You can finally watch Snyder Cut

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Thursday, March 18th. All times are Eastern.

The best choices

Zack Snyder’s Justice League (HBO Max, 3:01 am): “There is no alternative reality, no different world or Bizarro, where Justice League The premiere on HBO Max this week is no more “official” version Justice League. Imagine that Zack Snyder remained at the helm of the DC crossover event he orchestrated – that the family tragedy did not take him away from the project and that Warner Bros. he did not take his absence as an excuse to reconfigure the entire film against his wishes. Even in these “what if” circumstances, would the multiplexes really become home to a four-hour R-strengthening exercise, rated by R, for comicdom’s best-known spandexed heroes? This, the fabulous Snyder Cut of popular (or at least persistent) demand, is a film that could only have risen from the rubble of another: It is a spectacular maximalist superhero, twice as long as the previous iteration, that exists because of the problems that affected its production, not in spite of them. ” Read the rest of AA Dowd’s movie review.

chosen (Netflix, season one streaming now): All eight episodes of this SF thriller series, based on the book of the same name by John Marrs, is currently waiting for you on Netflix. We’ll look at Howard Overman’s adaptation in the coming days.

Regular coverage

More from Film Club

Slaxx (Shudder, 3:01 am): “Slaxx it’s really all you could want from a movie about a killer pair of jeans. This is obviously a low-budget production, which takes place almost entirely within the confines of an American Apparel clothing store called CCC (Canadian Cotton Company), whose politically correct marketing contradicts its commercial operating practices. But the animation for the killer jeans is playful and accomplished, as are all the technical aspects of director Elza Kephart’s colorful horror comedy. ” Read the rest of Katie Rife’s review.

Wild cards

Baroness Von Sketch Show (IFC, midnight): We feel great about the “bonus episodes” we receive from this Canadian sketch; you can see why in this exclusive clip.

Gray’s anatomy (ABC, 9 p.m.): If you’re behind Gray, you may want to recover quickly – and you certainly shouldn’t read this interview until you have it.