Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Monday, April 5th. All times are Oriental.
Top choice
Hemingway (PBS, 8pm, premiere of docs series, back-to-back episodes): ‘When modern readers feast on the American literary canon, they’re probably at least partially complaining about Ernest Hemingway. The Hemingway clichés are easy to rattle off … To his credit, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s six-hour documentation Hemingway does not dispute much of this. The directors use the author’s own statements, letters, photographs and other writings to verify some of our worst assumptions. While cultural conversations about whether we can separate the exemplary work of an artist from their problematic personal life keep popping up, Hemingway wad in the same muddy water and drop his anchor. ” Read the rest of the review by Roxana Hadadi.
Regular coverage
Wild cards
Only foals and horses (Acorn TV, 3:01 p.m., full premiere of the first season of the US streaming premiere): Add it to your roster of TV shows to dress up while you fold laundry: a four-episode documentary about a female equestrian team in Wales.
Mira, royal detective (Disney Junior, 5pm, second season premiere): Our current reigning detective is coming back, and as with her debut, it’s not a moment too soon.
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