What’s on TV This Week: ‘In Treatment’ and ‘Inside the Met’

Between network, cable and streaming, the modern television landscape is a vast one. Here are some of the shows, specials and movies coming to TV this week, May 17-23. Details and times are subject to change.

Monday

THE NEST (2020) 5:20 p.m. on Showtime. Don’t let the title fool you: The domestic setting of “The Nest,” the most recent feature from the writer-director Sean Durkin, is about the least snug home one could buy. And it would take more than a bundle of twigs to build. Set in the 1980s, the film casts Jude Law and Carrie Coon as a husband and wife who move from a relatively modest home in New York to a sprawling estate in the English countryside. Eventually, Allison (Coon), a horseback riding instructor, starts to realize that the family’s new life is financially unsustainable, and that Rory (Law), a financier with lavish tastes, has been hiding key information about the new job that supposedly supports them. “In technique, ‘The Nest’ is severe but unimpeachable, from the carefully paralleled shots of Law awaking Coon at different houses to the Cesca chairs that subtly signify comfort (and time period) at family meals,” Ben Kenigsberg wrote in his review for The New York Times. While Durkin’s writing “doesn’t always match his formal flair,” Kenigsberg added, the film “has a bracing economy, cramming a lot into tight quarters.”

Tuesday

ISLE OF THE DEAD (1945) 5 p.m. on TCM. “Atmospheric” and “terrifying” are two adjectives one would traditionally use to describe this scary black-and-white movie produced by the horror impresario Val Lewton — but in 2021, “relatable” might also be a fitting word. The supernatural story, set during the Balkan wars that began in 1912, follows a group of people quarantined on a Greek island after a death apparently caused by a plague.

Wednesday

LIFE AT THE WATERHOLE 8 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). Most nature documentaries chase down the creatures they cover; this one lets the animals come to it. The producers of “Life at the Waterhole” went to Tanzania and rigged a water hole in the savanna with a network of high-resolution cameras, recording the wildlife that used it during different times of the year. The conservation scientist M. Sanjayan hosts.

Thursday

SALT (2010) 8 p.m. on BBC America. The actor Angelina Jolie is back on screens this month in “Those Who Wish Me Dead,” a new thriller from the director Taylor Sheridan. The last time that Jolie led a straight-up action movie was in 2010, when she played a mysterious C.I.A. operative in “Salt.” Under the direction of Phillip Noyce (“Patriot Games”), Jolie bolts through a story that kicks off when her character, Evelyn Salt, is accused of being a Russian spy. She works to prove her innocence while on the run. “It all happens in such a frenzy of momentum and on-the-fly exposition that some of the more preposterous elements in the story will strike you only in retrospect, after the helicopter leaps, the elevator-shaft daredevilry and the race-the-clock flirtation with thermonuclear war,” A.O. Scott wrote in his review for The Times. “But that,” he added, “is as it should be.”

MONTEREY POP (1968) 8 p.m. on TCM. The concert film by D.A. Pennebaker captures a smattering of sets from the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival. Performers in the film include the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Otis Redding, The Who, Simon and Garfunkel and Jefferson Airplane. Also shown: A blissed-out audience drinking in the Summer of Love. “The nicest thing about the movie is not its musical or nostalgic qualities,” the critic Renata Adler wrote in her 1968 review for The Times, “but the way it captures the pop musical willingness to hurl yourself into things, without all the What If (What if I can’t? What if I make a fool of myself?) joy action-stopping self-consciousness of an earlier generation, a willingness that can somehow co-exist with the idea of cool.”

Friday

INSIDE THE MET 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). The year 2020 was always going to be a landmark one for the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Before the pandemic began, the institution had planned a flurry of programming to celebrate its 150th anniversary. Instead, the museum faced a different kind of watershed moment: the longest closure in its history, and public calls for it to confront its past and present relationship to inclusion, exclusion, diversity and colonialism. This documentary looks at how the museum navigated those months.

Saturday

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE 11:30 p.m. on NBC. The actress Anya Taylor-Joy, recently seen laying waste to chess masters as the star of “The Queen’s Gambit,” will host this season finale episode of S.N.L. The rap superstar Lil Nas X, recently seen pole dancing to perdition in his video for “Montero (Call Me by Your Name),” is the musical guest.

Sunday

IN TREATMENT 9 p.m. on HBO. The “Orange is the New Black” star Uzo Aduba takes over the lounge chair from Gabriel Byrne in this new version of “In Treatment,” HBO’s series about a therapist and patients in therapy. The show’s third season aired in 2010; The fourth season with Aduba debuts Sunday night. It introduces a new set of patients — a home health aide played by Anthony Ramos, a parolee played by John Benjamin Hickey and a teenage student played by Quintessa Swindell — and comes, of course, after a particularly anxious year in the real world.

2021 BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS 8 p.m. on NBC. Nick Jonas will host this year’s Billboard Music Awards, which will be broadcast live from Los Angeles on Sunday night. Performers include the Weeknd, BTS, Pink, Duran Duran and DJ Khaled.