Television

In 2017, the FX network presented the first edition of Ryan Murphy's "Feud," an anthology series dramatizing infamous real-life conflicts. The first edition was about the intense rivalry between Hollywood stars Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. Now, seven years later, the second installment of "Feud" has finally arrived. It's called "Capote Vs. The Swans," and it's an eight-part drama about Truman Capote and the high-society women he socialized with and sometimes cruelly wrote about.

Tony Soprano was far from the typical protagonist of a TV drama. He wasn't just flawed; at times, he was utterly amoral. But audiences stayed with him — right up until the series' perfect ending.

In the crime series "Criminal Record," two high-powered London detectives clash over an old murder case that may need to be reopened. Cush Jumbo and Peter Capaldi are the stars in this new eight-part show on Apple TV+. Our TV critic-at-large John Powers says that it's worth seeing for Jumbo and Capaldi alone.

The jokes and bodies pile up in this eight-part Netflix series about a Taiwanese assassin who travels to L.A. to protect his goofy younger brother and his formidable mother, played by Michelle Yeoh.

Critic David Bianculli acknowledges that his year-end list of TV favorites is hardly all-inclusive. Nevertheless, here's what he enjoyed watching, including Beckham, The Bear and Black Mirror.

From 2002 to 2009, actor Tony Shalhoub starred on the USA Network series "Monk," playing Adrian Monk, a crime-solving detective with obsessive compulsive disorder. Now, after almost 15 years, Shalhoub and most of his original castmates are back in a new movie streaming on Peacock. It's called "Mr. Monk's Last Case." Our TV critic David Bianculli has this review.

Season 5 of the FX series kicks off with a brawl at a junior high school board meeting. When an unimposing Minnesota housewife is arrested, a string of special thrills and unexpected alliances follow.

Emma Stone and show co-creators Benny Safdie and Nathan Fielder star in a satire about a team of would-be TV producers as they try to make a TV series about the "off the grid" homes they're building.

A new Australian comedy series called "Colin From Accounts" is about a 40-something man and a late-20s woman who were brought together by a dog. The series begins streaming on Paramount+ tomorrow, and our critic at large, John Powers, says that its warmth, good humor and essential benevolence might make it the perfect antidote to what's going on in the world.

Reiner and Brooks have been friends since high school — and their intimacy shows in Albert Brooks: Defending My Life. The only flaw of this terrific documentary is that it's not twice as long.