Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET
SEASON PREMIERE: The first season of this outstanding crime series, which is a moody period piece about the original formation of the FBI’s serial killer profiler unit, made my Top 10 list in 2017. It’s taken two years for Season 2 to continue the story, and for reasons I’ll never comprehend, Netflix has slid these new episodes of Mindhunter into its streaming library without much fanfare, and certainly without providing previews for critics. Normally, those are bad signs, but I expect Mindhunter, which stars Jonathan Groff, Holt MacAllany and Anna Torv, to pick up just as rivetingly as it left off. And Cameron Britton returns as serial killer Edmund Kemper, whom he played so menacingly and creepily in Season 1.
HBO, 10:00 p.m. ET
The summer of our unpredictable political climate continues – and weeks after his brief break, so does Bill Maher. He’s worth listening to, because he was one of the few on-air voices, political or comic, who predicted in 2016 that Donald Trump might actually win.