What’s on TV
LET IT FALL: LOS ANGELES 1982-1992 (2017) 8 p.m. on ABC; stream on Netflix. This documentary by the director John Ridley (“American Crime”) was released on the 25th anniversary of the 1992 Los Angeles riots. ABC is resurfacing it — with a new introduction by John Legend — as police brutality and institutional racism consume the nation following the death of George Floyd. The movie traces the decade leading up to the riots, a response to a verdict that acquitted four police officers of assault for the beating of Rodney King. Ridley argues that King’s case was the straw that broke the camel’s back in a city rife with political and racial tensions. He backs his claim with nuance, interviewing retired police officials, witnesses and victims and perpetrators of violence. In her review for The New York Times, Jeannette Catsoulis named the movie a Critic’s Pick, calling it “wrenchingly humane.”
AMERICAN MASTERS — MAE WEST: DIRTY BLONDE (2020) 8 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). Sexuality onscreen may now be the norm, but the Madonnas and Rihannas of today follow the trailblazer Mae West. The actress, singer and comedian oozed sexuality on Broadway and in Hollywood — and paid for it — for decades before her death in 1980. This documentary celebrates her career with insight from Candice Bergen, Lady Bunny, Natasha Lyonne, Ringo Starr and more.
ONE DAY AT A TIME 9:30 p.m. on Pop TV. This popular sitcom, a remake of the Norman Lear original, had to halt production of its fourth season because of the coronavirus. But it has returned — albeit for a night — with this animated special titled “The Politics Episode.” Penelope (Justina Machado) worries tensions will run high when her conservative relatives (played by the guest stars Melissa Fumero, Gloria Estefan and Lin-Manuel Miranda) pay her a visit. The elections are coming up, and to avoid bickering over politics, the Alvarez family considers how to keep the peace. Lydia (Rita Moreno), for one, suggests a talent contest and envisions her and her sister facing off during a parody of Estefan’s “Mi Tierra.”
What’s Streaming
THE U.S. VS. JOHN LENNON (2006) Stream on Amazon, Tubi or Vudu; rent on Google Play, iTunes, YouTube. Early on in the coronavirus crisis, the internet was littered with celebrity covers of John Lennon’s “Imagine.” The song speaks to Lennon’s enduring presence as a master songwriter and champion for peace. But not everyone was a fan: This documentary, now streaming on Amazon, revisits Lennon’s post-Beatle years, during the late 1960s and early ’70s, when his antiwar activism provoked the ire of the Nixon administration. Fearing that Lennon could potentially sway young voters against Nixon, the government spied on him for months and tried to have him deported to England. Nixon, of course, was re-elected, but Lennon wasn’t without a victory: He received his green card in 1976.
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