Getting ‘Goosebumps’ Once more, New Youngsters on the ‘Silo’ Block, Making Buddies With Animals, Dexter’s Date with Future

Goosebumps

R.L. Stine’s influential franchise of young-adult spookfests returns for an eight-episode season, starring Buddies’ David Schwimmer as a botanist who returns to the Brooklyn neighborhood the place his older brother and three friends disappeared some 30 years in the past. His teenage twins (Sam McCarthy and Jayden Bartels), visiting for the summer time, type their very own buddy group and begin snooping across the outdated fort the place the vanishing occurred, whereas the wildlife of their dad’s basement lab tackle a lifetime of their very own. The sequence borrows from Stine’s well-liked books, together with acquainted beats from “Keep Out of the Basement,” “The Woman Who Cried Monster,” “Welcome to Camp Nightmare” and extra.

Silo

Who’re these younger warriors within the seemingly deserted Silo 17 who attacked Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson) final week? And what have they finished with Solo (Steve Zahn)? These questions shall be revealed, with extra insights into Silo 18’s mythology courtesy of Lukas (Avi Nash), within the penultimate episode of the sci-fi thriller’s second season. (Silo has already been renewed for a 3rd and fourth season.)

My Greatest Buddy’s an Animal

One individual’s beast is one other individual’s bestie — that’s the takeaway from an enthralling nature sequence that depicts the shut connections between people and infrequently unorthodox animals. Airing back-to-back episodes on Fridays (streaming the subsequent day on Disney+ and Hulu), with six vignettes in every hour filmed all around the world, the sequence opens with accounts of individuals forming shut bonds with a hen, a mom octopus and a leaping spider.

Dexter: Unique Sin

The newest baby kidnapping hits near dwelling for the Miami Police Division, however for younger forensics rookie Dexter (Patrick Gibson) within the origin-story prequel, he’s solely received eyes for against the law scene that means the sample of an evolving serial killer. (The rule: three murders and it’s official {that a} serial killer is at work.) Dex ought to know: He’s planning to take down his personal third mark, the gloating home-invasion assassin who fell by means of the authorized cracks after his dad Harry’s (Christian Slater) botched courtroom testimony. Dexter’s method is getting higher, however there are at all times issues — although nothing’s extra unnerving than watching him attempt to act regular whereas on a double date together with his insurgent sister, Deb (Molly Brown). The episode premieres Sunday evening on Showtime.

Invoice Maher: Is Anybody Else Seeing This?

“Do you see what I’m speaking about with the loopy?” implores provocateur comic Invoice Maher to a rapt Chicago viewers in his thirteenth stand-up particular for HBO. Along with his signature sequence Actual Time with Invoice Maher per week away from launching its twenty third season, Maher regales the group with satirical riffs on political extremism on either side of the spectrum in addition to parenting, relationship and the third rail of faith. Love or hate him (or each), Maher has loads to get off his chest.

INSIDE FRIDAY TV:

• Cotton Bowl (7:30 pm, ESPN): Discover out who makes it to the school soccer championship sport later this month when the second semifinal performs out on the sphere of AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, with No. 8 Ohio State going through No. 5 Texas.
• Completely happy’s Place (8/7c, NBC): The Conners’ Emma Kenney guest-stars as Bobbie’s (Reba McEntire) daughter Gracie, again dwelling on army depart from Qatar and about to satisfy the aunt, Isabella (Belissa Escobedo), she by no means knew existed. Whereas Bobbie frets over the introduction, the remainder of the tavern competes to offer Gracie the most effective do-it-yourself reward.
• RuPaul’s Drag Race (8/7, MTV): Rapper Doechii is the visitor decide because the second half of Season 17’s solid introduces themselves by strutting their stuff in a expertise present.
• True Crime Watch: ABC’s 20/20 (9/8c) reviews on the 2015 disappearance in Florida of Michael Shaver, whose spouse Laurie claimed he’d deserted the household — a narrative that held up for 3 years till his physique was discovered underneath a concrete patio of their yard. On Dateline NBC (9/8c), Josh Mankiewicz reveals particulars in regards to the 2014 homicide of Rob Limon, the topic of the Dateline podcast “Lethal Mirage.”

ON THE STREAM:

• The Company (streaming on Paramount+ With Showtime): Martian’s (Michael Fassbender) plan to recruit his lover Samia (Jodie Turner-Smith) as an informant doesn’t go so effectively, now that she’s conscious of his true CIA colours.
• Look Into My Eyes (streaming on Max): An acclaimed 2024 documentary, a few group of New York Metropolis psychics conducting deeply private readings, makes its streaming debut.
• Get Away (streaming on Shudder): A horror movie laced with whimsy evokes Midsommar when Nick Frost (additionally the screenwriter), Aisling Bea, and their household trip on a Swedish island that’s getting ready for a mysterious annual pageant whereas a serial killer is at work.