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.

You've Gotta Fight, for Your Right, to [Lady] Parts, Eh?

More than three years after the first season launched on Peacock, Nida Manzoor's We Are Lady Parts  is finally back. These six new episodes, focused on the titular all-female, all-Muslim punk band, are every bit as good as the first six — possibly better if you wanted to see the ensemble fleshed out around Anjana Vasan, whose Amina was pretty clearly the initial lead. That means Vasan continues to be great, but Faith Omole, Sarah Kameela Impey and perhaps especially Juliette Motamed all get showcase moments. There's more music, bigger fantasy sequences and my favorite guest appearance by a Nobel Prize winner on a Peacock comedy since Al Gore appeared on Bubkis. Listen to this week's  TV's Top 5 podcast for Manzoor's second interview visit.

Cumberbatch Kids

After watching all six episodes of Abi Morgan's new Netflix mini Eric , I'm still not sure if I think it was good. Benedict Cumberbatch is aggressively committed to his role as a puppeteer whose grasp on sanity slips away after his son goes missing and a giant blue monster helps him seek the truth. As a cop with secrets, McKinley Belcher III might be even better. And you can't say that Morgan and director Lucy Forbes aren't taking big formal and thematic risks in this snapshot of grungy 1980s Manhattan. It's hard to look away! But I probably agree with our Angie Han's contention that the various pieces, however noble, don't really come together. 

A 'Faire' to Remember

Premiering on HBO on Sunday, Lance Oppenheim's Ren Faire feels like the rare crime-free docuseries that could be a mainstream breakout. The three-parter, about the unusually cutthroat power struggle to take over the Texas Renaissance Festival, wears its similarities to Game of Thrones, King Lear and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory  proudly and it's packed with memorable, if not always likable, characters. If you know Oppenheim's bombastic style, you'll be correct to suspect that three hours is a lot of his hyperactive aesthetic, but it still spins a twisty, nerdy yarn. If you don't know Oppenheim's style, Some Kind of Heaven is on Hoopla, Xumo Play and Kanopy, which I swear are all real streamers, while SpermWorld is on Hulu. 

'Fire' Stream With Me

When we made our list of The 50 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century (So Far), AMC's Halt and Catch Fire  came in at No.17. Rewatching Christopher Cantrell and Christopher C. Rogers' computer-age drama ahead of the 10th anniversary of its premiere (this weekend), I'm fairly confident it should have been higher. It's one of the great cumulative dramas of our time, a steadily building assemblage of its characters' mistakes, advancements and personal evolutions that packs an emotional punch beyond that of its already superlative individual pieces. Overshadowed by more instantly embraced prestige TV classics, Halt  should have been a regular Emmy nominee for its impeccable direction — pay special attention to the four Karyn Kusama episodes — and it's a true embarrassment for the Academy voters that Mackenzie Davis, Kerry Bishé and Toby Huss weren't nominated multiple times each. AMC+ has the entire series, while the first season is on Roku Channel. Oh, and don't listen to the naysayers who say that the show only got good after that first season. Yes, there's a lot of information to process initially, but the first season is fantastic.

Puppetry of the Genius

Even if Oppenheim's style exhausts you, one thing you can't say is that he makes middle-of-the-road, voiceless documentaries. And if that's what you want — and I can't emphasize this enough: middle-of-the-road, voiceless documentaries can be quite decent — nobody is taking them away from you. Disney+'s latest personality-driven commercial is Ron Howard's Jim Henson Idea Man, which takes a satisfyingly shallow dive into the life of a genius who deserved depth. Over on Max, you can watch Muta'Ali's HBO doc  MoviePass, MovieCrash, a nostalgic riff on a beloved disaster. It isn't thrilling filmmaking, but when the director turns his eye to the racism at the heart of venture capitalism, the documentary finds a real edge.

Honoring Richard Sherman and Bill Walton

Richard Sherman, who collaborated with his brother Robert to craft the sound of the Disney musical, died last weekend at 95. Fittingly, many of the films enhanced by the Shermans are available on Disney+, with Mary Poppins first among equals, while Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is streaming on Max. To remember the great Bill Walton (pictured), who died on Monday at 71, simply head over to ESPN+ to watch Steve James'  30 for 30 multi-parter  The Luckiest Guy in the World, which gives the legendary basketball player, Grateful Dead fan, Conference of Champions enthusiast and play-by-play wizard his due.