AUGUST 5 – PARALLEL MOTHERS *Movie Premiere*
- Two women, Janis (Penélope Cruz) and Ana (Milena Smit), cross paths in a hospital room as they wait to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident. Janis, middle-aged, doesn’t regret it and is exultant. Ana, an adolescent, is scared, repentant, and traumatized. Janis tries to encourage her while they move like sleepwalkers along the hospital corridors. The few words they exchange in these hours create a very close link between the two, which develops and complicates, and changes their lives, in a decisive way.
AUGUST 5 – NIGHTMARE ALLEY *Movie Premiere*
- Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture, the neo-noir psychological thriller set in 1940s New York, sees down-on-his-luck Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper) endear himself to a clairvoyant, and her mentalist husband at a traveling carnival. Using newly acquired knowledge, Carlisle crafts a golden ticket to success by swindling the elite and wealthy. Hoping for a big score, he soon hatches a scheme to con a dangerous tycoon with help from a mysterious psychologist, who might be his most formidable opponent yet.
AUGUST 5 – HBO’s THE REHEARSAL *New Episode*
- An all-new episode of Nathan Fielder’s critically acclaimed HBO series THE REHEARSAL streams Friday, August 5 at 11 p.m. ET. Praised in Toronto Star as a methodological masterpiece, and described as “uncomfortably funny, sneakily poignant, and conceptually bananas” in The New York Times, THE REHEARSAL explores the lengths one man will go to reduce the uncertainties of everyday life. With a construction crew, a legion of actors, and seemingly unlimited resources, Fielder allows ordinary people to prepare for life’s biggest moments by “rehearsing” them in carefully crafted simulations of his own design. In the fourth episode of the series titled “The Fielder Method,” Fielder travels to Los Angeles to train actors for his show.
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Complete listings for the week of Aug. 4 – 10
*All Programming Subject to Change
HBO and HBO Max Programming
HBO Max Series
RAP SH!T, Season 1, Episode 4 (August 4) .
HBO Max Series
PRETTY LITTLE LIARS: ORIGINAL SIN, Episode 4-5 (August 4)
HBO Max Series
FBOY ISLAND, Season 2, Episode 9-10 *Season Finale* (August 4)
HBO Series
THE REHEARSAL, Season 1, Episode 4 (August 5 at 11 p.m. ET)
HBO Series
REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER, Season 20, Episode 22 (August 6)
HBO Series
WESTWORLD, Season 4, Episode 7 (August 7 at 9 p.m. ET)
HBO Series
THE ANARCHIST, Season 1, Episode 5 (August 7 at 10 p.m. ET)
HBO Series
LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER, Season 9, Episode 19 (August 8)
HBO Series
INDUSTRY, Season 2, Episode 2 (August 8 at 9 p.m. ET)
Movies
FIREHEART (August 5)
ISLAND OF LEMURS: MADAGASCAR (August 5)
NIGHTMARE ALLEY (August 5)
PARALLEL MOTHERS (August 5)
SHOWTIME Programming
THE CHI, Season 5, Episode 7 (August 5)
CITY ON A HILL, Season 3, Episode 2 (August 5)
FLATBUSH MISDEMEANORS, Season 2, Episode 8 (August 7)
VICE, Season 3, Episode 10 (August 7 at 8 p.m. ET)
STARZ Programming
ISLAND OF LEMURS: MADAGASCAR (August 5)
PUPPY SWAP: LOVE UNLEASHED (August 5)
BECOMING ELIZABETH, Season 1, Episode 8 *Season Finale* (August 7)
P-VALLEY, Season 2, Episode 9 (August 7)
More Riveting TV to Watch
DRAG RACE FRANCE, Season 1, Episode 7 (August 4 at 3 p.m. ET)
Crave Original Series
CANADA’S DRAG RACE, Season 3, Episode 4 *Canadian Title* (August 4 at 9 p.m. ET)
LOVE ISLAND USA, Season 4, Episode 13 (August 4 at 9 p.m. ET)
ROAST BATTLE CANADA, Season 2 *Canadian Title* (August 5)
MTV Series
RIDICULOUSNESS, Season 26 (August 5)
LOVE ISLAND USA, Season 4, Episode 14 (August 5 at 9 p.m. ET)
RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE: DOWN UNDER, Season 2, Episode 2 (August 6)
LOVE ISLAND USA, Season 4, Episode 15 (August 7 at 9 p.m. ET)
LOVE ISLAND USA, Season 4, Episode 16 (August 8 at 9 p.m. ET)
THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, Season 35, Episode 211-215 (August 9)
LOVE ISLAND USA, Season 4, Episode 17 (August 9 at 9 p.m. ET)
LOVE ISLAND USA, Season 4, Episode 18 (August 10 at 9 p.m. ET)