What’s on TV this week—Barry returns, We Own This City and Under The Banner Of Heaven debut
Plus Gaslit and The Offer arrive, Netflix drops a Marilyn Monroe doc, and Made For Love, The Way Down, and Gentleman Jack return
Welcome to What’s On, our weekly picks of must-watch shows. Here’s what you need to watch from Sunday, April 24 to Thursday, April 28. All times are Eastern. Happy viewing. [Note: The weekend edition will drop on Fridays.]
The biggies
Barry (HBO, Sunday, 9 p.m., season three premiere):
Barry Berkman (Bill Hader), a.k.a. our favorite cold-blooded killer-turned-hopeful actor, is back as Barry returns after a three-year hiatus. To celebrate, The A.V. Club is hosting its own “Barry Week” coverage, including interviews with Hader and Henry Winkler, as well as our catch-up guide. Keep an eye out for more cast interviews next week. We’ll also provide weekly recaps of the show.
We Own This City (HBO, Monday, 9 p.m., series premiere): The Wire’s David Simon returns with yet another gritty crime drama, this one based on a nonfiction book of the same name. We Own The City charts the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force, and the corruption surrounding it. Jon Bernthal, Wunmi Mosaku, and Josh Charles lead the ensemble. In his review, Manuel Betancourt writes:
As it slowly threads its many storylines together, We Own This City paints a dire if necessary portrait of a city and a law enforcement agency. As young recruits get told they need to forget all the sensitivity training they were taught and as roughened veterans feel themselves inviolate because of their badge, the engrossing HBO series manages to structure itself like a self-aware procedural that constantly asks us to question what we think we know about how criminality is conceived by and within police departments all over the country.
Under The Banner Of Heaven (FX on Hulu, Thursday, 12:01 a.m., series premiere): It’s Andrew Garfield’s world; we’re just living in it. After the success of Tick, Tick…Boom, The Eyes Of Tammy Faye, and his return as Spider-Man in No Way Home, Garfield now stars in this true-crime drama based on Jon Krakauer’s book of the same name. Garfield plays Detective Jeb Pyre, whose faith is shaken while investigating the murder of a woman involved in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The cast includes Daisy Edgar-Jones, Wyatt Russell, and Gil Birmingham. Keep an eye out for a review on The A.V. Club next week.