http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/05/arts/television/queen-sugar-atlanta-what-to-watch.html 2016-09-05 18:52:26 What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Queen Sugar’ and ‘Atlanta’ 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 Fall TV: It’s finally beginning. If you see someone running down the street, The bounty is so great that we have shows for you every day this week. Happy watching, cupcakes. Nicole Byer is the latest comedian to have a marginally autobiographical show about a young performer trying to make her way in the entertainment biz, with the help of a few weirdo sidekicks. But luckily this sneaked in just before we reached utter saturation — the series is funny and filthy in all the right ways. If you like “Broad City,” but wish it were more cynical and less joyous, this is for you. The show’s worldview is still underdeveloped, and the aesthetics could be fancier, but the sense of comic freedom bordering on abandon is exhilarating. I only wish MTV were releasing more episodes at once. Also Recommended “ “POV: The Birth of Saké “The Comedy Central Roast of Rob Lowe,” “Atlanta,” 10 p.m., FX. In his long-awaited dramedy, Donald Glover stars as Earnest “Earn” Marks, stymied and frustrated and radiating defeat. Lacking other options, he decides to try to manage his cousin’s budding rap career. “Atlanta” isn’t a music-industry show, really, and it’s certainly not a tightly-paced comedy. It’s not even primarily plot oriented. It’s lovely, even poetic, sometimes, but ambient — the show surrounds you more than it comes toward you. “Queen Sugar,” 10 p.m., OWN. Ava DuVernay, the director of the movie “Selma,” and Oprah Winfrey are the executive producers behind this ensemble family drama that does indeed live up to the hype. The show is about three adult siblings who, following individual and collective calamities, return home to their family’s Louisiana sugar cane farm. If you’re already missing “Greenleaf,” which finished its run this past Wednesday, this will more than meet your needs. “Queen Sugar” is one of the sexiest shows in recent memory, and that plus some familiar prodigal-child story beats might make it seem like an expendable soap. But the show’s languid pace and sense of compassion for its characters make it stand out. It’s a grown-up show for grown-ups about grown-ups who have grown-up problems — not shenanigans, not stupid misunderstandings, not things that can be resolved with one big hug. Also Recommended “A Season With Florida State Football,” “Gaycation,” 10 p.m., Viceland. Ellen Page’s Also Recommended “Queen Sugar,” “Better Things,” 10 p.m., FX. One more comedian-auteur show this week! This one stars Desperate for a child of her own, Maggie (Greta Gerwig) falls in love with John (Ethan Hawke), an unhappily married academic. Divorce, marriage and a baby carriage come not long after, but perhaps their “too good to be true” romance wasn’t real love after all. Maggie draws up a haphazard plan to reunite John with his ex-wife Georgette (Julianne Moore) in the hopes of returning their lives to normal. Gerwig expanded her repertoire of quirky comedic heroine in movies like “Frances Ha” and “Mistress America” and in the already stacked cast of “