What to Watch This Week: J.Lo’s New Rom-Com, Inventing Anna, and a Jeopardy! Championship

I am assuming you’ve got already binge-watched Candy Magnolias season two (how about that cliffhanger?), caught up on This Is Us, and are within the thick of watching the Olympics. So now it is time to put some new TV and film choices in your viewing listing. 

With Valentine’s Day across the nook, there are many stable rom-com choices coming this Friday in addition to the story of 1 girl who actually solely loves herself, which makes for excellent TV viewing too (I am you, Anna Delvey). Then there’s the return of the Jeopardy! Nationwide School Championship in primetime, which ought to show to be a significant rankings win contemplating how even essentially the most informal viewer is now obsessive about watching the following younger Matt Amodio or Amy Schneider. Plus, your new favourite pairing of Jenny Slate and Charlie Day in Prime Video’s I Need You Again.

With that mentioned, welcome to the month the place there is not any such factor as an excessive amount of chocolate or an excessive amount of TV, and I will see you again right here subsequent week.

Sunday, February 6

Winter Olympics: Crew Determine Skating, Freestyle Snowboarding (NBC): The determine skating staff occasion continues with the women and men’s free skate and the free dance. In the meantime, it is the ladies’s large air qualifying spherical for freestyle snowboarding, in addition to the ladies’s big slalom run. And for at the very least a couple of minutes, I will inform myself I would prefer to attempt snowboarding once more till I keep in mind the time I almost died on ski slope and it took me two hours to get down the mountain. 7 P.M. CT, however test your native NBC schedule. 

Monday, February 7

Winter Olympics: Males’s Determine Skating, Freestyle Snowboarding, and Curling (NBC): I nonetheless cannot fairly clarify what curling is, apart from it is just like shuffleboard and has gained in reputation each time it airs throughout the Olympics. (However you may have to modify over to CNBC to observe it this night.) Over at NBC, watch Nathan Chen do what Nathan Chen does finest when he competes within the males’s singles quick program in determine skating. And do not miss the ladies’s large air last in freestyle snowboarding as properly. 7 P.M. CT, however test your native NBC schedule; the Olympics will proceed to air all week.

Tuesday, February 8

Jeopardy! Nationwide School Championship (ABC): The multi-consecutive evening occasion (4 nights this week, 4 nights subsequent week, with the championship recreation on Tuesday, Feb. 22) kicks off with Mayim Bialik internet hosting 36 college students from 36 schools and universities to find out which collegiate sweatshirt will reign in the long run. 8 P.M./7 P.M. ET/CT

Thursday, February 10

The Lady Earlier than (HBOMax): Gugu Mbatha-Uncooked stars as Jane, a lady who will get a possibility to stay in a surprising, smooth home designed by an architect (David Oyelowo) who orders that his company should abide by his guidelines. If you happen to ask me, that is the primary crimson flag to get out, irrespective of how attractive the home is. Jane notices the home is altering her in methods she by no means anticipated, and it is solely when she learns in regards to the girl who lived there earlier than her does she begin to suspect she would possibly face the identical destiny. If you happen to like psychological thrillers, that is for you. If not, would possibly I recommend episode 22 of The Large Bang Idea‘s third season (titled “The Staircase Implementation,” additionally accessible on HBOMax) once we discover out the origin story of Leonard transferring in with Sheldon, and the way he too was modified in methods he in all probability has by no means recovered from. Streaming; all episodes (4) accessible 

Friday, February 11

Inventing Anna (Netflix): Shonda Rhimes and the Shondaland staff have completed it once more, with the highly-addictive, brilliantly-acted Inventing Anna, the true story of how a New York socialite scammed everybody she encountered in an effort to construct her personal arts membership. Even for those who weren’t conscious of this story when it first unfolded, don’t fret; I did not know something about Anna Delvey or what she did, and now I am obsessed. Julia Garner is masterful as Delvey, and you will have enjoyable counting all of the Shondaland cameos and guest-starring roles on this nine-episode collection. Additionally starring Anna Chlumsky (equally implausible), Alexis Floyd, Laverne Cox, Katie Lowes, Anthony Edwards, Jeff Perry, and extra. All episodes streaming now.

I Need You Again (Amazon Prime Video): Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger proceed their reign of brilliance (their portfolio consists of This Is Us, How I Met Your Father, Love, Victor, Love, Simon) with I Need You Again, a very enjoyable, relatable rom-com starring Jenny Slate, Charlie Day, Gina Rodriguez, Scott Eastwood, Manny Jacinto, and extra. Within the movie, Emma (Slate) and Peter (Day) assume their respective relationships are transferring…till their companions break up with them. To make it worse, their companions have already moved on with different folks. So out of desperation and heartbreak, new mates Emma and Peter formulate a plan to interrupt up their exes’ new relationships and get them again. 

“We made I Need You Again as a result of we love the grounded romantic comedies of the 80s and 90s, like When Harry Met Sally,” Aptaker and Berger inform Glamour. “The form of film the place it feels such as you’re watching your two funniest mates wrestle to search out love and faux they know how you can be adults in a world that really resembles our personal. And in our utterly neutral opinion, you possibly can’t get any funnier or extra relatable than Jenny Slate and Charlie Day who’re completely dynamite collectively on display screen. We’ve all been on a wild trip these final two years, and we expect everybody deserves to take a few hours on Valentine’s Day weekend to snort some good laughs, really feel some good emotions and never take into consideration how extremely demanding the world is these days.” We agree.

Marry Me (Common Studios): Charlie Gilbert is a math instructor and Kat Valdez is a mega pop famous person, and in a storyline higher than any season of The Bachelor, the 2 one way or the other come into one another’s orbit and go on a journey neither one anticipated. Is it predictable? Sure. But it surely’s additionally tremendous entertaining and enjoyable. And for those who’re on the lookout for star energy at its most interesting, it would not getter higher than J.Lo and Owen Wilson combating their character’s emotions for each other. Additionally starring Maluma, Sarah Silverman, and a actually lovable canine. In theaters and streaming on Peacock. 

Dollface season two (Hulu): Kat Dennings, Shay Mitchell, Brenda Tune, and Esther Povitsky are again for his or her sophomore season as they attempt to grapple with every little thing that comes with simply being a human being in 2022. Created by Jordan Weiss, who wrote this nice essay for Glamour about her inspiration for the present, the brand new season additionally options the return of Matthew Grey Gubler, Malin Ackerman, and Beth Grant because the cat woman. All 10 episodes streaming.

Saturday, February 12

The Marriage ceremony Veil Unveiled (Hallmark Channel): The second installment in The Marriage ceremony Veil trilogy focuses on Emma as she travels to Italy in the hunt for wonderful pasta and decadent desserts. Truly, she’s there to show and analysis a marriage veil which is meant to carry its proprietor love, however I nonetheless like my first thought. She’s in luck although, as a result of she meets Paolo (no, not the one from Associates), who’s the son of a neighborhood lace-making household. And I am positive he can cook dinner, too. Starring Autumn Reeser, Paolo Bernardini, Lacey Chabert and Ali Sweeney. 8 P.M./7 P.M. ET/CT