What’s on TV
WILL & GRACE 9:30 p.m. on NBC. “Will & Grace” is ending — again. The sitcom, built on the friendship between its title characters, who are a lawyer and an interior designer, pushed boundaries and helped normalize gay characters in prime time TV during its original run in the late 1990s and 2000s. It was revived for a season that debuted in 2017 and aged up the characters, but left the show’s formula largely untouched: Will (Eric McCormack) and Grace (Debra Messing) were once again roommates. The 2006 original finale that saw the pair married (separately) with children was explained away as, in part, a dream that never happened. NBC has said that the latest season, the 11th, which debuts Thursday night, is going to be the show’s last. But whatever happens in the new finale may not carry the same stakes as that first one: In theory, it could all be a dream, too.
SAUDI WOMEN’S DRIVING SCHOOL 9 p.m. on HBO. Since Saudi Arabia granted women the legal right to drive last year, tens of thousands of Saudi women have obtained driver’s licenses. This documentary follows a handful of them through footage captured at a driving school in Riyadh, and through interviews where new drivers discuss the effect that the lifting of the ban has had on their lives — though the film doesn’t ignore the fact that constraints on Saudi women’s lives remain.
What’s Streaming
BREAKFAST, LUNCH & DINNER Stream on Netflix. The sun is out in Phnom Penh, and the “Saturday Night Live” comic Kate McKinnon is standing in an open-air market, holding up a giant freshwater prawn. “What do you think?” she asks, turning to the celebrity chef David Chang. “This one seems a little listless.” That’s a typical moment in this new series, which sees Chang, already a seasoned Netflix host known for his show “Ugly Delicious,” exploring a different city, with a different celebrity each episode. The new series makes a point to delve into the history of each locale, and to show how that history has informed the cuisine. Other episodes take place in Los Angeles (where Chang is joined by Lena Waithe), Marrakesh (with Chrissy Teigen) and Vancouver, British Columbia (with Seth Rogen).
WOUNDS (2019) Stream on Hulu. In this horror movie, a smartphone comes with unwanted baggage — and it’s not an eavesdropping digital assistant. The film stars Armie Hammer and Dakota Johnson as Will and Carrie, a New Orleans couple. Will finds an abandoned phone on the floor of the bar he works at, pockets it, discovers disturbing content within and quickly finds his and Carrie’s lives taken over. The phone, they discover, has a connection to the demonic. “‘Wounds’ was filmed on location, but we catch only glimpses of the city and scarcely feel the heat,” Helen T. Verongos wrote in her review for The New York Times. “It could be anywhere.” Still, she wrote, “the movie more than fulfills its promise to unsettle and to incite shivers — and it doesn’t quit.”
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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