This Week:
Watch How I Met Your Father, download Wild Things: Siegfried & Roy, and see The Hang.
How I Met Your Father (Photo: Patrick Wymore/Hulu)
Somebody Somewhere
HBO, January 16.
Comedian Bridget Everett (Trainwreck, Lady Dynamite, and Unbelievable) produces and stars in her own series about a Kansas woman who finds her sense of self through singing. — Jen Chaney
How I Met Your Father
Hulu, January 18.
Hulu is trying to make the legendary happen again with Hilary Duff starring as an unlucky-in-love gal from Brooklyn. Duff previously tried to make a modern-day Lizzie McGuire reboot with actual sex happen, so congrats to her for landing a show that’s pretty much that without the Disney+ censorship. — Jackson McHenry
Ozark
Netflix, January 21.
Will the Byrde family be tied more deeply and dangerously to a drug cartel, or will they find a way out of crime for good? Since there will be a part two to this final season, I’m going to go ahead and guess they’re not done being bad yet. — J.C.
As We S ee It
Prime Video, January 21
The producer behind Parenthood returns with a comedy-drama of 20-something autistic roommates — Albert Rutecki, Rick Glassman, and Sue Ann Pien — who identify as living on the spectrum. Given Jason Katims’s track record, expect to reach for the tissues. — Roxana Hadadi
Sundance Class of ’92: The Year Indie Exploded
The Criterion Channel.
A revealing retrospective features a remarkable array of established auteurs (Paul Schrader’s Light Sleeper, Jim Jarmusch’s Night on Earth, Derek Jarman’s Edward II) and dazzling newcomers (Gregg Araki’s The Living End, Allison Anders’s Gas Food Lodging, Tom Kalin’s Swoon). — Bilge Ebiri
You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays, by Zora Neale Hurston
Amistad, January 18.
Zora Neale Hurston’s newest posthumous collection showcases her range and depth, touching on topics from Black girlhood to the Harlem Renaissance to the political ramifications of integration. Boldly honest and provocative, Hurston’s prose shines both lyrically and in her uncompromising political values. — Mary Retta
Wild Things: Siegfried & Roy
Apple TV+, through February 23.
White tigers. Tight suits. Extravagance. The German-born magicians Siegfried & Roy built an entertainment empire out of their illusions and fondness for big cats — until a tragic accident ended their careers. Steven Leckart’s podcast series promises to shed some light on the famous and famously private duo. — Nicholas Quah
The World According to Sound
theworldaccordingtosound.org, January 20.
Former ambient-audio micro-podcast The World According to Sound is now a virtual “communal listening series” in which audiences are mailed eye masks and are made to tune in to a live 70-minute curated mix of sound art, archival tape, field recordings, and more. It’s kind of like radio but more interactive and carved out for a smaller audience. This iteration will feature pieces pegged to the theme of “time” along with a Q&A with the musical artist and academic Leah Reid. —N.Q.
Stephanie Mills and the Whispers
Kings Theatre, January 16.
Brooklyn vocalist Stephanie Mills inspired a generation of R&B and hip-hop fans. Catch Mills’s January hometown show with Los Angeles’s Whispers, whose hits (“Rock Steady,” “And the Beat Goes On,” “It’s a Love Thing”) are just as illustrious as their mustaches. — Craig Jenkins
Chando Ao
Postmasters, 54 Franklin Street, through January 22.
Chando Ao’s simple-looking, sometimes cute, other times formalist works explore the Matrix-like realm where the digital, physical, psychological, and spiritual fuse and art becomes something like a cross between a prosthetic limb for knowing the world and a toy for loving. — Jerry Saltz
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Alice Tully Hall, January 18.
There’s something about beefing up a string quartet with an extra viola or cello, or both, that gives an intimate ensemble an almost orchestral depth of sound. Beethoven transformed his early piano trio into a string quintet, amplifying its expressivity, and Dvořák and Schulhoff wrote sextets as compressed symphonies. — Justin Davidson
The Hang
HERE Arts Center, January 20 to February 20.
Epic drag artist Taylor Mac’s much anticipated The Hang is a maximalist glitter-and-political-theory treatment of Socrates’ final moments after he’s sentenced to death. As the play opens, the ancient philosopher has downed his hemlock and — in Mac’s conception — triggered millennia of musicalized introspection, queer frolic, and pointed comments about the state. Would you use your last moments on Earth to contemplate virtue? Bottoms up! — Helen Shaw
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