What to watch
THURSDAY
July 21, 2022
All times Central. Start times can vary based on cable/satellite provider. Confirm times on your on-screen guide.
American Horror Stories
FX on Hulu ■ Season Premiere
This weekly anthology series spinoff of American Horror Story returns for Installment 2, consisting of eight episodes, with a different horror story available each Thursday beginning today with “Dollhouse.”
The Last Movie Stars
HBO Max ■ New Series
Ethan Hawke directs this revealing six-part documentary that celebrates the personas, talent and love story of actors Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman. Central to The Last Movie Stars is a long-abandoned project that Newman commissioned from friend and screenwriter Stewart Stern. At Newman’s request, Stern interviewed close friends, family and artistic collaborators for a planned memoir. Newman was also interviewed by Stern. They discussed his
youth, his first marriage with Jackie Witte, his romance and life with Woodward, his personal demons and the gut-wrenching loss of his son, Scott. In addition to archival interviews with Woodward and Newman, Hawke enlisted numerous actors, including Karen Allen, George Clooney, Laura Linney, Sam Rockwell and others, to voice segments of the original transcribed interviews for The
Last Movie Stars. Hawke also interviewed some of Newman’s daughters for insights into their parents, along with Sally Field and Martin Scorsese, who explore what made Woodward’s and Newman’s singular careers, and relationship, so inspiring. All six parts are available today.
Rap S@#$
HBO Max ■ New Series
Issa Rae (Insecure) is an executive producer of this comedy that follows two estranged high school friends from Miami, Shawna (Aida Osman) and Mia (KaMillion), who reunite to form a rap group. Rae also wrote the series-premiere episode and co-wrote the season finale with showrunner Syreeta Singleton. The first two installments of the eight-episode season are available today; new episodes drop on Thursdays.
Showtrial
Sundance Now ■ New Series
In this five-episode British legal drama, when Talitha Campbell (Celine Buckens), the arrogant daughter of a wealthy entrepreneur, is arrested following the disappearance of fellow student Hannah (Abra Thompson), the case grips the nation and whips up a media storm. On Talitha’s side is brilliant solicitor Cleo Roberts (Tracy Ifeachor). Can Cleo control the narrative of a case that is fast becoming tangled up in the nation’s debates over privilege, wealth and politics? From arrest to the jury’s final verdict, Showtrial examines both sides of the legal battle, as defense and prosecution fight for their version of what really happened to Hannah and the truth about Talitha: Falsely accused? Or callous murderer? All episodes are available today.
No Demo Reno
HGTV, 8 p.m.
In “Everything but the Cabinets,” Jenn Todryk saves a ton of cash by not painting Jack and Brittany’s kitchen cabinets but finds that working with a color she didn’t choose is not as easy as it looks. Meanwhile, she brings peace and calm back to the young Welsch family with a total bedroom transformation.
The Old Man
FX, 9 p.m. ■ Season Finale
Season 1 of this thriller pitting rogue spy Dan Chase (Jeff Bridges) against FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Harold Harper (John Lithgow) concludes tonight.