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.

We Need the 'Drunk,' We Gotta Have the 'Drunk'

As a critic, most of my TV viewing is forward-looking, but even I occasionally have to play catch-up, and last weekend, between screeners of The Dropout and Vikings: Valhalla, I started watching Freeform's Single Drunk Female , a likably messy comedy that boasts a great, long-overdue star turn from Sofia Black-D'Elia. If you're also looking for some solid, under-the-radar TV to catch up on, Angie Han and I did a fun breakdown of winter TV's high- and low-profile winners and losers, some featuring talking penises and others without.

I Hope Tomorrow You'll Find 'Better Things

The fifth and final season of FX's Better Things premieres Monday. It's a well-arced 10-episode build to an April finale that left me with tears pouring down my cheeks, which isn't surprising since Pamela Adlon's series has been making me laugh and cry since it premiered. I can't emphasize enough how good this L.A.-set dramedy is, and the first four seasons are all on Hulu if you need to catch up. Or to start.  

The Real Boss Babies

Way back in 2017, the animated classic The Boss Baby dared to imagine a world in which a baby could be a boss, but Tom McGrath's cinematic opus failed to fully extrapolate the consequences into the real world. The non-animated chickens are coming home to roost. Showtime's Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber features a believably juvenile Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the dude-bro pioneer behind the controversial rideshare company. Then stick around for a few days and Hulu will premiere the tremendously acted, if rarely revelatory,  The Dropout about Elizabeth Holmes (a superb Amanda Seyfried). And for more on The Dropout, listen to this week's TV's Top 5 interview with creator Liz Meriwether.

Not to Be Confused With

Streamers mostly took the week off on the movie front. Hulu has the thriller No Exit, featuring a star-making turn from Havana Rose Liu, though our Frank Scheck was less enamored of its "labored plot mechanics, lame dialogue and over-the-top characterizations," plus fans of Sartre will probably be disappointed. Netflix has A Madea Homecoming from Tyler Perry, which is sure to appeal to audiences eager for the return of Madea, though fans of Euripides will, as ever, be disappointed. Maybe dedicate this time to catching up on HBO's very cinematic My Brilliant Friend, which returns for its third season on Sunday!

Honoring Sally Kellerman

A well-deserved Oscar nominee for M*A*S*H, Sally Kellerman died this week at 84. Kellerman's turn as "Hot Lips" Houlihan in the classic Robert Altman war comedy was probably her most indelible performance, and it's available on HBO Max. Back to School, in which she somehow made Rodney Dangerfield seem viable as a romantic lead, is on AMC+. But don't skip the seminal Star Trek episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before," which is streaming on Paramount+ (or her various memorable guest turns on shows ranging from Columbo to That Girl to  Murder, She Wrote).