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.

Ice Work if You Can Get It

If you feel like we just had an Olympics, you're not wrong. And if, between COVID and myriad sources of political discomfort, the freshly opened Beijing Winter Olympics aren't getting your blood flowing just yet, perhaps you need to spend your weekend with some movies about winter sports events. Sticking, as I always do, to streaming, maybe you want to check out I, Tonya (Hulu), Cool Runnings, The Mighty Ducks and  Miracle (all Disney+),  Slap Shot (Peacock) or, of course, the curling epic Men With Brooms (Tubi, which also has MVP: Most Valuable Primate). Oh, and since The Cutting Edge isn't streaming anywhere (though it's on Showtime OnDemand), there's always the lone season of Spinning Out on Netflix.

Hot For 'Reacher'

After two Jack Reacher films with little connection to Lee Child's long-running series of books — Jack Reacher is on Hulu if you prefer the generic version — the outsized wandering vigilante arrives on Amazon with a more closely adapted eight-episode series. Reacher  creator Nick Santora clearly loves the books, and Alan Ritchson has some of the character's brutality and no-nonsense humor — and he's definitely huge, if a different version of huge from the ex-military cop on the page. There's potential here.

Alfred Hitchcock's 'Suspicion' Is Not Available to Stream

Everything else this weekend is a mixed bag. Angie Han found Apple TV+'s Suspicion to be a competent but generic thriller with an unconvincing point about modern information. I agree, though I liked a couple — Elizabeth Henstridge, Kunal Nayyar — of the performances. Angie felt Netflix's Murderville was hit-or-miss, which is also true, but the spectacle of Marshawn Lynch doing improv comedy worked for me. And I thought Amazon's Phat Tuesdays was a decent corrective to Showtime's The Comedy Store , with great on-camera talent — Snoop Dogg and Tiffany Haddish are a dream pairing — and structural flaws. May I just tell you, one more time, to watch Amazon's  As We See It and then you can listen to this week's TV's Top 5 podcast, featuring creator Jason Katims.

Cate & 'Alley'

Guillermo del Toro's follow-up to the Oscar-winning The Shape of Water never quite found box office or awards traction, but Nightmare Alley already has a dedicated fanbase. The adaptation of William Lindsay Gresham's carnie noir makes a rare double-platform streaming debut, so you can see the acclaimed performances by Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett and the deep ensemble on either Hulu or HBO Max. Our Sheri Linden called it "a luminous noir vision."

Honoring Monica Vitti

The phrase "iconic" is perhaps overused, but the late Monica Vitti, who died this week at 90, was surely an iconic presence in Italian cinema in the 1960s and 1970s. Able to convey icy detachment on the surface and deep yearning beneath, she was an ideal muse for Michelangelo Antonioni and their collaborations, including L'Avventura, La Notte and Red Desert, can go toe to toe with any director-actor pairing in cinema history. Those three movies are all available on HBO Max. 

This Week's THR Staff Pick 

Senior staff writer Chris Gardner raves, "I'm an Ozark late bloomer. I binged three seasons early in the pandemic and fell in love with the dimly lit shenanigans, ace performances and sheer unpredictability of Midwesterners behaving badly. I paced out season four by watching an episode a night as my favorite daily treat. As with Succession, every performer is perfectly cast and at the top of their game. I can think of no better twisted trio on TV than Jason Bateman, Laura Linney and Julia Garner. The range! And they always had me rooting for them even while doing the most. Wow. (Also, shoutout to Robin Wright for directing!). I simply do not want it to end, but can't wait to see how it does."