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.

One of These Days 'Reboot' Is Gonna Walk All Over You

The first three episodes of Reboot are now available on Hulu and our Angie Han said that the TV industry comedy "is going for actual, out-loud laughs and very often gets them," celebrating the "clever writing" and "crackerjack cast." It's definitely in that Episodes  vein of fizzy insider comedies that I get, but wish I liked just a bit more. I do, however, always love anything that gives Judy Greer fun material to play. I'm fine with Keegan-Michael Key, Rachel Bloom, Johnny Knoxville, Calum Worthy and Paul Reiser, too. It really is a crackerjack cast! Series creator Steve Levitan is our guest on this week's TV's Top 5 podcast, discussing the pressures of following up Modern Family and his own TV highs and lows. Oh, and if you want to watch Jake Kasdan's The TV Set, which Lesley mentions several times on this week's podcast, it's streaming on Peacock!  Greg the Bunny, sadly, is nowhere to be found.

'Wild' Thing, I Think I Love You

Regular readers know I love food shows and I often enjoy a good survival show, so Hulu's new series Chefs vs. Wild — premieres Monday — feels made for me. Two chefs are dropped in the wilds of coastal British Columbia with a survival expert. They're given a couple of days to forage for ingredients and then have to prepare a three-course, fine-dining meal in an outdoor kitchen. I've seen two episodes and they're a hoot. Lots of searching for mushrooms and wild herbs, lots of complaints about soggy weather conditions, lots of egotistical chefs and hippy-dippy outdoors people. The survival aspects look uncomfortable and the food looks delicious. Do I have problems with Chefs vs. Wild ? Yes, I do! It's a competition. A winner is declared. But nobody says what they've won. And don't tell me "pride." That's not what I watch TV for. Hopefully it will be explained in a subsequent episode. I'll be watching.

Just 'Cute' Me

It's an eclectic week of new movies in the streaming space. There's Netflix's release of Romain Gavras' gritty Parisian thriller Athena, which our David Rooney deemed "nerve-rattling, intense and explosive" upon its Venice premiere. And then there's the Kaley Cuoco/Pete Davidson rom-com Meet Cute  on Peacock, which our Lovia Gyarkye says "flickers with potential." Lovia was more enthusiastic about Sanaa Lathan's adaptation of Angie Thomas'  On the Come Up, praising its assured direction and heart. Lovia was also on reviewing duties for Netflix's Tyler Perry-directed A Jazzman's Blues, deeming it "overindulgent" AND "a narrative feast of twists and turns." That's before you get to the Sidney Poitier documentary  Sidney  on Apple TV+, Netflix's Allison Janney vigilante thriller Lou and the return of The Kardashians on Hulu! Oops. Went a bit too far there.

Blurb — A Blurb About 'Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story'

Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan step into the precarious void of storytelling about notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer with their named-by-committee new Netflix drama Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. What does the 10-part Netflix series have that My Friend Dahmer (on Peacock), the Jeremy Renner-centric Dahmer (Amazon), the reenactment-heavy The Jeffrey Dahmer Files  (Tubi) and countless documentaries including Netflix's new Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes don't? Actually a lot, but it's spread out over a wildly inconsistent miniseries that takes too long to get to its more distinctive elements. But star Evan Peters is unnerving and co-stars Richard Jenkins and especially Niecy Nash, playing Dahmer's unheeded neighbor, are excellent.

Honoring Henry Silva

Exceptional character actor Henry Silva, whose mixture of Spanish and Sicilian heritage allowed him to play tough guys of all stripes, died at 95 on September 14. I didn't get to pay tribute to him in last week's newsletter, but there's never a bad time to go through a body of work that ranges from Rat Pack classics to Italian Westerns to all manner of genre offerings, many produced in Europe. I'd start with The Manchurian Candidate, streaming on Tubi or Pluto TV (also home to Cinderfella). Then you can move to Escape From The Bronx, Alligator (Amazon), as well as Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (HBO Max). I haven't seen Five Savage Men, in which he plays an Apache seeking revenge, but it's on Tubi. You'll have to pay extra for the original Ocean's 11 or Starky's Machine.

This Week's THR Staff Pick

Speaking of Niecy Nash, our versatile senior copy editor/film critic Sheri Linden has been playing catch-up with the cult favorite Getting On on HBO Max. She raves, "Arriving late to this 2013-15 hospital-set comic drama, which still feels cutting-edge in its focus on women’s lives, I’m enrapt. HBO’s remake of a BBC series features three brilliant, incomparable leads — Laurie Metcalf, Alex Borstein, Niecy Nash — and a guest cast that’s a who’s who of fine actors. Not unlike the way her voice of reason counters all the lurid depravity on Dahmer, Nash grounds the show with warmth and wisdom."