Entertainment

When conductor David Borman raises his baton Sunday, he aims in part to elevate inclusivity and equality — significant elements in a cosmopolitan community such as Columbus.

Whimsy caught Kinsley Kareus’ imagination when she saw her first ballet several years ago. She fell in love with the art form after seeing a performance or two of the traditional holiday classic “The Nutcracker.”

Monsters are scary. But they have nothing on mean girls. This is the theme of “Under the Bridge,” a new limited series streaming on Hulu.

The best films about the past proceed with the assumption that history has a history of its own. “An American Bombing: The Road to April 19” (9 p.m., HBO, TV-MA) offers more than an emotional recollection of the shocking events in Oklahoma City in 1995. It traces the roots of the bomber’s radicalism and sees the story of Timothy McVeigh as a signpost in the recent history of anti-government rhetoric and radicalism in both American politics and media.

TCM continues its glance back at MGM’s history as the studio marks its 100th birthday. While few fans flock to the old silent films, the history and practices of these old mogul-run entertainment factories can teach us a lot about contemporary pop culture.

Nominated for five Oscars and based on a 2014 novel by Martin Amis, the 2023 drama “The Zone of Interest” (8 p.m. Saturday, HBO, streaming on Max) stars Christian Friedel as Rudolf Hoss, a Nazi commandant who tries to create a domestic family life with his wife, Hedwig (Sandra Huller), while living right next door to the Auschwitz extermination facility.

From “The Streets of San Francisco” to the court of Versailles is a long trip. And it has taken some 50 years for Michael Douglas, star and executive producer of “Franklin,” an eight-episode historical epic streaming on Apple TV+.

There are so many words that “trigger” me. Let’s start with “trigger”! Call me old-fashioned, but when I see the terms “post-apocalyptic,” “steampunk,” “alternative history,” “retrofuturism” and “based on a video game,” I reach for my remote.

Kids and teens

Kids these days! As long as there have been teenage trends, there have been older people, all of them former teenagers, who have judged the younger generation’s behavior and shopping habits. Beach movies from the 1960s, mall-set satires from the 1980s and high school movies and shows from every era satirize teenage materialism.