TV picks for March 19: 'Arthur Miller: Writer,' 'Silicon Valley: The Untold Story,' 'Epic Warrior Women'

March 18, 2018 at 4:26AM
photo: Arthur Miller Archive/Robert Miller/courtesy of HBO
Arthur Miller is the subject of a documentary by his daughter, director Rebecca Miller. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Down in the valley

"Silicon Valley: The Untold Story" is a lot kinder to California's high-tech region than the similarly named HBO comedy series, but this documentary's three-hour running time may be too much even for geeks who think the place is more magical than Disneyland. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum are among the talking heads.

7 p.m., Science Channel

Girl power

Lynda Carter may have retired her Wonder Woman tiara decades ago, but she still remembers enough about the iconic TV character to narrate "Epic Warrior Women," a three-part docu-series celebrating real-life Amazons and other iconic female fighters. The episodes aren't as flashy as superhero movies, but they're no less inspirational.

7 p.m., Smithsonian

Memory play

Feature film director Rebecca Miller is known for coaxing great performances out of her hubby, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Oscar nominee Greta Gerwig, but she's also adept at drawing real emotions out of her dad in "Arthur Miller: Writer." The documentary covers the late playwright's classics — "Death of a Salesman," "A View From the Bridge," "The Crucible" — but the real draw here is the father-daughter chats that don't shy away from the legend's darkest chapters, including the death of his second wife, Marilyn Monroe.

7 p.m., HBO

Neal Justin

FILE- In this May 24, 2016, file photo, Lynda Carter arrives at the 41st annual Gracie Awards Gala at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Carter has confirmed reports that she has been cast as the president in the second season of the CW series, "Supergirl."(Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
Carter (The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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