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.

Hot [Jer]rod

Jerrod Carmichael had a hell of a weekend last week. His new comedy special, Rothaniel, premiered on HBO and HBO Max, and the intimate and hilarious reflection on secrets was probably the genre's most acclaimed entry since Hannah Gadsby's Nanette. Then Carmichael hosted SNL, and his monologue may end up being the defining commentary on the Oscar night slap. Why not extend your celebration of this versatile comic by celebrating and lamenting the three-season run of NBC's  The Carmichael Show, with the 32 episodes all on Hulu. Then, if I haven't already convinced you previously, watch the Carmichael-produced Ramy. Jerrod Carmichael has been great for years and it's good to see the mainstream catching up.

Liz [Holmes] Lumon

Two of the spring's best shows reached their finales this week, so if you're the binge-only type, now's the time to catch up on Hulu's The Dropout and Apple TV+'s Severance. Overall, I prefer Severance , which is a little bit sci-fi, a little bit dark comedy and, especially in the last two episodes, a breathless thriller. If you were holding off on the Dan Erickson-created series until it was renewed, a second season was picked up this week — we discussed the renewal on this week's TV's Top 5 podcast — and after the finale, you're going to need it! Maybe The Dropout doesn't come together quite as well as Severance  but, anchored by a career-best performance from Amanda Seyfried, it's smart and darkly funny and the supporting performances, from Laurie Metcalf to Kurtwood Smith to Alan Ruck to Michaela Watkins, are top-notch. 

Able Was I Ere I Saw Elgort

If you can get past the fact that Ansel Elgort is easily the least interesting part of HBO Max's Tokyo Vice and yet everything revolves around his character — real-life Tokyo-trained reporter Jake Adelstein — there's a lot to enjoy in the moody, authentic series created by J.T. Rogers. Ken Watanabe, Rachel Keller, Rinko Kikuchi and Show Kasamatsu are among the actual standouts in the journalism/yakuza thriller. Michael Mann directed the first episode, but only the first episode, so if you want TV with more of that true Michael Mann sensibility, Peacock has both Miami Vice and Crime Story , while the ill-fated Luck is on HBO Max.

Diamond Dogs

It's a lackluster weekend for new TV — I was meh on HBO's The Invisible Pilot and AMC's 61st Street — but it's also Masters weekend and opening weekend of the baseball season, for those who observe. For those who like their baseball less real and more scripted, though, please permit my annual recommendation of the short-lived Pitch, streaming on Hulu. On the feature front, Tubi has Bull Durham , AMC+ is home to Field of Dreams  and A League of Their Own, Hulu offers Moneyball, HBO Max has Chadwick Boseman in 42, and if you happen to subscribe to Cinemax, The Bad News Bears and Eight Men Out are OnDemand.

First 'Knives' Club

There are a couple of decent feature offerings new to streaming. David Rooney praises the "classy leads" — Thandiwe Newton and Chris Pine — and "European sophistication" of Janus Metz's espionage thriller All the Old Knives, though he found much of the action in this Amazon release to be "static." Our John DeFore called Netflix's Metal Lords , a musical coming-of-age film, to be "likable but low-wattage," obviously wishing Peter Sollett's film rocked out a bit more. There seems to be less enthusiasm for Netflix's documentary Return to Space, a SpaceX commercial from Oscar winners Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (Free Solo).

This Week's THR Staff Pick 

Writer-at-large James Hibberd recommends some catch-up ahead of the April 18 return of AMC's beloved Breaking Bad prequel. He raves, "Better Call Saul has only gotten better the closer its timeline has crept toward its predecessor, Breaking Bad, and there’s no reason to believe the AMC crime drama will drop the ball as it shifts into its sixth and final season. What launched as a legal-focused quasi-dramedy has evolved into a life-and-death crime drama. Given the writing talent of the show’s Emmy-winning co-creators Peter Gould and Vince Gilligan, viewers can fairly assume one thing: This won’t end the way you think."