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.

Who Let the 'Dogs' In?

The nominations for the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards were announced on Wednesday, and since I'm a single issue voter (who doesn't have a vote), I was able to celebrate FX/Hulu's Reservation Dogs finally earning an outstanding comedy series nomination for its final season (along with a well-earned nod for D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai as lead actor). Should it have had more nominations? Yes! But… Yay for the big nod. The Emmys will air on Sunday, September 15, on ABC and you have a while to catch up on key nominees, starting with FX's Shōgun on Hulu. The James Clavell adaptation earned 25 nominations, just topping FX/Hulu's The Bear with 23. Remember that these nominations were for the second season of The Bear, not the more divisive third season. Then work your way through  Only Murders in the Building (Hulu),  True Detective: Night Country (Max) and The Crown (Netflix). I'll be back in a few weeks with a few additional likely winners you can check off your list.

Zero Worship

Or maybe you're anti-Emmy? I mean, who can blame you? The Wire, Halt and Catch Fire and Rectify combined to win zero. Speaking of "zero," here are 10 shows that received zero Emmy nominations this year, all of which are better than Palm Royale, which received 11. So check out Colin From Accounts on Paramount+,  The Curse on Paramount+ (maybe it would have done better if it hadn't been miscategorized as a drama), Dark Winds on AMC+ (Zahn McClarnon was especially hosed), Extraordinary on Hulu, For All Mankind (even in a down season) on Apple TV+, God Save Texas on Max,  I'm a Virgo  on Amazon, Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show on Max, Killing It on Peacock and We Are Lady Parts on Peacock. 

Bane Capital

The first season of Max's Kite Man: Hell Yeah! is, at least for a while, a bit of a disappointment, which is mostly because Harley Quinn has been such a consistently delightful adult animation treasure. Kite Man (Matt Oberg) and Golden Glider (Stephanie Hsu) are a sweet main couple, but they aren't Harley and Ivy, plus the season's MacGuffin-y main plotline isn't great. But the second half of the season shows improvement, especially the ongoing arc with James Adomian's Bane, who has gone from a tertiary character at the start of Harley Quinn  to nearly a co-lead here without losing the insecure bluster that makes him so hilarious and quotable. Other vocal highlights include Keith David as Darkseid (who comes with his own consistently amusing chorus), Natasia Demetriou's ultra-droll Malice and the late, great Lance Reddick as Lex Luthor. 

The Thin Redzepi Line

The show I'm looking forward to watching this weekend is Apple TV+'s Omnivore, a food docuseries featuring The Bear guest star René Redzepi. Our Angie Han called it "a fascinating and frequently mouthwatering appreciation of the humanity embedded in every grain of rice or slice of ham." I watched all of Apple's adaptation of Laura Lippman's Lady in the Lake , a messy but ambitious mystery featuring fine central work from Natalie Portman and Moses Ingram. Less worth your time is Peacock's Those About to Die, a gladiatorial epic from Robert Rodat and Roland Emmerich that's ludicrous, but not ludicrous enough. Oh, and don't buy Peacock's bait-and-switch that the series stars Anthony Hopkins. It really doesn't.

Honoring Bob Newhart

Bob Newhart, who died this week at 94, was often described as an Everyman, but he was an Everyman like no other, a master of precise comic timing and perhaps the funniest "reaction" comic ever. You can settle in and marvel at Newhart's trademark deadpan stammer on display in the beloved sitcom Newhart, streaming on Amazon. The Bob Newhart  show, unfortunately, isn't streaming anywhere at the moment. The Big Bang Theory, which earned Newhart his only Emmy win, plus a pair of additional nominations, is on Max.

Honoring Shannen Doherty

I only interviewed Shannen Doherty once, for Fox's short-lived North Shore. I had a weird coughing fit that forced me to very abruptly stop the conversation midway. She couldn't have been sweeter about rescheduling. All I'm saying is that I never bought any of the negative buzz about the Beverly Hills, 90210 star, who was generally fierce, funny and left us too soon at 53. Doherty's full run as Minnesota good girl turned love triangle victim Brenda Walsh on 90210 is available on Paramount+, while her fine feature work in Heathers  (Amazon, Starz OnDemand, Tubi and more) and Mallrats (Starz OnDemand) is always worth checking out as well. If that's not enough, TNT is doing a Charmed marathon this weekend featuring 25 episodes focused on Doherty's Prue, including two episodes she directed (or curate your own Charmed marathon on Amazon, Peacock or PlutoTV).