What’s Streaming
POSE Stream on Netflix. “I’ve been to three funerals this week, three,” Pray Tell (Billy Porter) says at the start of the second season of this drama series. “Where’s the cure?” It’s 1990, and the AIDS crisis is devastating New York City’s ball scene as pieces of ballroom culture — the kaleidoscopic tissue connecting the show’s many characters — are beginning to go mainstream. That’s the setup of the Season 2, which is newly available on Netflix. Like the first season, the second was lauded by critics for its mix of grit and euphoria. In an interview with The New York Times last year, Janet Mock, one of the show’s writers, directors and executive producers, discussed that mixture. “We’re never going to get too popular that we forget the realness and the rawness and the grimness,” Mock said, “but then also the glamour, and the hope, and the love and the celebration that’s a part of this world.”
AND WE GO GREEN (2020) Stream on Hulu. Fast, furious and environmentally responsible (sort of), the Formula E racing series pits drivers in electric racecars against one another in competitions that are intense yet oddly quiet. This documentary, directed by Fisher Stevens and Malcolm Venville, looks at the sport — which a racer describes as “playing chess at 200 kilometers per hour” — and some of the dramas that happen on and off the track including a stressful situation caused by a crucial piece of technology failing as a race is about to begin. That faulty tech isn’t on any of the state-of-the-art cars, though: It’s a problem with the lights that are supposed to signal the start of the race. The movie “gives less attention to Formula E’s innovations — which hopefully will make their way to sedate hatchbacks within the decade — than it does its generically square-jawed drivers, who are personally fueled by the need to prove they’re good enough for Formula 1,” Amy Nicholson wrote in her review for The New York Times. She called it a “cheery, lightweight documentary.”
What’s on TV
DON’T 9 p.m. on ABC. The comic actor Adam Scott hosts this new over-the-top game show. As the title suggests, contestants in the series are put through various challenges that revolve around not doing things. Some of these challenges, like “don’t blink,” are self-explanatory. Others, like “don’t get tired,” require some elucidation. “This challenge isn’t to avoid sleep,” Scott explains, “but to avoid being hit in the face with a tire.”
LARRY KRAMER IN LOVE & ANGER (2015) 4:30 p.m. on HBO. Larry Kramer, the writer and activist who helped get America to address the AIDS crisis in the 1980s and ’90s, died last month at 84. This documentary, directed by Kramer’s friend Jean Carlomusto, looks at Kramer’s life and legacy through interviews with colleagues and others who knew him — and with Kramer himself, who was alive when the film was released but is seen primarily in older interviews. In a review for The New York Times, Mike Hale called the documentary “brisk and concise.”
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