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Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, August 8. All times are Eastern.
Top Pick
The White Lotus (HBO, 9 p.m.): For a quick recap, may we suggest re-reading “The Lotos-Eaters,” by Alfred Lord Tennyson, which was featured in last week’s episode:
Why are we weigh’d upon with heaviness,
And utterly consumed with sharp distress,While all things else have rest from weariness?…Hateful is the dark-blue sky,Vaulted o’er the dark-blue sea.Death is the end of life; ah, whyShould life all labour be?Let us alone. Time driveth onward fast,And in a little while our lips are dumb.Let us alone. What is it that will last?All things are taken from us, and becomePortions and parcels of the dreadful past.Let us alone. What pleasure can we have...