How A lot Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend?

‘Silo’
When to look at: Begins Friday, on Apple TV+.

Is it even the post-apocalypse if nobody is carrying dingy knits? In premise and particularly aesthetics, “Silo” resembles loads of different sci-fi, with its whirring bleakness and rote authoritarianism, to which solely the enlightened, rebellious — horny??? — few object. The present is ready in a grim future the place simply 10,000 individuals stay, and everybody lives deep underground, the place, in fact, their society nonetheless has a fair-minded wife-guy sheriff (David Oyelowo). If you miss the teenager present “The 100,” or if you happen to take heed to “Why We Build the Wall” from “Hadestown” on repeat, watch this.

… two hours, and I like explainers.

‘The Articulate Hour’
When to look at: Friday at 9 and 10 p.m., on PBS. (Check native listings.)

Shows don’t get rather more PBS-y than this. “The Articulate Hour” interviews scientists, historians and artists to assist clarify ideas comparable to reminiscence, time and togetherness. According to the present, “The need to be in neighborhood with others lingers in our consciousness and is usually given its purest voice in human creativity.” “Articulate” weaves collectively onerous science and poetic anecdotes right into a reverent “Wow, try humanity” collection. If web poisoning has left you a bit of alienated from the wonders of life and society, watch this.

… a number of hours, and I really like competitors reveals.

‘Ultimate Cowboy Showdown’
When to look at: Now, on Peacock or Amazon.

Three seasons of this rancher competitors collection are actually streaming, lastly giving viewers a possibility to look at a person toss hay bales with a lot ferocity that he barfs. (This is met with deep admiration.) As skill-based contest reveals go, “Cowboy” is a deal with: Horsemanship and cattle administration abilities are wildly telegenic and haven’t been standardized by reality-show packaging the way in which, say, cooking has. There’s a cheerful freshness to that facet of the collection, even because the opponents behave within the methods “Top Model” has taught them to, arguing about respect and vacillating between proudly not making mates and, via tears, declaring that the actual prize is the lifelong bonds everybody has fashioned.