Here’s what’s happening in the world of television since Monday, April 5th. All times are Eastern.
Top choice
Hemingway (PBS, 8 p.m., first docuseries, back-to-back episodes): “When modern readers are torn apart by the American literary canon, they are probably at least partially complaining about Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway’s clichés are easy to shake … To his credit, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s six-hour docs Hemingway don’t dispute too much of that. Directors use their own author statements, letters, photographs, and other writings to test some of our worst assumptions. As cultural conversations about whether we can separate an artist’s exemplary work from their personal problematic life come back again and again, Hemingway it enters the same muddy water and drops its anchor. ” Read the rest of Roxana Hadadi’s review.
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Wild cards
Only foals and horses (Acorn TV, 3:01 a.m., full streaming premiere of the first American season): Add this to your list of comforting TV shows to wear while folding your clothes: a four-episode docuserie about an all-female veterinary horse team from Wales.
Look, gift detective (Disney Junior, 5:00 p.m., season two premiere): Our current child detective is back and, as with her debut, it’s not too soon.
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