POV: Blowin’ Up
What might justice look like if women ran the
legal system? This powerful documentary cap-
tures the daily drama in a Queens, N.Y., court
where female sex workers—most of them immi-
grants and women of color—are received by a
benevolent judge and a team of other professional
women eager to help them escape exploitation
by pimps and international human traffickers.
Monday, Oct. 21, 10 p.m., PBS, check local listings
Castle Rock
The second season of the anthology series inspired
by the novels of Stephen King introduces fans to
a younger version of Annie Wilkes, the villainous
Kathy Bates character from the movie Misery.
Here, Wilkes is played by Masters of Sex’s Lizzy
Caplan as a peripatetic nurse who gets stuck in
Castle Rock, Maine, and becomes entangled with
a crime family headed by a dying patriarch. Tim
Robbins fills that role, while Elsie Fisher (Eighth
Grade) plays Wilkes’ teenage daughter. Available
for streaming Wednesday, Oct. 23, Hulu
The Kominsky Method
It took only eight episodes last year for Michael
Douglas and Alan Arkin to establish the charac-
ters Sandy Kominsky and Norman Newlander as
one of TV’s great comedy duos. In their second
season together, Douglas’ Sandy, a Hollywood
acting coach, is shocked when his daughter pairs
up with an older man a little too much like him,
while Arkin’s Norman gets a chance at a new life
when he runs into an old flame at a funeral. Paul
Reiser and Jane Seymour join the cast as co-stars.
Available for streaming Friday, Oct. 25, Netflix
BoJack Horseman
BoJack Horseman isn’t ready to go to pas-
ture just yet. The sixth and final season of the
acclaimed animated series about a TV-star horse
past his prime will roll out in two batches. The
final eight episodes won’t arrive until Jan. 31,
but this month you can catch up with BoJack in
rehab, where the letters he writes home suggest
he’s ready to move past his painkiller addiction.
With Will Arnett, Amy Sedaris, and Aaron Paul.
Available for streaming Friday, Oct. 25, Netflix28 ARTS Television
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All That Money Can Buy
A farmer who has bargained
his soul away to the devil
calls upon statesman Daniel
Webster to plead for his sal-
vation. Walter Huston plays
Satan. (1941) 6 p.m., TCM
Tue sday, O c t. 22
Instant Family
Mark Wahlberg and Rose
Byrne co-star in a surpris-
ingly charming comedy
about a couple who
become foster parents
to three siblings. (2018)
8 p.m., Epix
Wednesday, Oct. 23
Duck Soup
A madcap classic from
the Marx Brothers finds
Groucho at the helm of a
small country confronting a
belligerent neighbor. (1933)
8 p.m., TCM
Thursday, Oct. 24
Bull Durham
A veteran minor league
catcher teaches a wild
prospect the ropes in a
classic sports comedy
featuring Kevin Costner,
Susan Sarandon, and Tim
Robbins. (1988) 9:45 p.m.,
Epix
Friday, Oct. 25
Full Metal Jacket
Stanley Kubrick’s outstand-
ing Vietnam War drama fol-
lows a platoon of Marines
from boot camp to the Tet
Offensive. (1987) 6 p.m.,
Showtime
Saturday, Oct. 26
Greta
An act of kindness back-
fires on a young waitress
when a lonely widow
begins stalking her. Isabelle
Huppert and Chloë Grace
Moretz co-star.^ (2019)
8 p.m., HBO
Sunday, Oct. 27
The Game
Michael Douglas stars in
an early David Fincher
thriller about a banker
who falls into a bewilder-
ing trap after agreeing to
participate in a tailor-made
entertainment. Sean Penn
co-stars. (1997) 8 p.m., FlixMovies on TV
Helen Mirren has played so many queens
that she’s become royalty herself. In this luxe,
four-part series, the 2007 Oscar winner ap-
pears perfectly in her element playing Russia’s
longest-reigning empress, a cultured outsider
both crafty and steely enough to seize and hold
power for more than three decades. Untroubled
by the whispers about her lasciviousness, she
takes what she needs from the men circling
around her. Her son she has no use for. Her
lover Grigory Potemkin, played by Jason Clarke,
becomes her most important ally. Begins
Monday, Oct. 21, at 10 p.m., HBOShow of the week
Mirren: Imperial to her coreCatherine the GreatMrs. Fletcher
With her son off to college, Eve Fletcher is an
empty nester now, and she’s ready to rediscover
her sexuality. In this new series adapted from one
of Tom Perrotta’s comic novels, Transparent’s
Kathryn Hahn is outstanding as a woman whose
fumbling attempt to reinvent herself triggers an
addiction to internet porn even as a young man is
showing real interest in her. Eve’s son, meanwhile,
is undergoing a needed education in how not to
be a toxic male—which means they’ll have a lot
to talk about come parents weekend. Newcomer
Jackson White co-stars. Sunday, Oct. 27, at
10:30 p.m., HBO
Other highlights
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
A new food series sends Momofuku chef David
Chang and a celebrity guest out to explore the
food cultures of various cities. Available for
streaming Wednesday, Oct. 23, Netflix
The Cry
A traveling couple’s baby goes missing in this
chilling four-part drama produced by the BBC.
Jenna Coleman stars. Wednesday, Oct. 23, at
11 p.m., Sundance
Silicon Valley
The goof-prone tech CEO played by Thomas
Middleditch endures a congressional grilling
as Mike Judge’s satire begins its final season.
Sunday, Oct. 27, at 10 p.m., HBO- All listings are Eastern Time.
The Kominsky Method’s Arkin and Douglas