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.

NoHo Hank's for the Memories

HBO’s Barry is back! The latest series to return to the small screen after a two- or three-year absence, Alec Berg and Bill Hader's hitman comedy picks up roughly where last season left off, so be sure to rewatch a couple episodes if you're like me and you simply can't remember what's happening with the drug war between the Bolivians and Chechens. Or maybe it just doesn't matter. Maybe the pleasure of Barry is in Hader's alternatingly subtle and wonderfully broad performance, in Hader and Berg's increased confidence with action-comedy mayhem, the never-better Sarah Goldberg or the spectacular supporting cast led by Anthony Carrigan, Stephen Root and Henry Winkler. The first six episodes of the new season are top-notch.

Everlasting 'Heartstopper' 

There's so much new TV this weekend, but the thing I may be most eager to check out is Netflix's Heartstopper, especially after our Lovia Gyarkye praised the coming-of-age series as "a breath of fresh air." For a much gloomier love story, check out Amazon's A Very British Scandal, which lacks the levity of A Very English Scandal , but boasts great performances from Claire Foy and Paul Bettany as a high-society couple on the verge of a very public, very acrimonious divorce. And for a love story about a man and a basketball, Magic Johnson is front and center, often to the show’s detriment, in Apple TV+'s four-part documentary They Call Me Magic.

Crushin' 'Doll' 

By now you've probably (hopefully?) had time to at least dip your toes into the second season of Netflix's Russian Doll, in which Natasha Lyonne and company take the time loop premise from the first season and give it a Quantum Leap  twist. I didn't think it was as neat and tidy as the first season, but I admired the ambitious and personal leaps Lyonne wanted to take. After you've checked out the new season, be sure to head over to this week's  TV's Top 5 podcast for our terrific conversation with Lyonne. Be sure to have Google handy, because the Slums of Beverly Hills and America Pie veteran has a wide range of favorites and inspirations and it's worth at least trying to keep up!

Russian Pol

Daniel Roher's documentary Navalny was a "surprise" addition at this year's Sundance Film Festival and went on to claim a pair of key audience awards. The chronicle of Alexey Navalny, who took the death-defying risk of daring to speak out against Vladimir Putin, has only become timelier ahead of this weekend's CNN premiere. The documentary builds a tremendous head of steam as a real-life geopolitical thriller, though with a 100-minute running time, there’s not much room for nuance when it comes to its central figure's actual ideology or goals. Still entirely worth watching.

I Love The '70s

Sorry, fans of the '00s, '90s and '80s. No nostalgia for you this weekend! Sunday is all about looking back on the '70s. Unfortunately, Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth isn't streaming anywhere convenient (unless you count Brian Eno: The Man Who Fell to Earth on Amazon, which you shouldn't because it's unrelated). Fortunately, Showtime's series extension of the Walter Tevis novel requires no outside knowledge, and Chiwetel Ejiofor's soulful and hilarious performance stands on its own. As for Starz's star-studded  Gaslit? Clearly the best companion is Leon Neyfakh's Slow Burn podcast, but to get yourself in a Watergate frame of mind, it's never a bad idea to check out All the President's Men (HBO Max) or to stop and wonder why the heck Dick isn't streaming anywhere. Grumble.

Honoring Robert Morse

Winner of two Tonys and an Emmy, Robert Morse died this week at the age of 90. Adept with song and dance, with drama and comedy, Morse had his biggest early break as star of the original Broadway production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. He followed that up with a prolific four-decade stage and screen career before a career-capping run, and five more Emmy nominations, as Sterling Cooper on Mad Men. The film version of Business is available to stream on Tubi and it remains charming. Mad Men  is streaming with commercials on IMDb TV and without ads on AMC+ and if you want to watch Morse's glorious "The Best Things in Life Are Free" send-off, that was in "Waterloo," the last episode of the first half of the show's seventh season.