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Jack Ryan Finale, New Seasons of ‘Summer’ and ‘Foundation,’ a Basketball ‘Goliath’

John Krasinski, Michael Kelly, and Wendell Pierce in 'Jack Ryan' Season 4

Prime Video

Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan

Turns out that Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One isn’t the only action alternative this weekend. The final two episodes of the global thriller deliver the usual Clancy hallmarks: explosions, heroism, and tragedy—and as telegraphed at the start of the season, a round of grueling torture endured by the intrepid Jack Ryan (John Krasinski) from one of the slinkiest villains to date—as if you couldn’t tell from the first look that Zuleikha Robinson was up to no good. Jack’s main squeeze Cathy (Abbie Cornish) will soon enough realize that her World Health Organization friend is no ally, and with Jack in Myanmar with Mike November (Michael Kelly) and Domingo Chavez (Michael Peña) to retrieve Chao Fah (Louis Ozawa) and his family—and the all-important MacGuffin of the mysterious bomb triggers—all hell’s about to break loose.

Prime Video

The Summer I Turned Pretty

The YA swooning will be intense this summer as the romantic drama based on Jenny Han’s best-selling trilogy returns for a second season, launching with the first three of eight episodes (through August 18). Belly (Lola Tung) is back at New England’s Cousins Beach, where the fallout lingers from her previous love triangle involving two hunky brothers, Conrad (Christopher Briney) and Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno). What could bring all these broken hearts back together? A cause, like stopping the sale of their beloved beach house. Kyra Sedgwick joins the cast as someone who just might literally pull the rug out from under all of them.

Apple TV+

Foundation

I’m not sure it will help, but Apple TV+ has provided a three-minute recap of Season 1 to get us ready for a second season of the lavish, though densely challenging, adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s sci-fi classic. You may not always grasp what’s going on in this sprawling saga, which takes a 138-year time jump between seasons. But it’s undeniably fun to watch Lee Pace as the cloned emperor Brother Day fights off an assassination attempt, then greet his betrothed Queen Sareth of Cloud Dominion (Ella-Rae Smith), who’s clearly not got his or the Empire’s best interests at heart. As for visionary Hari Seldon (Jared Harris), whose Foundation is once again in the Empire’s crosshairs, he’s trapped in space while his protégée Gaal (Lou Llobell) gets to know her daughter, Salvor (Leah Harvey).

Showtime

Goliath

The Showtime sports docuseries will begin airing on the linear premium channel Sunday, but fans of basketball history can binge all three parts on the streamer, reliving the achievements of NBA Hall of Famer and record-breaker Wilt Chamberlain. The series uses artificial intelligence to recreate the voice of the basketball star, who died in 1999, to narrate his life story. Contemporary sports figures including Kevin Garnett (an executive producer), Pat Riley, Bill Walton, Lisa Leslie, Oscar Robertson, Jerry West, and the late Jim Brown also weigh in.

Starz

Outlander

Revolutionary War action reaches Fort Ticonderoga, where Jamie (Sam Heughan) is commanding a crew of soldiers while Claire (Caitríona Balfe) tends to the wounded, all awaiting an assault from the British army and their cannon fire. From the 1770s to the 1980s, Brianna (Sophie Skelton) in a hard hat meets some hardheads in her new job, while Roger (Richard Rankin) researches time travel.

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