Apple TV+, 3:00 a.m. ET
DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: Including both music and personal moments, this new documentary spends time with singer-songwriter Billie Eilish, one of the few performers to substantially increase her following during this pandemic year.
Disney+, 3:00 a.m. ET
Once a week, Disney+ presents a new episode of this latest Marvel TV series. Today is the penultimate episode, and it’s the installment that explains everything – the weird and shifting TV “world” of WandaVision, how Vision has risen from the dead to occupy this sitcom fantasy setting, and, as in Blue Velvet or Twin Peaks, what hidden evil lurks beneath the surface banality. When WandaVision premiered, I was hoping it would take the bold move of beginning as a situation comedy and ending as a drama. It’s done all that, and more, and I really, really can’t wait for next week’s finale. But I’ve seen today’s new episode already, and recommend it heartily. And Kathryn Hahn (pictured), at this late stage, gets to move from goofy sitcom neighbor to significant dramatic co-star. She and Elizabeth Olsen, as witchly Wanda, are both absolutely magical here.
HBO Max, 3:00 a.m. ET
MOVIE PREMIERE: One of the original cat-and-mouse cartoons is revived for a new generation., with a new animated film (and live-action hybrid) that presents their origin story as household adversaries. As always, bet on the mouse. But I’d like to point out this one little question, which has gnawed at me for decades now: What’s with all the mouse holes in the floorboards? Were apartments and homes so overridden with rodents in the 1940s that it was accepted as commonplace that mice lived in the walls and chewed holes for handy entrance and exit points?
Hulu, 3:00 a.m. ET
MOVIE PREMIERE: The script for this new movie biography is predictably by the book, and step by step, starting with an interview that launches a movie-length flashback. The production values are less than lavish, also – but forgive all that to watch Andra Day as jazz legend Billie Holiday, who does an excellent job approximating both her singing and speaking voice. Add this portrayal to Diana Ross’ raw performance in
Lady Sings the Blues and Audra McDonald’s even rawer performance in
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
This movie was made in 1962, and still is capable of haunting you after you watch it. Laurence Harvey and Frank Sinatra star as former prisoners of war who struggle to escape their past – but don’t overlook the women in this drama, played by Janet Leigh (post-Psycho) and Angela Lansbury.
HBO, 10:00 p.m. ET
Among tonight’s scheduled guests: former Fox News and NBC host Megyn Kelly (seen here in an appearance from last year), and New York Times opinion columnist Ezra Klein.
BBC America, 11:00 p.m. ET
Among tonight’s scheduled guests: Hugh Bonneville from Downton Abbey, actress Rosamund Pike, and TV chef icon Gordon Ramsay, who smiles more in one appearance on The Graham Norton Show than in entire seasons on his own coking competition programs.