NBA Finals, Summer Romance ‘Every Year After,’ Wooing ‘The Other Bennet Sister,’ ‘Criminal Record’ Finale

NBA Finals

Neither team in this year’s thrilling NBA Finals series has yet to win a game before their home crowd. The New York Knicks, up 2-1, hope to reverse that fortune against the San Antonio Spurs in Game 4, the second played before a raucous gathering at Madison Square Garden. For fun, during time outs, you can always look for which celebrities are where at courtside. There are almost too many to count. After this game, the action returns to San Antonio on Saturday for Game 5.

Every Year After

Summer romance is back in vogue in the latest multi-part YA drama that could just as easily have been a two-hour movie. But for those looking for a long and dreamy wallow, the eight episodes in this adaptation of Carley Fortune’s Every Summer After will no doubt satisfy this week’s craving. Sadie Soverall stars as Percy (short for Persephone), who used to spend summers on the lake at Barry’s Bay in British Columbia, where she fell hard for her neighbor, Sam (played as an adult by High School Musical: The Musical alum Matt Cornett). The relationship ended badly — “My whole world is filled with regret because of the choices I’ve made and how things ended up with Sam,” is how Percy puts it — and after 10 years of radio silence, she returns to the Bay, where all the old feelings are stirred up again.

The Other Bennet Sister

A much more charming romantic escapade awaits bookish Mary Bennet (Ella Bruccoleri) in this delightful alt-version of Pride and Prejudice when she escapes to England’s scenic Lake District and reconnects with Tom Hayward (Dónal Finn), a lawyer with the soul of a poet. “I am so sorry that anyone has ever made you feel like a disappointment,” he tells the long-ignored Mary, who insists she’s at peace with her single life, though everything about their chemistry suggests the opposite is true. Their idyll is soon shattered by interlopers from their London life, and Mary suddenly finds herself at the center of a triangle.

Criminal Record

The taut British crime drama’s second season comes to a suspenseful, yet ultimately cynical, conclusion as DI June Lenker (Cush Jumbo) and shady Intelligence boss Daniel Hegarty (a sepulchral Peter Capaldi) scramble to locate the bombers scattered across London to carry out Cosmo Thompson’s (Dustin Demri-Burns) terrorist scheme. With Cosmo in custody and the clock ticking, they have to consider making an unpalatable deal to stop the carnage.

Outlast: The Jungle

The Survivor-like reality series relocates from the frigid wilds of Alaska to the steamy jungle of Panama for the third season of the game, where strategy goes hand in hand with endurance. A new cast of 16 players forms teams where alliances are about as reliable as the volatile weather as they compete for a $1 million grand prize. The first six episodes are available to binge, with the final two episodes dropping next Wednesday.

INSIDE WEDNESDAY TV:

• Brilliant Minds (8/7c, NBC): Before Dr. Wolf (Zachary Quinto) leaves the Hudson Oaks facility as a patient, he breaks the rules one more time to tackle the case of a tormented mother (Mamie Gummer) whose symptoms make her appear possessed. Back at Bronx General, his mother, Muriel (Donna Murphy), joins the effort to push out the obnoxious resident, Charlie Porter (Brian Altemus), whom she recruited.
• Big Girls Wanted: Escaping Pearadise (8/7c, Investigation Discovery): A three-part docuseries, airing in its entirety, investigates the supposedly body-positive Pearadise community, which some members allege was more prone to harassment and coercion than empowerment.
• The Floor (8/7c, Fox): With only 17 players left on the floor, the stakes are high for the climactic showdowns in the two-hour Season 5 finale, with the last player standing reaping $250,000.
• Most Extreme Humans (9/8c, TLC): A new series profiles people living with bizarre physical conditions, opening with Mark, a Filipino man whose hands have grown so large that he wears wristwatches as rings and might require amputation if not treated.

ON THE STREAM:

• Widow’s Bay (streaming on Apple TV): A raging storm approaches the island in the penultimate episode of the sensational horror comedy, and while residents and visitors take shelter, Mayor Tom (Matthew Rhys) makes an alarming discovery.
• Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed (streaming on Apple TV): the tension builds in this dark-comedy thriller when Paula (Tatiana Maslany) tracks down another cam boy who might be able to shed light on Trevor’s murder.
• All the Queen’s Men (streaming on Paramount+): The fifth and final season of the Tyler Perry-produced melodrama opens with nightclub owner Madam (Eva Marcille) fighting for life in the hospital after being shot.
• LG Channels World Pup (streaming on LG Channels): Puppy Bowl‘s producers turn to soccer for a tail-wagging four-part tournament featuring 48 adorably adoptable rescue dogs in eight teams in a bracket-style competition.