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.

'True' Live Crew

This weekend's big new streaming releases feature top-tier stars — Tom Holland, Amanda Seyfried, Kaley Cuoco, Chris Messina — and premises that Apple TV+ and Peacock really didn't want critics to discuss. I very much agree with Angie Han that Apple TV+'s The Crowded Room, created by Akiva Goldsman with an evasive structure that completely undermines that show's entire theme, would have been better as a two-hour movie than a 10-hour mysterious slog. And I could say the same about Peacock's comedic thriller  Based on a True Story, which has some amusing ideas in its first few episodes before running out of story after a midseason jaunt to Las Vegas. Great casts, though!

Always Sometimes 'Never Have I Ever'

Mindy Kaling doesn't necessarily make great sitcoms, but she makes great comfort sitcoms, shows you can pop on after a long day of work for 25 minutes of chuckles and heart. Never Have I Ever, which Kaling created with Lang Fisher, is wrapping a four-season Netflix run in solid form, giving its core high-school stars — Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Lee Rodriguez, Ramona Young and Jaren Lewison — room for some highs and lows with graduation approaching. It's fun to look back at the first season and see how much Ramakrishnan in particular has grown into what was her first acting role. The new episodes are perhaps overpacked with alternate love interests and new characters, but the show's general likability remains intact.

Hey 'Arnold'! 

Just two weeks after Netflix dropped the so-so Arnold Schwarzenegger action comedy FUBAR, the streaming giant has released a so-so three-part documentary about Arnold Schwarzenegger titled, appropriately, Arnold . Director Lesley Chilcott breaks Schwarzenegger's life into three hour-long segments: "Athlete," "Actor" and "American," meaning that his time as a championship bodybuilder is given equal weight, so to speak, with his acting career and his time as governor of California. The balance seems wildly off, as does the confusing selection of talking heads, as well as Schwarzenegger's evasion-cloaked candor when it comes to addressing but dancing around anything problematic in his life. Were Schwarzenegger eligible for the presidency, you would absolutely think this was a campaign advertisement. Instead, it's just a commercial for Arnold Schwarzenegger. Incidentally, Pumping Iron , a much more interesting Schwarzenegger pseudo-documentary, is on Amazon.

'Dave' Tonight/ We'll Fight the Break of Dawn

I led last week's newsletter with the finales for Succession, Ted Lasso, Barry and Yellowjackets. I hadn't gotten to the last two episodes of FXX's Dave yet. Now I have and, episode for episode, the show's third season was as good as any series on TV this spring, with highlights including the Philadelphia-set "Harrison Avenue," the star-studded "Met Gala" and the emotionally raw "Dream Girl." While I'll continue to lament the comedy's underuse of cast regulars including Taylor Misiak and Christine Ko — GaTa remains fully Emmy-worthy — Dave  had a spectacular season with guest stars, whether they played characters (Jane Levy and Chloe Bennet were both great as potential love interests for Lil Dicky) or themselves (Rachel McAdams and Brad Pitt's appearances somehow felt organic AND like well-earned stunts). The third season is all streaming on Hulu.

Before He Cheetos

It's a good streaming weekend for plucky, underdog biopics. Hulu and Disney+ are debuting Flamin' Hot, director Eva Longoria's film about Richard Montañez, who rose from janitor to marketing bigwig at Frito-Lay and either did or didn't invent Flamin' Hot Cheetos. Our Frank Scheck called it "utterly delightful" when it launched at SXSW. Over on Peacock, Chris Robinson's Shooting Stars  might be a somewhat sanitized look at LeBron James and his high school pals, but Scheck deems it to be a "lovingly rendered" adaptation of Buzz Bissinger's 2009 book.

Happy 'Top Chef' Trails to Padma Lakshmi

Thursday night was the season finale for Top Chef: World All-Stars, an initially bumpy season that really grew on me by the end. Good chefs making good food and high-quality London and Paris backdrops! What's not to like? But it's also the end of an era, as Padma Lakshmi has announced she's leaving the Bravo hit. While it's possible that Lakshmi's Taste the Nation on Hulu is an even better show and will now get more of her attention, I'm going to miss Lakshmi's tone-setting on Top Chef. She teased, critiqued and eviscerated with the best of them, and she had enough mystique to leave contestants tongue-tied whenever she wanted. Be sure to read Mikey O'Connell's Top Chef  oral history and to watch this season on Peacock.