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.

Diphthong Song

I don't love anything in my life as much as George R.R. Martin loves characters with virtually interchangeable, diphthong-dominated names. Well, Rhaenyra, Rhaenys, Rhaena, Daemon, Aegon, Aemond, Baela, Helaena and the rest are back, nearly two years after the first House of the Dragon  season ended on HBO. If you can't identify all those characters — seriously, they're all main characters, not a deep cut among them — perhaps you want to rewatch at least the season one finale ahead of Sunday's HBO season premiere. I found the catching-up process in the premiere a bit arduous, but once the season settles in, it's a fairly satisfying mixture of backstabbing, dragon-fighting, wholly inappropriate sexual relationships, ill-conceived revenge plots — basically all the stuff you look for in a visit to Westeros.

Hannah From Heaven

Thinking back on how initially tentative Hannah Einbinder felt as the co-lead on Hacks (only for like four episodes), it's so gratifying to see how she has evolved, over three seasons, into a vibrant and full equal to the great Jean Smart. It's nearly as fun to see that expanded confidence extend into her Max comedy special, Hannah Einbinder: Everything Must Go . Although a run of jokes relates to her time as a competitive cheerleader, the special feels a bit like a theater kid experimenting with standup. In a good way! She does voices and characters. She acknowledges the camera in cheeky, meta ways. She offers lots of trivia about trees. She even sings in Hebrew. This isn't the most laughter-filled special you'll watch, but Einbinder's knowing playfulness kept me smiling for 55 minutes.

Ride It, My Tonys

One year ago, the Tony Awards were an intriguing test case on what an award show could look like during a writers strike (pretty darned entertaining). Sunday night's 77th Tony Awards are closer to business as usual, complete with Ariana DeBose returning for her third stint as host of the CBS/Paramount+ telecast. Expect performances from recent revivals of Cabaret, Merrily We Roll Along and The Who's Tommy, as well as an assortment of other shows that you probably haven't seen. 

'Boys' in the Bad

I've never been the biggest fan of Amazon's The Boys, but I never disliked the show as much as I disliked the current fourth season, which is so brashly on-the-nose in every way that it makes earlier seasons look Jarmuschian in terms of subtlety. The writers have taken to cutting and pasting real-world snippets of alt-right stupidity instead of attempting to craft satire, concentrating instead on making sure that MAGA-skewing fans know that they're the show's villains. A tonally ruinous massacre at a bat mitzvah in the second episode was the moment I went from ambivalent to outright antipathetic toward The Boys, but I watched six more episodes to see if it found its footing. It did not. I discussed in more detail on this week's  TV's Top 5 podcast, but for a more positive spin on the show, check out series creator Eric Kripke's interview with THR's Mikey O'Connell.

Able 'Vice' 

When news broke last week that Max wasn't moving forward on a third season of Tokyo Vice , I just happened to be partway through a catchup on the second season, which I completed… just because. If you've had reservations about jumping into a possibly truncated series, I can tell you that the season two finale resolves the narrative, and you won't feel like you've been left hanging. I never really warmed to Ansel Elgort's presence as our point-of-entry character, but there were so many storylines that evolved in complicated and fully distinctive ways. I would gladly watch more of Ken Watanabe as The Last Good Cop in Tokyo or Rinko Kikuchi, whose Emi was only beginning to find her voice and personality when the series ended. I know the series was based on Jake Adelstein's book, but I wish Rachel Keller's Samantha had actually been the Western gateway into this world. Mostly, though, the series itself seemed to realize by the end that Sho Kasamatsu was the breakout and that it should have been Sato's story all along.

The Pack… And How to Get It

Andrew McCarthy may not be the first member of the Brat Pack, the beloved and maligned clique of '80s Young Hollywood, to come to mind, but his new Hulu documentary Brats is earning sturdy reviews from the likes of our Angie Han, who praises its "smart, reflective" approach. After you've watched the doc and read Mia Galuppo's great interview with McCarthy , check out some Brat Pack favorites. Hulu's got an assortment lined up, including St. Elmo's Fire  and About Last Night, as well as Fresh Horses, Weird Science and Taps. Netflix has The Breakfast Club. Paramount+ is one of several sources for Pretty in Pink.