‘Grantchester’ Finale, the ‘Gilded Age’ Capote, Hallmark’s ‘Windfall Falls,’ Yogurt Store Murders

Grantchester

SUNDAY: Can Alphy (Rishi Nair) forgive his detective inspector pal Geordie (Robson Inexperienced) for snooping into the id of his organic mom? That’s one of many emotional hurdles within the Season 10 finale, which additionally finds Daniel’s (Oliver Dimsdale) mom visiting and assembly his very nervous associate Leonard (Al Weaver, who directed the episode), which works about in addition to you’d count on within the early Nineteen Sixties. Amid these bombshells, an precise bomb goes off, disrupting the controversial go to on campus of a pro-fascist lecturer. The sequence returns subsequent yr for its last season.

The Gilded Age

SUNDAY: Not too long ago renewed for a fourth season, the interval drama nears the tip of its third with all of New York buzzing concerning the publication of Society as I Have Discovered It, a scandalous e-book written by the elite’s most favored companion, Ward McAllister (Nathan Lane). Very similar to Truman Capote a century later, Ward finds himself shunned by the “swans” he amused whereas gathering their secrets and techniques. As his confidant Bertha (Carrie Coon) is aware of all too properly, “Nothing is extra perilous than to overestimate your personal energy.” Too unhealthy Ward isn’t plugged into what else is going on on the Russell mansion, the place George (Morgan Spector) is scrambling to save lots of the household’s funds whereas son Larry (Harry Richardson) returns from Arizona to find he’s additionally turn out to be persona non grata—to his beloved Marian (Louisa Jacobson).

Windfall Falls

SATURDAY: The previous haunts the current in a whimsical three-part time-travel fantasy romance based mostly on the novels of Jude Deveraux and Tara Sheets. It begins in 1844 Eire when the charming ne’er-do-well thief Liam (Lachlan Quarmby) captures the flowery of the aristocratic Cora (Katie Stevens), who’s promised to a different, in an ill-fated romance with penalties that ripple by means of time. Cue the Angels of Future, who ship Liam to present-day Oregon to information the reincarnation of Nora, now a cop, towards her supposed soulmate, Finn (Evan Roderick), or be despatched to Hell if he chooses coronary heart over obligation.

The Yogurt Store Murders

SUNDAY: A troubling multiple-murder case from 1991 is the topic of a four-part true-crime docuseries that depicts many years of grief and authorized confusion after 4 teenage women are discovered murdered in an Austin, Texas yogurt retailer that was set on hearth. 4 teenage boys turn out to be suspects, with two indicted and convicted after police obtained written confessions. However when new DNA proof flips the script, the authorized system and the unrelenting media protection come beneath scrutiny because the case stays a haunting thriller.

Nautilus

SUNDAY: “Sounds just like the stuff of untamed, fantastical novels,” the pompous Crawley (Damien Garvey) tells his superiors in London once they ask concerning the pesky submarine Nautilus. He is aware of higher, in fact, however Nautilus the sequence is at its finest when evoking the wild and fantastical spirit of Jules Verne. Again on the submersible, the Nautilus and its nemesis the Dreadnought are each caught within the Arctic ice, and whereas Capt. Nemo (Shazad Latif) and his British counterpart, Capt. Youngblood (Jacob Collins-Levy), attain a détente of kinds, the crew sq. off on the tundra for an initially pleasant recreation of cricket.

INSIDE WEEKEND TV:

• If I Run (Saturday, 8/7c, Lifetime): Kat Graham (The Vampire Diaries) stars in a thriller as Casey, who goes into hiding after being framed for homicide, with Evan Roderick as Dylan, a struggle veteran and personal eye employed to seek out her, however who quickly begins to imagine her innocence.
• Coronary heart & Hustle: Houston (Saturday, 8/7c, OWN): A actuality sequence tracks the non-public {and professional} fortunes of a sisterhood of six Black feminine entrepreneurs in Houston, Texas.
• Naming the Useless (Saturday, 10/9c, Nationwide Geographic): An interesting forensic docuseries focuses on the work of the nonprofit DNA Doe Undertaking, which makes use of genetic family tree to assist investigators and family members be taught the id of our bodies which have gone unclaimed as John or Jane Does for years.
• Freaky Friday (Sunday, 8:30/7:30c, ABC): To whet your urge for food for Friday’s launch of the Freakier Friday sequel starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan, ABC broadcasts the 2003 authentic.
• The Nice Meals Truck Race: Truckin’ Superior (Sunday, 9/8c, Meals Community): Host Tyler Florence welcomes 9 new food-truck groups to compete alongside the Atlantic coast, with the primary cease in Savannah, Georgia, the place the wacky Savannah Bananas baseball crew presents a banana-themed problem.
• The Institute (Sunday, 9/8c, MGM+): The Stephen King adaptation reaches the midway level, with younger Luke (Joe Freeman) accelerating his escape plan whereas on the surface, snoopy former cop Tim (Ben Barnes) will get a bit too near the Institute, placing him on nasty Ms. Sigsby’s (Mary-Louise Parker) naughty record.