How A lot Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend?

‘The Righteous Gemstones’
When to look at: Sunday at 10 p.m., on HBO.

Season 3 of “The Righteous Gemstones” kicks off with a quintessential over-the-top episode, filled with adventurous bickering, outrageous circumstances and an uncommon liturgy, as when Jesse Gemstone (Danny McBride) publicizes a profitable mission journey that has restored individuals’s imaginative and prescient “via the facility of God’s love and LASIK surgical procedure.” The characters on “Gemstones” don’t consider in limits, seeing their lives as countless ladders to the highest of God’s glory — and if meaning the rungs lengthen on the backside, down past dignity, so be it, they’ll scramble on down there, too. While loads of the gags will land high-quality for brand new viewers, the present is much more enjoyable in case you begin at the start.

… an hour, and I’m extraordinarily on-line.

‘John Early: Now More Than Ever’
When to look at: Saturday at 10 p.m., on HBO.

This new particular from the comic and actor John Early is a cabaret pleasure: lush, catty, exact, distinctive. He intersperses his stand-up with songs, and far of his act is scored by his backing band, including to the arch grandiosity of all of it. Early blends his indifferent, smug persona with full of life physicality, performing the “pitch choreography of ‘Shark Tank’” and lamenting that there’s “a monopoly on the tone of ‘being your self’” earlier than snapping right into a perky, JoJo Siwa-esque march. If you suppose a variety of latest comedy specials are blah and half-baked, and also you need one thing decidedly compelling and absolutely realized, watch this.

‘Extraordinary Birder With Christian Cooper’
When to look at: Saturday at 10 p.m., on Nat Geo Wild.

If you picked up birding in the course of the pandemic and have caught with it, do that travelogue present about our feathered associates. Christian Cooper, who grew to become well-known when he was the sufferer of racist harassment in Central Park in 2020, is an affable, educated host, and his elation at seeing “lifer” specimens imbues the present with a way of pleasure. As with many exhibits about animals, “Birder” is barely partially in regards to the wildlife — it’s additionally in regards to the individuals who adore them, like a blind ornithologist with a commanding data of fowl calls or the veterinarians who observe male parrots’ fertility.