Patriot puts the world’s fate into the hands of an unlikely figure

Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Friday, February 24 and Saturday, February 25. All times are Eastern.
Top picks
Patriot (Amazon, 3:01 a.m., Friday): Michael Dorman stars as an unlikely, ambivalent intelligence officer tasked with preventing a nuclear war with Iran in the premiere of this darkly comic spy series. Backed up by all-star glowerers Terry O’Quinn, Mark Boone Jr., and Kurtwood Smith, Dorman’s spooked spook has to hold down an unglamorous, legit job as a sewer pipe salesman in order to keep up his overseas cover, all the while engaging in some unexpectedly bloody heroics.
I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore (Netflix, 3:01 a.m., Friday): After winning Sundance’s coveted Grand Jury Prize at this year’s festival, this darkly violent comedy thriller from first-time director Macon Blair debuts on Netflix, which isn’t the letdown it used to be. Starring the always-great Melanie Lynskey as a nurse whose “people are all assholes” mind-set sends her on an ineptly bloody quest for revenge against the assholes who break into her house. Blair, who’s starred in the similarly toned films of director Jeremy Saulnier (Blue Ruin, Green Room), teams Lynskey with Elijah Wood (as an obnoxiously helpful neighbor), and aims to make you squirm while you laugh. Our own A.A. Dowd says Blair’s got a way to go to equal Saulnier’s assured virtuosity, but that Lynskey and Wood bring some heft to the intermittently grisly proceedings.
Curling Night In America (NBCSN, 7 p.m., Friday): Oh, you’re getting two full hours of curling, America. Have no goddamned fear about that.
Media (TV One, 8 p.m., Saturday): In this TV movie, a high-powered African-American family fights for control over Jones Universal Media Properties (a.k.a. JUMP), “the world’s premier urban media conglomerate.” Penny Johnson Jerald stars as the head of the company, with the likes of Michael Jones, Gary Dourdan, Stephen Bishop, Chrystee Pharris, and Finesse Mitchell all fighting for a piece of the empire (that in no way looks at all like Empire).
Infidelity In Suburbia (Lifetime, Saturday, 8 p.m.): From Lifetime’s press release: “With her husband away at work… restless days… irresistibly hot private contractor… forbidden… wracked with guilt… deeper and darker… secret room… the object of his desire… and his rage.” Boom. Done.
Premieres and finales
Legend Quest (Netflix, 3:01 a.m., Friday): Netflix brings us this Mexican animated series about a teenager who can communicate with the dead. He uses it to fight mythical monsters like Quetzalcoatl alongside his wacky sidekicks, while sneaking some cultural lessons on you.
Ultimate Beastmaster (Netflix, 3:01 a.m., Friday): Sylvester Stallone is one of the producers of this worldwide endurance contest where exceptionally fit types from the four corners of the globe attempt to grunt and sweat their way through a dragon-shaped obstacle course called “The Beast.” Hence “Beastmaster.” Which means that Marc Singer is in no way involved. John Amos either. Hard pass.