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Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Friday, February 7, and Saturday, February 8. All times are Eastern.
Top picks
Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet (Apple TV+, Friday, 3:01 a.m., complete first season): “It’s to the credit of Apple TV+’s new half-hour comedy series, Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet—sharing its name with the multiplayer medieval role-playing game its protagonists spend most of their lives toiling to create—that it doesn’t just take the modern gaming landscaping as its setting; it’s also the major topic on its blood-soaked plate. Streaming culture, toxic masculinity, the evils of crunch, rampant sexism, Nazis, micro-transactions, doxxing, and the tendency of human beings to draw a digital phallus with whatever tools come to hand… it’s all in service of a story about the push and pull of the creative process, which wobbles back and forth between surprisingly affecting, and fodder for frequently funny, if occasionally lazy, jokes.” Read the rest of William Hughes’s pre-air review.
High Maintenance (HBO, Friday, 11 p.m., fourth-season premiere): “Since High Maintenance first premiered as a modest webseries in 2012, a lot has changed. The show’s DIY success led to Vimeo funding new original episodes on its platform, which paved the way for an HBO acquisition. Formerly married co-creators Ben Sinclair and Katja Blichfeld… have fine-tuned a brand of grounded, casually diverse character-driven storytelling that maintains a remarkably humble tone. At its best, High Maintenance’s style of ever-expanding humanism makes room for everyone to be the center of the narrative.” Read the rest of Vikram Murthi’s pre-air review.
Locke & Key (Netflix, Friday, 3:01 a.m., complete first season): “This is one horror fantasy that is inclusive of all ages, grappling with the dark, developmental struggles of addiction as well as the isolation that comes from a group of people protecting a child.” Read the rest of Joelle Monique’s pre-air review later today.
Regular coverage
Saturday Night Live (NBC, Saturday, 11:29 p.m.): host RuPaul Charles, musical guest Justin Bieber