✹ THIS WEEK IN STREAMING (January 28th)

Goodrich (Max) Michael Keaton stars as the owner of a flailing Los Angeles art gallery whose life is upended when his much younger wife checks herself into rehab and leaves him to parent his two young kids. With his life crumbling, he reaches out to his now-pregnant firstborn (Mila Kunis) to figure out what went wrong. The latest from Hallie Meyers-Shyer (daughter of rom-com legend Nancy) sidesteps the “blame dad” pitfalls on the way to cultivating an ode to the American family that also serves as an effective dissection of L.A.’s diminished state. 

Mr. Mom (Prime) We didn’t mean to offer up a Michael Keation double feature, but this pre-Batman 1983 crowd-pleaser is the best portrait of life in Jimmy Carter’s America, one that pairs quite well with Goodrich’s urban Biden Era anxiety. Keaton is pitch perfect as an unceremoniously laid-off meat-and-potatoes middle manager who loses his identity when his wife (Terri Garr) becomes the breadwinner. As adept at emotional resonance as slapstick, it offers the type of serious political substance long extinct in a Hollywood landscape content with insular bromides.

Twin Peaks (Paramount+) Yes, we are mourning David Lynch too, but we don’t think he’d appreciate all this hipster sentimentality. The next time someone tells you a TV show is groundbreaking, remember Lynch got away with this for two years on network TV.