A zombie movie with a cool twist makes a surprise drop, an HBO movie with an all-star cast boasts a greedy Hugh Jackman, and one man goes to great lengths to find out who let the dogs out.
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The lack of sports right now has people doing some strange things. The biggest sports thing right now [is a TV docuseries]( the NFL draft was done over webcams, legal bookies are offering bets on video game simulations of football, and sports-centric cable channels are an endless stream of games we already know the final score of. While major sports leagues mull their returns — can baseball really return in June? — attending a game may never be the same. (As a silver lining, maybe this will finally be the end of dopes doing the Wave.) It’s another fascinating topic brought up by the coronavirus pandemic, and tonight, a special edition of Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (10/9c, HBO) discusses it from all sorts of angles. I’ll be watching. Anything to get some clarity on when my beloved Oakland A’s return to the field. At this point, I’d even watch the Orioles. Here are tonight’s TV picks. –Tim
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[The Last Kingdom](
[The Last Kingdom will cut through your boredom](
Season 4 now on Netflix
The next chapter in the show that's most likely to appear on "If You Liked Game of Thrones, Then Watch This" and "If You Liked Vikings, Then Watch This" lists continues the story of Uhtred of Bebbanburg, a warrior who was born a Saxon but raised as a Dane when the two groups were at war. It is very much in line with Vikings, with 9th Century dudes with Bryce Harper haircuts hacking each other to pieces and a surprisingly great story of family, politics, and war.
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SCHOOL’S OUT FOREVER
[Bad Education](
[Bad Education, good performances in this HBO movie](
Now on HBO
Huge, jacked man [Hugh Jackman]( stars in this HBO film about a school superintendent whose scam to embezzle money from the school system's fund gets exposed by a student. It's based on a true story that unfolded in Long Island in the early 2000s, and written by Mike Makowsky, who was a student at one of the affected schools at the time. You're going to see some great performances from Jackman and [Allison Janney]( who plays his second-in-command and coconspirator, as they pull off being beloved members of the community who hold a dark secret that slowly gets exposed in this darkly comedic and dramatic movie.
NIGHT OF THE LIVING WASI’CHU
[Blood Quantum](
[Blood Quantum is the zombie you didn’t know you needed](
Now on Shudder (which is [offering a free trial](
Blood Quantum is the zombie movie you didn’t know you needed to watch tonight, mostly because you didn’t know it would be available tonight. Shudder tried something fun with a surprise drop of the film, which was part of TIFF’s Midnight Madness program and had its theatrical release canceled because of the pandemic, announcing its availability on-demand as it became available instead of hyping it up for weeks in advance. The moody zombie flick was directed by First Nations director Jeff Barnaby and is set during a zombie outbreak in Canada, where members of the isolated Red Crow reservation are immune to the plague causing the dead to rise. In addition to being scarily relevant right now, it’s a sly flip on the bleak history of colonials infecting Native Americans with disease, making it more important than your typical horror movie. It’s socially aware, filled with gore, and features zombie salmon. Shudder is [offering a free 30-day trial right now]( so sign up for some great niche horror.
WOOF, WOOF, WOOF, WOOF
[Who Let the Dogs Out?](
[Seriously, Who Let the Dogs Out?](
Now on Hulu
In the year 2000, pop music unleashed the plague known as “Who Let the Dogs Out?”, a Bahamian party song by the Baha Men that was inescapable. But identifying the origin of the song — essentially that earworm hook that is about to be in your head for the rest of the day — is a bottomless hole that 40-year-old-with-nothing-else-to-do Ben Sisto has spent years exploring. Several songwriters claim to have written the song, from mixtape masters in the Northeast United States to two teenaged mulleted rappers from Jacksonville in the early ‘90s, and the battle has spurred lawsuits and boasts. Sisto’s investigation is presented from his touring one-man show and new in-person interviews shot for the film itself, turning what should be a silly documentary about a really stupid song into a musical mystery. Copyright issues, moldy floppy discs, and sports stadiums all become evidence in this wild film that somehow never lets up over its 60 minute runtime. It’s an easy way to spend an hour, just be prepared to hear several different versions of the chorus over and over and over again.
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