THE DESCENDANTS
HBO, 8:00 p.m. ET
What a wonderful movie. George Clooney dons Hawaiian shirts (and no, that’s not why I like this 2011 drama) to play a largely oblivious family man suddenly faced with a severely ill wife and some unexpected adversities and realizations. It’s a delightful film (great soundtrack, too), and writer-director Alexander Payne brings out an entirely different side of Clooney.