This weekend I have… 40 minutes and lots of sunscreen. ‘Hit or miss’ When to watch : Arrives Friday, the AppleTV+ . This new seven-...
This weekend I have… 40 minutes and lots of sunscreen.
‘Hit or miss’
When to watch: Arrives Friday, the AppleTV+.
This new seven-part series on the World Surf League is as tan and juicy as you’d hope, charting the horserace of the competitive season and also exploring a handful of athlete stories. “Break” moves and feels a lot like “Formula 1: Drive to Survive,” perhaps because the shows share a production company and executive producers; like its Netflix cousin, it’s not particularly compelling, but it’s gorgeous, exciting, and very bingeable. And unlike most other sports documentaries around, this show also follows the sagas of female athletes, not just men.
…an hour, and I’d like a glass of wine.
“Stanley Tucci: In Search of Italy”
When to watch: Sunday at 9 p.m., on CNN.
Stanley Tucci is off on another season of lavish Italian adventures, this time to Venice, where he goes duck hunting, eats risotto and discovers the cross-pollination of European food traditions. Everything is very chic and charming. Compared to its solid food and travelogue brethren, “Searching for Italy” is less frenetic and less self-aware; it’s more like a lush vacation, the kind where you spend the whole trip declaring, “I’m so glad we’re doing this.” If you’re the person who says “cin cin” while toasting, clear your calendar for the next four Sundays.
…four hours, and I’m dreaming.
‘Fact’
When to watch: Season 2 arrives on Friday, the Amazon.
There are so many sweet shows going on right now, shows that are going perfectly well. But when I watch them, I can’t help but wish the whole show would take a vitamin and try again, and this time, really after. That’s part of what’s so compelling about the half-hour animated drama “Undone”: He’s absolutely taken his vitamins and he’s attacking his ideas with a fierce drive. Season 1 centers on Alma (played by Rosa Salazar) and her understanding of a kind of time-loop mysticism. Season 2 includes more stories of her family, making the show deeper and richer than seemed possible. If you love melancholic beauty, or if you can’t get enough of Bob Odenkirk (he plays Alma’s father), watch this. Start at the beginning – the seasons are only eight episodes each.
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