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What’s on TV Friday: ‘Wynonna Earp’ and ‘Dark Tourist’
The cult favorite “Wynonna Earp” returns for a third season. And a Vice correspondent heads to war-torn Raqqa, in Syria.
What’s on TV
WYNONNA EARP 9 p.m. on Syfy. You’ve probably heard of Trekkies and Whovians, but what about Earpers? This horror western has built up a passionate and outspoken fan base after just 25 episodes and two seasons. And while many geek fandoms often skew male, Earpers are predominantly female; they attend fan conventions around the world, record podcasts and write plenty of fan fiction to support a show that has strong L.G.B.T. characters and follows a descendant of the western gunslinger Wyatt Earp. Wynonna, played by Melanie Scrofano, defends her town from demons with Wyatt’s gun and a whole lot of whiskey. At the start of the third season, she has just given birth to a supernatural child and must contend with the arrival of vampires who wreak havoc on the people in her community.
VICE: AFTER THE FALL 7:30 and 11 p.m. on HBO. The Vice correspondent Isobel Yeung has been covering war-torn Syria for the last two years, filing reports on the sniper-filled alleys of Aleppo and the rule of Bashar al-Assad. In this episode she heads to Raqqa, the de facto Islamic State capital reclaimed by American-backed forces in a ruthless battle in 2017. With the city in tatters, she embeds with the survivors to see how they are clearing land mines left behind by ISIS and rebuilding their lives.
WEST SIDE STORY (1961) 8 p.m. on TCM. A new Broadway production of “West Side Story” might look shockingly different from what we’re accustomed to. It is being led by the experimental director Ivo van Hove and the avant-garde choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. But traditionalists will always be able to find solace in the original film adaptation, where Natalie Wood, Rita Moreno and the rest of the kinetic cast whirl across the screen with Jerome Robbins’s explosive choreography. The score, written by Leonard Bernstein, with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, still looms large in American culture.
RISE OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES 9:30 p.m. on Nickelodeon. The two recent “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” live-action movies received mixed reviews for their eerily humanlike and oily depictions of the four action heroes. This new animated series goes in the opposite direction, rendering them angular and stylized as they whiz around a colorful New York City discovering their powers and fighting crimes. This iteration airs in a half-hour preview episode on Friday and officially begins in September. Voice actors include Kat Graham, Ben Schwartz and John Cena.
What’s Streaming
DARK TOURIST on Netflix. Some vacationers like to sit on the beach. Others surround themselves with death. In this docu-series, the New Zealand filmmaker David Farrier follows tourists seeking strange and macabre thrills around the world. Mr. Farrier pops by Pablo Escobar-inspired tours in Colombia and walks in the footsteps of Jeffrey Dahmer in Milwaukee.
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