And Kit Harington hosts “Saturday Night Live.”What’s on TVNATIVE SON (2019) 10 p.m. on HBO; Stream on HBO platforms. The conceptual artist Rashid Johnson makes his feature-directing debut in this adaptation of the 1940 novel by Richard Wright. Ashton Sanders (“Moonlight”) stars as Bigger, a rebellious bike messenger in the South Side of Chicago with big ambitions. His hopes for a better life collapse, though, when a night alone with Henry’s spoiled daughter (Margaret Qualley) ends in tragedy. James Baldwin was famously hostile toward Wright’s novel; he argued that Bigger’s character perpetuated the stereotype that black men are predisposed to violence.

Source: New York Times April 06, 2019 04:52 UTC