This week's TV: Ayo Edebiri in ‘The Bear,' a Barbara Walters documentary, Marvel's ‘Ironheart,' and more
'Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything'
Monday on Hulu: The Boston native and legendary interviewer known for her ability to make grown men cry becomes the subject of Jackie Jesko's extensive, intimate documentary. The late newswoman and television personality was so famous as to have been impersonated by 'SNL''s Gilda Radner as the character Baba Wawa. But she was not above pitching hardball questions at every sitting president from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama, as well as Donald Trump and Joe Biden before each became president. In 2009, when asked how it felt to be the subject of an interview rather than the other way around, Walters responded, 'I like it better the other way.'
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'Ironheart'
Tuesday on Disney+: 'Black Panther''s Ryan Coogler executive produces the Marvel TV spinoff with Dominique Thorne reprising her role as brilliant MIT student Riri Williams, a.k.a. Ironheart. The six-part miniseries, also starring Anthony Ramos as supervillain The Hood/Peter Robbins, is set in the wake of 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.' When Williams returns home to Chicago, she can't catch a break. Dark forces challenge her to take up her superhero suit, which is inspired by Ironman/Tony Stark, and fight for good against a technological menace.
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'My Mom Jayne: A Film by Mariska Hargitay'
Friday on HBO: 'Law and Order: SVU' icon Hargitay, a.k.a. Sergeant Olivia Benson, holsters her gun and steps behind the camera to direct her first documentary, which premiered last month at the Cannes Film Festival. The subject? Her bombshell movie star mother, Jayne Mansfield, who died at 34 in a horrific 1967 car accident when her daughter was only 3 (and sitting in the backseat). Probing and emotional, Hargitay embarks on a journey to discover who her mother was as a public persona and as a private woman, wife, and mother. Secrets will be revealed. Tears will flow.
'Smoke'
Friday on Apple TV+: Dorchester native, screenwriter, and best-selling author
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Season 3
,' Saturday on Netflix: After two seasons, the breakout Emmy-winning South Korean scripted K-drama returns six months after the sequel concluded on Christmas Eve 2024. The third and final outing from showrunner Hwang Dong-yuk again finds 456 financially desperate players confronting even deadlier, more twisted challenges to survive and secure riches beyond measure. With a traitor among them, the competitors struggle to outsmart the cruel game that preys on their bodies, minds, and morals. Emmy-winner Lee Jung-jae returns as hero Seong Ji-hun.
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Thelma Adams is a cultural critic and the author of the best-selling historical novel 'The Last Woman Standing,' about Josephine Marcus, the Jewish wife of Wyatt Earp.
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