Best-bets for Dec. 26: four finales and a Latifah-thon

1) “Insecure” series finale, 10 p.m., HBO, rerunning at 11:23 p.m. and 12:45 a.m.. These five years have seen Issa Rae’s career soar. Once confined to short-form humor (YouTube and, later, “A Black Lady Sketch Show”), Rae (shown here, center, in a previous episode) created and starred in “Insecure,” getting two Emmy nominations for best comedy actress and one for best comedy series. She also wrote a book and did movies, including a serious drama, “The Photograph.” Tonight, her character looks back at what got her where she is. Read more…

1) “Insecure” series finale, 10 p.m., HBO, rerunning at 11:23 p.m. and 12:45 a.m.. These five years have seen Issa Rae’s career soar. Once confined to short-form humor (YouTube and, later, “A Black Lady Sketch Show”), Rae (shown here, center, in a previous episode) created and starred in “Insecure,” getting two Emmy nominations for best comedy actress and one for best comedy series. She also wrote a book and did movies, including a serious drama, “The Photograph.” Tonight, her character looks back at what got her where she is.

2) More finales. Three other shows end their seasons tonight, with no word on whether they’ll be back. At 9 p.m., there’s “Hightown” on Starz and a two-hour, high-octane (and high-body-count) “Condor” on Epix. At 10:43 on HBO (rerunning at 12:05 p.m. and 1:30 a.m.) is “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” which has done 11 seasons, scattered over 21 years.

3) “The Equalizer,” 8-11 p.m., CBS. After resting for a month, this will finally return to new episodes next week. First, here are three reruns – good ones, in general, even if they do sometimes strain believability. In the first hour, Robyn (Queen Latifah) is ensnared in an international crisis, when trying to rescue a mathematician. In the second, Mel (Liza Lapira) goes undercover at a political campaign. In the third, a woman worries that her husband is planning a bombing.

4) “1883,” 9:14 to 10:30 p.m., Paramount Network. Here’s one more over-the-air episode, before this settles into Paramount+. In the opener, we met James Dutton (Tim McGraw), who kills a lot of people, but doesn’t like it. We also met his wife (Faith Hill, McGraw’s real-life wife), son, daughter, sister and niece. They’re accompanying some immigrants from Texas to Montana; the son will be the grandfather of John Dutton (Kevin Costner), whose “Yellowstone” (8 and 10:30 today) ends its season next week.

5) Double Lucy. Amazon Prime has “Being the Ricardos.” a brilliant Aaron Sorkin film that pretends all the Lucille Ball/Desi Arnaz crises happened in one week. And at 8 p.m. ET, Turner Classic Movies has a different sort of Lucy role. She stars with Henry Fonda in the pleasant “Yours, Mine and Ours” (1968). It’s based on the true story of a widow with eight children, who married a widower with 10.

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