The semi-final of the UEFA Champions League and a dive into the world of ‘Second Life’: this is not to be missed on TV tonight

Today’s TV tips

Bayern Munich – Real Madrid (UEFA Champions League)

Football. Live coverage of Bayern Munich v Real Madrid, first leg in the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League, from the Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany. Commentary by Dirk Deferme.

At 8.35 pm on VTM 2.

Dare to ask

Report. Human interest program in which Siska Schoeters openly discusses sensitive themes. In this episode, seven drag queens are invited to the studio to give their candid answers to daring questions. Siska learns to dance in high heels from Mikael or Puki Harana. Drag queen La Tash invites her to sit on the jury for the preliminary rounds of the Miss Hessenhuis election, a drag queen competition.

At 8.45 pm VRT 1.

Love for music

Music. This episode focuses on Jasper Steverlinck, known for his wonderfully beautiful and powerful voice. It soon becomes clear that his musical oeuvre is also delicious. From rock to reggae and even a beautiful a cappella song with which Laura Tesoro amazes everyone. Suzan and Freek’s version also moves everyone.

At 8.40 pm on VTM.

On another

Report. Karine Claassen immerses herself in the special world of (un)ordinary Flemish people. ‘The Metaverse’ is the future of the internet. A virtual world into which people like Mark Zuckerberg pump billions. What many have forgotten is that The Metaverse is based on a virtual world that has been around for twenty years and Second Life is called. It is an outdated virtual world, to which many people are still addicted, including Flemish people. Karine becomes an avatar and tries to understand what people are still looking for there. She goes from one surprise to another.

At 9.20 pm on VRT Canvas.

The best on Netflix, Streamz and co.

Baby Reindeer

Life is not going so well for a while for Donny (Richard Gadd), who is in his late thirties. He was dumped by his girlfriend not long after moving from Edinburgh to London. Donny is a struggling stand-up comedian, who perhaps should have worked on his repertoire a little longer before taking that step to the capital.

So for a living he works as a bartender in a pub in Camden, where a seemingly innocent act of kindness – he offers a free drink to Martha (Jessica Gunning), who is sitting on dry semen – lands like a boomerang back in his pocket. : Martha starts stalking him, and also becomes visibly bolder in her methods.

On Netflix.

Shogun

The ten part Shogunstarring the relatively unknown British-American actor Cosmo Jarvis as Blackthorne and Hiroyuki Sanada (John Wick: Chapter 4) as Toranaga, is a sequence of epic grandeur, which echoes Ridley Scott’s recent Napoleon And especially – Game of Thrones shows. She is fearless in showing the often inhumanly cruel traditions on which feudal Japan was founded. The sex is depicted as chastely as in the soon to be 45-year-old original, but the violence goes a few octaves higher; although what you are served is more of a frenzied grandguignol than that Shogun tries to shock with its brutality.

On Disney+.

Fallout

Before the atomic bombs were dropped and all of America turned into a radioactive wasteland, opportunistic mutant bounty hunter Cooper (Walton Goggins) was an actor in old-fashioned straight-up Westerns, specializing in the old-fashioned righteous cowboy.

In the series Fallout, Based on the brilliant video game series of the same name, the occasional flashbacks to Cooper’s pre-apocalyptic acting life provide a razor-sharp picture of the morally gray area in which this unapologetically pulpy parable about greed, group formation and the urge to survive takes place.

On Amazon Prime Video.

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

With Donald Glover as screenwriter and protagonist Mr. & Mrs. Smith you expect an alienating, Lynchian universe like that of his hit series Atlanta. Nothing is less true. Mr. & Mrs. Smith is rooted in more classic fiction, more specifically a spy world such as that of James Bond, Jason Bourne and Mission: Impossible. The 2005 film of the same name with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie is a difficult point of comparison. That entertaining Hollywood lightweight relied on the sparks between the leading actors and the spectacular shoot-outs. Pitt and Jolie played a married pair of spy-hitmen, albeit for rival employers. One day they are ordered by their respective bosses to kill each other.

Glovers’ premise Mr. & Mrs. Smith is quite different. In the series, he and a superb Maya Erskine are given a spacious New York row house as a base for a mysterious organization. They have to go through life as John and Jane Smith, a married couple, both computer programmers.

On Amazon Prime Video.