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OPHELIA (2019) 10 p.m. on Showtime. The suggestion that Shakespeare wrote “King Lear” during plague lockdown has been widely circulated recently (online, at least), and some ambitious souls may be inspired to take advantage of social distancing to try to write the next great play, novel or TV pilot. For the rest of us, catching up on movies will have to suffice. One option, for those who missed it, is this revisionist take on “Hamlet.” As the title suggests, the movie takes the characters and plot of that Shakespeare play but gives them its own spin: It focuses on Ophelia (Daisy Ridley), the lover of Hamlet (George MacKay), who gets her own story line here as the action of the play takes a back seat. Directed by Claire McCarthy and based on a young adult novel by Lisa Klein, the movie makes for an “interesting exercise and, for the most part, a passably diverting one,” Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The New York Times. This, Dargis added, is “Ophelia as a 21st-century heroine, who after a smudge-faced childhood running wild in her king’s castle — and being excluded from studying with the boys — grows into a woman with desires, ambitions and a pronounced rebellious streak.”
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SOLAR OPPOSITES Stream on Hulu. “Human-infested” and “without a single redeeming value.” A “garbage planet.” A “horrible home.” These are some of the ways that the alien Korvo describes earth in this new animated comedy — and that’s just before the opening title card has had time to appear. Created by Justin Roiland and Mike McMahan (both of “Rick and Morty”), “Solar Opposites” revolves around a family of aliens who have crash-landed in the middle of America, where they’re left to live among suburbanites as they try to find a way off the planet.
THE HUSTLE (2019) Stream on Amazon and Hulu. Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson play competing con artists in this comedy, a rethink of the 1988 movie “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” (which was itself a remake of “Bedtime Story,” from 1964). Like those two older movies, this one concerns swindlers in the French Riviera who compete to cheat a mark out of a considerable amount of money. Unlike those two older movies, the target here is a tech executive (Alex Sharp) with a Zuckerberg haircut. “You will probably see the major plot twists coming, but you won’t necessarily enjoy what happens any less,” A.O. Scott wrote in his review for The Times. “Soignée swindlers in an opulent Mediterranean setting are pretty irresistible, and there’s something reassuring about a story that could have been told, with some variations of tone and topicality, at any point in the last hundred years or so.”
TRIAL BY MEDIA Stream on Netflix. Reality and TV blur together in this documentary series, which revisits famous court cases and the role that media coverage played in them. The show includes episodes focused on the 1984 shooting of four teenagers on a New York City subway; the trial of Rod Blagojevich, the former Democratic governor of Illinois; and more.
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