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.

'Last Man' Standing

Whether or not FX on Hulu's Y: The Last Man is a complete artistic triumph, it's a not-insignificant triumph that the series exists at all after more than a decade of development as both a film and TV project. The adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's comic about a pandemic that kills every person with a Y chromosome (but somehow spares Ben Schnetzer's Yorick, plus Yorick's CG monkey) is smart and thoughtful and dark, but it misses the adventurous sense of fun that carried the source material. Check out this week's  TV's Top 5 podcast as Vaughan and showrunner Eliza Clark discuss the challenges of bringing Y: The Last Man to TV.

It's Better To Burn Out, Than It Is To Watch 'American Rust'

I'm somewhere between mixed and bored to freaking tears by most of the weekend's new TV. Hagai Levi, whose The Affair and the Israeli source material for In Treatment owe a not-small debt to Ingmar Bergman, tackles Bergman head-on with an adaptation of Scenes From a Marriage. Stars Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain are superb, but the five-part limited series generally just apes the moves of the more insightful original, which is available in its trimmed theatrical form on HBO Max. It's still far better than Showtime's stodgy and condescending  American Rust, which falls equally flat on drama and authenticity. Maybe spend a few hours on Amazon's documentary LuLaRich instead? It's at least entertainingly infuriating.

I Want To Be 'Kate'

If you crave genre thrills from the comfort of your couch, this weekend's streaming movies at least offer choices. Our Angie Han found the Mary Elizabeth Winstead assassin drama Kate to be derivative and predictable, but at least "fitfully entertaining." The latest HBO Max day-and-date release is James Wan's horror entry Malignant, which may make you want to go watch star Annabelle Wallis in Peaky Blinders  on Netflix instead. And if you'd rather cry than jump in fright, Apple TV+ has a filmed version of the Tony-winning musical Come From Away, which counts as 9/11 programming as well.

Honoring Michael Kenneth Williams

The death of Michael K. Williams earlier this week, at 54, creates a gap television will never be able to adequately fill, because nobody struck the precarious balance between scene-stealer and consummate ensemble actor as well. From The Wire to Boardwalk Empire to The Night Of to Bessie , Williams was particularly crucial to HBO's prestige TV secret sauce, and if you haven't watched any of those, they're all on HBO Max. Also on HBO Max you'll find Williams' searing work in the horror/racial allegory pastiche Lovecraft Country, which could win him a too-long-overdue Emmy in less than two weeks. Or head over to Netflix, which has the complete run of Hap and Leonard , which gave Williams a very engaging opportunity to be a leading man.

Remembering 9/11

From Spike Lee's NYC Epicenters to Nat Geo's One Day in America to Netflix's Turning Point, I've watched around 20 hours of tributes tied to Saturday's 20th anniversary of the tragedies of 9/11/01, and that's barely scratching the surface. Depending on how much or how little 9/11 documentary coverage you need, you may be interested in Peacock/MSNBC's Memory Box: Echos of 9/11, History's firsthand-footage-driven 9/11: I Was There, Apple TV+'s 9/11: Inside the President's War Room  (the only one of these docs featuring George W. Bush, if that's an incentive or a disincentive), Discovery+'s Rebuilding Hope: The Children of 9/11, Vice TV's Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11 and PBS' Frontline feature. It's all harrowing and emotionally exhausting, and I can't tell you how much or how little you're going to want to watch. No judgment here.

This Week's THR Staff Pick 

Speaking of Nat Geo's 9/11: One Day in America (all streaming on Hulu), assistant managing editor Darah Head raves, "As the 20th anniversary of 9/11 nears, a colleague’s recommendation led me to this six-episode documentary — made in collaboration with the 9/11 Memorial & Museum — that charts the events of that Tuesday morning in September with unprecedented detail. Many of us still know exactly where we were that horrifying day. (Yes, I worked at THR .) And even if you thought you’ve seen all the footage and heard all the stories, it’s like watching it unfold for the very first time from the survivors’ point of view (the eeriness of the trees’ bright green leaves gently rustling in the courtyard between the two towers moments before they fall while so many people gaze upward is haunting). It’s harrowing, emotional and resonates deeply. If ever there was a time to remind yourself of all that was lost that day, this is the time and this is the documentary."