Your TV Guide to the Week - October 16th, 2020

Mood Indigo

Length: 2hr 11min
Mood: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Director: Michel Gondry
Starring: Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Gad Elmaleh

Set in a charmingly surreal Paris, wealthy bachelor Colin spends his time enjoying life and inventing interesting things. He soon meets Chloe and plunges headfirst into a romance. However, Chloe is plagued by an unusual illness where flowers begin to grow in her lungs. To save her, Colin discovers the only cure is to surround Chloe with a never-ending supply of fresh flowers.

Adult Life Skills

Length: 1hr 36min
Mood: Comedy, Drama
Director: Rachel Tunnard
Starring: Jodie Whittaker, Lorraine Ashbourne, Brett Goldstein

Anna is deeply grieving the death of her twin brother, and retreating into herself. It takes her mother's nagging, her grandmother's wisdom, Brendan's infatuation with her, and a troubled little boy going through the same life-altering experience she did to get her out of the rut.

Head of State

Length: 1hr 35min
Mood: Comedy
Director: Chris Rock
Starring: Chris Rock, Bernie Mac, Lynn Whitfield

A low-level Washington, D.C., public servant, Mays Gilliam, is thrust into the national spotlight when he's asked to run for president after the party's presidential and vice-presidential nominees are killed in a plane crash. The odds are against Gilliam, mostly because he has a penchant for telling the truth about what is wrong with the country. Remarkably, his straight-talking style catches the public..

The Opposite Sex

Length: 1hr 37min
Mood: Comedy
Directors: Jennifer Finnigan, Jonathan Silverman
Starring: Geoff Stults, Mena Suvari, Jennifer Finnigan

To Vince, life is one big competition, and losing is unacceptable. This also applies in his dating life with his love ’em and leave ’em approach. That is until he meets Jane, who is beautiful, successful and also extremely driven. They enter into a series of entertaining wagers with each other where the winner gets to decide the fate of the loser.

Dinner for Schmucks

Length: 1hr 54min
Mood: Comedy
Director: Jay Roach
Starring: Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Stephanie Szostak

Tim, a rising executive, finds out that his work superiors host a dinner celebrating the idiocy of their guests or a so called "dinner for idiots", which offers certain advantages to the exec who shows up with the biggest buffoon. Just then, Tim befriends IRS employee, Barry, who may just be the perfect guest to bring.

Turnt

Length: 15 mins
Mood: Drama
Creator: Rachel Stern
Starring: Madeleine Byrne, Donald Clark Jr., Jared Scott

Relationships become murky at Monroe High after a shocking hookup leads to bad experiences, new love, and secret encounters. The series follows a group of teenagers as they navigate through the bittersweet of high school.

Next

Length: 45 mins
Mood: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Creators: Manny Coto
Starring: Jason Ritter, Sarah Roemer, Ian Anthony Dale

A thriller about the emergence of a deadly, rogue artificial intelligence that combines pulse-pounding action and examines how technology is invading our lives and transforming us in ways we don't yet understand. A homeland cybersecurity team fights off a rogue AI with the ability to constantly improve itself.