What’s on TV Friday: ‘Live From Lincoln Center’ and ‘Late Night’

What’s on TV

LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). Midway through “Odyssey: The Chamber Music Society in Greece,” the camera brings us inside a tour bus snaking through a serene Greek countryside. Musicians from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center sit quietly, reading from a phone or a laptop or pensively gazing out the windows as the landscape slides by. In other words: “Gimme Shelter” this is not. Instead, “Odyssey” is something like a rock ’n’ roll tour documentary for the chamber music crowd, following a group of world-class classical musicians as they perform at venues around Greece. The locales range from the historic (the First Ancient Theater of Larissa) to the cutting edge (the Renzo Piano-designed Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center). The musicians play Beethoven, Debussy, Bach and more.

RUST CREEK (2019) 8 p.m. on Showtime. Sawyer (Hermione Corfield), a Kentucky college student, is on her way to a job interview in Washington when she gets stranded on a roadside early in this thriller. After a run-in with a pair of unsavory locals, she flees into the woods — only to soon find herself in the custody of an aggressive meth cook (Jay Paulson). In her review for The New York Times, Jeannette Catsoulis wrote that the film falls squarely into the tradition of horror movies like “Wolf Creek” and “I Spit on Your Grave,” which drop sympathetic characters into dangerous, forested surroundings. “What sets ‘Rust Creek’ apart from most of its genre predecessors, though, is that its director, screenwriter and cinematographer are all women,” Catsoulis wrote. “Sadly (or happily, depending on your viewpoint), this hasn’t made an appreciable difference to the broadly familiar beats of Julie Lipson’s screenplay, even if Jen McGowan’s direction is as attentive to stasis as action.”

GOOD TALK WITH ANTHONY JESELNIK 11 p.m. on Comedy Central. “Comedy is under a microscope today, but because my career has been going on long enough, I’ve been grandfathered in,” the comedian Anthony Jeselnik told The Times in April. The interview was about his recent Netflix special, “Fire in the Maternity Ward,” but some of the coarse brand of humor on display there is also present here. “Good Talk,” a new series, sees Jeselnik conducting quip-heavy interviews with a handful of his fellow comedians, including Tig Notaro, Kumail Nanjiani and Nick Kroll, who is the guest in the debut episode.

What’s Streaming

LATE NIGHT (2019) Stream on Amazon. Emma Thompson stars as a TV host facing potential cancellation in this comedy. Written by Mindy Kaling (who also co-stars), the movie satirizes sexism in the broadcasting industry through a story that sees Thompson’s character joining forces with her new writer (played by Kaling) to try and reinvigorate her strained career. “Every time you think ‘Late Night’ is settling into familiar tropes — about workplace politics, mean bosses, long marriages, fish out of water, bootstraps and how to pull them — it shifts a few degrees and finds a fresh perspective,” A.O. Scott wrote in his review for The Times.

Gabe Cohn writes about television, fine art, film and other topics related to culture and the arts. He joined The Times in 2017.

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