This is what is happening in the television world on Sunday, April 18. All times are Eastern.
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Easttown mare (HBO, 10 p.m., series premiere): Kate Winslet succumbs to the expectations of a small town Easttown mareThe Oscar winner stars as Detective Mare Sheehan, who is a local hero thanks to a high school basketball victory and her dedicated service. Although she followed in her late father’s footsteps by joining the corps, Mare usually fights to get out of her own shadow. But this limited series from Brad Ingelsby has more in store for Mare than crushed hope – it also leads the search for a missing person. And as the investigation continues, no amount of past glory can prevent her fellow Easttown residents from becoming restless. There are shades of it sharp objects, what about the insular setting, the missing girl and Mare’s controversial relationship with her mother Helen (Jean Smart). But HBO and Winslet already turned out to be a winning combination in 2011, when the actor took home an Emmy for Mildred Pierce Read the rest of Danette Chavez’s thoughts on this new series in our April TV preview, among other thingsJoshua Alston will sum it up.
Regular coverage
The Nevers (HBO, 9 p.m.)
Jokers
Roll up your sleeves (NBC, 7 p.m.): If there’s someone in your life who feels skittish about the vaccine, you may want to set up a Zoom to watch this special with them from afar, as it’s designed to raise awareness and encourage the American public to get involved vaccinations to end the COVID-19 pandemic. “Maybe Michelle Obama and Lin-Manuel Miranda can convince them? If nothing else, it might be worth tuning in to this dork to witness this surreal conversation:” Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical advisor to the president, will be interviewed by Matthew McConaughey. “A phrase we could never have imagined, that.
Confront a serial killer (Starz, 9 p.m., docuseries premiere): Sound the horn of true crime once again. About the latest entry in the genre, Saloni Gajjar writes:
Throughout its five episodes, the Starz docuseries provides the stripped-down, gruesome details behind Samuel Little’s murder of 93 women (possibly more), and the mistakes in the criminal justice system that allowed him to remain free for more than three decades before he was properly apprehended in 2012 Once a massive number, such as 93, settles down, the watching only gets heartbreaking as the backstories of some of Little’s victims – mostly marginalized women of color and sex workers battling addiction – come to light.
Journalist and author Jillian Lauren serves as the narrator and guide in the gruesome story. Lauren and Little were one Silence of the lambs-like band in 2018, when she approached him for an interview for her book while he was in prison. He eventually ended up on her, and his crimes Confront a serial killer contains audio footage of her interactions with him.
Read the rest of her pre-air review