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.

Seven Nation Carmy

The first season of FX/Hulu's The Bear arrived as an under-the-radar mixture of comedy, high tension and food porn. It blew up. You never know how a show will respond to the weight of expectations, but in the case of Christopher Storer and co-showrunner Joanna Calo's Chicago-set restaurant series, the answer is: It gets better. Season two of The Bear  expands on the ensemble around Jeremy Allen White, with Ayo Edebiri remaining the cast MVP and Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Abby Elliott fighting for Most Improved. The new season has all the kitchen-based chaos of the first but becomes much more of a profound meditation on what happens when you're in the hospitality business and you're no longer sure what gives you pleasure. Read Angie Han's largely spoiler-free review and then watch for yourself before the big guest stars and structural choices are plastered all over social media.

Wake Me Up Before You 'Virgo' 

If you've seen Sorry to Bother You — and it isn't streaming anywhere now, so… yeah — you know vaguely what to expect from writer-director Boots Riley: notes of absurdity pushing into surrealism, a scathing critique of system inequality and an occasionally goofy sense of humor. Riley's new Amazon series I'm a Virgo  has those elements, plus a sweet, almost folkloric story of a 13-foot-tall Black teenager (a wonderful Jharrel Jerome) searching for love and acceptance. Not every part of the story works equally. Some people will feel, for example, that its superhero elements play like The Boys-lite. But overall, there's so much whimsy and ANGER and formal flair — the combination of effects to achieve the main character's height is delightful — that it's easy to get caught up in its characters, its zippy pace and its singular perspective on the world.

Voices Carrie

Normally, it's my job to watch large quantities of bad television so that you, dear readers, don't have to. I owe a special thank-you, then, to the great Robyn Bahr for watching And Just Like That… so that I didn't have to.

Full of Sound and Nick Fury

I did, however, watch Disney+/Marvel's Secret Invasion, a sadly dull waste of Samuel L. Jackson, Olivia Colman, Don Cheadle and more. The idea of Marvel by way of Graham Greene and John le Carré was a good one. The execution? Less so. But if you're still in the mood for Greene, or to understand all those references in the Secret Invasion premiere, The Third Man is streaming on Criterion Channel or, for some reason, Crackle. In the mood for le Carré instead? Tomas Alfredson's adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is on Starz, and AMC's recent adaptations of  The Little Drummer Girl and The Night Manager are on AMC+ and Amazon, respectively. And for a better recent Greene/le Carré pastiche, there's always Apple TV+'s Slow Horses.

Love Jones

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny premieres next Friday, and I can only assume the lack of new-to-streaming movies is based on the assumption that everybody is revisiting the first four Indiana Jones adventures on Disney+. Raiders of the Lost Ark remains in a class of its own, but you can start any number of fights over the other two (yes, "two"). I know there are weird things happening in the Temple of Doom  — the line between "racist depictions" and "commentary on racist depictions" is WAY too blurry — but it's as masterful a piece of cinematic storytelling as nearly anything Steven Spielberg has done. I, in contrast, find the eager-to-please pandering of Last Crusade to be a bit exhausting. I know most people love the latter and hate the former. This weekend? I'm gonna rewatch Kingdom of the Crystal Skull for the first time since 2008. What could go wrong? And Disney+ also has 22 episodes of what they're now calling The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, but it will always be The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles to me.

Turner the Beat Around

Is Warner Bros. Discovery on the verge of decimating Turner Classic Movies forever and, in the process, continuing a tragic devaluing of one of the most venerable names in all of entertainment? Or was this week's "executive shake-up " just a piece of general corporate restructuring of the sort that has hit nearly every entertainment and media company in recent years? Unclear. But if you were hoping to show David Zaslav et al. how much TCM means to you, this weekend's schedule is pretty phenomenal. Of course, nearly every weekend's schedule is pretty phenomenal. They don't call it Turner Middling Movies. On Friday, you can watch the Jewish romantic classic Crossing Delancy, followed by the camp-tastic double of Grey Gardens and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Saturday primetime has the powerhouse double of On the Waterfront and Vertigo. And Sunday's choices include The Palm Beach Story and Charade . Among others!