BLACK WATCH: (5.16.25) 'The Four Seasons,' & More
BLACK WATCH: (5.16.25) ‘The Four Seasons,’ ‘Untold: Shooting Guards ,’ & More
Black Watch is back with the Cassius Clique’s recommends for essential weekend TV enjoyment. Sometimes it is all good to be inside. —unless you haven’t seen Sinners, so get to it. This week’s offerings include a pair of NBA guards who took things to the extreme, washed Gen X’ers going through life issues and more.
Untold: Shooting Guards – Netflix
One of the biggest scandals in NBA history —in one of its arenas, no less— came when Washington Wizards teammates Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton drew guns on each other in the locker room on Christmas Eve 2009 over a gambling debt. Thanks to Netflix’s latest episode in its Untold Series, aptly titled Shooting Guards, fans finally get the complete picture of what happened that day and how it kicked off the end of Crittenton’s short-lived NBA career, which led to a murder charge and years in jail. Now released from prison, he and Arenas open up about that fateful locker room moment that derailed them both.
Stream Untold: Shooting Guards on Netflix.—Bruce Goodwin II
The Four Seasons – Netflix
The Four Seasons is touted by Netflix as a homage and “love letter to long-term relationships, both platonic and romantic.” Based on the 1981 film of the same name, that you probably haven’t seen (it’s all good), the series follows six old friends, who start off as three couples, but one goes kaput, and the year-long drama that ensues. The couples are Kate (Tina Fey, who is also a co-creator) and Jack (Will Forte), Nick (Steve Carell) and Anne (Kerri Kenney-Silver), and Danny (Colman Domingo) and Claude (Marco Calvani), who each deal with their own issue in the aftermath of the shake up the friend group. That’s cool and all, but stick around for Colman Domingo’s top performance. There’s a reason the guy is a star.—Alvin aqua Blanco
3 Body Problem – Netflix
3 Body Problem, a science fiction series from Game of Thrones co-creators David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, and Alexander Woo, is the latest adaptation of former computer engineer Liu Cixin’s book series, Remembrance of Earth’s Past. The first of Cixin’s is where the show gets its name from and zips across space and time, focusing on the exploits of Dr. Ye Wenjie (Rosalind Chao playing the elder version and Zine Tseng playing the younge version), a Chinese astrophysicist who witnesses the brutal murder of her scientist father during the Cultural Revolution. Without spoiling too much of the plot, Dr. Wenjie establishes contact with an alien race that is treated like religious figures in a cult-like group led by Wenjie.
The show isn’t heavy on Black characters, but British-American actor Jovan Adepo (The Leftovers, When They See Us) shines as Dr. Saul Durand, a member of the so-called Oxford Five — five friends who attended the prestigious institution. John Bradley of GoT fame stars in the show along with Eiza González, MCU alum Benedict Wong, and more. Fans of virtual reality headsets will delight in how the technology is employed in the show as a means for the mysterious San-Ti race to maintain contact with Earth, with the group rushing to the planet as their world was destroyed by a “three-body problem” occurrence. It’s truly heady stuff. —D.L. Chandler
BLACK WATCH: (5.16.25) ‘The Four Seasons,’ ‘Untold: Shooting Guards ,’ & More was originally published on cassiuslife.com
