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.

I'm Like a Byrde, I Wanna Fly Away

Ozark begins its march toward a finale that will probably be too dark to properly see with the first seven episodes of its concluding season now on Netflix. The show's strengths remain intact, especially Laura Linney as the increasingly unhinged (in a calculating and totally hinged way) Wendy and Julia Garner's all-time great supporting performance. And its weaknesses, from poorly developed tertiary characters to convoluted plotting to Netflix-approved episodic bloat to its reliance on prestige TV cliches, remain as well. In case you can't follow the themes of this final season, everybody says "family" so often you'd think you were watching a Fast & Furious spinoff. 2 Slow 2 Lugubrious ? Fans will be overjoyed to have their favorite underexposed drama back, though I'm not sure who ordered "More Jonah!" off the show's a la carte menu.

'Gild'-y Pleasure

Julian Fellowes' new series The Gilded Age premieres on HBO on Monday. While not as enjoyably soapy as Downton Abbey, it's a smartly written saga about the clash between Old Money and New Money in 1882 New York City, and its absurdly stacked cast includes more actors with multiple Tonys — including Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, and guest stars Audra McDonald, Donna Murphy and Nathan Lane — than most shows have actors. And check out this week's TV's Top 5 podcast for a spoiler-free chat with Fellowes about the show's 10-year journey from NBC to premium cable.

We've Come a Long Way From 'Rain Man' 

TV's depiction of people on the autism spectrum remains a work in progress, but it's a process that has yielded some solid and often enlightening shows in recent years. Amazon's As We See It, from Parenthood showrunner Jason Katims, is full of big emotional swings, and in casting a trio of stars on the spectrum — Rick Glassman, Sue Ann Pien and Albert Rutecki, all terrific — the show feels like a leap. Three seasons of the well-regarded drama The A Word are also on Amazon. Netflix's  Atypical caught some slack because star Keir Gilchrist is neurotypical, but I think it's still well worth watching, as is Everything's Gonna Be OK, which Freeform cancelled after two seasons and can now be watched on Hulu. [Rain Man, a movie that I don't dislike even though it has real problems, isn't currently on any streaming platform.]

Then 'A Hero' Comes Along

Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi's A Hero was one of the most acclaimed films at last year's Cannes Film Festival, and it has already made this year's Academy Awards shortlist in the international feature category. It's now on Amazon, which also has the director's 2017 drama The Salesman. Farhadi''s 2019 film  Everybody Knows , featuring Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, is on Tubi.

Paying Tribute

It was a particularly rough week. André Leon Talley, one of the most recognizable figures in fashion from his time as an editor of at Vogue and judge on America's Next Top Model, died at 73. I recommend Kate Novack's 2018 documentary The Gospel According to André, available on HBO Max. French actor Gaspard Ulliel died at 37, and you can see the Hannibal Lecter prequel Hannibal Rising, featuring Ulliel in the title role, on Tubi. Best known as a musician, of course, the late, great Michael "Meat Loaf" Aday was also a compelling actor, with Fight Club (available on Amazon) among his best. Finally, Louie Anderson died at 68. The '80s stand-up icon has several of his comedy specials available on Peacock and Tubi, but really just head over to Hulu and start with Baskets, where Anderson's Emmy-winning performance was a thing of beauty.

This Week's THR Staff Pick 

Erik Hayden, executive editor, business, has been doing some HBO unscripted catchup. He writes, "I was expecting HBO’s docuseries Small Town News: KPVM Pahrump to be an earnest Journalism 101 class on “news deserts” (communities lacking local reporters). But each half hour of its six episodes is set up more like The Office. Trump backer and KPVM owner Vernon Van Winkle is the boss who dreams big of expanding his rural Nevada station to Las Vegas. His journalists are shown trying to make the best of the ever-shifting sands of their owner's whims."