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The final season of “Major Crimes” begins on TNT. And the classic “Peanuts” Halloween special streams on ABC.com.
What’s Streaming
IT’S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN on ABC.com. This quintessential “Peanuts” special captures the melancholy of fall. A dark palette and jazzy score set a somber mood for a story in which children’s dreams go mostly unfulfilled: Linus sits in a pumpkin patch all night waiting for the Great Pumpkin to appear. (It never does.) Charlie Brown rushes to kick a football, trusting that Lucy won’t pull it away at the last second. (She does.) The show doesn’t discourage dreaming, though. In a letter to his mythical pumpkin hero, Linus writes: “If you really are a fake, don’t tell me. I don’t want to know.”
JUDAH FRIEDLANDER: AMERICA IS THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE UNITED STATES (2017) on Netflix. This shaggy comedian is perhaps best known for his role on NBC’s “30 Rock,” where he played a trucker-hat-wearing television writer. His character may have been in the writing room, but in this stand-up special, shot in black and white at an intimate New York City club, Mr. Friedlander is in the spotlight, riffing on life in the United States. He still wears a trucker hat.
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WIND RIVER (2017) on iTunes and Amazon. A murder mystery set on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming showcases the awesome scope of that location through wide, sweeping shots. Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen star as a federal wildlife officer and an F.B.I. operative in the film, which was written and directed by the “Hell or High Water” writer Taylor Sheridan. In his review for The New York Times, Glenn Kenny designated the film a Critic’s Pick, writing that the story “builds to a shocking climax,” and that “a standoff scene near the movie’s finale would not be shamed if put next to one of Michael Mann’s better set pieces.”
What’s on TV
JAWS (1975) 8 p.m. on Showtime 2. There has been no shortage of horror this year. (The Times recently reported that 2017 is already the highest-grossing year in horror-movie history.) But those looking for a classic blockbuster fright fix could do worse than revisit Steven Spielberg’s shark-hunt megahit, which at one point held the title of highest-grossing film of all time. “If you think about ‘Jaws’ for more than 45 seconds you will recognize it as nonsense,” Vincent Canby wrote in his review for The Times. “But it’s the sort of nonsense that can be a good deal of fun if you like to have the wits scared out of you at irregular intervals.”
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MAJOR CRIMES 9 p.m. on TNT. Last season, this procedural — which began as a spinoff of “The Closer” — added multi-episode story arcs. The sixth and final season of the show will continue in that vein, delving into more cases presented to a unit of the Los Angeles Police Department led by Capt. Sharon Raydor (Mary McDonnell).
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