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.

Ask Not for Whom 'Bel-Air' Streams, It Streams for Thee

Super Bowl LVI is coming to Los Angeles this weekend and whether you're a fan of the Rams, the Bengals, a Lord of the Rings fan eager to see the trailer for Amazon's long-awaited new show or just pumped for the halftime show featuring Dr. Dre, Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, Eminem and Mary J. Blige, chances are good you'll be tuning into NBC on Sunday. Rather than using the post-Super Bowl slot to launch a new program, NBC has opted for an audience boost to its ongoing Olympics coverage, though Peacock will be premiering Bel-Air on Sunday. I thought the gritty, dramatic take on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air ended up feeling derivative of too many other shows, though I liked elements of the update.

Nerve-'Anna'

Netflix's Inventing Anna — not to be confused with AMC+'s Anna , which made my Top 10 for last year — will probably be the weekend's most talked-about new show, but don't expect much uniformity of reaction. Our Angie Han called Shonda Rhimes' attempt to unravel the mystery of con artist Anna Delvey "occasionally messy and often unwieldy," but "also savvy, sly and compulsively watchable." I agree more with the former. It's a bloated and uneven nine episodes, sometimes engaging and fun and sometimes so badly in need of editing it's borderline criminal. And have fun dealing with Julia Garner's central performance, and what is likely to be the year's most discussed oddball accent. It's either brilliant or brilliantly awful, and after watching all nine episodes, I'm still not sure which, though I discussed in more depth on this week's TV's Top 5 podcast.

Kimi, Kimi Ya, Kimi Yam, Kimi Yay! 

If you're a fan of quirky, visually audacious auteurs, it's a big streaming weekend. New on HBO Max, Steven Soderbergh's Kimi is a "tautly suspenseful nail-biter," according to David Rooney, and who can't admire a thriller with a running time of under 90 minutes? Our Lovia Gyarkye is even more enthusiastic about The Sky Everywhere, Apple TV+'s new YA adaptation from Josephine Decker (Madeline's Madeline ), deeming it "a satisfying exercise in ebullience." And once upon a time, a new whimsical fantasy from Jean-Pierre Jeunet would be cause for cinephile joy, but Bigbug is dropping on Netflix with no particular advance notice at all, which makes me a little sad. 

'Flee' Bag

Nominations for the 94th Academy Awards were announced earlier this week, with the usual assortment of surprises, snubs and oddities. Over the next few weeks, I'm sure I'll be singling out different categories to focus your attentions on as the March 27 ceremony — currently planned without required vaccination — approaches, but I'm gonna start easy: I'm pretty sure that animated feature is the only category in which all of the nominees are currently streaming. You can start at Disney+ with Raya and the Last Dragon, Encanto and Luca, then head over to Netflix for The Mitchells vs. the Machines. But if you want to check off the oddest assortment of categories, Hulu has Flee, the first film to earn simultaneous nominations for animated feature, documentary feature and international feature!

Honoring Douglas Trumbull

You can't write the history of late 20th century cinema without discussing the contributions of visual effects innovator Douglas Trumbull, who died this week at 79. Trumbull only directed two features and neither Silent Runnings  Brainstorm is available for easy streaming, but he was an integral creative force on pioneering films including 2001: A Space Odyssey and Blade Runner (both streaming on HBO Max), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Paramount+), The Tree of Life (Hulu) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind  (not streaming). While you're in a reflective mood, I'd be remiss not to mention that Veneno star Isabel Torres died this week at 52, and if you haven't watched the Spanish-language HBO Max series, it's well worth checking out.

This Week's THR Staff Pick 

Like all the cool kids, assistant awards editor Hilton Dresden is glued to Euphoria on Sunday nights. Hilton raves, "Parents, ye be warned: The second season of HBO’s Zendaya-led high school drama is even darker, sexier and more drug-fueled than its predecessor. Stylistically, it’s perhaps the most ambitious TV show currently on the air, and performances from Hunter Schafer, Eric Dane and, of course, the show’s Emmy-winning star (Zendaya is ripe for a second trophy after her astonishing bottle episode) make this Sunday night staple unmissable."