HBO’s ‘Mountainhead’ and Mortuary Scandal, ‘MobLand’ and ‘Physician Who’ Finales, Duck Dynasty Revived

Mountainhead

SATURDAY: Succession‘s seven-time Emmy-winning creator Jesse Armstrong is again in his discomfort zone amid the toxically wealthy. His new film, a darkish satire, gathers a gaggle of tech-bro billionaires (Steve Carell, Ramy Youssef, Cory Michael Smith) on the Utah mountaintop retreat of a sycophantic buddy (Jason Schwartzman) to bust one another’s chops and survey the wreckage their social-media platforms have delivered to a world on fireplace. As they plot world domination, they inevitably activate one another. Serves them proper. (Learn the total assessment.)

The Mortician

SUNDAY: The community that introduced you the basic Six Ft Underneath returns to the world of mortuaries in a disturbing three-part true-crime docuseries. The setting: a revered family-owned funeral house in Pasadena that turns into a hotbed for scandal when fourth-generation inheritor David Sconce turns the enterprise’s crematorium right into a revenue middle in probably the most unscrupulous method possible. Sconce, who’s been launched from jail, goes on digicam and exhibits zero regret for his actions: “I don’t put any worth on anyone after they’re gone and useless. That’s not an individual anymore.” Attempt telling their family members.

MobLand

SUNDAY: The British gangster drama’s thrilling Season 1 finale aptly chooses Johnny Money‘s “The Beast in Me” as its theme, because the Harrigan crime household smokes out a rat and escalates their warfare in opposition to Richie Stevenson (Geoff Bell) and his well-connected military. “In my world, solely the largest monster survives,” declares prime son Kevin Harrigan (Paddy Considine) as he stands as much as his jailed father, Conrad (Pierce Brosnan), and follows household fixer Harry (Tom Hardy) on a campaign of vengeance. Whoever wins this battle is aware of the battle is simply starting. Right here’s hoping for a second season, if solely to proceed marveling at Helen Mirren because the Harrigans’ unrepentant Girl Macbeth matriarch.

Physician Who

SATURDAY: Sci-fi followers are eagerly awaiting “The Actuality Conflict,” the season finale of this cosmically entertaining romp, wrapping the second season for the pleasant fifteenth Physician (Ncuti Gatwa). In final week’s cliffhanger, he appeared completely overwhelmed by The Rani (Archie Panjabi), who revealed her grasp plan to revive the almighty Omega from Time Lord lore. What does it imply for the universe? As showrunner Russell T Davies has teased: “The Physician is doomed, Belinda (Varada Sethu) is misplaced, Ruby (Millie Gibson) is trapped, UNIT is powerless, the Unholy Trinity rule supreme and the Underverse is rising. … I can promise shocks, scares and revelations off the size.” Not being a Who-vian scholar, I simply hope I perceive what’s happening.

Duck Dynasty: The Revival

SUNDAY: The favored actuality sequence, which aired for 11 seasons over 5 years from 2012 to 2017, returns within the wake of the passing on Could 25 of patriarch Phil Robertson. His sickness is mirrored within the revival, which focuses on the following technology of Robertsons, most notably Willie and Korie and their prolonged Louisiana clan of Duck Commander entrepreneurs.

INSIDE WEEKEND TV:

• The thirteenth Spouse: Escaping Polygamy (Saturday and Sunday, 8/7c, Lifetime): A two-part docudrama stars Felicity Huffman and Olga Petsa because the older and youthful variations of Rena Chynoweth, a survivor of a polygamist cult that turned its followers into killers. Eric Johnson co-stars as her manipulative husband, Ervil LeBaron.
• 48 Hours (Saturday, 9/8c, CBS): The 2-hour season finale options in depth testimony from Dana Chandler, discovered responsible in March of the 2002 double homicide of her ex-husband and his fiancée in Topeka. Interviews embrace Hayley Seel, Chandler’s daughter, who lengthy suspected her mom of the crime.
• CBS Information Sunday Morning (Sunday, 9 am/ET, examine native listings): Mo Rocca goes behind the scenes of HBO’s The Gilded Age, which returns June 22, and David Pogue conducts a news-making interview with Elon Musk.
• Hurricane HQ: Eye on the Season (Sunday, 12 pm/ET, Fox Climate): Launching a “Hurricane Week” of particular experiences timed to the beginning of the Atlantic hurricane season, meteorologist Ian Oliver hosts a three-hour reside particular from Florida beachfront restaurant Caddy’s Treasure Island, which was impacted by hurricanes Helene and Milton.
• The Mega Manufacturers That Constructed America (Sunday, 9/8c, Historical past Channel): The third season of the documentary sequence opens with an account of the race amongst pc giants to create the primary transportable laptop computer, which results in the invention of the smartphone.
• The Strolling Useless: Useless Metropolis (Sunday, 9/8c, AMC): Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) will get caught within the battle of wills between the loathsome Croat (Željko Ivanek) and the malevolent Dama (Lisa Emery) when he’s despatched on a mission to win over Christos (Jake Weary) and his troops to affix the warfare in opposition to New Babylon.
• BBQ Brawl (Sunday, 9/8c, Meals Community): Reigning champ Bobby Flay takes on group captains Maneet Chauhan and Antonia Lofaso in Season 6 as 12 new pitmasters present what they’ve received after they current their signature flavors on Texas toast.