David Bianculli

Jeff Daniels plays the title character in this Netflix series based on Tom Wolfe's novel. The tension isn't about whether he survives — we know he doesn't — but what he does in his final days.

Elisabeth Moss, who played Peggy in "Mad Men" and starred in "The Handmaid's Tale," stars in a new six-part drama series on Hulu. It's called "The Veil." And this time, she plays a British spy tasked with befriending a suspected female terrorist. "The Veil" is created and written by Steven Knight from "Peaky Blinders" and last year's World War II miniseries "All the Light We Cannot See." Our TV critic David Bianculli has this review.

In 2014, the producers of This American Life presented a podcast called "Serial," examining the facts, and loose ends, involving a cold murder case. A year later, HBO followed with a TV equivalent: The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst. The Jinx – Part Two starts its behind-the-scenes narrative just as the original Jinx is days away from premiering on HBO. Events are captured in real time, revealing themselves like elements in a thriller.