Insecure ends its masterful run, and Letterkenny is back with season 10
Plus: Curb Your Enthusiasm’s finale, new episodes of Dexter: New Blood and Yellowjackets, Netflix’s Brazilian movie Lulli
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Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, December 26. All times are Eastern.
Top picks
Insecure (HBO, 10:00 p.m, series finale): It’s amazing to think that Issa Rae started this show as a funny and awkward web series, and then it got a life of its own as an excellent HBO show that took television comedy to another level. In its final outing, titled “Everything’s Gonna Be, Okay?!” Issa and her friends scramble to make time for one another while she pauses to take a look back at the journey that brought her to her current position. Ashley Ray-Harris will recap the episode.
The show will also air a documentary special after the finale, titled Insecure: The End, on HBO Max. It will feature interviews with the cast, as well as showrunner Prentice Penny. Rae’s fame has now skyrocketed to the point that it feels like she outgrew the series before it even ended, even though it was her first show. Curious about what she’ll do next, other than being Spider-Woman.
Letterkenny (Hulu, 3:01 a.m., season 10 premiere): Canadian original series Letterkenny returns just in time to fill the void left by It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’s season finale last week for a sharp TV comedy.
Deirdre Crimmins writes in her review of season 10: “Coming in at a slim six episodes, this latest season first takes a bit of time to clean up the series’ own mess. ‘King Of Suckers’ pings back and forth between the crummy previous season finale and the launch of their new adventures. All of the loose ends get repackaged into neat and complete packages, and the gang looks back to how they went about that tidying. While imperfect, more hands make less work and they take the necessary steps to reset the group into a strong enough state to move forward. That, and Wayne trying to get everyone to put their shirts back on, brings the show’s bedrock back into shape. No more need for obtrusive plots; just dickering, picking stones, and having Puppers.”
Regular coverage
Dexter: New Blood (Showtime, 9:00 p.m.)
Yellowjackets (Showtime, 10 p.m.)
Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO, 10:30 p.m., season finale)
Wild card
Lulli (Netflix, 3:01 a.m.): In this Brazilian original movie, Lulli (Larissa Manoela) is an ambitious young medical student who dreams of being the best surgeon in the world, letting nothing and no one to get in her way. Her world turns upside down when she is electrocuted by a magnetic resonance imaging device, and she begins to hear the thoughts of others. Now the woman who was couldn’t care less about what people around her were thinking is stuck with the knowledge of everything that goes on in their heads.
Season’s streamings: New Year’s edition
When Harry Met Sally (Hulu, Amazon Prime): It counts! After all, what better way to get into the spirit of New Year’s celebrations a week in advance.
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WandaVision remains my favorite of the inaugural quintet (“What If…?” counts!), but Hawkeye is arguably the better series. I had very low expectations yet enjoyed it very much. It’s just a well
made show that hits its more modest targets. Although it wasn’t quite a bull’s eye, it’s a
Christmas miracle that Hawkeye turned out this good!
https://mattthecatania.wordpress.com/2021/12/22/does-hawkeye-hit-its-target/I finally started Arcane. It’s very pretty!I got Tampopo for Christmas, so I’ll rewatch it tomorrow.Is there a version of Lulli’s trailer with English subtitles?
Now we need the Kate Bishop/Yelena Belova cross-country road trip limited series that we all deserve. HawkWidow? WidowHawk? The Belishop Adventures?
Mmmmmm. Tampopo.
Tell us about your Pop Culture WeekendI am still processing the season finale of Wheel of Time. The world establishes rules not present in the books, and they imply that some of my “safe” characters may be in danger. I am nervous and excited for season 2. Nervcited.I also watched The Matrix Resurrections. It was :sigh: fine. The first half was better than the end, but as one of my friends argues, they gave us the ending the characters deserved and not the one the audience wanted.We watched some Rankin and Bass specials and my wife watched half of Elf yesterday. I continue to cringe at all of Elf. It just feels so loud and abrasive.
I thought Matrix was pretty good up until they defeat Smith there’s like 55 minutes left.I like the meta stuff. I like the idea of the new young architect mining nostalgia to placate people and the old guard saying they can use this as a chance to make one more stand. But that last 55 minutes is rough. And Smith should have been a program made by the Architect to placate Neo as a former glory and not really Smith.
That Brazillian netflix show looks like a non-musical rip-off of Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist.
I guess it’s not a rip off if it’s not a musical. Also, it sounds more like Mel Gibson’s What Women Want in terms of the incident and the powers it created.
Insecure started out as a good show until season 4 hit and I thought season 5 wasnt very good. Both Nathan and Lawrence were bad for Issa. Would have liked to see her being okay without a man or meeting someone completely new.