Breeders
Martin Freeman’s character puts the conundrum
best when he says, “I would die for those kids.
But also, often, I want to kill them.” Such is
parenting for the harried working couple played
by Freeman and Back to Life’s Daisy Haggard in
this new comedy series headed by Emmy-winning
Veep writer-producer Simon Blackwell. And as
if two kids under 7 weren’t challenge enough, a
grandpa played by Michael McKean soon adds to
the burden. Monday, March 2, at 10 p.m., FX
The Most Dangerous Animal of All
Louisiana native Gary Stewart was only trying to
locate his birth father two decades ago when San
Francisco police warned him to drop the search.
Today, Stewart believes his father was Zodiac, a
never identified 1960s serial killer, and this four-
part documentary series expands on Stewart’s
own 2014 best-seller and on the evidence he’d
gathered. The SFPD, it turns out, had secrets to
hide. Friday, March 6, at 10 p.m., FX
ZeroZeroZero
Fans of Roberto Saviano’s Gomorrah and its
various adaptations have reason to be excited.
In his follow-up to that exposé of Italian orga-
nized crime, Saviano turned to fact-based fiction
for a novel that has now been adapted, by a
director of TV’s Gomorrah, as a limited series.
ZeroZeroZero tracks a massive cocaine shipment
from its Mexican cartel producers to its Italian
distributors, with U.S. money and a family ship-
ping business caught in the middle when the
deal fractures. Gabriel Byrne plays the shipping
magnate who trusts the outcome to two adult
children. Available for streaming Friday, March 6,
Amazon Prime
Spenser Confidential
Mark Wahlberg will never be Robert Urich. But
both actors now have played the crime-fighting
ex-boxer created by detective novelist Robert B.
Parker. In this feature-length action comedy,
Spenser is an ex–Boston cop framed by crooked
colleagues and now just released from prison.
When two other officers are murdered, Spenser
decides to blow the conspiracy wide open, aidedTelevision^ ARTS^25
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Monday, March 2
Laura
A beautiful murder vic-
tim becomes an object
of obsession in Otto
Preminger’s superb film noir
spun around its star, Gene
Tierney. (1944) 8 p.m., TCM
Tuesday, March 3
The Miseducation of
Cameron Post
Chloë Grace Moretz plays
a lesbian teenager sent to
a Christian gay conversion
camp in a soulful but witty
adaptation of a hit YA novel.
(2018) 8 p.m., Cinemax
Wednesday, March 4
Something’s Gotta Give
Jack Nicholson and Diane
Keaton costar in a charm-
ing Nancy Meyers rom-com
about a rakish 60-something
who falls for the mother of
the young woman he’s been
dating. (2003) 10 p.m., Epix
Thursday, March 5
Paths of Glory
Kirk Douglas is a coura-
geous man among scoun-
drels in a fine antiwar
drama from Stanley Kubrick
that moves from 1916’s
Western front to a court-
martial. (1957) 8 p.m., TCM
Friday, March 6
Shakespeare in Love
Joseph Fiennes and
Gwyneth Paltrow pair up
in the Oscar-winning romp
that imagined young Bill
Shakespeare falling for a
beauty who auditions while
masquerading as a man.
(1998) 10 p.m., Flix
Saturday, March 7
Yes terday
Himesh Patel plays a striv-
ing London musician who
wakes after a street accident
to a world in which he’s the
only singer- songwriter who
remembers the Beatles.
(2019) 8 p.m., HBO
Sunday, March 8
What Keeps You Alive
A romantic rural weekend
becomes a tense nightmare
for a young woman soon
after she discovers her
wife of one year is not who
she claimed to be. (2018)
4:45 p.m., the Movie ChannelMovies on TV
With Ex Machina and Annihilation, director
Alex Garland displayed a rare talent for conjur-
ing gorgeous near-future nightmares. His first TV
series does it again, inviting us into a creepily
serene corporate campus, where the apparent
suicide of a life-simulation engineer prompts
his girlfriend to start asking questions. Sonoya
Mizuno’s Lily soon discovers that finding an-
swers requires decoding the mournful CEO,
played brilliantly by Nick Offerman. For view-
ers missing the existential dread generated by
Mr. Robot, Devs has it in terabytes. Available for
streaming Thursday, March 5, HuluShow of the week
Mizuno and Offerman talk shop.Devsby his ex-trainer and a younger fighter. Alan
Arkin, Winston Duke, and Post Malone costar.
Available for streaming Friday, March 6, Netflix
The Trade
The documentary series that last year dove into
dark corners of the opioid business now turns to
the migrant crisis playing out across America’s
southern border. A woman flees the Honduran
gang who made her a widow. Another describes
being gang-raped and threatened with beheading.
A third finds apparent sanctuary at a megachurch
whose pastor is later charged with sex trafficking.
As usual, director Matthew Heineman supplies
scant context for the stories he interweaves in this
four-parter. But he gets to places few others do.
Friday, March 6, at 4 p.m., Showtime
Other highlights
Volcano Live! With Nik Wallenda
The daredevil attempts a 1,800-foot-long high-
wire walk across Nicaragua’s Masaya Volcano.
Wednesday, March 4, at 8 p.m., ABC
Amazing Stories
A reboot of Steven Spielberg’s Twilight Zone–like
1980s series won’t be a breakout, but it does
deliver on its promise to wow. Available for
streaming Friday, March 6, Apple TV+
Better Things
Pamela Adlon’s hilarious and heartfelt portrait
of single motherhood returns for a new season.
Thursday, March 5, at 10 p.m., FXMost Dangerous Animal’s dear old Dad- All listings are Eastern Time. THE WEEK March 6, 2020