On this weekend's What to Watch: Joe Alwyn, Sasha Lane, and more star in the series adaptation of Sally Rooney's Conversations With Friends, about two younger women who become involved with an older couple. Bling Empire is back for a second season on Netflix, where Kevin and Kim's relationship blossoms, Christine butts heads with Anna, and more. Tom Hiddleston and Claire Danes star in the period drama The Essex Serpent, about a widow who befriends a priest in her new hometown that has a mythical creature in its waters. Theo James and Rose Leslie star in the TV adaptation of The Time Traveler's Wife. And Rebel Wilson stars in the movie Senior Year, as a woman who wakes from a 20-year coma to discover she never graduated high school or won prom queen — so she goes back to do all of that. Love & Marriage DC star Monique Samuels and executive producer Carlos King, who's also hosting the new OWN series The Nightcap, tell us what they're watching. Plus, entertainment headlines — including Alton Brown leaving Food Network for Netflix's Iron Chef, a slew of cancellations at The CW, CBS, and NBC, prequel series to Supernatural and Walker, and Norm Macdonald's posthumous comedy special — our Sound Bite of the Week from The Wonder Years, and trivia.
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