Our Boys
An eye for an eye can lead to war. This 10-episode
miniseries dramatizes the 2014 killings that
sparked a 50-day war in the Gaza Strip. That
summer, the abduction and murder of three
Israeli teenagers by Hamas militants was quickly
followed by the kidnapping and brutal killing
of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir. The
series focuses on the Shin Bet investigator tasked
with solving a similar revenge murder as riots
and rocket fire tear the region apart. Monday,
Aug. 12, at 9 p.m., HBO
The Terror: Infamy
Last year’s 10-part hit The Terror has been spun
into a horror anthology series. In this summer’s
run, a community of Japanese- Americans ban-
ished to an internment camp during World War II
is terrorized by a shape- shifting specter with
roots in Jap a nese folklore. But how many of the
camp’s horrors are human in origin? Derek Mio
stars, alongside Kiki Suke sane, Cris tina Rodlo,
and Star Trek’s George Takei, who was held in an
internment camp as a child. Monday, Aug. 12, at
9 p.m., AMC
Why Women Kill
Still missing Desperate House wives? Marc
Cherry, the creator of that long-running dram-
edy, is returning with a new guilty pleasure, this
time about an estate-style home where three
women in three different decades are driven to
murderous rage by their spouses. Gin ni fer Good-
win plays a Mad Men–era housewife with a
cheating husband, Lucy Liu is a 1980s socialite
whose husband is secretly gay, and Killing Eve’s
Kirby Howell-Baptiste is an unhappy partner
in a contemporary open marriage. Available for
streaming Thursday, Aug. 15, CBS All Access
The Amazing Johnathan Documentary
The Amazing Johnathan, a comic magician who
worked Las Vegas, had announced he had only
a year to live long before filmmaker Ben Berman
reached out to him. But the documentary Berman
thought he’d be making had to take a new form
when Johnathan began springing surprises on
him, including a serious meth habit. Though you26 ARTS Television
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Hot Fuzz
A veteran London cop
lands in a quaint English
village with a new partner
in a smart buddy-movie
spoof featuring Nick Frost
and Simon Pegg. (2007)
6:50 p.m., Starz Encore
Tue sday, Aug. 13
Wonder
A 10-year-old with a rare
facial disorder enters a
mainstream Brooklyn
school in a winning indie
drama co-starring Julia
Roberts, Owen Wilson,
and Jacob Tremblay. (2017)
8 p.m., Epix
Wednesday, Aug. 14
Autumn Sonata
Ingrid Bergman plays a
concert pianist and neglect-
ful mother in her sole col-
laboration with Ingmar
Bergman, the legendary
director who’s no relation.
(1978) 9:45 p.m., TCM
Thursday, Aug. 15
Midnight Special
With his dad as his sidekick,
a boy with supernatural
powers hits the road to
escape the cult that wor-
ships him and the feds who
want to understand him.
With Michael Shannon.
(2016) 8 p.m., Cinemax
Friday, Aug. 16
The Awful Truth
In the movie that cemented
Cary Grant’s screwball bona
fides, soon-to-be-divorced
spouses interfere in each
other’s new romances.
Irene Dunne co-stars. (1937)
8 p.m., TCM
Saturday, Aug. 17
The Mule
Clint Eastwood does solid
work as a 90-year-old hor-
ticulturist who unwittingly
becomes a drug mule for
a Mexican cartel. (2018)
8 p.m., HBO
Sunday, Aug. 18
Isle of Dogs
A boy goes searching for
his beloved pet in Wes
Anderson’s wonderful
animated tale set in a
dystopian Japan. (2018)
10:20 p.m., CinemaxMovies on TV
You know we’re living in a TV golden age
when an Oscar winner in his prime joins
the game. Moon light director Tarell Alvin
McCra ney created this new series, which in its
premiere has the same lyrical look as that 2016
film. Here, the protagonist is a 14-year-old in
South Flor i da who’s navigating two worlds:
a mostly white magnet school and the public
housing project he calls home. Akili McDow-
ell gives the series its beating heart. Though
plotting isn’t initially a strong point, McDow ell
makes you want to witness David’s entire jour-
ney. Wednesday, Aug. 14, at 10 p.m., OWNShow of the week
Isaiah Johnson offers McDowell mentoring.David Makes Manmight wish Berman had chosen a different tack,
the movie he made does deliver genuine shocks.
Available for streaming Friday, Aug. 16, Hulu
Mindhunter
Hollywood director David Fincher has a way
with serial killers—and the men who hunt them.
As Season 2 of his psychological thriller series
begins, the two FBI agents who pioneered serial-
killer profiling travel to Atlanta to solve a series
of 1979–81 murders. The victims are mostly
African-American children, and as Jonathan
Groff’s Holden Ford and his partner try to ID
the murderer, they turn for insight to imprisoned
madmen Charles Manson and David Berkowitz.
Available for streaming Friday, Aug. 16, Netflix
Other highlights
Diagnosis
Physician Lisa Sanders launches a series based on
her New York Times column that helps diagnose
mysterious medical conditions. Available for
streaming Friday, Aug. 16, Netflix
The Righteous Gemstones
John Goodman, Danny McBride, Adam Devine,
and Edi Patterson star in a gut-busting comedy
about a televangelist family addicted to glitz.
Sunday, Aug. 18, at 10 p.m., HBO
Downton Abbey Live!
The cast reunites to tell behind-the-scenes stories
and tease a forthcoming feature film. Sunday,
Aug. 18, at 9 p.m., PBS; check local listings- All listings are Eastern Time.
The Terror: Mio unpacks an American horror story.THE WEEK August 16, 2019