Worth Watching — October 27, 2026

A three-part docuseries explores the career, life, and untimely death of Friends star Matthew Perry. Dancing With the Stars gets in costume for “Horror Movie Night.” FX‘s The Drop: A Snowfall Saga and ABC‘s R.J. Decker air their season finales.

The One About Matthew Perry

A deeply personal three-part docuseries presents a rounded and heartbreakingly poignant profile of Friends superstar Matthew Perry, with touching testimony from his sister Mia Perry Bowick and a circle of close personal friends — not the super-famous ones — who stuck with the actor through lean times, good times, and way too many rough times and relapses. His innate humor and generosity of spirit shine through in Perry’s own words from interviews and clips discussing his love for comedy, confronting his struggles with addiction, and advocacy for treatment. While he’ll always be remembered as Chandler Bing, The One About Matthew Perry (airing almost exactly three years after his untimely death) pays loving and candid tribute to many fans’ favorite Friend.

Dancing With the Stars

Swapping glamour for ghoulishness in honor of Halloween, the 10 remaining couples get into garish costumes for “Horror Movie Night,” performing routines inspired by themes and songs from classic horror films. Adding to the week’s fear factor: guest judge and “Queen of Latin” Shirley Ballas, mother of Mark Ballas (who’s partnered this season with Maura Higgins) and a stickler for technique, as she demonstrated while judging the summer’s The Next Pro competition. The dancers are hoping they can make her scream — in delight.

The Drop: A Snowfall Saga

The music industry can be as deadly as the drug trade, which the Snowfall spinoff keeps reminding us in its depiction of the rise of rap and hip-hop in 1990s L.A. The Season 1 finale pits fledgling producer Wanda Bell (the electrifying Gail Bean) against Black Banner label owner DG (Brandon Mychal Smith) as she makes big and potentially dangerous moves to “take our power back” and reclaim autonomy for her music-prodigy cousin, Lamar (Asante Blackk), and gang-affiliated rapper Artillery (Simmie “Buddy” Sims III). If you ever wondered how gangster rap got its name…

R.J. Decker

Leaving so soon? Even by network TV’s diminished standards, a seven-episode season is awfully short. As the scruffy Florida private eye (Scott Speedman) signs off for an abbreviated second season, Decker finds himself caught between Emi (Jaina Lee Ortiz) and his detective pal Mel (Bevin Bru) when the former hires him to exonerate a man who may have been wrongly convicted for a police officer’s murder. This case is extremely personal for Mel, who resents his interference. No word yet if we’ll get a third season of any duration.

Ludwig

By contrast, short seasons are nothing new for British mysteries, which often clock in at six episodes. Such is the case for this charming whodunit, already at the midpoint in the third episode of its second season. John “Ludwig” Taylor (David Mitchell), puzzle master and police consultant, gets drawn into the hunt for the killer of a fashion influencer, using an ingenious maze theory to sort through the suspects. But the real reason he uncharacteristically “pops in” at the precinct is to tap into the police computer to help his sister-in-law Lucy (Anna Maxwell Martin) prepare for her imminent interview with Parliament member Joanne Kemper (Sian Clifford) to find out what she knows about the mysterious disappearance of John’s twin and Lucy’s husband, James, a celebrated detective.