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.

Vampire State of Mind

Now that we're done talking about Quinta Brunson in terms of Jimmy Kimmel, let's go back to talking about Quinta Brunson in terms of the Emmy-winning creator and star of Abbott Elementary, which returns for its second season next Wednesday on ABC. There's plenty of time to catch up on the first season, which is on Hulu and HBO Max, plus you can listen to last week's TV's Top 5 podcast for a great chat with series co-showrunners Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker. Then you'll be ready for the season two premiere, which may be the show's best episode to date and definitely features the show's best guest star. Speaking of schools — see what I did there? — our Angie Han compares Peacock's Vampire Academy to Bridgerton, Harry Potter, Divergent and Game of Thrones , or at least elements. Plus? Vampires! She calls it an often "tasty binge," but also wishes it were more satisfying. Series co-creator Julie Plec, meanwhile, is this week's TV's Top 5 podcast guest.

Los Espookys

It's been more than three years since the first season finale of Los Espookys aired on HBO, which hasn't stopped me from saying "Los Espookys" whenever possible, because it's a title that's fun to say — why do a punny subhead when you can just say "Los Espookys"? — and a series that's tremendously fun to watch. Julio Torres, Ana Fabrega and Fred Armisen's bilingual comedy blends horror and absurdism in a way that isn't like any other show on TV, though if you like What We Do in the Shadows , you might want to check out this Friday night 11 p.m. oddity. The new season picks up without a hitch, featuring more Scooby-Doo style adventures, more scene-stealing supporting characters like disinterested gravedigger Oliver Twix and a monster named Bibi's — with the apostrophe — and more delightful weirdness from Fabrega's Tati.

Burns, Hollywood, Burns

The best thing you can watch this weekend — assuming you're all caught up on Reservation Dogs on Hulu — is The U.S. and the Holocaust, which launches on Sunday on PBS. The six-hour documentary — subsequent episodes air on Tuesday and Wednesday after taking Monday off for Queen Elizabeth's funeral — comes from PBS stalwarts Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein. It focuses on the Nazis' World War II genocide and the American responses, both conspicuously negligent and, sometimes, heroic; it offers an all-too-essential exploration of what happens when we fail to live up to our ideals both at home and abroad. An improvement over Burns' solid-but-unremarkable recent documentaries on Ernest Hemingway and Benjamin Franklin, The U.S. and the Holocaust is likely to make you sad, angry and, very occasionally, hopeful about the resilience of the human spirit.

'M*A*S*H' Rules Everything Around Me

M*A*S*H premiered on CBS on September 17, 1972. So… happy 50th anniversary to one of the all-time greats, a show that was almost unimaginably ahead of its time. Decades before head-scratching reboot culture was ubiquitous, Larry Gelbart's medical dramedy was taking a brand nobody necessarily knew they needed as a weekly TV series and turning it into one of the most successful shows ever made. M*A*S*H was notable for its whiplash tonal deviations from rollicking comedy to the most heightened of melodrama, for its ensemble of rambunctious anti-heroes, for its ability to mine historical drama for forward-looking commentary. It was a modern cable show that somehow ran 256 episodes — trust me, they're not ALL winners — and it was, for much of that run, one of the most popular shows on television. The full series is on Hulu.

Honoring Jean-Luc Godard

If you look up "iconoclast" in the dictionary, you won't see a picture of Jean-Luc Godard, but that's only because most dictionaries don't actually have pictures and most dictionary users wouldn't know what the boundary-pushing French director looks like. Godard died this week at the age of 91, and even if you haven't seen anything he made in the past 30 years — he was prolific and intellectually puckish to the end — his New Wave peak is among the finest in cinema history. If you're a Criterion Channel subscriber, they have a whopping 23-film tribute with everything from Breathless to Contempt to Weekend to Tout va bien to Alphaville to Band of Outsiders. It's a spectacular haul. But what if you don't? HBO Max is solidly well-equipped with Beathless, Weekend, Vivre Sa Vie and Masculine Feminin. Lots more of his films are available to rent or on Canopy or Plex. If you're worried about accessibility, Breathless, Weekend and Alphaville are probably your top choices.

This Week's THR Staff Pick

THR.com copy chief Pete Keeley raves, "I've recently been catching up on my sitcoms, which means I've been on Hulu, which means the algorithm suggested the recently released This Fool (inflected like you're roasting a friend for his ugly shirt), and what can I say it's great. Co-creator Chris Estrada stars as Julio, a self-professed “punk-ass bitch” who is trying to help his fresh-out-of-prison cousin Luis (Frankie Quinones) get his life on track. I'm sure I've missed half the inside jokes about growing up Latino in South L.A., but I do appreciate the Blood In, Blood Out references and the send-up of our fair city’s prison-charity complex. Standout episodes include the one where everyone in Julio’s multigenerational home must hide their use of two-ply toilet paper lest they offend his mom, who purloins those giant rolls of industrial grade sandpaper from work."