Catch up on
Underground — Season 2, Episode 6 “Minty”: (WGN America) Even if you have never watched a minute of the series about the Underground Railroad, this episode is a standalone gem. Deftly directed by Anthony Hemingway (“Red Tails”), it stars Aisha Hinds as Harriet Tubman and opens as the iconic former slave is readying to give a talk to a group of abolitionists — both black and white. We see the scars on her back. Then for the remainder of the episode, Tubman tells her story and explains what drives her. It’s a tour-de-force, Emmy-worthy performance by Hinds, who is also a standout in “Shots Fired.” And what Tubman says, not only gives historic perspective to her life just prior to the Civil War, but it will have a ring of current events in it. “(God) will provide, but you got to do your part. You got to find what it means for you to be a soldier and beat back those who are trying to kill everything that’s right in the world and call it making it great again,” she tells the audience as the camera closes in on the resolve in her face. “You can’t just be citizens in a time of war. That would be surrender. That would be giving up our future. Ain’t nobody gets to sit this one out. You hear me.”
This week
Good Witch: (9 p.m. Sunday on Hallmark) Third season of the fantasy comedy-drama. Starring Catherine Bell.
LA 92: (9 p.m. Sunday on Nat Geo) Documentary on the L.A. riots told with archival footage — some recently discovered — and without a narrator.
Sexual Assault in College — Tamron Hall Investigates: (8 p.m. Sunday on ID) Documentary about the growing crisis.
Superheroes Decoded: (9 p.m. Sunday on History) Two-part documentary tracing the origins of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and others in the comics pantheon.
United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell: (10 p.m. Sunday on CNN) Emmy-nominated series returns for a second season as comedian W. Kamau Bell explores subcultures across the country, using comedy to start a conversation about race and how our differences unite and divide us.
In the Shadow of Iris: (available Monday on Netflix) French thriller about the wife of a rich banker who disappears in the middle of Paris. Investigators believe a young mechanic may be linked to her abduction for unknown reasons.
Lucifer: (9 p.m. Monday on Fox) Mr. Morningstar returns for his final arc of the season.
Warning — This Drug May Kill You: (10 p.m. Monday on HBO) Documentary about personal and emotional stories of people on the front lines of the opioid epidemic in the U.S.
Jackson: (7:30 p.m. Tuesday on Showtime) An intimate documentary look into the lives of three women caught up in the complex issues surrounding access to reproductive healthcare in the Deep South.
The Victorian Slum: (8 p.m. Tuesday on PBS SoCal) Reality show follows participants into a tenement to live and work as their London ancestors once did.
Breakthrough: (10 p.m. Tuesday on Nat Geo) The second season of the science anthology series about cutting-edge research features episodes directed by Shane Carruth (“Primer”), Ana Lily Amirpour (“A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night”) and David Lowery (“Pete’s Dragon”).
Maria Bamford — Old Baby: (available Tuesday on Netflix) Comedian’s new stand-up special.
Truth & Iliza: (10 p.m. Tuesday on Freeform) Iliza Shlesinger hosts the network’s new weekly talk show.
Andy Cohen’s Then & Now: (10 p.m. on Bravo) Host Andy Cohen, alongside his newsmaker and celebrity guests, will dive into some of the big moments making headlines today and look back at a handful of iconic years in popular culture to ask, “How did we get here?”
Al Madrigal — Shrimpin’ Ain’t Easy: (9 p.m. Friday on Showtime) New stand-up special from Madrigal, one of the stars of the upcoming Showtime’s series “I’m Dying Up Here.”
— Rob Lowman
