Michelle Williams Is ‘Dying for Intercourse,’ ‘Fireplace Nation’ Prepares a Spinoff, ‘Grosse Pointe’ on the Transfer, 50 Years of ‘Austin Metropolis Limits’

Dying for Intercourse

Winner of an Emmy for FX’s Fosse/Verdon, the outstanding Michelle Williams must be a front-runner once more for her daring and unflinching efficiency in an eight-part drama (all episodes accessible) that brings new which means to provocative. She’s Molly, whose terminal prognosis of Stage 4 breast most cancers propels her on a sensual journey to discover sexual wishes she has lengthy repressed and might’t start to grasp. The equally glorious Jenny Slate co-stars as her finest buddy Nikki, who upends her life to take care of Molly, supporting her with equal elements rage and humor. Uncooked, wrenching, graphic and at occasions hysterically humorous, Dying is enlivened by Williams’ affecting portrait of a girl bravely breaking each taboo with marvel and ferocious curiosity. With Sissy Spacek as Molly’s meddling mother, Jay Duplass as her baffled husband and Disaster’s Rob Delaney as a curious neighbor from throughout the corridor. Impressed by a Wondery podcast created by Nikki Boyer and Molly Kochan.

Fireplace Nation

Spinoffs from hit dramas are community TV’s lifeblood, which accounts for this episode (which as soon as upon a time can be considered a “backdoor pilot”), organising the already greenlighted Sheriff Nation for subsequent season. Within the title function: Homeland alum Morena Baccarin as Bode’s (Max Thieriot) aunt, Sheriff Mickey Fox, who enlists Bode’s assist to research the tried homicide of her father, and Sharon’s (Diane Farr) stepfather, Wes Fox (W. Earl Brown), who operates an unlawful marijuana enterprise.

Grosse Pointe Backyard Society

The comedy-mystery, transplanted from Sundays, places down roots on Friday nights, hoping it’s not too little too late to blossom in a brand new time interval. The story takes place in two timelines, together with a flash-forward a number of months into the long run, when 4 pals in a backyard membership try to bury the proof of a dying that occurred on the night time of a gala. This episode gives a number of extra clues, whereas placing Catherine (Aja Naomi King) within the sizzling seat when police start questioning her alibi.

Austin Metropolis Limits Celebrates 50 Years

There are not any limits to the expertise that has graced the stage of Austin’s music showcase, recipient of the Nationwide Medal of Arts in 2003 and a Peabody in 2011. To mark Austin Metropolis Limits’ fiftieth anniversary, an all-star roster convenes to carry out, with Austin-based Jared Padalecki (Walker) and spouse Genevieve internet hosting an eclectic lineup that features Lyle Lovett, Shawn Colvin, The Avett Brothers, Indigo Ladies, Rufus Wainwright, The Mavericks, Gary Clark, Jr., Leon Bridges and extra. The 2-hour particular options tributes to Willie Nelson and Stevie Ray Vaughn, with classic clips and backstage interviews.

Yellowjackets

I counted a minimum of three “Yikes!” in my notes whereas watching the penultimate episode of the unhinged thriller’s third season, which follows up on grownup Shauna’s (Melanie Lynskey) violent reunion with the grown-up Melissa (Hilary Swank), who’s now dwelling beneath a unique identify and married to the daughter of one in every of their “frog scientist” captives from the wilderness. If that weren’t berserk sufficient, youthful Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) is main the resistance among the many stranded Yellowjackets who refuse to be rescued and are protecting nature information Kodiak (Joel McHale) and Hannah (Ashley Sutton) as prisoners.

INSIDE FRIDAY TV:

• NCAA Basketball (7 pm/ET, ESPN): The ladies’s Last 4 kicks off with No. 1 Texas dealing with No. 1 South Carolina, adopted at 9 pm/ET by No. 2 UConn vs. No. 1 UCLA. The championship recreation airs Sunday.
• RuPaul’s Drag Race (8/7c, MTV): With just one extra episode to go earlier than the finale, the remaining queens audition for the dwell present at Flamingo Las Vegas, with black-ish star Tracee Ellis Ross as visitor choose.
• NCIS: Sydney (8/7c, CBS): Obsessive followers hit a bitter word within the investigation when a U.S. Navy choir singer is killed whereas performing with a pop star.
• Energy Ebook III: Elevating Kanan (8/7c, Starz): Drug-dealing sibs Raq (Patina Miller) and Marvin (London Brown) have an issue: They’re working low on product, and somebody’s skimming cash.
• The By no means Ever Mets (8/7c, OWN): Ta’Rhonda Jones hosts the second season of the truth present the place {couples} who’ve solely ever linked on-line spend three weeks in a deluxe L.A. manse to be taught in the event that they’re appropriate in individual.
• True Crime Watch: On ABC’s 20/20 (9/8c) Deborah Roberts experiences on the case of Nathan Carman, discovered adrift on a life raft in 2016 together with his mom Linda misplaced at sea. What appeared a miraculous rescue took on a extra sinister flip when authorities found his millionaire grandfather had been murdered three years earlier. Dateline NBC (9/8c) experiences on the 2002 double homicide of Kansas couple Mike Sisco and Karen Harkness, which took three legal trials over twenty years to type out.
• Secrets and techniques Declassified (10/9c, Historical past): The X-Recordsdata’ David Duchovny hosts a docuseries the place the reality actually is on the market in tales of secret authorities actions, together with an alleged UFO assault on a U.S. missile base.
• S.W.A.T. (10/9c, CBS) Sports activities greats Kenny Smith and Jerry Rice guest-star when the S.W.A.T. staff pursues a violent drug seller after two school soccer stars are kidnapped and tortured.
• Karma (streaming on Netflix): Squid Sport’s Park Hae-soo stars in a twisty Korean thriller trapping six characters in a fateful net after a hit-and-run and cover-up intertwines with a homicide plot.