OUR BOYS
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.