Welcome to the weekend version of What’s On. Here are the massive issues occurring on TV from Friday, Nov 17 to Sunday, Nov 19. All instances are Eastern. [Note: The weekly What’s On publishes on Sundays.]
1. Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters brings again Godzilla
Apple TV+, Friday, 12:01 a.m.: Set in San Francisco after Godzilla’s warfare with the MUTOs, Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters is a MonsterVerse present that follows a secret group because it hunts down, sure, monsters. Monarch can also be a generation-spanning household saga, with real-life father-son duo Kurt and Wyatt Russell enjoying the identical character in several a long time. The solid of the 10-episode season additionally consists of Anna Sawai, Joe Tippett, Anders Holm, Kiersey Clemons, Mari Yamamoto, and Ren Watabe. Here’s a bit from The A.V. Club’s overview:
Hopping between the timelines provides Monarch a whole lot of alternatives for tales that mirror one another, with a factor occurring previously that’s related or just like a factor occurring sooner or later. But the timelines aren’t switched usually sufficient for it to really feel like an inexpensive gimmick.
2. Scott Pilgrim Takes Off as an anime
Netflix, Friday, 3:01 a.m.: The 2010 movie Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, based mostly on Bryan O’Malley’s graphic novels, will get a recent remedy within the type of an anime collection. Scott Pilgrim Takes Off brings again everybody from the film to voice their characters, together with Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Alison Pill, Brie Larson, Chris Evans, Satya Bhabha, and Anna Kendrick. Get the garlic bread prepared to your binge.
3. Please Don’t Destroy presents The Treasure Of Foggy Mountain
Peacock, Friday, 3:01 a.m.: Saturday Night Live’s Please Don’t Destroy guys (Ben Marshall, Martin Herlihy, and John Higgins) enterprise past late-night sketch comedy for this characteristic movie they co-wrote and produced. The Treasure Of Foggy Mountain finds the trio as aimless childhood buddies who set off on an journey to dig up gold. Conan O’Brien, Bowen Yang, Meg Stalter, and X Mayo additionally seem.
4. Jason Momoa gears up for Saturday Night Live
NBC, Saturday, 11:30 p.m.: Speaking of Saturday Night Live, this weekend’s new episode is hosted by Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom star Jason Momoa, who’s joined by musical visitor Tate McRae. Look for The A.V. Club’s recap on Sunday.
5. Colman Domingo leads Rustin
Netflix, Friday, 3:01 a.m.: Colman Domingo stars in Rustin, a biopic about civil-rights activist Bayard Rustin, an advisor to Martin Luther King Jr. who, as an brazenly homosexual Black man, was all however erased from the motion he fought for. The solid consists of Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Audra McDonald, Glynn Turman, Chris Rock, Aml Ameen, and Jeffrey Wright. Check out The A.V. Club’s overview.
6. Your subsequent new favourite vacation romcom is right here
Freevee, Friday, 12:01 a.m.: You realize it’s the vacations when your favourite TV stars begin doing no-stakes, very chill Christmas romcoms. Enter EXmas, through which Leighton Meester and Robbie Amell play former fiancés who reunite when his household invitations her over to have fun.
