HBO dominates Sunday nights with Insecure, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Succession
Insecure and Curb Your Enthusiasm return, and Succession gets down to business. Plus: Bone up on horror movies with our streaming guides.
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Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, October 24. All times are Eastern.
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Insecure (HBO, 10:03 p.m., season-five premiere): What’s been a five-year journey for viewers clocks in at around two years for the characters in Issa Rae’s Emmy-winning dramedy—and boy, have they been through a lot. Ashley Ray-Harris will be recapping once more.
To refresh your memory, you can reread Ashley’s recap of the fourth season finale: “Over four seasons, the show has blurred the lines between comedy, drama and hangout sitcom. Molly, Issa, and Lawrence have grown and changed, but they all still face some version of the insecurities they’ve always had. Last week, I said fans hung tight to theories like Condola’s pregnancy and Tiffany’s affair because they needed to believe the show could have more consequences where there actually were none. I, like a fool, did not believe Insecure would ever deliver on these fan theories, because why should they? The show was good at what it’s always done. With ‘Lowkey Lost,’ Insecure shows viewers it’s good at something else.”
Curb You Enthusiasm (HBO, 10:40 p.m., season 11 premiere): Larry still sucks, and it’s still funny AF. Danette Chavez will be recapping.
Succession (HBO, 9 p.m.): In her last recap, Roxana Hadadi suggested that the third season premiere contained a little too much self-awareness. But there’s still just the right amount of rottenness: “The Roys are always telling on themselves (Roman calling himself a fuckup, Shiv and her threesome suggestions), and Kendall isn’t automatically a good person just because he’s challenging Logan. But is he a better person than Roman or Shiv or Gerri or Connor (Alan Ruck) or Karl (David Rasche) or Karolina (Dagmara Dominczyk), or any of the people who stand by Logan, who is very much—as Kendall said during that press conference—‘a malignant presence, a bully, and a liar’?”
Wild cards
You now have one week left to watch all the seasonally appropriate horror and Halloween movies you can muster. We’ve laid out what movies and shows are leaving on Halloween from Amazon Prime, Hulu, and Netflix. Standouts include The Final Girls on Hulu, this horror list for Amazon Prime, and this horror list for Netflix.
But if you’re not horror inclined, may we suggest Billy On The Street, seasons one through five on Netflix? It’ll get you primed for Billy Eichner’s upcoming appearance in Dickinson season three.
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How was my pop culture weekend? Thanks so much for asking!I watched Dune: Part One on HBO, because who can go to the theater. I really liked the visuals, but the SciFi miniseries was one of my comfort watches during undergrad and law school. I didn’t like that the end of the movie occurred where it did, since it felt both rushed (to reach that point) and anticlimactic (since it had passed the larger obvious conflict. I very much want to watch part two right now, so there’s that.My wife and I watched the Worst Cooks In America Halloween redemption episode, which is a one off of my favorite type of reality cooking show. The hosts are still biting about the poor skills of the contestants, but the established rapport means nobody wants to see people fail from the get go.I also caught this week’s What We Do In The Shadows and I was not quite ready for that early twist.I didn’t watch regulation but once they hit 5th OT I turned on the TV to watch the first ever 9OT college football game. The new format manages to be interesting and to be fast enough that I don’t hate it but also never want to see it happen again.
I definitely started watching Final Girls this month and didn’t make it into the meat of the movie. I should remedy that before it leaves Hulu (if that’s what’s happening).