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.

Birth of the 'School'

You don't need to know Tegan and Sara or even be invested in late-'90s, early-'00s Canadian indie pop to enjoy Freevee's High School, a half-hour drama based on Tegan and Sara's memoir and adapted by Clea DuVall and Laura Kittrell. It's an occasionally funny, mostly sincere half-hour drama that reminds me just enough of Freaks and Geeks and My So-Called Life  and boasts impressive lead performances from acting neophytes Seazynn and Railey Gilliland. Our Angie Han praised the show as "insightful" and noted its "pitch-perfect period details." For more details on the series' tone and structure, the discovery of the Gilliland twins and her journey from acting to versatile storytelling, check out this week's TV's Top 5 podcast, featuring DuVall as guest.

Watts Love Got to Do With It?

Netflix and Ryan Murphy rolled the dice on a promotion-and-critic-free approach to Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story and it paid dividends. So far, a similar approach doesn't seem to be attracting quite the same buzz for the star-studded —Naomi Watts! Bobby Cannavale! Jennifer Coolidge! — darkly comic real-estate horror story  The Watcher. That could change since the first few episodes point to a more entertaining show, though Angie warns that it's ultimately less memorable than the story that inspired it. If you prefer travel horror to real-estate horror, though, Apple TV+ has the long-awaited take on Gregory David Roberts' Shantaram, which features solid performances and a grounded Indian setting, along with a lot of bloated adaptation choices.

'Rosaline' by Any Other Name

Since season two of FX's Justified — streaming on Hulu and better than just about anything else you could watch this weekend — I've had a strongly pro-Kaitlyn Dever stance that has rarely steered me wrong. The Booksmart and Unbelievable star gets a glossy rom-com starring vehicle with  Rosaline , director Karen Maine's Hulu feature about the offscreen ex from Romeo and Juliet. Our Lovia Gyarkye calls Rosaline, written by Michael H. Weber and my first college newspaper film editor Scott Neustadter, "brisk and playful." That's more enthusiasm than our David Rooney felt for Halloween Ends, premiering theatrically and on Peacock, which left him praying for an end to the venerable slasher franchise.

Before 'Now!'

I will always be grateful to IFC for continually renewing the impossibly nerdy documentary parody/satire/homage series Documentary Now!, which returns for its fourth season on Wednesday. It's never NECESSARY to watch the original documentaries to know what's being tweaked. But it helps. Unfortunately, the two-part season premiere, while hilarious, is based on Les Blank's Burden of Dreams, which isn't streaming anywhere, nor is When We Were Kings, which is the basis for the loopy "How They Threw Rocks." You can always watch My Octopus Teacher  on Netflix, but "My Monkey Grifter" plays just fine without it. The season's best episode may be the Agnes Varda-celebrating "Trouver Frisson," and while the direct references — The Gleaners and I and The Beaches of Agnes — aren't streaming, Varda By Agnes is on HBO Max and Faces Places on Tubi. Continuing the theme, you can enjoy "Two Hairdressers in Bagglyport" without seeing Three Salons at the Seaside and The September Issue, but the latter doc is on AMC+.

Honoring Angela Lansbury and Robbie Coltrane

Whether your standard is numerical — 18 Emmy nominations, three Oscar nominations and five competitive Tony wins — or more nebulous cross-generational adoration, Angela Lansbury was a versatile and reliably classy icon. Lansbury died this week at 96, prompting well-earned celebrations and tributes. Start your weekend celebration with Murder, She Wrote episodes on Amazon, The Manchurian Candidate on Tubi or  Beauty and the Beast and  Bedknobs & Broomsticks on Disney+. Leave time, though, to honor Robbie Coltrane, who died this week at 72. The original British Cracker, spectacular stuff, is on BritBox. If you need to watch the Harry Potter movies, that's fine, but save time for Coltrane's work in the British crime drama National Treasure on Hulu and for his great turn as Falstaff in Kenneth Branagh's Henry V, streaming on Amazon.

This Week's THR Staff Pick

Senior editor, diversity and inclusion, Rebecca Sun raves, "HBO Max's 38 at the Garden takes a single historical event – the transcended-the-hype, ultimate David-and-Goliath 2012 showdown between the Linsanity-fueled Knicks and Kobe Bryant's near peak-era Lakers – and contextualizes it in the reality of the Asian American experience, past (their persistent exclusion from anything deemed athletic, assertive or badass) and present (the pandemic-fueled wave of anti-Asian hate). And it does it all in just 38 minutes – the amount of time Jeremy Lin spent on the court when he dropped 38 points at the Garden."