What’s on TV
30 FOR 30: LONG GONE SUMMER 9 p.m. on ESPN. During the summer of 1998, many sports fans seemed to be captivated by one single story — the chase between the St. Louis Cardinals’ Mark McGwire and the Chicago Cubs’ Sammy Sosa to beat Roger Maris’s record of 61 home runs in a single season. In this documentary, Sosa and McGwire take viewers back to the high-drama slugfest. The film also explores how the revelations of steroid use in the league would later call the accomplishments of the sport — and that season — into question.
I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE 9 p.m. on HBO. Over six episodes, this limited series starring Mark Ruffalo and based on the novel by Wally Lamb charts generations of family trauma, which include abuse, mental illness, the exploitation of immigrants, as well as SIDS, H.I.V., racism, sexism and murder. It’s a heavy show, one centered around the twins Dominick and Thomas Birdsey, working through their family’s past. In the finale, Dominick works to secure a hopeful future and break what he believes is a family curse.
QUIZ 9 p.m. on AMC. After winning big in the hot seat on the British version of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?,” Charles Ingram (Matthew Macfadyen) and his wife, Diana (Sian Clifford), find themselves in a different hot seat, answering rounds of questions from the police after they’re accused of cheating. The third and final episode of “Quiz” dramatizes the real-life events that land the couple and another contestant with suspended jail sentences after being found guilty of cheating — or coughing — their way to 1 million pounds. But although the limited series provides a conclusion to the scandal that captivated Britain in the early 2000s, the episodes’ ambiguity gives the audience (as the jury) the opportunity to decide the Ingrams’ guilt. As Mike Hale wrote in his review for The New York Times, “Guilt and innocence slide around each other from one moment to the next.”
What’s Streaming
MARCELLA Stream on Netflix. When audiences last saw Marcella Backland, the detective at the center of this drama series who experiences periodic blackouts, it seemed as if she was walking away from police work for good. She had just made a disturbing discovery about the death of her infant daughter, and, confronted with the painful truth, alters her appearance and takes refuge on the street. But days later, an officer approaches her, informing her that her DNA was found at the scene of a fire, and she was believed to be dead. “The department I work for could use a dead police officer to go undercover,” he says. “What do you say?” Season 3 will see Marcella sent back into the fray with a new identity, allowing her to embed with an infamous crime family. But as she investigates the syndicate’s alleged drug and human trafficking violations, the lines between her new identity and her past start to blur.
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