http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/arts/television/carol-the-simpsons-what-to-watch.html 2016-10-14 19:38:25 What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘Carol’ and ‘The Durrells in Corfu’ From the Watching team, expert TV and movie recommendations for the next few days. === Welcome to Watching, The New York Times’s what-to-watch guide. We comb through releases big and small to email readers twice a week with our timely recommendations. You can browse previous guides Dear Watchers, Are you getting married soon? I’m a licensed wedding officiant in New York State. If you need someone to perform your ceremony, I would love to be this person! I officiated two friends’ wedding last year, and I killed. Tristate area is easy, but honestly, I’d get certified elsewhere and travel for Watcher love. This weekend I’m going to bite the bullet and catch up on “American Horror Story: Roanoke.” I’m a wimp about scary stuff in general, and “A.H.S.” has never been my favorite, but I hate feeling out of the loop. This season’s setup is a show-within-a-show — in this case, one of those cheesy “a scary thing happened” cable shows that include cornball recreations. “A.H.S.” creator Ryan Murphy loves meta, and I’m curious to see how far this joke can go. ‘Kyle Kinane: Loose in Chicago,’ Saturday, midnight, Comedy Central Watch if you like well-crafted, narrative stand-up. Kinane’s gruff tenor and sometimes bawdy vibe belie his undercover-sweetheart material, which in this latest special includes ruminations on how strange it can be to have a doctor one’s own age, how he wound up developing gout, or how he sometimes confuses “open carry” laws with open container laws. Kinane’s a master of the pitter-patter refrain, which he deploys to develop a consistent rhythm throughout his act. It’s the perfected illusion of casualness, and it makes this stand-up special particularly enchanting. ‘The Durrells in Corfu,’ Saturday, 8 p.m., PBS (check local listings) Watch if you like stories about plucky families achieving things. A English widow moves herself and her brood of occasionally charming yet more often obstinate children to Greece in 1935. Are there punchy costumes and attractive locations? Why, of course. The show is based on ‘Goliath,’ Amazon Watch if you like lovable dirtbags, superb lead performances and prefer the journey to the destination. “ What “Goliath” does have, though, is a sense of savvy and purpose. The series is structurally sound, substantive and fully baked — a show by and for people who know what they’re doing. And no one knows better than Thornton, whose work here is top-tier. Some of the female characters are underdeveloped, and William Hurt’s evil-law-boss character would be more at home in a Batman cartoon, but I still devoured the six episodes made available to critics. “Goliath” is like asking to borrow a pen and being handed something heavy and well-crafted: Even though you know your scuzzy giveaway pen technically gets the job done, this pen is clearly just • • “ • “ • “ In 1950s America, Therese (Rooney Mara), an insecure shop girl, falls for Carol (Cate Blanchett), a glamorous, unhappily married woman. But their passionate affair becomes a badly kept secret that threatens to upend their lives. “Carol” is a gorgeous romantic drama about two women in an oppressive era. Beautiful to look at, as though shot through the haze of memory, the film makes you feel the highs and lows of a heady new relationship. The cast, which includes Sarah Paulson as Carol’s confidant and former lover and Kyle Chandler as her abusive husband, is superb. And the film is a heartbreaker that will elicit at least one sad sigh (or four). Stream on Back in April, the Royal Shakespeare Company made its 2013 production of “Richard II,” starring David Tennant, available