Sci-fi fans will thrill to the emotional season finale of Star Trek: Discovery<\/em> and the Season 2 climax of the endlessly bizarre Raised by Wolves<\/em>. Fox takes a droll mockumentary-style look at small-town life in Welcome to Flatch<\/em>. One of sports\u2019 great annual events begins as the NCAA college basketball tournament<\/em> kicks off its first round of play. HBO Max launches the cheeky comedy Minx<\/em> and the limited-series thriller DMZ<\/em>.<\/p>\n Paramount+<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n The Season 4 arc comes to an intense and emotional climax as the Discovery<\/em> crew tries to communicate with the mysterious Ten-C alien species\u2014which seems to be empathetic, though uncomprehending of Federation ways\u2014while the countdown nears for the aliens\u2019 DMA device to unknowingly unleash destruction on the home planets of Earth and Ni\u2019Var. Discovery\u2019s Capt. Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) faces tough decisions about her rogue lover, Book (David Ajala), while back home, Tilly (Mary Wiseman) and Admiral Vance (Oded Fehr<\/strong>) orchestrate a perilous evacuation.<\/p>\n Trae Patton\/Paramount+<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Elsewhere in Trek<\/em> world, Picard (Patrick Stewart) makes good on his pledge that \u201cto save the future\u2026 we have to repair the past.\u201d So once they use the Borg Queen (Annie Wersching) to extricate themselves from the bizarro world of a totalitarian alt-reality, it\u2019s off to 2024 Los Angeles, where the search is on for a \u201cwatcher\u201d while everyone takes pains not to disrupt the timeline. \u201cEverything we do here has consequences,\u201d Picard needlessly points out. Don\u2019t be surprised if all does not go smoothly in the 21st century. And Q (John de Lancie) is watching.<\/p>\n HBO MAX <\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n In the Season 2 finale of one of TV\u2019s most haunting and visually powerful sci-fi dramas, android Mother (Amanda Collin) takes the veil\u2014a sensory filter worn by the revived \u201cGrandmother\u201d robot\u2014so she can confront her serpent offspring \u201cNo. 7\u201d in a climactic showdown that could decide the fate of humanity. It gets weirder from there.<\/p>\n Michael Lavine\/FOX<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Small-town life is spoofed in a mockumentary based on a British format, relocated to rural Flatch, Ohio (pop. 1,526), where the living is easy if you keep your expectations low. Creator Jenny Bicks<\/strong> and director\/executive producer Paul Feig score droll but obvious points in the jokey set-up, introducing best friend\/cousins Kelly (Chelsea Holmes) and Shrub (Sam Straley) as \u201cwalking disappointments\u201d who are destined to fail once again at Flatch\u2019s annual Scarecrow Festival. (One of several title cards informs us of the \u201ccorrelation between small-town traditions and community happiness.\u201d) Among the newer Flatch residents: well-meaning pastor \u201cFather Joe\u201d (Seann William Scott) and his ex, Cheryl (You\u2019re the Worst\u2019s Aya Cash), who\u2019s taken over the local newspaper. If you like what you see, the first seven episodes are available for binge-watching on Hulu, Fox Now and On Demand. But as they say in Flatch, what\u2019s the rush?<\/p>\n HBO Max <\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Flatch\u2019s<\/em> Paul Feig is also among the executive producers of this cheeky period comedy, with a similar vibe to GLOW<\/em> and Boogie Nights<\/em> in its generous attitude toward societal outliers. Set in the early 1970s, Minx <\/em>(created by Ellen Rapoport) stars Ophelia Lovibond as idealistic feminist Joyce, a crusader from suburban Pasadena whose dreams of launching a Matriarchy Awakens manifesto hits a wall of indifference until she crosses paths with unruly porn-mag merchant Doug Renetti (New Girl\u2019s Jake Johnson<\/em>). And thus Minx<\/em> is born in a Van Nuys studio, a magazine wrapping its message of female equality in the titillating guise of male erotica. As Joyce rationalizes: \u201cThe ability to look makes a woman feel powerful.\u201d It\u2019s also a good excuse for a classic pay-cable revel in unabashed frontal nudity. Also new to HBO Max: DMZ<\/em>, a four-part limited series based on a DC graphic novel, starring Rosario Dawson in a dystopian thriller as a woman seeking her lost son in a demilitarized zone within Manhattan, whose streets are meaner than ever.<\/p>\n Foc<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n While Top Chef<\/em> continues on Bravo, Fox launches an eighth season of the youthful culinary competition, with 16 junior chefs aged 8 to 13 donning the white apron to impress the judges in hopes of winning the $100,000 grand prize. Joining the ubiquitous Gordon Ramsay and chef Aaron Sanchez on the judging panel: wellness advocate\/author Daphne Oz. In the first round, the young chefs punch holes in a wall to retrieve their mystery ingredients.<\/p>\n Hulu <\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n The gripping docudrama about the fraudulent reign of health-care entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes<\/strong> (Amanda Seyfried) takes its darkest turn yet, when the Theranos CEO hires celebrity lawyer David Boies (Kurtwood Smith) to silence her critics. This creates an internal problem when troubled chief chemist Ian Gibbons<\/strong> (a poignant Stephen Fry) is subpoenaed to testify. Michaela Watkins is chilling as the in-house counsel intimidating employees under their NDAs. Joining the cast: 13 Reasons Why\u2019s<\/em> Dylan Minnette as new Theranos hire Tyler Shultz<\/strong>, grandson of board member George Shultz<\/strong> (Sam Waterson) and starstruck by Elizabeth\u2014until Tyler enters the lab and discovers the level of deception and fear under which everyone is operating.<\/p>\n Inside Thursday TV:<\/strong><\/p>\n [ad_2] Sci-fi fans will thrill to the emotional season finale of Star Trek: Discovery<\/em> and the Season 2 climax of the endlessly bizarre Raised by Wolves<\/em>. Fox takes a droll mockumentary-style look at small-town life in Welcome to Flatch<\/em>. One of sports\u2019 great annual events begins as the NCAA college basketball tournament<\/em> kicks off its first round of play. HBO Max launches the cheeky comedy Minx<\/em> and the limited-series thriller DMZ<\/em>.<\/p>\n Paramount+<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n The Season 4 arc comes to an intense and emotional climax as the Discovery<\/em> crew tries to communicate with the mysterious Ten-C alien species\u2014which seems to be empathetic, though uncomprehending of Federation ways\u2014while the countdown nears for the aliens\u2019 DMA device to unknowingly unleash destruction on the home planets of Earth and Ni\u2019Var. Discovery\u2019s Capt. Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) faces tough decisions about her rogue lover, Book (David Ajala), while back home, Tilly (Mary Wiseman) and Admiral Vance (Oded Fehr<\/strong>) orchestrate a perilous evacuation.<\/p>\n Trae Patton\/Paramount+<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Elsewhere in Trek<\/em> world, Picard (Patrick Stewart) makes good on his pledge that \u201cto save the future\u2026 we have to repair the past.\u201d So once they use the Borg Queen (Annie Wersching) to extricate themselves from the bizarro world of a totalitarian alt-reality, it\u2019s off to 2024 Los Angeles, where the search is on for a \u201cwatcher\u201d while everyone takes pains not to disrupt the timeline. \u201cEverything we do here has consequences,\u201d Picard needlessly points out. Don\u2019t be surprised if all does not go smoothly in the 21st century. And Q (John de Lancie) is watching.<\/p>\n HBO MAX <\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n In the Season 2 finale of one of TV\u2019s most haunting and visually powerful sci-fi dramas, android Mother (Amanda Collin) takes the veil\u2014a sensory filter worn by the revived \u201cGrandmother\u201d robot\u2014so she can confront her serpent offspring \u201cNo. 7\u201d in a climactic showdown that could decide the fate of humanity. It gets weirder from there.<\/p>\n Michael Lavine\/FOX<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Small-town life is spoofed in a mockumentary based on a British format, relocated to rural Flatch, Ohio (pop. 1,526), where the living is easy if you keep your expectations low. Creator Jenny Bicks<\/strong> and director\/executive producer Paul Feig score droll but obvious points in the jokey set-up, introducing best friend\/cousins Kelly (Chelsea Holmes) and Shrub (Sam Straley) as \u201cwalking disappointments\u201d who are destined to fail once again at Flatch\u2019s annual Scarecrow Festival. (One of several title cards informs us of the \u201ccorrelation between small-town traditions and community happiness.\u201d) Among the newer Flatch residents: well-meaning pastor \u201cFather Joe\u201d (Seann William Scott) and his ex, Cheryl (You\u2019re the Worst\u2019s Aya Cash), who\u2019s taken over the local newspaper. If you like what you see, the first seven episodes are available for binge-watching on Hulu, Fox Now and On Demand. But as they say in Flatch, what\u2019s the rush?<\/p>\n HBO Max <\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Flatch\u2019s<\/em> Paul Feig is also among the executive producers of this cheeky period comedy, with a similar vibe to GLOW<\/em> and Boogie Nights<\/em> in its generous attitude toward societal outliers. Set in the early 1970s, Minx <\/em>(created by Ellen Rapoport) stars Ophelia Lovibond as idealistic feminist Joyce, a crusader from suburban Pasadena whose dreams of launching a Matriarchy Awakens manifesto hits a wall of indifference until she crosses paths with unruly porn-mag merchant Doug Renetti (New Girl\u2019s Jake Johnson<\/em>). And thus Minx<\/em> is born in a Van Nuys studio, a magazine wrapping its message of female equality in the titillating guise of male erotica. As Joyce rationalizes: \u201cThe ability to look makes a woman feel powerful.\u201d It\u2019s also a good excuse for a classic pay-cable revel in unabashed frontal nudity. Also new to HBO Max: DMZ<\/em>, a four-part limited series based on a DC graphic novel, starring Rosario Dawson in a dystopian thriller as a woman seeking her lost son in a demilitarized zone within Manhattan, whose streets are meaner than ever.<\/p>\n Foc<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n While Top Chef<\/em> continues on Bravo, Fox launches an eighth season of the youthful culinary competition, with 16 junior chefs aged 8 to 13 donning the white apron to impress the judges in hopes of winning the $100,000 grand prize. Joining the ubiquitous Gordon Ramsay and chef Aaron Sanchez on the judging panel: wellness advocate\/author Daphne Oz. In the first round, the young chefs punch holes in a wall to retrieve their mystery ingredients.<\/p>\n Hulu <\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n The gripping docudrama about the fraudulent reign of health-care entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes<\/strong> (Amanda Seyfried) takes its darkest turn yet, when the Theranos CEO hires celebrity lawyer David Boies (Kurtwood Smith) to silence her critics. This creates an internal problem when troubled chief chemist Ian Gibbons<\/strong> (a poignant Stephen Fry) is subpoenaed to testify. Michaela Watkins is chilling as the in-house counsel intimidating employees under their NDAs. Joining the cast: 13 Reasons Why\u2019s<\/em> Dylan Minnette as new Theranos hire Tyler Shultz<\/strong>, grandson of board member George Shultz<\/strong> (Sam Waterson) and starstruck by Elizabeth\u2014until Tyler enters the lab and discovers the level of deception and fear under which everyone is operating.<\/p>\n Inside Thursday TV:<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"Star](\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/star-trek-discovery-s4-michael-crew-1014x557.jpg\")
Star Trek: Discovery<\/h3>\n
![\"Star](\"https:\/\/ntvb.tmsimg.com\/assets\/p13114224_b_h10_ae.jpg?w=960&h=540\"\/)
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Star Trek: Picard<\/h3>\n
![\"Star](\"https:\/\/ntvb.tmsimg.com\/assets\/p16977444_b_h8_ae.jpg?w=960&h=540\"\/)
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Raised by Wolves<\/h3>\n
![\"Raised](\"https:\/\/ntvb.tmsimg.com\/assets\/p18643975_b_h10_ad.jpg?w=960&h=540\"\/)
<\/div>\n![\"Aya](\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/welcome-to-flatch-cast-1014x570.jpg\")
Welcome to Flatch<\/h3>\n
![\"Minx,](\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/minx-hbo-max-jake-johnson-ophelia-lovibond-1014x570.jpg\")
Minx<\/h3>\n
![\"MasterChef](\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MasterChef-Junior-1-1014x570.jpg\")
MasterChef Junior<\/h3>\n
![\"MasterChef](\"https:\/\/ntvb.tmsimg.com\/assets\/p9969804_b_h10_af.jpg?w=960&h=540\"\/)
<\/div>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/the-dropout-amanda-seyfried-elizabeth-holmes-1014x570.jpg\")
The Dropout<\/h3>\n
![\"The](\"https:\/\/ntvb.tmsimg.com\/assets\/p21592403_b_h8_aa.jpg?w=960&h=540\"\/)
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\n<\/p>\nStar Trek: Discovery<\/h3>\n
<\/div>\nStar Trek: Picard<\/h3>\n
<\/div>\nRaised by Wolves<\/h3>\n
<\/div>\nWelcome to Flatch<\/h3>\n
Minx<\/h3>\n
MasterChef Junior<\/h3>\n
<\/div>\nThe Dropout<\/h3>\n
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