What to Watch on TV: Evil, Generation 9/11, Money Heist
Welcome to a new week and another round of What to Watch on TV for the week of August 29th! We’ll be sharing our picks for what to watch this week, from marathons to big guest spots, and significant episodes of TV to look forward to while stuck inside.
This week’s picks include Evil and What We Do in the Shadows’ return, Only Murders in the Building’s debut, and more.
Here are our recommendations for what to watch on TV this week:
Evil – Sunday, August 29
After a hiatus, the team is back at it; they are sent to a monastery to investigate the occurrence of a corpse that has yet to decay in the year since the person’s death. Could there be more to it? Evil returns Sunday, August 29 on Paramount+.
Episode Description: The team is dispatched to a monastery to investigate the corpse of Father Thomas, whose body has not decayed in the year following his death.
Only Murders in the Building – Tuesday, August 31
Settle in for a trio of true crime-obsessed residents living in the same apartment building find themselves in the middle of an investigation into the gruesome death of a tenant in their building. The trio comes together to do some investigating on their own, suspecting foul play. Only Murders in the Building debuts Tuesday, August 31 on Hulu.
Series Description: Three strangers share an obsession with true crime and suddenly find themselves wrapped up in one. When a grisly death occurs inside their exclusive Upper West Side apartment building, the trio suspects murder and employs their precise knowledge of true crime to investigate the truth. Perhaps even more explosive are the lies they tell one another. Soon, the endangered trio comes to realize a killer might be living among them as they race to decipher the mounting clues before it’s too late.
Generation 9/11 – Tuesday, August 31
PBS’ latest documentary follows seven young adults tied together by a tragic event at birth. Having lost their fathers on September 11th, viewers get insight into how that event has changed their lives before they even knew what was happening. Generation 9/11 premieres Tuesday, August 31 at 9/8c on PBS.
Documentary Description: Follow seven young people whose fathers died on 9/11. When they were born, the nation was drawn together. Twenty years later, in a divided America, they enter adulthood with a sense of responsibility that stems from their own personal tragedy.
How to Be a Cowboy – Wednesday, September 1
The latest unscripted fare from Netflix takes viewers to the wild west as Rodeo Time host, Dale Brisby, gives viewers a lesson in how to keep the cowboy skills and traditions around. How to Be a Cowboy drops Wednesday, September 1 on Netflix.
Series Description: Dale Brisby uses social media savvy and rodeo skills to keep cowboy traditions alive — and now he’s teaching the world how to cowboy right.
Q-Force – Thursday, September 2
There’s a new animated series in town for this streamer, and it follows a secret agent that finds himself on a mission in West Hollywood as he is determined to prove himself to his superiors. Q-Force premieres Thursday, September 2 on Netflix.
Series Description: Steve Maryweather, AKA Agent Mary, was once the Golden Boy of the American Intelligence Agency (AIA), until he came out as gay. Unable to fire him, the Agency sent him off to West Hollywood, to disappear into obscurity. Instead, he assembled a misfit squad of LGBTQ+ geniuses. Joining forces with the expert mechanic Deb, master of drag and disguise Twink, and hacker Stat, together they’re Q-Force. But, after a decade of waiting for their first official mission from The AIA, Mary becomes hell-bent on proving himself to the Agency that turned its back on him, and decides to go rogue with Q-Force. After finding their own case, and solving it on their own terms, they get the reluctant approval of The AIA, and are officially upgraded to Active Secret Agents in the field. But, that approval comes with one major caveat– they must put up with a new member of the squad: straight-guy Agent Buck.
What We Do in the Shadows – Thursday, September 2
After a seemingly long hiatus, our favorite bumbling vampires are back, and with the way things ended last season, it should not be surprising to see Guillermo’s fate hanging in the balance at the start of the season. What We Do in the Shadows returns with back-to-back episodes Thursday, September 2 at 10/9c on FX.
Episode Description: Guillermo’s fate hangs in the balance as the vampires receive a promotion. A forbidden artifact is used to help Nandor court a health club employee.
Burden of Truth – Friday, September 3
Just when it looks like there might be a chance to save Helen’s land from the mine, things become murkier and shadier than Joanna and Billy anticipated. Burden of Truth airs Friday, September 3 at 8/7c on The CW.
Episode Description: With the return of her client’s missing daughter, Joanna (Kristin Kreuk) sees an opportunity to restart the case against the Mine, but as she and Billy (Peter Mooney) investigate further, it’s clear nothing about the Oro North Mine is as it seems.
Money Heist – Friday, September 3
The heist is almost up as the team has found themselves stuck in the Bank of Spain for well over a hundred hours, and things are about to go from bad to worse. With no exit strategy in place, it looks like it’s the end for everyone. Part 1 of the final season of Money Heist (La Casa De Papel) drops Friday, September 3 on Netflix.
Season Description: The gang has been shut in the Bank of Spain for over 100 hours. They have managed to rescue Lisbon, but their darkest moment is upon them after losing one of their own. The Professor has been captured by Sierra and, for the first time, doesn’t have an escape plan. Just when it seems like nothing else could go wrong, an enemy comes on the scene that is much more powerful than any they’ve faced: the army. The end of the greatest heist in history is approaching, and what began as a robbery will turn into a war.
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Brianna Martinez
Brianna spends her time away from briefs, legal research, and pleadings, watching TV and writing about it. She generally has a lot of feelings about TV, which you can read about here and on Twitter.