‘Resident Alien,’ an Animated ‘Predator,’ Murderbot Below Restore, Taraji P. Henson’s Final ‘Straw’

Resident Alien

If Harry (the impressed Alan Tudyk), the alien in human disguise, doesn’t fairly appear himself as Season 4 of the sci-fi comedy begins, there’s a purpose. The true, or unreal, Harry is trapped in a jail cell on the moon whereas an insect-like Mantid alien shapeshifter has assumed his type, swaggering round Paradise and leaving headless our bodies within the woods because the creature searches for an acceptable mate. And that’s just the start of the twists.

Predator: Killer of Killers

These alien predators actually get round and apparently have been doing so for fairly a while. In an bold and thrillingly animated anthology movie, the fearsome creatures observe and interact warriors from three very completely different eras: a Viking queen in 9^th-century Scandinavia, a ninja in 17^th-century Japan, and in 1941, a scrappy younger Air Power pilot maneuvering a rickety vessel named The Bullet. The grotesque vignettes result in an final showdown the place the human heroes change into gladiators of a kind.

Murderbot

Pen15‘s Anna Konkle friends on the rollicking sci-fi comedy as Leebeebee, sole survivor of a analysis unit, whose rescue coincides with Murderbot’s (Alexander Skarsgård) altruistic resolution to shoot itself earlier than it kills its human crew (due to a fight override module unwillingly hooked up by a rival safety bot). Whereas Murderbot reconstructs, the scientists start to suspect the worst about what’s happening inside their sec unit. Wait until they find out how a lot time it was spending watching tacky house operas!

Tyler Perry’s Straw

Taraji P. Henson (Empire) is put via the wringer in director-writer Tyler Perry‘s emotional melodrama about determined single mother Janiyah, whose string of dangerous luck culminates in an incident through which her try to money a test is mistaken for a theft, resulting in a tense hostage standoff. Co-starring on this Canine Day Afternoon-style drama: Sherri Shepherd as a sympathetic financial institution teller and Teyana Taylor as a police detective who senses the human drama behind Janiyah’s actions.

BMF

Michael Chiklis (The Protect) joins the solid of the crime drama in Season 4 as a dogged DEA agent who joins the checklist of enemies pursuing drug-trafficking brothers Meech (Demetrius Flenory Jr.) and Terry (Da’Vinchi). They’re rebounding from their Mexican misadventures whereas their enterprise empire expands to L.A. and the music business.

Inside Friday TV:

• Stanley Pup (5:30 pm/ET, truTV): You’ve heard of the Pet Bowl, so it’s solely pure for the Nationwide Hockey League to get in on the enjoyable with a pleasant competitors for rescue canines, through which every of the 32 NHL groups are represented by a four-legged good friend.
• Wylde Pack (7:30/6:30c, Nickelodeon): An animated household comedy follows the hijinks of half-siblings Lily and Jack after the latter strikes into the crowded family.
• Late to the Get together: Coming Out Later in Life (8/7c, ABC): A Pleasure Month particular from ABC Information Studios options former New York Instances columnist Charles Blow, who got here out as bisexual in his 40s, as he explores the tales of different LGBTQ+ individuals who got here out of their later years.
• Hovering to Life: Making of How you can Practice Your Dragon (8/7c, NBC): Go behind the scenes of the hit fantasy franchise, upfront of the live-action remake opening in theaters June 13.
• 20/20 (9/8c, ABC): JuJu Chang stories on the 2010 disappearance and homicide of Illinois mother and nursing-home worker Bonnie Woodward.

On the Stream:

• RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars (streaming on Paramount+): Within the semifinals, the queens carry out the musical “Starbooty: The Rebooty,” with visitor decide Adam Shankman as choreographer.
• The Chi (9/8c, streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime): On an emotional Mom’s Day, Emmett (Jacob Latimore) hosts all of his child mamas collectively, whereas Alicia (Lynn Whitfield) gathers moms who’ve additionally misplaced their youngsters. The episode makes its linear premiere Sunday at 9/8c.
• Esports World Cup: Degree Up (streaming on Prime Video): Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is the setting for a $60 million event of 1,500 esports gamers battling to change into the primary EWC champion.
• The Survivors (streaming on Netflix): An Australian restricted sequence based mostly on Jane Harper’s novel focuses on Kieran (Charlie Vickers), a younger man haunted by the deaths 15 years earlier of three shut pals throughout a storm, a tragedy rekindled when a younger girl is murdered within the seaside neighborhood.
• The Alto Knights (streaming on HBO Max): Barry Levinson‘s 2025 interval mob drama, starring Robert De Niro in a twin function as crime bosses Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, makes its streaming debut and premieres on HBO Saturday at 8/7c.