‘Dexter’ Finale, Spike Lee’s ‘Highest 2 Lowest,’ ‘Nice British Baking Present,’ Conflict Brewing in Hawaii

Dexter: Resurrection

“This was not on my checklist of how to die,” grumbles the seemingly immortal Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Corridor) as he surveys the newest tremendous mess through which the killer of serial killers finds himself as the primary season of the Dexter spinoff wraps on a suitably macabre observe. He’s trapped within the secret vault of billionaire Leon Prater (Peter Dinklage), a dying fetishist who’s created a shrine to killers like Dexter — though Prater has but to acknowledge how Dexter’s “code” units him aside. With a lavish gala aboveground attended by a lot of New York’s prime cops, Dexter should discover a strategy to attain out to his son Harrison (Jack Alcott) for assist, but it surely received’t be straightforward to show the tables on the well-connected madman. The episode airs Sunday on Showtime.

Highest 2 Lowest

After a restricted run in theaters, Spike Lee’s New York-ified adaptation of Akira Kurosawa‘s iconic 1963 crime thriller Excessive and Low makes its streaming debut. It’s Lee’s fifth collaboration with star Denzel Washington, who performs David King, a music mogul dwelling giant in modern New York Metropolis when he and his chauffeur, Paul (Jeffrey Wright), develop into entangled in a morally difficult ransom plot. The supporting forged contains Dean Winters, Wendell Pierce, ASAP Rocky and Ice Spice in her movie debut.

The Nice British Bake Off

I don’t find out about you, however some comfort-food TV feels like the right respite from these anxious occasions. And nothing matches that invoice extra sumptuously than this fan-favorite baking competitors, returning for its 13^th “assortment” with weekly episodes. Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith are as soon as once more the discerning judges, all the time looking out for the dreaded soggy backside, although happier to come across an ideal pastry. The brand new forged of novice bakers, a dozen in all, features a scientist, an engineer, a medical scholar, two hairdressers, an novice drag queen and a jujitsu blue belt.

Chief of Conflict

The episode title, “Day of Spilled Brains,” needs to be a tipoff that this pivotal episode of the historic epic starring and co-written by Jason Momoa received’t finish effectively for the Hawaiian villagers. Ka’iana (Momoa), who has lived on the planet past the islands, warns Kamehameha (Kaina Makua) that the European interlopers presently offshore aren’t to be trusted, however the future king continues to be leaning into his philosophy of peace first, struggle later. Too unhealthy he doesn’t understand that it’s coming sooner.

US Open Tennis

Will we see a rematch of the Wimbledon finals this weekend with males’s No. 1 Jannik Sinner vs. No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz within the U.S. Open finals? That is dependent upon how in the present day’s semifinal matches play out. First, Alcaraz faces the resilient No. 7 seed, Novak Djokovic, a four-time U.S. Open winner and at 38, the oldest man within the Open Period to make it to the semifinals in all 4 Grand Slams in a 12 months. Then at 7 pm/ET, No. 1 Jannik Sinner, final 12 months’s Open champ, takes on the resurgent No. 25 seed, Canada’s Félix Auger-Aliassime.

INSIDE FRIDAY TV:

• Outlander: Blood of My Blood (8/7c, Starz): It’s a traumatic time for 20^th-century transplants Henry (Jeremy Irvine) and Julia (Hermione Corfield), when Henry’s seek for his lacking spouse hits a fateful roadblock whereas she goes into labor for one of many extra harrowing deliveries in latest TV reminiscence.
• The Rainmaker (10/9c, USA Community): Beginner lawyer Rudy (Milo Callaghan) has to decide on between his girlfriend and his consumer when Sarah (Madison Iseman) mistakenly lets slip info that might assist his case.
• Dateline NBC (10/9c, NBC): In a brand new episode, Andrea Canning reviews on the sensational homicide case of Colorado dentist James Craig, who was discovered responsible in July for the 2023 homicide of his spouse Angela, a mom of six, by poisoning her protein shakes with cyanide and eye-drop remedy.

ON THE STREAM:

• NFL on YouTube (8 pm/ET, YouTube and YouTube TV): The NFL‘s attain now extends to YouTube, presenting its first unique dwell pro-football broadcast with the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs dealing with the Los Angeles Chargers in São Paulo, Brazil’s Corinthians Enviornment. Latin music star Karol G performs at halftime.
• Memphis to the Mountain (streaming on Hulu and Disney+): An inspiring three-part docuseries from Andscape depicts a bunch of younger climbers from the South Memphis climbing health club Memphis Rox, who tackle the formidable problem of scaling a 16,000-foot rock tower on Mt. Kenya, Africa’s second tallest peak.
• Dish It Out (streaming on Prime Video): Tilly Ramsay (daughter of Gordon) cooks up a storm for household and well-known mates in a sequence dropping eight episodes every week for 4 weeks.
• Rel Discuss (streaming on Tubi): Lil Rel Howery (Get Out) delivers a stand-up comedy set from Chicago’s What’s Humorous Comedy Pageant.
• Invasion (streaming on Apple TV+): The slow-burning sci-fi drama brings a few of its disparate strands collectively when Aneesha (Golshifteh Farahani), a health care provider now dwelling in suburban consolation in Idaho with Clark (Enver Gjokaj), opens her door to Travante (Shamier Anderson) and Jamila (India Brown), who bear unwelcome information concerning the subsequent wave of the alien invasion they worry is imminent.
• Love Con Revenge (streaming on Netflix): Her true-crime story of romance fraud was instructed within the Netflix sequence The Tinder Swindler. Now Cecilie Fjellhøy returns, teamed with non-public investigator Brianne Joseph, to assist different victims expose their larcenous on-line lotharios and produce them to justice in a six-part docuseries.
• Friendship (streaming on HBO Max): The cringe comedy, starring Tim Robinson as a nebbish desperately eager to befriend his cool-cat neighbor (Paul Rudd), makes its streaming debut. The movie premieres on HBO on Saturday.