What to watch this week: Jon Hamm's new thriller, TV's latest Kristallnacht mystery

A weekly TV column reviews the expanded documentary 'Proud Jewish Boy' about Herschel Grynszpan, Jon Hamm's new miniseries 'American Hostage,' and Netflix's 'A Couple of Lies,' which attempts to replicate 'The White Lotus' formula.

This week's TV column covers three notable programs. The documentary 'Proud Jewish Boy,' expanded into two parts airing on KAN 11 on November 7 and 9, tells the story of Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year-old Jewish refugee who assassinated a German diplomat in Paris in 1938, an act the Nazis used as a pretext for Kristallnacht. The film, which won Best Israeli Documentary at the Haifa International Film Festival, explores Grynszpan's fate after he was transferred to German custody and the canceled Nazi show trial. The miniseries 'American Hostage,' all eight episodes now on YesVOD, stars Jon Hamm as radio news director Fred Heckman during a 1977 Indianapolis hostage crisis where a gunman with a dead man's line takes a mortgage officer hostage. The series raises questions about media involvement in such situations. Netflix's 'A Couple of Lies' attempts to replicate 'The White Lotus' formula with two couples swapping houses in Sicily and Sweden, but the review notes it struggles to match the original's quality.