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.

Hustle & 'Mo'

Nestled between the premieres of HBO's House of the Dragon and Amazon's Lord of the Rings: The Subtitle is Netflix's exceptional eight-episode comedy Mo, starring Ramy veteran Mo Amer, who also co-created with Ramy Youssef. Comparisons to Ramy are inevitable — TV doesn't have so many comedies with Muslim protagonists — but probably sell short how distinctive Mo  is, with its Houston settings and focus on a unique family whose roots are Palestinian by way of Kuwait. Our Angie Han praises the series' "eye for clever details" and its self-assured voice. I was impressed by how well it delves into a variety of dark topics and by how versatile an actor Amer turns out to be in his first series leading role. (Also, allow me this latest opportunity to tell you to watch Ramy on Hulu. Season three premieres at the end of September.)

'Wrexham'-n-Effect

Lots of odds and ends to catch up on from this week. Angie found FXX's Little Demon, about a teen who discovers that her father is the devil, to be promising if uneven. I liked the tremendous voice cast — Aubrey Plaza! Danny and Lucy DeVito! Other familiar people! — and that the main character's last name was "Feinberg." No relation. Because it's spelled differently. And I'm not animated. Angie also liked FX's soccer-studded reality series  Welcome to Wrexham, assuming "warm, fuzzy fluff" is a compliment. I was definitely less enamored with Hulu's miniseries Mike, which fails to successfully strike a balance between authorized and unauthorized when it comes to the life of boxing legend and convicted rapist Mike Tyson. Maybe you should just dust off those extended edition DVDs from the Lord of the Rings movies as unnecessary preparation for  Lord of the Rings: Whatever It's Called.

'Patient' Zero

Given that Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg's last series collaboration was all-time classic The Americans, it feels like there should be more hype surrounding next week's premiere of The Patient, produced by FX for Hulu. The 10-episode limited series, about a serial killer (Domhnall Gleeson) whose desire to curb his appetites leads him to kidnap his therapist (never-better, at least not for drama, Steve Carell), is kinda like In Treatment (streaming on HBO Max!) meets Hannibal (streaming on Hulu!) meets Black Snake Moan  (you're on your own), with interesting Jewish undertones. Its half-hour episodes sometimes feel rushed, but there's good stuff here. Or you can just watch The Americans on Hulu.

Hart Failure 

I regret to inform you that it's a rather desperate week for new straight-to-streaming movie titles. John Hamburg's Me Time launches on Netflix with a pair of A-listers in Kevin Hart and Mark Wahlberg. The mere description of this apparently limp — "Treat yourself to another movie," our Frank Scheck quips — buddy comedy made me drowsy, and I only perked up when I read that Regina Hall got a presumably solid paycheck. Amazon's Samaritan , featuring Sylvester Stallone, sounds a bit more entertaining, with its story of an aging vigilante superhero. Scheck praises Stallone's performance and some of the production values, as well as the "clever plot twist" in the final act. Clever plot twists are my favorite plot twists.

Honoring Joe E. Tata

If you grew up watching Beverly Hills, 90210, one of the show's real pleasures and amusements was seeing Joe E. Tata's Nat Bussichio go from barely a guest star to a piece of the ensemble so integral that the writers kept contriving new ways to keep Nat and the Peach Pit involved in storylines, and Tata eventually even made it into the opening credits. I'm not sure I can think of a more unlikely elevation, but it all comes from the gruff warmth and wisdom Tata brought to the show. For heaven's sake, Nat walked Donna Martin down the aisle in the series finale. Tata died this week at 85 , and his other credits include stints as henchmen to three different colorful villains on the original ABC Batman series.

This Week's THR Staff Pick

Media and business writer Alex Weprin raves, "My wife and I have been watching and really enjoying Amazon's A League of Their Own, having come to it with fondness for the 1992 film. The callbacks and references to the original are a nice touch, but it's the willingness and ability to really explore the relationships between all the key characters that make it work. A good example of how a series adaptation can expand on a universe created in a one-off movie."