Worth Watching — August 28, 2026

Apple TV‘s trippy multiverse thriller Dark Matter returns for a second season. Robert De Niro and Severance‘s Adam Scott star in the Netflix mystery The Whisper Man. Conan O’Brien visits the Netherlands in Conan O’Brien Must Go. USA‘s Anna Pigeon suspects a killer among campers caught in a storm.

Dark Matter

Which Jason Dessen is which — and which world are we in today? It’s not always entirely clear in this mind-boggling sci-fi drama starring Joel Edgerton as an everyman besieged by other versions of himself from alternate worlds. While a mysterious agent (Chris Diamantopoulos) investigates a morgue full of Jason corpses from last season’s climax, Season 2 catches up with OG Jason, his understandably freaked wife Daniela (Jennifer Connelly) and their son Charlie (Oakes Fegley) after they’ve settled into a seemingly safe existence. Which probably won’t last. In an alternate world, Jason’s former best friend Ryan (The Walking Dead: Dead City‘s Jimmi Simpson) and one-time multiverse traveling companion Amanda (Alice Braga) make a startling connection.

The Whisper Man

Robert De Niro stars opposite Severance‘s Adam Scott in a grim mystery thriller based on Alex North’s unnerving novel. They’re father and son, but deeply estranged, so much so that Tom (Scott) changed his last name from Willis to Kennedy as he forged a career as a crime writer. De Niro is Pete Willis, a retired detective who some 30 years ago put away a serial killer of children known as the “Whisper Man,” who’s still in prison. So who’s the menace copying his methods who may have kidnapped Tom’s 8-year-old son, Jake? Michelle Monaghan costars as an active-duty detective helping in the investigation.

Conan O’Brien Must Go

It’s a Dutch treat when Conan’s weekly travelogue sends the lanky goofball to the Netherlands, where he dodges than rides the country’s ubiquitous bicycles, dresses as Van Gogh to surprise patrons of Amsterdam’s famous museum and goes one-on-one to teach trash-talking to a friendly basketball player who’s a big fan. He also pays a visit to a tulip farm where he makes a bizarre PSA to warn against eating the flowers. “I live to make things worse,” he jokes, then proves it when he takes styling and fashion tips from a high fashion model. “I’m considered a god in Finland,” he humblebrags. Not so much, maybe, in this low-lying country.

Anna Pigeon

A storm is heading toward Montana’s Glacier National Park, and ranger/officer Anna Pigeon (Tracy Spiridakos) takes it upon herself to evacuate two camping couples who are in danger of being swept away by flash floods. Anna being Anna, she senses “something weird going on” with this group as she leads them to safety, cut off by the storm from communication with the ranger station. Is there a killer in their midst? (This being a weekly mystery series, it’s not such a leap.)

Silo

It’s the penultimate episode of Season 3, so expect some major events, and apocalyptic cliffhangers, in both time frames of the dense sci-fi thriller. Within the silo hundreds of years from now, Bernard (Tim Robbins) faces a stark sentencing as he instills doubt about the almighty Algorithm that’s controlling their fate. Could his Wizard of Oz analogy be accurate? As a rebellion brews in Silo 18, we flash back to the present day for the “big unveiling” of the Silo project, “one of the biggest engineering projects in the history of the world,” otherwise known as “Stensen’s Ark,” after the kazillionaire (Colin Hanks) who funded the underground survival bunkers. It’s a day the world won’t soon forget.