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My recap for episode four ended with a question we’ve all been wondering for quite some time: What the hell happened in San Francisco in 1973?

Welcome to What’s On, our weekly picks of must-watch shows. Here’s what you need to watch from Sunday, June 9 to Thursday, June 13. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekend edition of What’s On drops on Fridays.]

It’s the curse of anything truly successful to be dogged, basically forever, with questions about when you’re inevitably going to bring it back—especially in TV, where networks have made it abundantly clear over the last few years that there’s pretty much no conclusion so final that they won’t at least gently poke at…

The phrase “Will Smith makes a surprise appearance in a theater” has become a much more complicated one over the last couple of years than it might once have been, on account of that one time Will Smith made, well, a very surprising appearance in a theater. Still, there’s good surprises, and bad surprises, and Smith…

When we think about actor, musician, and three-decades-and-counting “television presence” Ray J, our mind typically goes to three things. 1) He is Brandy’s brother! 2) His moderately successful 2006 R&B hit “Sexy Can I.” And, of course, 3), his philosophical grasp of the concept of branching timelines, as expressed…

In his review of the (much slower, more confident) second season of Max Japanese crime series Tokyo Vice, our own Matt Schimkowitz wrote that “This is a show preparing an audience for the long haul.” Well, uh, not so much: Max revealed today that the series, which starred Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe as guys trying…

Hitmen are an essential part of the action thriller formula: Good guy tries to stop bad guy, bad guy puts out a hit on good guy, good guy dispatches the goon(s) before the final confrontation with bad guy. That’s the plot of basically every James Bond movie, right? Occasionally, you get a play on that formula where…

The world isn’t ready for Fantasmas, the ghostly, genre-bending, glowier-than-all-hell new series from Julio Torres. Returning to HBO, the home of his debut series, Los Espookys, Torres’ latest comes on the back of his first feature film, Problemista. In many ways, Fantasmas serves as a spiritual sequel series to Probl…

Today was Summer GameFest, Geoff Keighley’s latest salvo in his ongoing war to get the entire video game promotional apparatus under his blandly cheerful control. Broadcast online, the two-hour show was mostly exhausting, and very occasionally exhilarating, as Keighley and his team rolled out commercial after…

Having apparently failed to learn the genuinely valuable lessons of the American Republican party—a sentence that we were not, personally, expecting to type out in earnest today—a Canadian hospital foundation was forced to issue an apology this week after booking comedian Rob Schneider for a fundraising show, only to…