Welcome to Now See This, THR chief TV critic Daniel Fienberg’s weekly viewer guide newsletter dedicated to cutting through the daunting clutter of the broadcast, cable and streaming TV landscape! Comments and suggestions welcome at daniel.fienberg@thr.com.

Time Wounds All 'Heels'

If you like, you can view Starz's wrestling drama Heels as creator Michael Waldron's follow-up to Loki or as star Stephen Amell's follow-up to Arrow . I agree with Angie Han's assessment — Welcome to the team, Angie! — of the show's Friday Night Lights -esque aspirations (though this is probably much more about wrestling than FNL was ever about football). Me, I'm approaching Heels as showrunner Mike O'Malley's follow-up to Starz's sadly under-discussed Survivor's Remorse. Somewhat oddly, Survivor's Remorse is available to stream on Tubi, which is better than it not being available at all. As I like to say, Survivor's Remorse is Ballers if Ballers had actually been good.

Get Carter

Disney+'s latest Marvel series is the animated anthology What If…, a series of butterfly effect one-offs asking limited-imagination queries like "What if Peggy Carter took the super-soldier serum?" Or "What if T'Challa became Star-Lord instead of Peter Quill?" I agree with THR's Angie Han that while the voices are familiar (except for the big names who opted out for contractual reasons) and the art properly eye-popping, the actual stories being told are very limited in impact. Plus, if you want to imagine a world in which Peggy Carter is a stylish butt-kicker, just watch the two seasons of  Agent Carter that are sitting there on Disney+ waiting to be discovered by audiences who couldn't be bothered to care when ABC was failing to make the show into a hit.

With a Star Like Rosa, How Could You Be Blue?

My review of Netflix's Hollywood horror satire Brand New Cherry Flavor became a love letter to Rosa Salazar, because while Brand New Cherry Flavor — featuring zombies, witches, malevolent demons and stuff with kittens — is only OK, its star has been making entertainingly odd choices for years. Sure, you could watch Brand New Cherry Flavor  this weekend, but you could also watch the second season of Man Seeking Woman  (available on Hulu) or the rotoscoped philosophical musings of Undone (Amazon). 

The Crying of 'Lotus' 49

Not to get all Brad Pitt on you, but … Who's in the box? Who's in the box?!? HBO's already beloved six-episode satire The White Lotus concludes this weekend, which makes this the perfect time to catch up on the show on HBO Max. As discussed on this week's TV's Top 5 podcast, The White Lotus has been renewed for a second anthology season, and I offered some suggesting on locations and casting. With The White Lotus (and FXX's Dave) done, FX on Hulu's Reservation Dogs  might be the best show going, and that comedy's co-creator, Sterlin Harjo, just happens to be this week's podcast guest.

'CODA' Pop

Not feeling up to mingling with the crowds at your local theater? Have yourself a Streaming Sundance! Sian Heder's CODA — the acronym is short for "child of deaf adults" — was the big winner at this year's virtual festival and premieres on Apple TV+. THR's Jon Frosch (now a new dad!) called it "a radiant heartwarmer." Peter Nicks' Homeroom , which follows the class of 2020 at the Bay Area's Oakland High School, won a Sundance prize for editing and was generally acclaimed. I called it "an inspiring tragedy, a portrait of resilient youth in unprecedented circumstances." Netflix's Beckett, featuring John David Washington, didn't play at Sundance — and given that our David Rooney says it "manages to end on a note of anticlimactic flatness," maybe you can skip it.

This Week's THR Staff Pick 

If you've been holding out on Netflix's word-of-mouth international hit, senior copy editor Lisa de los Reyes explains, "There are a lot of reasons to watch Netflix's Lupin. Maybe you're a fan of Sherlock  looking for a new mystery series. Maybe you enjoy watching a charismatic lead (Omar Sy) outsmart all his opponents as he breaks into glamorous locations like the Louvre. Maybe you're just looking for an entertaining way to brush up on your high school French. But the best reason to start watching now? Because unlike those poor saps who caught the first season when it first came out, you won't have to wait months to find out how that finale cliffhanger is resolved."