dangers of their work. Public examinations of Black attitudes about gender and sexuality have rarely been this entertaining. Friday, Feb. 2, at 9 p.m., Showtime
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
This is not your parents’ Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Almost 20 years after Brad Pitt and Angelina
Jolie played married spies trying to kill each other, Atlanta’s Donald Glover and PEN15’s Maya Erskine show what can be done when the leads truly excel at situational comedy. These new Smiths don’t hate each other. Told to play married by their bosses, they just might be falling in love as they focus on surviving a hazardous assignment. With Michaela Coel, John Turturro, and Parker Posey. Friday, Feb. 2, Prime
Curb Your Enthusiasm
It’s hard to imagine television comedy without Larry David, but the co-creator of Seinfeld and star of Curb Your Enthusiasm intends to close shop on the Emmy-winning latter series with its 10-episode 12th season. As that season unfolds, expect to see all of the series’ regulars as well as a slew of cameos. Seinfeld’s finale was uncharacteristically schematic and pumped up. Maybe this time David will go out being his lovably small-a awful self. Sunday, Feb. 4, at 10 p.m., HBO
Other highlights Alexander: The Making of a God
A six-part docudrama mixes commentary and elaborate re-creations to tell the story of how Alexander the Great built one of the world’s great empires. Wednesday, Jan. 31, Netflix
Bosco
Quawntay “Bosco” Adams was looking at 35 years on a marijuana charge before engineering the escape from a maximum-security prison dramatized in this new thriller. Aubrey Joseph stars. Friday, Feb. 2, Peacock
The 2024 Grammy Awards
Women will rule this year’s Grammys, as Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish, and Dua Lipa are all scheduled to perform, while the artists who lead in nominations include SZA, Taylor Swift, Victoria Monet, and the three-woman indie supergroup Boygenius. Sunday, Feb. 4, at 8 p.m., CBS