What’s on TV
I MAY DESTROY YOU 10:30 p.m. on HBO. Michaela Coel, the British playwright, actress and star of the Netflix series “Chewing Gum,” is back with a new half-hour drama that explores big ideas about dating, exploitation and consent. Coel plays a popular writer named Arabella, who, during an all-night bender with friends, is drugged and assaulted. “The 12-part series alternates between big-picture stories about Arabella’s similarly sexually adventurous peers and some more subjective and disturbing sequences where she reckons with the lingering trauma of what happened to her,” Noel Murray wrote for The New York Times. He added that the series “is not always an easy show to watch, but it should be a conversation-starter.”
30 FOR 30: BE WATER 9 p.m. on ESPN and ESPN2. The latest installment of ESPN’s documentary series explores the life and career of Bruce Lee, who, before his death at the age of 32, was an accomplished martial artist, international film star and philosopher. The film, directed by Bao Nguyen, chronicles Lee’s early years, his Hollywood aspirations and the discrimination he faced as an Asian-American entertainer. The documentary focuses on the final years of Lee’s life, when he left Hollywood for Hong Kong to complete the feature-length films that would define his career, and includes interviews from his family, friends and collaborators, including his wife, Linda, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
HOLLYWOOD GAME NIGHT 7 p.m. on NBC. Jane Lynch’s celebrity-centric game show returns for a new season. Famous contestants, including Laverne Cox, Sasheer Zamata, Joel McHale and D’Arcy Carden, will head to a beach house where they’ll compete in a series of summer-themed party games for the chance to win up to $25,000. And Lynch, the host, has a few new games up her sleeve, including one called Jane’s Pool Jamz, which involves identifying a remixed song and wading through a ball pit, and What’s the Scoop, where teammates are tasked with stacking oversized ice cream scoops onto a giant cone.
What’s Streaming
THIS COUNTRY Stream on Hulu. There’s a lot that this British comedy, created by and starring siblings Charlie and Daisy May Cooper, shares with “The Office.” Instead of the tedium of corporate culture, this mockumentary-style show focuses on life in a small, uneventful English village. It also follows lovable, often self-sabotaging characters, cousins Kerry and Kurtan, who are just trying to make the best of it. Just like the town they share, not much happens in each of the episodes — one is centered entirely around an argument as to who gets to use the top shelf of the oven — but it’s the Coopers’ effortless dry wit and the colorful village characters (many of whom are played by the creators’ real-life family members and friends), that breathe life into the show. “Action isn’t the point,” David Segal wrote in an article about the series for The New York Times. “Reliably hilarious, occasionally heartbreaking, ‘This Country’ is about Kerry and Kurtan’s fumbling quest for love and approval in a world that scarcely knows they exist.”
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