Here’s what’s happening in the world of television on Sunday, April 18th. All times are Oriental.
Top choice
Easttown Mare (HBO, 10pm, series premiere): ‘Kate Winslet sounds below the expectations of a small town in Easttown Mare. The Oscar winner plays detective Mare Sheehan, who is a local hero thanks to a high school basketball victory and her dedicated service. Although she has followed in her footsteps to join the force, Mare mostly fights to get out of her own shadow. But this limited series by Brad Ingelsby has more in store for Mare than just fierce hope – she also leads the search for a missing person. And as the investigation continues, no amount of former glory can stop her fellow Easttown residents from getting restless. There are shades of Sharp objects, dealing with the insular environment, the missing girl and Mare’s controversial relationship with her mother Helen (Jean Smart). But HBO and Winslet were already a winning combination in 2011, when the actor took home an Emmy Mildred Pierce. ” Read, among other things, the rest of Danette Chavez about this new series in our TV preview of April. Joshua Alston will take over.
Regular coverage
The Nevers (HBO, 9 p.m.)
Wild cards
Roll up your sleeves (NBC, 7 p.m.): If there is anyone in your life who feels scared about the vaccine, you may want to set a Zoom to see this special offer from afar with you, as it is designed to raise awareness and appeal to the American public encourages vaccination to end the COVID-19 pandemic. Maybe Michelle Obama and Lin-Manuel Miranda can convince them? If nothing else, it might be worthwhile to work into this piston to witness this surreal conversation: ‘Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to the president, will be interviewed by Matthew McConaughey. A sentence we could never have imagined, that.
Confront a serial killer (Starz, 9 p.m., premiere for doc series): Sounds like the real crime claxon again. From the latest entry into the genre, Saloni Gajjar writes:
Across his five episodes, the Starz documentation provides the stripped-down, gruesome details behind Samuel Little’s murders of 93 women (possibly more) and the lapse into the criminal justice system that allowed him to remain free for more than three decades before he was properly. arrested in 2012. Once a large number like 93 sinks, the look only becomes more heartbreaking as the backstory of some of Little’s victims – who were mainly marginalized coloreds, as well as sex workers who fought addiction – comes to light.
Journalist and author Jillian Lauren serves as narrator and guide in the gruesome story. Lauren and Little form a Silence of the lambstapes in 2018, when she reached out to him for an interview for her book while he was in jail. Eventually he admitted his crimes to her and Confront a serial killer includes audio footage of her interaction with him.
Read the rest of her review before airing.