Take out your syllabus for Deadly Class

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Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Wednesday, January 16. All times are Eastern.
Top pick
Deadly Class (Syfy, 10 p.m., series premiere): Hogwarts, but with knife-fans. Brakebills Academy, but with the Yakuza. Riverdale High, but Henry Rollins teaches poison class. Mean Girls, but Cady Heron’s a homeless kid who may or may not have killed a bunch of orphans by lighting a group home on fire, and Regina George is a stone-cold murderous white supremacist. You get the idea. Deadly Class will feel familiar in any number of ways, but there’s a very sharp-edged twist: Do a bildungsroman, but make it really stabby.