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.

Brolin in the Deep

Sometimes I lead this newsletter with the best new show to check out over the weekend. Sometimes I lead this newsletter with the show I had multiple puns lined up for among which I didn't want to choose. Amazon's Outer Range is definitely in the latter camp. The new drama could be aptly described as Yellowstone meets Dark  and it stars Josh Brolin as a Wyoming rancher who finds a giant hole on his property. Where does the hole go? When does it go? The answers may surprise you! But probably only a little. Anyway… I've got more! Prairie Mason! Pit My Dad Says. Poots & Ladders. Jodorowsky's Hole-y Mountain. Void-ian Analysis. Ranch DuBlah. OK. I'll stop now. 

'Killing' in the Name Of

There's an over-abundance of new TV arriving this weekend and, well, they can't all be winners. Roku Channel's Swimming With Sharks offers Kiernan Shipka a solid grown-up role and ushers actress Kathleen Robertson into the world of showrunning, but it's more trashy fun than truly good. Netflix's Anatomy of a Scandal  probably ought to be trashy fun, but as Angie Han observes, it can't really find a tone and suffers from taking itself too seriously at times. Angie was a bigger fan of Peacock's Craig Robinson comedy Killing It, which she called a smart and funny takedown of the American dream, as well as the substance-over-style documentary Not So Pretty on HBO Max.

The 'Flight' at the End of the Tunnel

The first seasons of HBO Max's The Flight Attendant and Netflix's Russian Doll were unexpected pleasures, one a funny, thrilling beach read of a mystery, the other a twisty, meditative play on Groundhog Day-style time loops. Neither necessarily seemed to require a second season, but both return in entertaining form next week, if you still need to catch up. The new Flight episodes are possibly even a better showcase for producer and Emmy-nominated star Kaley Cuoco, with showrunners Steve Yockey and Natalie Chaidez talking about their globetrotting comedy on this week's TV's Top 5  podcast. And driven even more by co-creator/star Natasha Lyonne's growing confidence as writer and director, the second season of Russian Doll is more ambitious and personal than the first.  

I Found My Thrill/ On Cypress Hill

Although Cypress Hill can be simplistically reduced to "That weed-loving L.A. hip hop group that was once insane in the membrane," their career has stretched across five decades and has been far more musically versatile than casual listeners might appreciate. Showtime is celebrating 4/20 — I can spell it out if you don't get what they did there — with the premiere of Cypress Hill: Insane in the Brain, Estevan Oriol's impressively documented look at the group, their evolution and their influence. It's full of rarely heard demos, footage from Oriol's own collection of archival materials and B Real, Sen Dog, DJ Muggs and Eric Bobo all remember much more from their musical journey than you might expect them to given, well, the circumstances.

Honoring Gilbert Gottfried

It's been a brutal few months for fans of distinctive '80s and '90s standup comedy with the passing of Norm Macdonald, Louie Anderson and Bob Saget. Gilbert Gottfried, another iconic figure from that scene, died this week at 67 and his life and legacy are well summed-up in Neil Berkeley's documentary Gilbert, available on Peacock. Gottfried was a key figure in a wide range of Comedy Central celebrity roasts, mostly available on Paramount+, and his notoriously dirty take on the already notoriously dirty joke is a centerpiece of The Aristocrats , available on Tubi. Just don't accidentally watch one of those with the kids. That's what Aladdin — on Disney+, of course — is for. Oh, and Gottfried's cameo in the documentary Life Animated, on Tubi, is very brief, but guaranteed to make you teary.

Should Five Percent Appear Too Small/ Be Thankful I Don't Take It All

And… finally… Monday is Tax Day, so don't forget to file your returns and once you've stressed out over deductions and receipts, settle in for some top-tier programming about accountants (but not Ben Affleck's The Accountant, because that isn't streaming). First, let Marty Byrde teach you about money laundering on Netflix's Ozark. Then learn how an accountant helped take down Al Capone in Brian DePalma's The Untouchables on HBO Max. And while you're there, if you don't already have the movie memorized (or even if you do), learn how knowing your tax loopholes can get you all sorts of prison favors in The Shawshank Redemption.