What's on TV this week—Loot season 2 and Ripley

Welcome to What’s On, our weekly picks of must-watch shows. Here’s what you need to watch from Sunday, March 31 to Thursday, April 4. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekend edition of What’s On drops on Fridays.]

The biggies

Loot (Apple TV+, Wednesday, 12:01 a.m.)

Apple TV+’s workplace sitcom Loot has an impressive ensemble—and thankfully, they’re all back for season two. Maya Rudolph, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Nat Faxon, Ron Funches, and Joel Kim Booster return for goofy shenanigans at the Wells Foundation. After her divorce from an affluent douchebag, Molly Novak (Rudolph) inherits $87 billion and a midlife crisis. So she starts going to the office of a non-profit she started and unexpectedly forms a tight-knit friendship with her colleagues. Look out for The A.V. Club’s review on Monday.

Andrew Scott is going from Hot Priest to a fictional serial killer with his new TV project. He stars in the ’60s-set show, based on Patricia Highsmith’s acclaimed novel, as Tom Ripley, a grifter hired by a wealthy man to go to Italy and bring his unruly son back home. Accepting the job leads him to a life of fraud and murder. Johnny Flynn, Dakota Fanning, John Malkovich, and Eliot Summer co-star, and the psychological thriller is helmed by The Night Of’s Steven Zallian. The A.V. Club’s review of the series publishes this week.

Hidden gems

Parish (AMC+, Sunday, 3:01 a.m.)

Based on a British drama called The Driver, Parish features Giancarlo Esposito doing what he does best—that is, playing a badass character. Here, he tackles a man who gave up his life of crime decades ago, but after his son is violently killed, he’s pulled back into a world he left behind for revenge. Here’s a bit from The A.V. Club’s review:

Parish does have a couple things going for it to raise the stakes beyond a thinking dad’s March Madness cooldown show though. The first is the setting of New Orleans herself, a backdrop that’s as sensual as it is languid, as friendly as it is menacing, and as good-timey as it is back-alley.

In his directorial debut, Rudy Mancuso stars in the rom-com Música, which also features Camila Mendes and J.B. Smoove. He plays Rudy, a man plagued with music in his head as he navigates love, work, and Brazilian culture while living in Newark, New Jersey.

More good stuff

Vanderpump Villa (Hulu, Monday, 12:01 a.m.)

We’re never getting rid of Vanderpump Rules, especially not after the “Scandoval” saga. So Hulu is jumping into the game with a reality series spinoff called Vanderpump Villa, which takes place in Chateau Rosabelle, a French estate where Lisa Vanderpump’s hand-picked staff “work, live, and play.”

Crime Scene has covered multiple cases in the U.S., and now the Joe Berlinger-developed true-crime docuseries moves to Germany for Nightlife Killer. The three episodes focus on Berlin, which became a hunting ground for a notorious murderer who stalked the queer community in 2012, sending shockwaves through city’s party scene.

Can’t miss recaps

Saturday Night Live (NBC, Saturday, 11:30 p.m.)

The Regime (HBO, Sunday, 9 p.m.)

Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO, Sunday, 10 p.m.)

Shōgun (FX on Hulu, Tuesday, 12:01 a.m.)

Palm Royale (Apple TV+, Wednesday, 12:01 a.m.)

Top Chef (Bravo, Wednesday, 9 p.m.)

Arriving now

All American (The CW, Monday, 8 p.m., season six premiere)

Lopez Vs. Lopez (NBC, Tuesday, 8 p.m., season two premiere)

Walker (The CW, Wednesday, 8 p.m., season four premiere)

American Horror Story: Delicate (FX, Wednesday, 10 p.m., season 12 spring premiere)

Star Trek: Discovery (Paramount+, Thursday, 3:01 a.m., season five premiere)

Ending soon

The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (AMC, Sunday, 9 p.m., season one finale)

The Way Home (Hallmark, Sunday, 9 p.m., season two finale)

Physical 100 (Netflix, Tuesday, 3:01 a.m., season two finale)

The New Look (Apple TV+, Wednesday, 12:01 a.m., season one finale)

Resident Alien (Syfy, Wednesday, 10 p.m., season three finale)

Invincible (Prime Video, Thursday, 12:01 a.m., season two finale)

Tokyo Vice (Max, Thursday, 3:01 a.m., season two finale)