The Night Of

HBO

I was satisfied — with one or two reservations involving procedural technicalities – by last week’s finale of “The Night Of.’’ (If you haven’t watched it already, here’s a spoiler alert.) The best part: Jeannie Berlin. I just can’t praise her enough for her turn as steely but weary veteran prosecutor Helen Weiss. Berlin ruled every scene she was in during the run of the season, and she practically shattered the finale with her tense energy. Watching her talk Naz into a corner while he was on the stand was mesmerizing, as she used her rhetorical skills like she used her pumps — for effect. I couldn’t keep my eyes off Berlin as she moved around the courtroom in the last minutes, deploying all of her weapons — cynicism, disgust, obsequiousness, big sighs, feigned ignorance — brilliantly. Oh, and silence. Each pause Berlin took was an exercise in boldly measured acting, as she held the courtroom and the TV audience in her hand for each long moment that she held her tongue. Berlin’s face is harder than back in 1972, when she starred in “The Heartbreak Kid,’’ directed by her mother, Elaine May. In “The Night Of,’’ she used it magnificently, terrifyingly, Emmy-winningly.

Late-night viral videos

What to watch on late-night TV? Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert? No worries. Wait until the morning and watch the best segments of each online. Late-night shows are bigger than their time slots, thanks to the viral circuit. Late night is the new morning after. In recent years, a number of clips have helped usher late night into daytime. Kimmel’s “Mean Tweets,’’ Fallon’s “Lip Sync Battles’’ and “History of Rap,’’ John Oliver’s takedown of Donald Trump and his explanation of net neutrality laws, they’ve all succeeded amazingly after their initial airings. Just don’t make me watch James Corden’s “Carpool Karaoke.’’ Seriously. He and his jazz hands drive me crazy.

You’re the Worst

Wednesday at 10 p.m., FXX

Last season, this enjoyable and intelligent comedy got dark, as we learned that Gretchen, one half of the show’s Beatrice-Benedict pairing, had been dealing with clinical depression. In retrospect, the diagnosis seems inevitable, as Gretchen was in the habit of numbing herself with drugs and — thanks to the wonderfully acerbic performance by Aya Cash — she was also forever tumbling into nihilistic rabbit holes. The theme continues now that “You’re the Worst’’ is back for season three, and that’s a good thing. First, it signals that show creator Stephen Falk didn’t use depression as a plot gimmick; he appears to understand that it is often a long-term struggle. Second, Gretchen’s depression adds poignancy to her relationship with Jimmy, since they’ve managed to survive it despite their mutual cynicism about relationships. And finally, it has resulted in the casting of Samira Wiley, one of my favorites from “Orange Is the New Black,’’ as Gretchen’s therapist.

Dexter

Showtime

Ten years ago in October, “Dexter’’ premiered. It took cable’s antihero movement to the next level, asking us to sympathize with a childlike serial killer. (Showtime has just released a video to celebrate the birthday and to promote its Showtime Anytime streaming service.) Clever, funny, horrifying, “Dexter’’ asked a few questions about morality. Michael C. Hall’s manchild was a cold-blooded, logic-obsessed killer, but he only killed killers who’d slipped through the cracks of the justice system. He was a monster, but he only destroyed other monsters. So we were left wondering if he was a supervillain wreaking vigilante justice or a superhero cleaning up Miami by night. It you want to celebrate the birthday, though, stick to the first four seasons. When “Dexter’’ finally left the air in 2013 after eight seasons, it was a shadow of its early self.

MATTHEW GILBERT

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