May 14, 2021

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The Underground Railroad

Amazon Prime Video ■ New Limited Series

Oscar winner Barry Jenkins (“Moonlight”) is showrunner and executive producer, and directed all 10 episodes, of this limited series set in the antebellum South and based on the Pulitzer Prizewinning novel by Colson Whitehead. Newcomer Thuso Mbedu stars as Cora Randall, who makes a desperate bid for freedom after escaping a Georgia plantation. After hearing rumors about the Underground Railroad, Cora discovers that it is no mere metaphor but an actual railroad full of engineers, conductors and a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil.

The Woman in the Window

Netflix ■ Original Film

In this suspenseful psychological thriller based on the bestselling novel adapted by Tracy Letts, shocking secrets are revealed and nothing and no one are what they seem. Anna Fox (Amy Adams) is an agoraphobic child psychologist who finds herself keeping tabs on the pictureperfect family across the street through the windows of her New York City brownstone. Letts, Gary Oldman, Anthony Mackie, Fred Hechinger, Wyatt Russell, Brian Tyree Henry, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Julianne Moore also star.

Night Gallery

Comet, 1:15 p.m.

In “Certain Shadows on the Wall,” this creepy 1970 segment of Rod Serling’s horror anthology may have wormed its way into your brain as The One Where Agnes Moorehead Dies in Her Sickbed but Then Her Shadow Appears on the Parlor Wall and Won’t Go Away.

Blue Bloods

CBS, 8 p.m. ■ Season Finale

The last time the Reagans saw Detective Joe Hill (Will Hochman), he reneged on a promised visit to Sunday dinner. The newly discovered grandson of police commissioner Frank Reagan (Tom Selleck) returns front and center, though, in tonight’s intense twohour Season 11 ender. The story opens as Joe’s uncle Danny (Donnie Wahlberg) tracks down a weapon used in multiple crimes. The trail leads to a pair of illegal gun dealers ... one of them Joe, working undercover. Unbeknownst to the family, he’s been loaned out to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to infiltrate a crew that is buying and selling guns and drugs up and down the East Coast. (ER favorite Gloria Reuben, who played Selleck’s love interest in several of his Jesse Stone TV movies, gueststars as the senior ATF agent overseeing Joe.)

Pride

FX, 9 p.m. ■ New Miniseries

This sixpart documentary series chronicles the struggle for LGBTQ+ civil rights in America decadebydecade beginning with the 1950s. The first three episodes air backtoback tonight, with the remaining three episodes airing Friday, May 21.

My Lottery Dream Home

HGTV, 9 p.m.

In “King and Queen of M’Orlando,” David Bromstad gets to stay at home to help Lee and Lacherrica find their dream home in Orlando, Florida. Lacherrica scratched up the best oneyear wedding anniversary ever, when she hit the top prize of $1 million. It means they can finally leave apartment living behind and buy their first home, and they’re aiming big. They want four bedrooms and three bathrooms!

Mommy’s Deadly Con Artist

LMN, 9 p.m. ■ Original Film

After Denise (Jackee Harry) loses her husband, she is determined to find who did it, which leads her to tracking down Stephanie and her “mother.” But things are not as they appear when a wealthy family stands to lose everything at the hands of this motheranddaughter tandem. Also stars Dey Young, Chelsea Gilson, Rib Hillis, Andrew Phillip Rodgers and Sophia Katarina.

We Are Family: Songs of Hope and Unity

PBS, 9 p.m.

We’re even smiling at this American Pops Orchestra concert’s set list, with “You’ve Got a Friend” (sung by Broadway’s Laura Osnes) and “Feeling Good” (The Voice’s Rayshun LaMarr). Judith Light hosts.