Ethan Hawke in ‘The Lowdown,’ ‘Alien’ Finale, ‘Homicide in a Small City’ and ‘Doc’ on Fox, ‘Expertise’ Finals

The Lowdown

“I need to set off a aptitude, kick up the rocks, and see what the roaches do at night time,” crows Lee Raybon (wily, jittery Ethan Hawke), a self-described “truthstorian” (translation: fiercely impartial freelance fringe journalist) who proudly wears scars from poking his nostril the place highly effective folks want he wouldn’t. Lee’s campaign to reveal the sordid previous of a robust Oklahoma household places this Tulsa muckraker within the crosshairs of violent skinheads, shady businessmen, and, most critically, a ruthless gubernatorial candidate (Kyle MacLachlan) from the corrupt Washberg dynasty. Hawke is a hoot, and the offbeat Lowdown (from Reservation Canine’ Sterlin Harjo) is a should. (See the complete assessment.)

Alien: Earth

The standoff between people, aliens, androids, and human/robotic hybrids reaches epic proportions within the thrilling finale to Noah Hawley‘s very good Alien spinoff. “We will’t be children anymore. However they received’t allow us to be adults,” laments Wendy (Sydney Chandler), the hybrid chief who plans to upset the ability of stability now that she’s fashioned a bond with the fearsome Xenomorphs. When her beloved brother Joe Hermit (Alex Lawther) reminds her, “They’re predators. We’re meals to them,” she responds, “No you’re meals to them. I don’t know what I’m.” When she figures it out, be careful.

Homicide in a Small City

Police chief Karl Alberg (a soulful Rossif Sutherland) talks softly however is about to wield much more authority when the low-key crime drama returns for a second season. The artful mayor and native physician, Christie Holman (new forged member Marcia Homosexual Harden), desires to broaden his attain past small-town Gibsons and put him in command of neighboring jurisdictions, which received’t be straightforward along with his understaffed squad. One other complication: Any new officers will come on the expense of city tasks like the humanities middle that Alberg’s girlfriend and new city councilperson Cassandra (Kristin Kreuk) has her coronary heart set on. The case of the week, involving the charred physique of a person we first see in a heated home dispute, is sort of secondary to the objective of reestablishing this present’s consolation zone of rural intrigue.

Doc

In case you missed it when Fox previewed tonight’s Season 2 opener reverse the Emmys: The emotionally charged medical drama returns for a brand new season, instantly placing recovering amnesiac Dr. Amy Larsen (Molly Parker) in the midst of a heated disaster when an out-of-control father places the workers in peril whereas demanding his daughter get the center transplant she was promised. This affected person’s historical past is a part of the previous that Amy can’t keep in mind, after a automotive accident worn out the final eight years of her reminiscences. She’s additionally concerned in one in every of TV’s extra difficult triangles, involving Michael (Omar Metwally), the ex-husband and chief medical officer she doesn’t keep in mind divorcing — and whose new spouse goes into labor on at the present time from hell—and chief resident Jake (Jon Ecker), the new doc she will’t keep in mind falling in love with.

America’s Bought Expertise

Following a second spherical of blind auditions on the brand new season of The Voice (8/7c), the summer season’s high expertise contest presents the highest 10 finalists as these acts present what they’ve bought one final time, hoping for sufficient votes to place them excessive as Season 20’s $1 million winner. The roster is heavy on music, with singers Jessica Sanchez, Jourdan Blue, Mama Duke, Micah Palace, Steve Ray Ladson, and the Leo Excessive College Choir, plus improv rapper Chris Turner, two dance troupes (Brazil’s glowing Mild Wire and Workforce Recycled), and acrobat Sirca Marea.

Inside Tuesday TV:

• Dancing with the Stars (8/7c, ABC; simulcast on Disney+): The theme is “One Hit Wonders,” and as groups dance the cha-cha, foxtrot, jive, quickstep, samba and tango to tunes together with “Maniac,” “Macarena” and “It’s Raining Males,” votes in the course of the reside simulcast will decide which duos will face a double elimination.
• Homestead Rescue (8/7c, Discovery): The Raneys are again for a 16^th season of serving to individuals who reside off the grid, tackling one in every of their greatest challenges once they come to assistance from a household of six whose homestead was worn out by Hurricane Helene.
• The Satan Is Busy (9/8c, HBO): A documentary quick follows Tracii, the pinnacle of safety at an Atlanta ladies’s healthcare clinic, on a grueling day’s shift as she works to guard sufferers and workers offering reproductive healthcare and abortions.
• High Weapons: The Subsequent Era (9/8c, Nationwide Geographic): The pilots-in-training face their hardest and most technical check: touchdown on an plane provider.
• Excessive Potential (10/9c, ABC): “Apparently you’re on the lookout for me,” mentioned the smug and sinister man (David Giuntoli) we assume to be the dreaded Recreation Maker when he confirmed up unexpectedly on the precinct on the finish of final week’s Season 2 opener. What does this imply? We’re about to search out out.
• Bully Hunter (10/9c, A&E): A documentary particular explores the world of cyberbullying, with investigator Dr. James McGibney monitoring down and confronting on-line bullies and predators to permit their victims to get on with their lives.
• Hustlers, Gamblers, Crooks (10/9c, Discovery): The docuseries opens its second season with Danny Trejo reflecting on his crime-ridden youth, with extra true confessions from card counter Richard Munchkin and Dance Mothers star and former teenage automotive thief Sari Lopez.

On the Stream:

• Solely Murders within the Constructing (streaming on Hulu): Whereas Charles (Steve Martin) reveals off his “spectacular mouth work” on a dinner date with mob widow Sofia (Téa Leoni), Oliver (Martin Quick) and Mabel (Selena Gomez) proceed snooping into the secrets and techniques of the Arconia, solely to be taught the disgruntled workers has a rating system of tenants. The place do you think about Oliver falls?
• Bodyguard of Lies (streaming on Paramount+): A tough-hitting documentary examines the historical past of the Afghanistan conflict, exposing failed navy insurance policies and methods over 4 administrations.
• Cristela Alonzo: Higher Stylish (streaming on Netflix): The comic’s third stand-up particular leans into the pursuit of happiness, as she regales an viewers in Dallas with riffs on visiting a spa and taking her household on their first trip.
• Paris & Pups (streaming on YouTube): Paris Hilton and her penchant for pets impressed this animated kids’s sequence about 12-year-old penthouse dweller Paris Star and her litter of cute puppies.
• Dying Seconds (streaming on Only for Laughs YouTube channel): A Canadian internet comedy-mystery is about within the actually cutthroat world of professional hockey.