What to watch
FRIDAY
September 13, 2024
All times Pacific. Start times can vary based on cable/satellite provider. Confirm times on your on-screen guide.
LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy
Disney+
This “four-piece” animated special showcases and celebrates the popular team-up between Lucasfilm and The LEGO Group, which have been collaborating for 25 years now with their LEGO Star Wars galaxy of toys and animated projects. In the story, everything in this galaxy becomes mixed up when an ordinary nerf-herder, Sig Greebling (voice of Gaten Matarazzo), unearths a powerful artifact from a hidden Jedi temple. He finds himself thrust into adventure in a new, wondrously wild and twisted version of the galaxy where good guys are bad, bad guys are good and the fate of all depends upon Sig becoming the hero who can put all the pieces back together. Mark Hamill voices his iconic character from the live-action Star Wars films, Luke Skywalker, while Ahmed Best — who voiced Jar Jar Binks in the Star Wars prequel films — provides the voice for a character named Darth Jar Jar, to give you an example of how mixed-up things get here.
Uglies
Netflix Original Film
MCG (Terminator Salvation) directed this sci-fi film set in a futuristic world that imposes a cosmetic surgery on people at age 16. Young Tally (Joey King) is eager for her turn to join the rest of society, but when a friend runs away, Tally embarks on a journey to save her that upends everything she thought she wanted.
Making Change: The Most Significant Political Films of All Time
TCM, 5 p.m.
The second night of this series in which TCM host Ben Mankiewicz and notable guests explore the most impactful political movies of all time features six titles, the first three introduced with guests: Reds (1981), cohosted by commentator Bill Maher; The Parallax View (1974), co-hosted by singersongwriter Kyle Smith; Germany, Year Zero (1948), co-hosted by filmmaker Alexander Payne; Gabriel Over the White House (1933); The Battleship Potemkin (1925); and The Fog of War (2003).
Three Women
Starz, 10 p.m. New Series
Based on a novel by Lisa Taddeo, this limited series follows three ordinary women from various parts of the country (as well as the woman, played by Shailene Woodley, who persuades them to tell their stories) as they struggle with love, marriage, desire and transition in their lives: Lina (Betty Gilpin), an unhappy Indiana homemaker ready to change her life; Sloane (Dewanda Wise), an entrepreneur in an open marriage that is under strain; and a North Dakota student named Maggie (Gabrielle Creevy) who struggles with whether to admit to an inappropriate relationship she had with her married teacher in high school.