What’s worth your time in TV and movies this weekend?
The laconic charmer went from sitcom sweetness to blockbuster glory with his low-key sense of humor intact.
Now that’s all gone in this entirely grim thriller.
Minion Kevin, Gru (Steve Carell), and Minion Stuart in ‘Minions: The Rise of Gru’.Illumination
Pratt is James Reece, an ultra-elite SEAL with a gun garage and an axe collection.
In the series premiere, he suffers astounding losses.
Nearly his entire platoon dies screaming in an explosive ambush.
Chris Pratt and Taylor Kitsch in ‘The Terminal List’.Prime Video
Reece thinks a “highly sophisticated adversary” is hunting him.
But a combat head wound left him with recurring hallucinations and tangled memories.
Is he losing his mind?
Joey King in ‘The Princess’; Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù in ‘Mr. Malcolm’s List’.20th Century Studios; Ross Ferguson/Bleecker Street
Is a massive conspiracy out to get him?
Even if thereisa conspiracy, is hestilllosing his mind?
There’s a legitimate, palpable anger here.
Aaron Paul and Thandiwe Newton in ‘Westworld’.John Johnson/HBO
“There’s evil in this world,” Reece tells one baddie, mid-torture.
Sure, but some balls are deflated.Grade: CDarren Franich
The PrincessandMr.
At least no one inMalcolmgets disemboweled to the three-chord snarl of Joan Jett’s “Bad Reputation.
Rebecca Rittenhouse and Nichole Sakura in ‘Maggie’.Liliane Lathan/Hulu
Meanwhile,Evan Rachel Woodplays a new (?)
character named Christina, a video-game writer who meets the strangest people.
Something’s going on with a thing called the Tower.
Something else is going on with a lot of scary flies.
Newton is the only performer having any fun at all, while poorJeffrey Wrightis basically playing Season 8 Bran.
Meanwhile, Thompson gets syndicated-villain lines like “She could be useful to me yet!”
I’ve seen half the season, and one of the twists is so hysterically silly it’salmostgenius.
Seriously, though: This is now a Scary Fly show.
(“Ooh, I love vintage self-help books.
