Bill Hader stars as a hitman with aspirations to make it as an actor in Barry.
Barry
Monday, Fox Showcase, 7.30pm
If there’s a line between black comedy and comedic blackness, Barry has a toenail over it in one direction or the other. The collision of showbiz and psychopathy created by former Seinfeld writer Alec Berg and Saturday Night Live alumnus Bill Hader is equally at home with absurd camp and perfunctory violence. This new third season evidently begins some time after the second. Hitman turned amateur thespian Barry (Hader) still wants to kill his old murder-manager, Fuches (Stephen Root), but Fuches is in hiding in suitably absurd circumstances. More pressing, perhaps, is the fact that Barry thinks his own sanity – or his approximation thereof – is starting to disintegrate, just in time for a dangerous confrontation with his old acting coach, Gene (Henry Winkler). Meanwhile, TV success is turning Sally (Sarah Goldberg) into a monster of a different kind, and Chechen crime boss NoHo Hank (Anthony Carrigan) relishes his turn in the spotlight as he undergoes police interrogation for the very first time. Hader, who directs and co-writes as well as starring, deftly balances the bleakness, the satire and the wackier elements. Televisual Marmite.
Addicted to Marriage
Wednesday, TLC, 9.30pm
Four American women – who have been married and divorced a total of 20 times between them – are determined to head to the altar once more in this surprisingly affecting reality series. They seem driven less by personal neediness than by a desire to live out personal and societal ideals related to marriage. The outlier is 52-year-old Monette, who has been married 11 times to nine men simply because her religion forbids sex outside marriage.
Expedition Deep Ocean
Thursday, Animal Planet, 9.30pm
Modern-day explorer Victor Vescovo has already climbed the highest mountain on every continent and skied to both poles. This fascinating new series follows him and his team as they embark on an unprecedented mission – to dive to the deepest points of all five oceans. This first episode sees him heading to the deepest point of the Atlantic, some 8.3 kilometres down at the bottom of a giant trench near Puerto Rico. After some early scares – Vescovo’s prototype submarine starts leaking the moment it’s put into the water – he eventually makes it to the bottom, where extraordinary animals reveal themselves. The coolest are giant isopods that look like overgrown woodlice, and a hagfish that expels gill-clogging slime to foil a shark trying to eat it.
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