AMC, 9:00 p.m. ET
The supernatural elements of this new season of The Terror were the least effective part of last week’s premiere. The setting and characters, though, is captivating – and captive, in this case, has more than one meaning. Infamy follows a Japanese-American family, at the very start of the U.S. entry into WWII, as they’re rounded up in an internment camp for Japanese Americans.
HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET
Last week, HBO presented the first two episodes of Our Boys, serving up one revelation after another. One was the presentation of a fact-based murder mystery, based on a West Bank kidnapping of three teen Israelis in 2014, from two very different perspectives: Israeli and Palestinian. Another was probing that crime, and others to follow, only from the perspective of investigators, neighbors, friends and family, never showing the perpetrators themselves. And finally, there was the twist at the end of episode two, giving a whole new spin, and perhaps motive, to the latest disappearance. Our Boys is politically charged, credibly acted, laced with actual news footage, and informed throughout by the very rare (for U.S. viewers) spectacle of actual neighborhood photography and locations in and around the West Bank. Tonight: Episode 3.
CBS, 10:00 p.m. ET
My favorite TV moment of last year – James Corden taking Paul McCartney on an expanded tour of McCartney’s home town of Liverpool – was expanded even more in this retrospective prime-time special, repeated tonight by CBS. Watch it. Record it. Keep it. Every time you visit it, it’ll make you smile, and maybe even shed a tear.