Brockmire swings for the fences, Michelle Obama gets the documentary treatment at Netflix, moms are workinâ on Netflix, and SEAL Team takes on a dangerous mission
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TV shows everywhere have been forced to get creative in the midst of this pandemic, but I’m not sure anyone saw this news coming: [The Season 7 finale of The Blacklist will be partially animated]( Work on the episode, which was not intended to be the finale, was shut down halfway through filming, so the rest of the story will be finished with what’s described as graphic novel-style animation. I don’t know if this is brilliant or insane, but it might be both. If anyone can pull it off, though, it’s probably Red Reddington. Here are tonight’s picks. -Kaitlin
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[Michelle Obama shines in new Netflix doc Becoming](
Now on Netflix
Several years ago, while she was campaigning for her husband’s second term, [Michelle Obama]( touched my hand at a rally. This particular anecdote has nothing to do with her new Netflix documentary, Becoming, which follows the former first lady on a book tour for her best-selling memoir, also titled Becoming, but it was a pretty cool experience! I imagine it might be how some of the young women in the film, who met Obama on the tour, felt too. Obviously your mileage will vary depending on your own experiences, interests, and politics, but it’s hard not to feel a little bit inspired by Obama while watching the doc. Although it’s rarely an all-access look behind the curtain and sometimes even feels like a promo video (the film comes from the Obamas' own production company, for what it’s worth), the documentary offers up some great personal moments that will hopefully empower the next generation.
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STRIKE THREE
[Brockmire walks it off](
Series finale Wednesday at 10/9c on IFC
As baseball mulls returning to the field during a major crisis, IFC's underrated comedy Brockmire is in a similar situation in its series finale. Hank Azaria's Jim Brockmire, now the commissioner of baseball, finds himself trying to save the sport in the future when its popularity is at an all-time low. We're talking Tampa Bay Rays levels of attendance for every team and games running five hours long. Brockmire has always used baseball as its backdrop of a story of a man looking for redemption, but it's always embraced the indescribable feeling of love for the game (a feeling that the vulgarly eloquent Brockmire can somehow describe) and will find a way to give the pastime its just ending. I'm going to miss this show dearly, especially Azaria's incredible cadence during a half-page rant about, well, anything. -Tim Surette
DO WE APPRECIATE CANADA ENOUGH?
[Watch Workin’ Moms as an escape from actual parenting](
Now on Netflix
Kate (series creator Catherine Reitman), Anne (Dani Kind), Frankie (Juno Rinaldi), and the rest of the gang are back for another season of brutally honest jokes about motherhood in this Canadian sleeper hit comedy. (Related: Is it just me or is Canada really killing the comedy TV scene right now? I mean, it’s not like Canadians were bereft of humor, but it feels like there have been a string of great comedy hits lately.) This season — how is this Season 4 already? — the kids are a little older, which introduces a new set of problems into the mix, like keeping them safe while simultaneously giving them a little more independence and ability to grow. And this is on top of the familiar problems of underperforming husbands and keeping a good work-life balance.
BRAVO, TEAM!
[SEAL Team closes out Season 3 in dramatic fashion](
Season 3 finale Wednesday at 10/9c on CBS
The team is put to the ultimate test when they’re sent on a dangerous assignment without their leader after getting a timely tip about a suspected terrorist leader’s location in the Season 3 finale of SEAL Team. You know what they say, terrorists wait for no man! Anyway, it’s safe to say Jason (David Boreanaz), who was escorting Mandy (Jessica Pare) to pay condolences to the family of a late informant, isn’t too happy about the circumstances once he returns, especially because the potential for an ambush looks to be quite high. Something tells me that everything will turn out OK. Unless it doesn’t. In which case… whoops?
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