What to Watch Thursday: Mike Tyson series on Hulu dramatizes the life of boxing champ
Here’s what’s on TV tonight.
Mike (Hulu)
This new limited series gives us a dramatic look at the life and career of heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson, through the eyes of the team behind the Tonya Harding movie “I, Tonya.”
The 8-episode series follows Tyson on his journey from being a beloved global athlete to a pariah and back again, all the while examining issues of race, class, fame, misogyny and media in America. The series — which stars Trevante Rhodes, Russell Hornsby, Harvey Keitel and others — is unauthorized, so it should be something else. We get the first two episodes in Thursday’s premiere with a new episode landing each week.
Everything I Know About Love (Peacock)
This is a new 7-episode series inspired by Dolly Alderton’s internationally bestselling memoir, with a central love story between two childhood best friends Maggie and Birdy. The show is set in a 2012 London house shared by four college-age women exploring their bad dates, heartaches and more.
The cast includes Emma Appleton, Bel Powley, Marli Siu, Aliyah Odoffin, Connor Finch, Jordan Peters and Ryan Bown.
The End is Nye (Peacock)
This is another big Peacock release this week, this one with Science Guy Bill Nye exploring epic, Earth-ending global disasters. Nye points out that most disaster movies start with someone ignoring a scientist -- so let’s not do that! The series uses realistic (and anxiety-producing) CGI to show the disasters, and then Nye uses science to show how we can survive, mitigate and prevent them. Each episode also features a brief cameo by longtime science advocate and TV producer Seth MacFarlane.
Running With the Devil: The World of John McAfee (Netflix)
“Running with the Devil” enters as our top true-crime documentary option, telling the story of John McAfee, a computer genius gone rogue. McAfee invented one of the most successful (and most hated, Netflix reminds us) softwares of all time: McAfee Anti-Virus. He made about $100 million with it. But when his neighbor was murdered, he went on the run and took a film crew with him.
Also on Netflix today: “The Figo Affair: The Transfer that Changed Football” and “A Kidnapping Scandal: The Florence Cassez Affair.”
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