What's on TV this week—This Is Us ends and Ghost In The Shell returns
Plus, one of TV's best dramas has a mid-season finale, Hulu drops a true-crime doc, an Amish exposé hits Peacock, and more
Welcome to What’s On, our weekly picks of must-watch shows. Here’s what you need to watch from Sunday, May 22 to Thursday, May 26. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekend edition of What’s On drops on Fridays.]
The biggies
Ghost In The Shell (Netflix, Monday, 3:01 a.m.)
A decade after the events of landmark anime Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Netflix’s SAC_2045 catches back up with Major Kusanagi (Mary Elizabeth McGlynn in the English dub) and her team of special-ops cyborgs (or at least they’re mostly cyborgs) as they deal with a terrorist group called N. Season two will also carry the thread of season one’s “posthumans,” a new breed of super-strong and super-intelligent cyborgs who want to break free from humanity. This batch is directed by Kenji Kamiyama, who recently worked on Disney+’s anime project Star Wars: Visions. The A.V. Club’s review will be up on the site next week. [Sam Barsanti]
This Is Us (NBC, Tuesday, 9 p.m., series finale)
This is it for This Is Us. After six seasons of the Pearson clan making audiences sob, weep, and heave—remember Jack’s (Milo Ventimiglia) big death reveal episode or Kevin (Justin Hartley) and Randall’s (Sterling K. Brown) many brotherly fights?—the show comes to an end. While the family bid Rebecca goodbye (Mandy Moore) in last week’s beautiful penultimate episode, the series finale reunites her with Jack in the afterlife and will probably catch us up on how everyone’s lives turned out. We certainly need more information on how Randall won the Senate race, right? Caroline Siede’s last recap will publish after the episode airs. In the meantime, let’s start the Emmy campaign for Moore right away.
Hidden gems
Prehistoric Planet (Apple TV+, Monday, 12:01 a.m.)