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.

Never Have I 'Sever' 

There are other TV options this week, but none hit me in quite as many different ways as Apple TV+'s Severance, from creator Dan Erickson and featuring Ben Stiller as its primary director. Part science-fiction thriller, part workplace comedy, part absurdist exploration of our national culture of overwork, Severance does what any good speculative fiction does, namely make you reconsider your own world while getting you lost in a new one. Adam Scott, Britt Lower, Zach Cherry, John Turturro, Patricia Arquette and Christopher Walken lead a terrific ensemble in a show you need to watch, because I need a second season.

End of Watch

Are you one of those people who only watch TV shows when you know an end date because you want to have guaranteed closure? You confuse me! But also: Thursday must've been your kind of day as FX's Atlanta (all available on Hulu), Netflix’s Stranger Things and Amazon's  The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel  respectively announced that their fourth, fifth and fifth seasons would be their last. So get to bingeing, though you have a while to catch up. For more on the calculus behind ending Atlanta — and, as was previously announced, Better Things — FX chief John Landgraf dropped by this week's TV's Top 5 podcast.

You've Lost It, You'll Never Get Out of This 'Maisel'

 It's unclear if Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is in a rut or if the show's main character, still expertly played by Rachel Brosnahan, is in a rut. Either way, after more than two years away, the Emmy-winning comedy is back with new episodes and a new weekly rollout plan that doesn't necessarily benefit the season's slow push back into events that feel like they're from the first or second season. At least when Amy Sherman-Palladino's show is in "more of the same" mode, "the same" means "pretty good." Netflix's Space Force  premiered with a lot of hype based on its auspices — Greg Daniels! Steve Carell! — but the first season was a mess of ill-fitting elements. Our Angie Han says the new season has more narrative clarity and jettisoned some weak subplots and… "It still doesn't really work." Oh well!

Clash of the 'Titane'

Your streaming cinematic options this weekend are… mixed. I thought the documentary Downfall, a chronicle of the Boeing 737 MAX crashes of 2018 and 2019, was one of the more mediocre options I saw at this year's Sundance, while let's just say that Netflix's Texas Chainsaw Massacre isn't really critic fodder. Fortunately, Hulu has an odd duo of 2021 awards hopefuls. Julia Ducournau’s  Titane won the Palme D'Or at Cannes last summer; THR’s review called it a "brash and ballsy experiment." Also new on Hulu is Spencer, which just earned Kristen Stewart her first Oscar nomination for a performance David Rooney called "incandescent."

Honoring Ivan Reitman

Canadian producer-director Ivan Reitman, a key figure in shaping the comic sensibility of my generation, died last weekend at 75. For some reason, many of Reitman's biggest and best directing offerings aren't available for easy streaming, meaning you'll have to pay a few bucks to watch Ghostbusters, Dave or the Reitman-produced Animal House. But Meatballs  — filmed at Camp White Pine in Haliburton, Ontario — is on Amazon. You can also find No Strings Attached on Paramount+, Draft Day on AMC+ and Kindergarten Cop on Peacock.

This Week's THR Staff Pick 

Managing editor Jennifer Levin raves, "I’m a little late to the party, but I’m really into The Beatles: Get Back on Disney+. This incredible footage, expertly edited, brings you into the room as they jam and craft the iconic songs of Let It Be, but also makes you feel the tension of a band facing the looming deadline of a live show while on the verge of breaking up. I had no idea Paul was such a micromanager, John was so incessantly goofy, and Ringo was the focused workhorse. George? His private and onstage personas are nearly identical. After spending 7-plus hours with them, now I know. And I love The Beatles more."