TV picks for Aug. 27: 'The Innocents,' 'The Hunt for Red October,' 'Nowhere to Hide'

August 26, 2018 at 7:00PM
Sorcha Groundsell, Percelle Ascott in "The Innocents."
Sorcha Groundsell and Percelle Ascott are young lovers in “The Innocents.”AIMEE SPINKS • Netflix (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Maiden voyage

John Krasinski may end up being terrific as the star of Amazon's upcoming series "Jack Ryan," but the standard-bearer remains Alec Baldwin, who first captured the brawny and brainy sides of Tom Clancy's enduring character in 1990's "The Hunt for Red October."

6 p.m., Ovation

The shape I'm in

Romeo and Juliet have nothing on the teen couple in "The Innocents," a British supernatural series in which young love knows no bounds, even if one of them is a shape shifter. Guy Pearce plays a professor who may or may not be on their side.

Now streaming on Netflix

Casualties of war

In "Nowhere to Hide," nurse Nori Sharif starts off as a witness to some of the horrors inflicted on Iraqis immediately after American troops pulled back from their country, but by the end of this devastating "POV" film, he's as lost and afflicted as the patients he once treated.

10 p.m., TPT, Ch. 2

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(left to right) Alec Baldwin and James Earl Jones star in the 1989/1990 movie "The Hunt for Red October." Handout photo courtesy of Paramount Pictures.
(left to right) Alec Baldwin and James Earl Jones star in the 1989/1990 movie “The Hunt for Red October.” Paramount Pictures. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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