What's on TV this week—Cape Fear and Not Suitable For Work

Plus: Euphoria ends (or does it) and The Legend Of Vox Machina returns.

What's on TV this week—Cape Fear and Not Suitable For Work

Welcome to What’s On, our weekly roundup of notable shows. Here is what’s happening on TV from Sunday, May 31 to Saturday, June 6. All times are Eastern.

Euphoria (HBO and HBO Max, Sunday, 9 p.m., season finale) After that rattling penultimate episode, HBO’s polarizing drama Euphoria comes to an end. Well, maybe—HBO hasn’t actually confirmed whether or not the last episode of season three is the series’ last episode, full stop. But the supersized, 93-minute “In God We Trust” makes plenty of room to wrap up the stories of Cassie’s (Sydney Sweeney) massive debt, Rue’s (Zendaya) precarious standing with Alamo (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) and Laurie (Martha Kelly), and any other trouble that’s found the former students of East Highland High. Look out for The A.V. Club’s recap Monday morning. 

Not Suitable For Work (Hulu, Tuesday, series premiere) Mindy Kaling’s new comedy brings the multihyphenate back to the office—sort of. The Hulu series centers on five work-obsessed twentysomethings—played by Ella Hunt, Avantika, Will Angus, Jack Martin, and Nicholas Duvernay—striving for professional success and navigating personal mess in Manhattan’s Murray Hill. Kaling’s frequent collaborator Charlie Grandy (The Sex Lives Of College Girls, The Mindy Project) acts as showrunner, with a supporting cast that includes Ego Nwodim, Victor Garber, Constance Wu, Greg Germann, and Judy Gold. The first three episodes drop on Tuesday, as does The A.V. Club’s review. 

The Legend of Vox Machina (Prime Video, Wednesday, season four premiere) Amazon’s animated fantasy series has already been renewed for a fifth and final season, but before that, you can catch up with Vex (Laura Bailey), Percy (Taliesin Jaffe), Grog (Travis Willingham), Pike (Ashley Johnson), and the rest of our loveable heroes—including new castmember Wayne Brady as Critical Role fan favorite Taryon Darrington—for the show’s fourth installment, which will see the adventurous crew coming together after a year apart to face their most challenging foe yet: the Cult of the Whispered One. Season four will have a three-episode weekly rollout; read The A.V. Club’s behind-the-scenes look at the new eps on Wednesday.

Cape Fear (Apple TV, Friday, series premiere) Executive produced by Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, this Apple TV miniseries pulls from the former’s 1991 big-screen thriller, itself a remake of the 1962 Robert Mitchum-Gregory Peck face-off based on the 1957 novel The Executioners. (And if that’s not enough of a timeline for you, may we also mention the all-time great Simpsons parody, which is in turn the basis of the post-apocalyptic stage comedy Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play?) Amy Adams and Patrick Wilson star as Anna and Tom Bowden, a married pair of attorneys whose happy life is upended when Max Cady (Javier Bardem)—a vicious killer they helped put behind bars—is released from prison with revenge on the brain. Watch for The A.V. Club’s recap of the first two episodes Friday.

Also arriving

The 51st AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Eddie Murphy (Netflix, Sunday, standalone special)
Love Island USA (Peacock, Tuesday, season eight premiere)
Michael Jackson: The Verdict (Netflix, Wednesday, docuseries premiere)
NBA Finals (ABC, Wednesday, 8:30 p.m., game one)
Pillion (HBO Max, Friday, streaming premiere)

Ending soon

The Audacity (AMC, Sunday, 9 p.m., season one finale)
Below Deck Down Under (Bravo, Monday, 8 p.m., season four finale)
Your Friends & Neighbors (Apple TV, Friday, season two finale)
Pop Culture Jeopardy! (Netflix, Friday, season two finale)
Amadeus (Starz, Friday, 8 p.m., limited series finale)

 
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