People USA — August 21, 2017

Marlon

COMEDY In this new

sitcom, Marlon

Wayans is a divorced father of two with

energy to burn but less than a full tank

of common sense. He merrily hops

around in everyone’s lives—the kids are

with his ex (Essence Atkins)—like a

grasshopper set loose in a cornfield.

Wayans is best when the setups allow

him to push toward aggressive silliness

(you remember Adam Sandler), but

he’s also able to stop dead in his tracks

and suggest a man who knows it’s time

to grow up.(NBC, Aug. 16, 9 p.m.)

MOVIE

TV

The Glass Castle

A girl refuses to be shattered by her dysfunctional family

DRAMABased on journalist Jeannette

Walls’s acclaimed memoir, this is one of

the most distressing accounts ever of a childhood

nearly capsized by reckless parents. Young

Jeannette’s mother and, especially, her alcoholic

father (Naomi Watts and Woody Harrelson) come

across as grandiose narcissists. You sit there hating them, wishing

you could call in social services—and resisting as the film moves

on to the more elevated sentiments of grown-up Jeannette

(Brie Larson). She comes to accept that Ma and Pa, even while

forcing her and her siblings to live a marginalized existence,

nurtured her spirit. The acting is good enough to make you almost

believe her. For more on Larson, see page 122. (Aug. 11, PG-13)

No.

3

Kesha,Rainbow

POPKesha’s

cathartic

new album, her first since 2012, may

contain her best work yet. She easily

flits from funk (“Woman”) to arena

rock (“Finding You”) to country

(“Old Flames,” featuring Dolly

Parton), but Rainbowmost im-

presses with its lyrics, which revolve

around the emotional fallout she

suffered after accusing longtime

producer Dr. Luke of sexual abuse.

(She later dropped those charges;

he has sued her for defamation.)

“This is a hymn for the hymnless,”

she sings—a poignant message that

reverberates throughout Rainbow’s

14 empowering tracks.(Aug. 11)

No.

2

No.

4

Exes together:

Wayans and

Atkins play

divorced parents.

Larson

(right) is

Jeannette

Walls,

and Shree

Crooks

is her little

sister.

MUSIC

The singer-songwriter
returns with an album
colored by the recent
turbulence of her life.

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: LIONSGATE; TYLER GOLDEN/NBC; OLIVIA BEE