“Crazy Rich Asians” makes its television debut on HBO. And BTS bring K-pop to “Saturday Night Live.”



What’s on TV

CRAZY RICH ASIANS (2018) 8 p.m. on HBO; Stream on HBO platforms. This ultraglamorous romantic comedy barely needs an introduction. Based on the novel of the same name by Kevin Kwan, the movie made waves last year for being the first Hollywood production with a majority Asian cast since 1993’s “The Joy Luck Club.” (In an interview with The New York Times, the director Jon M. Chu said he wanted the film to be “the ‘Avengers’ of Asian actors.”) Constance Wu stars as Rachel, a middle-class economics professor at New York University who joins her boyfriend, Nick (Henry Golding), on a trip to Singapore, whereupon she learns that his family is among the richest in the country. The differences between her upbringing and his become hard to ignore — Nick’s judgmental mother (Michelle Yeoh) flat-out tells Rachel she isn’t right for her son — but our heroine refuses to go down without a fight. For those craving more crazy, rich fun, a sequel based on Kwan’s second book in the series is already in the works.