THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE Stream on Netflix. Rent on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube. Love stories almost always include a conflict that disrupts the relationship at their center. Sometimes it’s a disapproving family that creates friction. Sometimes it’s societal taboos or infidelity, maybe a terrible accident. In this film adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger’s 2003 novel, it’s time, more specifically the involuntary time travel of Henry (Eric Bana), a Chicago librarian. A genetic disorder causes him to drift, at random intervals, through the past and future. This is why, when he meets Clare (Rachel McAdams), she knows him already, but he is meeting her for the first time. She and Henry fall in love but find themselves tested by his condition.

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RETRO REPORT 9 p.m. PBS (check local listings). This new series seeks to explain the present by looking to the past. The journalist Celeste Headlee and the artist Masud Olufani trace the sometime surprising connections they find between things that are in the news today and events from previous eras. In the premiere episode, they’ll link the recent protests by NFL football players to earlier examples of activism by black athletes; and explore current social media habits with psychological experiments from the 1950s. Past cases of woman fighting sexual misconduct will also be explored alongside the #MeToo movement. Andy Borowitz, the humorist known for his work in The New Yorker, will join the hosts to add some historically informed satire.