Papa Hemingway comes to PBS

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Monday, April 5. All times are Eastern.

Top pick

Hemingway (PBS, 8 p.m., docuseries premiere, back-to-back episodes): “When modern readers lambast the American literary canon, they’re probably complaining at least partially about Ernest Hemingway. The Hemingway clichés are easy to rattle off… To its credit, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s six-hour docuseries Hemingway doesn’t dispute much of this. The directors use the author’s own statements, letters, photographs, and other writings to verify some of our worst assumptions. As cultural conversations about whether we can separate the exemplary work of an artist from their problematic personal life resurface over and over again, Hemingway wades into that same muddy water and throws down its anchor.” Read the rest of Roxana Hadadi’s review.