http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/26/arts/television/magic-mike-xxl-younger-what-to-watch.html 2016-09-26 19:48:36 What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Younger’ and ‘Magic Mike XXL’ 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, One of the dark delights of fall TV used to be placing bets on which show would get canceled first. But this year I don’t have much of a taste for blood. Sure, there are shows whose existence I find baffling, if not downright distressing — get thee behind me, CBS comedies — but at least these days I have options. Do you think anybody really wanted to watch “ Someday I’ll tell my grandchildren these tales of woe. In the meantime, there’s so much good stuff. The Have a jazzy week, my lovelies. Netflix’s new anthology series “Easy,” from the indie-director darling Joe Swanberg, is composed of eight barely connected stories about Chicagoans. The best episode by far is “ Season 3 premieres Wednesday, 10 p.m., TV LandPrevious episodes available on VOD and If you’re looking for a show whose massive charms and easy affection vastly outweigh some of its shortcomings, you’re in luck. Bonus if you like Broadway, extra bonus if you like amazoterrible costumes. If you’re looking for crystallized perfection, I assume your life is very challenging in general, and I wish you the best, but this won’t be for you: Some of the show’s complaints about youth culture are ignorant, and the show’s concept of Brooklyn makes me roll my eyes so hard I am in danger of going blind. But I like the show anyway. Sutton Foster stars as Liza, a recently divorced mother of a college freshman who is struggling to rejoin the work force. Her brassy bestie (Debi Mazar) persuades her to pretend to be 26, and voilà: She lands an assistant gig at a publishing house. Yes, this strains credulity. But TV Land is not known for its documentary programming. Liza falls for a young Brooklyn tattoo artist (Nico Tortorella), befriends her supportive, hard-partying boss Kelsey (Hilary Duff), fears the boss’s vindictive boss Diana (Miriam Shor) and hits it off with the boss’s boss’s hot boss Charles (Peter Hermann). The show’s creator Darren Star loves a naughty line, and “Younger” has plenty of them. And like Star’s other shows “Beverly Hills 90210,” “Melrose Place,” “ “Younger” is a show to watch in your sweatpants if ever there were one, and it’s better binged than one at a time. If you like light, fizzy comedies and are ready to appreciate Duff, give it a whirl. The first presidential debate is Monday night. It starts at 9 p.m. Eastern on every network, CNN, CNBC, Telemundo, Univision, Fox News, PBS, and streaming on Twitter and YouTube. You can’t escape it! You might try, but you can’t. “Drunk History,” season premiere, Tuesday, 10:30 p.m., Comedy Central. There are no bad episodes of “Drunk History.” If you don’t care for drunk comedians trying to recount famous historical events, then sure, you’ll hate this, but if that sounds even marginally viable to you, welcome to the light. “Code Black,” season premiere, Wednesday, 10 p.m., CBS. This is theoretically CBS’s high-end medical drama, but my god, it is boring. Even the addition of a somewhat blond Rob Lowe cannot liven up the proceedings. “Impastor,” season premiere, Wednesday, 10:30 p.m., TV Land. The show, about a lowlife who assumes the identity of a small-town pastor, took a little while in last year’s first season to develop its characters beyond stereotypes, but it got there. It’s still more promise than delivery, but the performances are strong. Another month, another set of movies that will disappear from HBO On Demand and streaming platforms. You have until Sept. 30 to check these out. “ “ “