Our critic recommends a flashy new show about the Showtime Lakers and a docu-series about stolen bugs. Also: One of the best ’90s sitcoms is finally streaming in full.
This weekend I have … an hour, and more is more.
‘Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty’
When to watch: Sunday at 9 p.m., on HBO.
This new 10-part docudrama, with a pilot directed by Adam McKay, plays like a festive and invigorating brainstorming session, the kind where there are no bad ideas! Let’s make it look as if it were filmed in the 1970s, which will add to the party vibe but detract from emotional reality. Shall we break the fourth wall? Oh, let’s. Can the soundtrack be vast and literal? And how. Can one eighth of all living actors appear? Sure, and the wilder the wig, the better. Let’s have poignancy — but not skimp on the bare breasts.
Strong performances cut through some of the noise. “Winning Time” is certainly never boring, and for better or worse, it does wholly generate the sensation of being the only person at a party who is not on cocaine.
… a few hours, and I like juicy gossip.
‘Bug Out’
When to watch: Now, on IMDb TV.
Our era of true-crime (over)abundance continues to provide low-commitment, visually flat but fizzy and intriguing sagas. This weekend, it’s a four-part documentary about the Philadelphia Insectarium, where thieves stole $50,000 worth of unusual bugs in 2018 — or did they? The real energy of the story is that the people involved in the museum and in the insect-trading world have tremendous beef with one another.
“Bug Out” reminds me a lot of Netflix’s 2021 mini-series “This Is a Robbery,” about an art heist in Boston, as the filmmakers here rely similarly on an abundance of ambient, colorful criminality to make up for a lack of resolution. It works well enough.
… many hours, and I loved the ’90s.
‘NewsRadio’
When to watch: Now, on the Roku Channel.
Seasons of “NewsRadio” have come and gone from fringe streaming platforms for years, but all five seasons are finally streaming in one place. “NewsRadio” was always a bridesmaid in the ’90s, bouncing around the NBC schedule and perpetually on the bubble. But dang, it is so good — fast and dynamic, nimble but consistent, and capable of both the “we all love each other” vibe of “Friends” and the “we all hate each other” vibe of “Seinfeld.” As with anything, not every facet of “NewsRadio” has aged gracefully, but beholding Phil Hartman in his prime is reason enough to visit or revisit WNYX.
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