This weekend I have … 40 minutes and plenty of sunscreen.
‘Make or Break’
When to watch: Arrives Friday, on Apple TV+.
This new seven-part series about the World Surf League is as tanned and juicy as you would hope, tracing the horse race of the competition season and also exploring a handful of the athletes’ back stories. “Break” moves and feels a lot like “Formula 1: Drive to Survive,” perhaps because the shows share a production company and executive producers; like its Netflix cousin, this is not particularly probing, but it is gorgeous, exciting and very bingeable. And unlike most other sports documentaries of the moment, this show follows the sagas of female athletes, too, not just the men.
… an hour, and I would love a glass of wine.
‘Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy’
When to watch: Sunday at 9 p.m., on CNN.
Stanley Tucci sets off for another season of sumptuous Italian adventures, this time kicking things off in Venice, where he goes duck hunting, eats risotto and learns about the cross pollination of European food traditions. It’s all very chic and charming. Compared to its robust food-and-travelogue brethren, “Searching for Italy” is less frenetic and self-conscious; it feels more like a lush vacation, the kind where you spend the whole trip declaring, “I’m so glad we’re doing this.” If you are the person who says “cin cin” when toasting, clear your calendar for the next four Sundays.
… four hours, and I’m dreamy.
‘Undone’
When to watch: Season 2 arrives Friday, on Amazon.
There are so many mild shows right now, shows that are perfectly fine. But when I watch them, I can’t help but wish the whole show would take a vitamin and try again, and this time, really go after it. That’s part of what’s so mesmerizing about the half-hour animated drama “Undone”: It has absolutely taken its vitamins, and it attacks its ideas with ferocious drive. Season 1 centers on Alma (played by Rosa Salazar) and her understanding of a sort of time-loop mysticism. Season 2 includes more of her family’s stories, making the show deeper and richer than seemed possible. If you like wistful beauty, or you just can’t get enough Bob Odenkirk (he plays Alma’s father), watch this. Start at the beginning — the seasons are only eight episodes each.
