One of TVâs most adorable series fights off the production stoppage with an animated special, PBS looks at what went wrong with Americaâs coronavirus response, and USAâs guilty pleasure returns for more murder.
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In case you missed the news the other day, HBO finally realized that its streaming services are confusing the heck out of everyone, and is undergoing a major branding facelift. First, HBO Go is no more. HBO’s first streaming service has been Circle of Life’d with the birth of [HBO Max, WarnerMedia’s comprehensive streaming service](. HBO also announced that HBO Now, HBO’s other streaming service, will now be referred to simply as HBO. For many of you with HBO Now, the app automatically updated to become HBO Max, so you’re all set. But if you subscribe to HBO through a third-party add-on like Amazon or Hulu, then you don’t get HBO Max and are really just stuck with a version of HBO Now, which is now HBO. But since HBO Max costs the same ($14.99) as HBO, HBO Go, and HBO Now, everyone should just move over to HBO Max because it’s the same thing as HBO but with double the content. Thanks, HBO, that’s much less confusing. ([CNET has the total HBO breakdown](. TL;DR is just sign up for HBO Max directly through HBO since it costs the same.) Here are tonight’s TV picks. –Tim
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[One Day at a Time](
[One Day at a Time gets animated](
Tuesday at 9/8c on POP, TV Land
When the coronavirus pandemic hit and production was shut down, shows were forced to adapt. One Day at a Time was one of those shows, and the result is [this week's highly anticipated animated special]( featuring guest appearances from Gloria Estefan, Melissa Fumero, and Lin-Manuel Miranda. Unlike The Blacklist, which featured a half-animated season finale last month — and which looked about as good as you'd expect for being turned around in a short timeframe — One Day at a Time took its, um, time, with its animation, and you can tell. As for the story itself, the episode centers around an upcoming visit from Penelope's ([Justina Machado]( conservative cousin Estrellita (Fumero), Tia Mirtha (Estefan), and Tio Juanito (Miranda), which quickly turns into disagreements over politics.
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MID-LIFE CRISIS
[F Is for Family](
[F Is for Family is your funny, profane Father’s Day study guide](
Season 4 now on Netflix
Not many shows get the plight — self-imposed or not — of the burdened Midwestern father figure like Bill Burr’s adult animated series F Is for Family. Burr bottles up a lifetime of anger and smashes it open against a wall as Frank Murphy, a man who, like most of us, had dreams as a young man that were crushed by the reality of joining the military, starting a family, and crawling out from under crippling debt (which is wonderfully laid out in [one of the best sub-minute animated series opening credits in recent memory](. The 1970s-set series was inspired by Burr’s own father, and is as insightful and touching as it is profane (let’s just say F is for a whole lot more than Family). In Season 4, Frank confronts his own difficult upbringing when his father comes to stay with the family, which begs the question of how much sons become their fathers. If you’re beyond 40 and wondering what the heck happened, this can be therapeutic.
STILL THE FIRST WAVE
[Frontline](
[For real, The Virus: What Went Wrong?](
Tuesday at 9:30/8:30c on PBS
As the country continues to move forward with reopening while the coronavirus shrugs its shoulders and asks, “Are you sure about that?” we’re all asking ourselves, “WTF?” We’re also wondering what went wrong with America’s response to the coronavirus. PBS’s stalwart news program Frontline breaks down every misstep the government took as we stare down a spike in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths from the coronavirus in the name of economic welfare and a healthy stock market. Since most of us have been glued to pandemic news, What Went Wrong? might not offer up too much new information, but as a summary of the Trump administration’s mess, it will get your blood boiling.
PEET THIS
[Dirty John](
[It’s a Dirty John, but somebody’s gotta watch it](
Tuesday at 10/9c on USA
One of the most surprisingly fun debuts of last year was the first season of the true crime anthology [Dirty John]( which starred [Connie Britton]( as a victim of a con man played by [Eric Bana](. It teetered on the tightrope between sensationalism and terror, like if a Lifetime movie had a baby with a critically acclaimed true crime documentary, and somehow it worked. [That slippery tone continues in Season 2]( which stars [Amanda Peet]( fresh off a fantastic run on Brockmire, as Betty Broderick, a housewife who [spoiler] murders her ex-husband ([Christian Slater]( and his wife ([Rachel Keller]( in 1989. The ['80s backdrop adds a welcome contrasting tone to the brutality of the murders]( and the story does its best to explain how Broderick got to the point of committing murder on her philandering husband, without fully defending it. It's also one of Peet's best performances. Season 2 is already a few weeks in, but it’s the kind of show that’s easy to catch up on.
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