TV Radar | Our suggestions of the week on your screens

Every week, The Press Look through the TV offering to find four titles to watch

The essential

The Boys

Last week, The Press suggested six fiction films and series with improbable plots that American news had curiously caught up with. We should have added The Boys. Aside from the superhero-with-superpowers aspect, writer-director Eric Kripke’s work really reflects the political and social climate in Uncle Sam’s country. It’s disturbing. In this fourth season, Homelander (Antony Starr) is put on trial for murder (a crime committed in broad daylight, in front of a horde of witnesses), but comes out unscathed. Does this remind you of a certain orange leader who accumulates court visits without seeing his popularity rating drop with the public?

Prime Video

Catching up

The great Seine

And now that you’ve watched (at least part of) the ambitious opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, you can catch up on the two-part documentary that shows the preparations for the event. We go back in time 500 days before the opening of the Games with artistic director Thomas Jolly. We witness the dancers’ auditions, the location scouting, the rehearsals of the Orchestre National de France, the boat navigation tests, the pyrotechnic tests, and more. As we listen to the series, we understand that one of the organizers’ greatest fears unfortunately materialized on Friday, when rain mixed in with the celebrations.

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The safe bet

Celebrity Family Feud

ABC’s quiz shows are having a great season. Maybe because summer lends itself well to fun games that don’t require any mental effort. The most entertaining ones are Celebrity Family Feuda “celebrity” edition of a show formerly hosted by Luc Senay in Quebec: Clash of clans. Led by Steve Harvey, the American version is not too serious, not too hammy. This week, we will see the duels of the groups: Earth, Wind & Fire will face The War and Treat, and Daughtry will try to win against Papa Roach. Another suggestion for a quiz on ABC: Who Wants to Be a Millionairehosted by Jimmy Kimmel (Wednesdays at 8 p.m.).

ABC and CityTV, Tuesday at 8 p.m.

The documentary

Dirty Pop

We knew little about Lou Pearlman’s story before listening to this three-part documentary series. The creator of the Backstreet Boys and ‘N Sync was not clean, clean. In addition to having launched the careers of the two greatest boy bands in the 1990s, the controversial entrepreneur and impresario was behind a massive financial fraud with tragic repercussions. His journey is certainly fascinating. Some of the choices made by director David Terry Fine are questionable, however, such as the use of artificial intelligence to create an interview that Pearlman allegedly gave, using excerpts from a 2003 autobiography. The way in which Dirty Pop dismissing allegations of sexual abuse in two minutes is also embarrassing.

Netflix