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.

'Shadows' Dancing, Baby You Do It Right

Staten Island's most beloved vampires are back on FX on Tuesday (July 12), so if you're going to be ready for What We Do in the Shadows' season four premiere, you've got a few days to catch up or refresh your memory. Critics have been sent the first four episodes of the new season and they're quite funny, if not quite What We Do in the Shadows at its peak. Spoiling very little, I'll just say that the season has found a crazily inspired way to keep Mark Proksch's Colin Robinson around, boasts three or four uniquely nutty Matt Berry line-readings per episode and features American Idol veteran Anoop Desai as a djinn. Oh, and speaking of favorite returning comedies, Tuca & Bertie  is back for season three on Adult Swim, premiering Sunday.

Emmy Nomination Eve Eve Eve Eve

JB Smoove and Melissa Fumero will announce the nominations for this year's Emmys on Tuesday morning, so there's plenty of time to prepare yourself to be excited or disappointed by catching up on the 500+ scripted shows that premiered in the eligibility window. Here are Scott Feinberg's final nominations predictions, while Angie Han and I broke down some of our favorite contenders. Angie also wrote about why Sam Richardson and Melanie Lynskey deserve nominations and I did the same for the young stars of  Reservation Dogs, Station Eleven stars Matilda Lawler and Mackenzie Davis, and the perennially overlooked Rhea Seehorn of Better Call Saul. Oh, and speaking of Better Call Saul, the second half of the final season kicks off on Monday and you're gonna want to watch live.

'Moonhaven,' Wider Than a Mile

Have I recommended Lodge 49 to you lately? Jim Gavin's donut-loving secret society surfer comedy, which made my Top 10 back in 2019, is all on Hulu, but that only amounts to two seasons! Watch it! AMC+'s new series Moonhaven is easier to describe — over a century from now, a Moon colony that holds the key to Earth's future is rocked by a murder — and hails from Lodge 49  showrunner Peter Ocko (with Gavin as a writer) and while it isn't really on that Lodge 49 level, it's full of fun performances and delightfully weird and quirky ideas. Oh, and speaking of AMC+, be sure to check out Anna and This Is Going to Hurt, among other promising originals.

The Limited Does Not Exist

Words have no meaning anymore. Take "limited series." Like, is Netflix's Boo, Bitch a limited series simply because Netflix knows it likes to cancel teen dramedies after only a season or two so why invest? It's got an amusing title, a bankable star in Lana Condor (paired with the equally solid Zoe Colletti and Aparna Brielle), a co-creator with a strong track record (Lauren Iungerich) and a strange horror-comedy premise, so why not just call it a comedy? Our Angie Han says that the show is generally less clever than the title. Somewhat more traditional in the "limited series" space is Apple TV+'s  Black Bird, based on James Keene's memoir about going undercover to befriend a serial killer. It's a close-ended book and a six-episode series, and although it has strange structural issues throughout, stars Taron Egerton, Paul Walter Hauser and the late Ray Liotta are superb.

Honoring James Caan

A paragon of '70s screen masculinity and much more, James Caan died this week at 82. While  some key titles in Caan's astonishing resumé — The Gambler, Rollerball and Brian's Song — are missing from easy streaming, his classics and more esoteric favorites are impressively available, starting with The Godfather (Paramount+), Elf (HBO Max) and Misery (Showtime OnDemand). Tubi has a selection of auteur-friendly favorites in Michael Mann's Thief, Francis Ford Coppola's Gardens of Stone , Sam Peckinpah's The Killer Elite and Christopher McQuarrie’s Way of the Gun. Don't miss out on Alien Nation (Starz OnDemand), Alan J. Pakula's Comes a Horseman (Amazon) or Wes Anderson's Bottle Rocket (HBO Max). And for a more under-the-radar personal choice, I think Caan, Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan and Gwyneth Paltrow are all in top form in Flesh and Bone, on Amazon.

This Week's THR Staff Pick

Once again, we're looking backwards as a distraction from the real world. Television features editor Mikey O'Connell says, "As we grapple with the rapid erosion of women's rights, I'm finding some solace in trailblazers of the present and past — women like EGOT-denied Murder, She Wrote star Angela Lansbury. Sure, Lansbury's Jessica Fletcher was in conspicuous proximity to 274 murders over 12 seasons and four TV movies, now streaming on Peacock, but she also solved those murders while artfully navigating constant misogyny, inept law enforcement and more hack guest stars than such an icon should endure."