What’s Streaming
LOVE LIFE Stream on HBO Max. In-person dating is on a hiatus. Why not live vicariously? One the first offerings from HBO’s new streaming service, the romantic comedy series “Love Life” stars Anna Kendrick as Darby, a New Yorker who navigates the highs (laughs and kisses) and lows (running into a former lover while wearing Crocs) of a search for lasting romance. The series, created by Sam Boyd (“In a Relationship”), focuses on a different character each season — so chances are good that Darby’s journey will reach a solid conclusion.
HELLO, DOLLY! (1969) Stream on Disney Plus; rent on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube. For romance with more singing, dancing and Barbra Streisand, see this extravagant film adaptation of the Broadway classic “Hello, Dolly!” Streisand plays the title character, a late 19th-century New York matchmaker who gets in a love tangle. When the movie debuted in 1969, Vincent Canby wrote in a review for The New York Times that casting Streisand in the film was “rather like trying to display Yellowstone National Park in a one-geyser forest preserve.” “It doesn’t really work," he wrote, “but most people probably couldn’t care less.”
JEFFREY EPSTEIN: FILTHY RICH Stream on Netflix. When the financier Jeffrey Epstein killed himself last year, he shattered the possibility that the women who had accused him of sexual abuse would ever see him face a full reckoning. Some of those women are at the center of this new, four-part documentary, which is based on a nonfiction book by James Patterson and John Connolly and is built around firsthand accounts of Epstein’s behavior.
COME TO DADDY (2020) Stream on Amazon; rent on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube. “I’m not a murderer,” Norval Greenwood (Elijah Wood) says late in this comedic thriller. “You just killed somebody literally five minutes ago,” a companion replies. The debut feature from the New Zealand director Ant Timpson, “Come to Daddy” follows the wealthy Norval, a mustachioed musician from Los Angeles, on a journey to reunite with his estranged father, who lives in a secluded shore-side home. Things turn violent — and as the body count builds, so does the absurdity level. “Enjoyable performances from Wood and Martin Donovan (whose character prefers to remain unidentified) hold the film to its redemptive goals, even as it descends into what can only be described as bloody bedlam,” Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in her review for The Times. She called the film “absurd yet bold, lurid yet a tiny bit touching.”
What’s on TV
AMERICAN SOUL 10 p.m. on BET. The first season of this drama about the “Soul Train” creator and host Don Cornelius was set in the early 1970s, around the time that “Soul Train” premiered. The second season, which debuts Wednesday night, jumps to 1975, with Cornelius (Sinqua Walls) navigating rising fame, worsening health and more behind-the-disco-ball drama.
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