Tv Shows

Delve into fraught British affairs with the movie “Brexit” on HBO. Or stick with politics right at home with the documentary “Fahrenheit 11/9” on Amazon Prime.

What’s on TV

BREXIT (2019) 9 p.m. on HBO; stream on HBO Go or HBO Now. After an earlier introduction in Britain, the feature-length drama “Brexit” hops across the pond to tell the story — or one possible version — of how the British referendum on leaving the European Union resulted in the narrow triumph of the Leave campaign. Written by the political playwright James Graham, the movie follows the Vote Leave campaign manager, Dominic Cummings (Benedict Cumberbatch) as he ignites a dormant group of voters to “take back control” with strategies to overwhelm the Remain campaign and its leader, Craig Oliver (Rory Kinnear). As the Brexit controversy continues to send shock waves around the world, the only film yet to attempt to unravel the chaos may do the same.

ESCAPING THE MADHOUSE: THE NELLIE BLY STORY (2019) 8 p.m. on Lifetime. Nellie Bly, the famed female journalist, is the stuff of legend — and so is this drama detailing her infiltration of the Women’s Lunatic Asylum (based on the real New York City institution on Blackwell’s Island). Inspired by Bly’s real-life investigation into the mistreatment of mentally ill patients, this movie, starring Christina Ricci, brings a dark intensity to the deplorable conditions Bly experienced, with several cinematic twists.

SICARIO: DAY OF THE SOLDADO (2018) 8 p.m. on STARZ; rent on Google Play, YouTube and Vudu. Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro square off in this suspenseful drama, in which an F.B.I. agent and a mysterious operative grudgingly work together to stop a Mexican drug cartel smuggling terrorists into the United States. Despite having a hot-button issue central to the story, the sequel to “Sicario” mostly manages to avoid politics.

TULLY (2018) 7:30 p.m. on HBO; stream on HBO Go or HBO Now. In this dramedy directed by Jason Reitman, Marlo (Charlize Theron) is an overwhelmed “supermom,” a type many mothers watching the show can probably identify with. When a night nanny named Tully (Mackenzie Davis) arrives to help, the two women form a surprising and special bond.

DYNASTIES 9 p.m. on BBC America. Narrated by the omnipresent naturalist Sir David Attenborough and produced by Mike Gunton of “Planet Earth II,” this series follows five endangered animals as they fight to survive a treacherous world.

What’s Streaming

FAHRENHEIT 11/9 (2018) stream on Amazon; rent on Google Play, YouTube and Vudu. Michael Moore adds to his documentary credits with a film that points fingers — at everyone. Moore’s sense of outrage at America’s current state is palpable, from the water crisis in Flint, Mich., to his correct prediction of the outcome of the presidential election. But as Glenn Kenny wrote in a review for The New York Times, the film still manages to find hope in young activists who are taking on the country’s most divisive issues.

Name: James DeSantis

Age: 30

Hometown: Sylvan Beach, N.Y.

Now lives: In a two-bedroom apartment in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.

Claim to fame: Mr. DeSantis is one-third of the Manscapers, a landscape design firm in Brooklyn with an eclectic clientele drawn from the city’s cultural fauna. Along with his longtime pals Garrett Magee and Melissa Brasier, Mr. DeSantis has created eye-popping green environments for Diane von Furstenberg, the David Lynch Foundation, Calvin Klein and Sies Marjan. “I’ve found clients at low tea on Fire Island and even through teaching yoga classes,” he said.

Big break: The Manscapers took root in 2014 after friends complimented the outdoor décor at a party Mr. DeSantis and Ms. Brasier held at their Williamsburg apartment. An early client was Ladyfag, a night life personality who hired them in 2015 to create a tropical theme for a Dsquared2 party at the Halston House on the Upper East Side.

Latest project: “Backyard Envy,” a reality makeover show on Bravo that follows the three plantfluencers as they rake and hoe for clients including the Hotel Americano and Chris Beltzer, a fashion director at InStyle, just had its premiere. The premise of the series: a home-flipping format for cramped urban oases with occasional quips about Grindr.

“We were shocked by how much creative control we had,” Mr. DeSantis said. “When we wanted our jacked gay workers to show off, the producers would immediately let us go for it.”

Next thing: The Manscapers plan to sell a line of outdoor candles and high-end bug repellents within the year. Mr. DeSantis also hopes to use his platform as a budding television personality to shed light on one of his concerns: male body issues.

“I plan to be open about my experiences and show men can be just as insecure as women, especially when we don’t follow the norm of what the perfect male body should look like,” he said.

Impostor syndrome: Mr. DeSantis said that being raised by conservative Syrian parents has given him an outsider’s perspective that helps him adapt to new situations. “There has always been an element of me faking it till I make it,” he said.