What's on TV this week—True Detective: Night Country and the Emmy Awards

The biggies All it takes is a seemingly thrilling season to bring to the small screen. The iconic actor stars in and co produces the HBO anthology’s fourth season, with taking over showrunner duties. The six episode is set in Alaska, where Detective Liz Danvers (Foster) searches for eight men who vanished without a trace from an arctic research station.

She teams up with a young officer, Evangeline Navarro (Keli Reis), and they often clash while confronting the dark secrets of their small, frosty town. Fiona Shaw, Finn Bennett, Isabella Star Lablanc, Aka Niviâna, Anna Lambe, Joel D. Montgrand, Christopher Eccleston, and John Hawkes co star. will recap the show weekly.

Awards season is in full swing. , we’re now gearing up for the hosted by Anthony Anderson. As a reminder, the show was pushed from September to January because of the Hollywood strikes last year, but the eligibility period remains the same (June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2023). So, yes, all those nominations are for season one still.

, including favorites like , , , , , , and . Plus, consult our and check back for our coverage on the big night. In the 1963 set neo noir , detective Sam Spade (Clive Owen) is enjoying a quiet retirement in France—until his rival forces him to go back to his investigative ways. What’s more, six beloved nuns are murdered, and Sam is learning that it’s all connected to a child with potentially great powers.

The six episode show hails from Scott Frank ( ) and co stars Denis Ménochet, Matthew Beard, Rebecca Root, and Cara Bossom. : does his best Poirot in , a murder mystery inspired by the likes of Agatha Christie and . ( ) In the 10 episode season, Patinkin plays detective Rufus Cotesworth, who is traveling on a cruise when a deadly crime occurs.

Cotesworth gets roped in to solve the case with an unexpected assist from Imogene Scott (Violett Beane), a young woman tied to one of his previously unsolved cases. The ensemble features , Lauren Patten, Linda Emond, Jayne Atkinson, Sofia Rosinsky, and David Marshall Grant. : From ’s Felicity Morris and Bernadette Higgins comes a new docuseries .

The three parter digs into the March 2015 case of Denise Huskins, who was kidnapped in the middle of the night by a home invader. A national media frenzy ensued, andseveral theories emerged, including the similarities to Gillian Flynn’s . However, here the truth is stranger than fiction. More good stuff It’s not just Emmys week, people.

The 29th annual Critic’s Choice Awards take place in L.A. on Sunday, with Chelsea Handler returning to host. , while on the TV side, , with several nods for , , , and . , the first original show on the the rebooted CW, is here. (And just in time: The network in a and .) The procedural follows water cop—yes, that’s right—Cole Ellis (Giacomo Giannoti) and con woman Max Mithcell (VanessaMorgan), who team up to solve cases.

Jason Priestley and Andy Nez co star. : Host Jason Momoa travels across the country in the eight part docuseries with the goal of interacting with and learning about artists and craftsmen across different fields. Two episodes of the Max show drop each week. Can’t miss recaps Arriving now Ending soon.