ESPNâs MJ doc arrives on streaming, Netflix debuts an intimate documentary about a military family, Hulu reveals what Lin-Manuel Miranda was like before he became Lin-Manuel Miranda, and TNTâs popular period murder mystery returns for more murder and mystery.
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[This is not a drill: The Last Dance is streaming](
Sunday on Netflix
ESPN's [sensational documentary]( about the Chicago Bulls' 1997-98 season comes to Netflix, a few months after it served as the only entertainment for pandemic-depressed NBA fans after sports got canceled. If you missed it then, you can catch it now. Or if you watched it then, you can watch it again and bask in Jordan's megalomaniacal glory. The 10-episode docuseries gives an in-depth history of Michael Jordan's basketball career with the Bulls, built around the occasion of the Bulls' second three-peat and final championship season, which they knew going in would be the last year Jordan, disgruntled second-best player Scottie Pippen, enigmatic coach Phil Jackson, eccentric defensive specialist Dennis Rodman, and the rest of the squad would be together. It's imperfect, mostly due to being filtered through Jordan's (an uncredited executive producer) self-serving and proudly petty perspective, but it's still an illuminating and entertaining portrait of greatness, and an unmissable trip down memory lane for basketball fans. -Liam Mathews
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[Father Soldier Son is an intimate family portrait you don’t want to miss](
Now on Netflix
This documentary from the New York Times follows a military family over 10 years, starting when a single father of two boys heads to Afghanistan for a yearlong deployment, and following up years later after a life-changing injury sends him back home. It's an intimate look at how war doesn't just affect the soldier in it, but the generations that follow. Told from the points-of-view of both the father and his children, Father Soldier Son looks to be one of the most emotional watches of the year. –Tim Surette
HIP-HOP ANONYMOUS
[We Are Freestyle Love Supreme is kind of like a superhero’s origin story](
Now on Hulu
Before he was Lin-Manuel Miranda, the man behind Hamilton and the winner of Tonys, Emmys, Grammys, and a Pulitzer Prize — heck, before he was the guy known for In the Heights — he was just Lin-Manuel Miranda, member of Freestyle Love Supreme, a hip-hop improv group that also included talented director Thomas Kail and performers Christopher Jackson and Anthony Veneziale. This documentary, from director Andrew Fried, chronicles a journey that began in 2005, when Fried captured the early beatbox beginnings of the group, and it all leads up to the reunion performance that took place in New York in 2019.
SADLY NOT A DARK ANGEL REVIVAL
[The Alienist returns for a second season of murder and deceit](
Season premiere Sunday at 9/8c on TNT
TNT’s late 1800s-set murder mystery The Alienist is back to fulfill all your period drama murder mystery needs, of which there are many. In the new season, subtitled Angel of Darkness and based on Caleb Carr’s follow-up novel to The Alienist, Sara (Dakota Fanning) has now opened her own private detective agency, as all the cool women do, and she reteams with Daniel Brühl’s Dr. Kreizler and Luke Evans’ John Moore, who is now a reporter for The New York Times, to find the kidnapped infant daughter of the Spanish Consular. Their investigation takes them down a sinister path while also digging into a number of issues of the era, including institutional corruption, inequality, and the role of women in society. Man, thank god they solved all those issues back then and we don’t have to worry about them now.
HOT VICAR 2.0 IS STILL HOT
[Grantchester reaches a turning point in the season finale](
Season 5 finale Sunday at 9/8c on PBS
The season finale of Grantchester finds Will (Tom Brittney), who is still struggling with his mother’s decision to marry St. John, and Geordie (Robson Green) investigating the murder of a woman who’d gone missing several years earlier. It turns out she'd become a nun, but the case becomes more complicated when her fellow sisters don't seem terribly concerned she’s dead, and worse still when it seems something isn’t quite right at the convent. Meanwhile, Leonard’s (Al Weaver) father, with whom he has a strained relationship, comes to visit and secrets are revealed, potentially changing things forever.
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