FX debuts season 5 of Snowfall
Also tonight: Disney Plus revives The Proud Family, HBO’s Frederick Douglass special, and Paramount Plus’ coming-of-age dramedy Three Months with Troye Sivan

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Wednesday, February 23. All times are Eastern.
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Snowfall (FX, 10 p.m., season-five premiere): Co-created by John Singleton, Eric Amadio, and Dave Andron, this crime drama is set in 1983 Los Angeles and follows the impact of the city’s first crack epidemic. The fifth season premieres with two new episodes. In his review of the new season, Kyle Fowle writes:
“This has the setup to be the show’s best season yet. Snowfall has always been good, but the fourth season showed a little strain as it tried to squeeze some more juice out of a few tired storylines that had been losing their intrigue. Now, with season five, the show seems to be taking some steps forward—maturing, resetting some relationships, and setting up some difficult moral choices for these characters as the season rolls on. Snowfall just feels different this time around, as it shifts gears and focuses not on getting power, but how one might hold on to it when the whole landscape is changing.”