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.

Happy New Year's Eve!

What are your celebratory programming options? Well, ABC has its usual Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2024 spectacular, featuring Post Malone, K-Pop favorites NewJeans and, in what I'm told is not a comeback, LL Cool J. CNN, as usual, has Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen doing their thing, whatever that is. CBS goes with New Year's Eve Live: Nashville's Big Bash, featuring Old Dominion, Elle King and many, many more. Programming Note: Because of Sunday Night Football, NBC is taking a year off from celebrating with Miley Cyrus, so maybe we'll just skip celebrating as well. And you can always watch When Harry Met Sally on the USA app or Fubo, or read  The Hollywood Reporter's Best Stories of 2023 by a roaring fire.

Pitter Patter into 2024

The batch of six episodes that represented the 12th and final season of Hulu's comedy Letterkenny  dropped this week and contained all of the fast-talking, catchphrase-spewing, enthusiastically objectifying Canadian-infused comedy that devoted fans have come to expect. I was surprised, though, by how FINAL the final season felt. Not because the hicks, skids and degens died in the end, but because Jared Keeso, Jacob Tierney and company dedicated an impressive amount of full-circle fan service, looking back at the show's humble origins and simple early premise — Keeso's Wayne and his position as "the toughest guy in Letterkenny" — as a way of suggesting that these delightfully regressive characters have actually grown a tiny bit over the years. As a result, as silly as these last episodes were — who expected an exhaustive callback to Fartbook? — the send-off for Wayne, Dary, Squirrelly Dan, Katy and the rest was impressively sweet as well. From back in season nine, here are just a few of the things I appreciates most about Letterkenny.

Y2K Shrug

Given the aggressiveness of TV's pandering to '90s nostalgia, I'd actually been surprised at the lack of a definitive multipart documentary series about the Y2K Bug and the surrounding pre-millennial panic. There's still room for that multipart exploration, because Brian Becker and Marley McDonald's Time Bomb Y2K  deals with the international freakout in a brisk 80-minutes and, thanks to its exclusive reliance on primary-source film and television coverage from the time — no talking heads or voiceover — it inherently has some limitations in depth and analysis. It's more like "Hey, remember THAT?!?" nostalgia than anything that would help a Gen Z viewer truly understand if this weird thing that happened made any sense at all. What the documentary does with a sometimes poignant and sometimes hilarious sense of dramatic irony is capture many of the hopes and fears of the first decade of online connectivity, illustrating how the Y2K bug offered countless opportunities to learn lessons that, 24 years later, we're still blundering. The doc premieres Saturday on HBO and will subsequently be available on Max.

Twinning Time

Warning: Netflix's You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment, premiering on New Year's Day for resolution-based reasons, is just a dieting reality show. I had hoped — nay, I had eagerly assumed — that it was a series about people who devoured their twins in the womb. Boo. If you're looking to start the year with a movie or TV show about parasitic twins, George Romero's The Dark Half, featuring a really great Timothy Hutton performance, is available on Amazon and Tubi, James Wan's Malignant (pictured) is on Max and Full House is available on Hulu.

White Lokix

How slow a week for new programming was this? I watched a bunch of Netflix's stop-motion animated Pokémon Concierge. Now is Pokémon Concierge "good" in the same way as Angie Han and my Top 10 TV Shows of 2023 ? No! But it's generally cute, full of encouraging life lessons and if the thought "It's so cute the way that Bellsprout and Hoppip are riding around on a Dragonite!" amuses you? Aces. Best of all, the premise — workaholic stress-bomb Haru leaves her urban life to recharge as a concierge at a resort that caters to Pokémon and people alike — sounds like an awesome premise for White Lotus season three. So if you watch Pokémon Concierge  imagining Jennifer Coolidge is doing nasty things with Pansage, Panpour and Pansear around every corner, it's a winner. Plus, a small coffin is introduced early in the pilot. Which Pokémon will be dead by the finale and who killed them? I'm betting Eevee and Psyduck, respectively.

Honoring Tom Smothers

This is a TV newsletter, so I'd be wildly remiss in not noting the passing on Tuesday of Tom Smothers who, with brother Dick, developed a comic voice that was simultaneously hilarious and wildly revolutionary. It's here that I would normally tell you to check out episodes of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, which ran on CBS from 1967 to 1969 and showcased comedy-variety programming at its finest, drew guest appearances by some of the biggest musical acts of the period and was abruptly canceled by CBS after years of head-butting and controversy. However,  The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour isn't currently streaming anywhere, either the full series or select episodes. If you believe that the streaming giants have a responsibility to honor and platform the medium's history, this is a horrible abdication of that responsibility. If you don't, you probably weren't looking for ways to honor Tommy Smothers this weekend anyway.