Jerrod Carmichael has a potent new special and Christopher Walken is doing community service.
This weekend I have … an hour, and I like intimacy.
‘Jerrod Carmichael: Rothaniel’
When to watch: Friday at 9 p.m., on HBO.
The comedian Jerrod Carmichael digs deep in a new special that winds up being a monologue about the burdens of family secrets much more than a traditional stand-up set. (He actually sits in a folding chair the entire time.) It’s a powerful piece, often funny but also profoundly sad; usually I’d recoil at audience members shouting “We love you!” mid-set, but here it feels caring and maybe even essential. Confessional comedy is one of the dominant forms of the moment, but sometimes it can feel too packaged and thus perversely inauthentic. This is the opposite: Carmichael’s brilliance radiates from the raw and unresolved.
… a few hours, and I like emotional dramas.
‘Love Me’
When to watch: Arrives Friday, on Hulu.
Talky domestic dramas live and die by the quality of their fraught dinner party scenes. The first episode of this Australian import contains a blistering one — nasty but for good reasons, the kind of family squabble where no one is on the same team. “Love Me” follows Clara (Bojana Novakovic) her brother and her newly widowed father as they seek and accept love and make the mistakes people make. It’s not as sudsy as “The Split” or as overwrought as “Brothers & Sisters,” but if you like those shows, or you like kissing and family squabbles in equal measure, watch this.
… a few hours, and I like quirky ensembles.
‘The Outlaws’
When to watch: Arrives Friday, on Amazon.
Christopher Walken co-stars in this British dramedy about a disparate group doing community service hours. For some, it’s their first brush with the criminal justice system; for others, it’s old hat, and as with “Orange Is the New Black,” we learn everyone’s back story as individuals. The show has a fun, bouncy vibe and comic pacing, but there are crime-thriller plots, too, and they’re not played for laughs. All six episodes drop at once, and the show has already been renewed for a second season.
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