Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET
SERIES PREMIERE: Netflix has imported a few Swedish series before, and run them with subtitles, and is doing it again with this new eight-part comedy-drama series. It’s about an older woman and a younger man who fall into an exciting but increasingly dangerous game of seduction, in which they trade dares. Whatever the one says, the other must do – and, like the French film Love Me If You Dare, this romantic arms race soon escalates into something more serious.
Showtime, 8:00 p.m. ET
Last night, Showtime televised this special live, beginning it at 11 p.m. ET and starting with a Trump cartoon before Stephen Colbert showed up, with his wife watching from a safe distance, as he tried to mine comedy out of what was happening with the 2020 election results. Four years ago, he had done a similar live special with a full studio audience, and it was dismally unfunny… because the audience was weeping, and Colbert himself was fighting his emotions at what he was seeing. Last night’s special wasn’t much cheerier – but if you’re curious, or a masochist, Showtime is repeating the 2020 election edition tonight.