On TV on Wednesday: "American Horror Story" and "Dopesick Nation"

"American Horror Story" returns to FX. And Viceland's "Dopesick Nation" documents the opioid crisis.

What's on TV

HISTORY OF AMERICAN HORROR 22h on FX. "Am I going to have to put Mickey Mouse in" American Horror Story "?" Ryan Murphy, creator of this anthology series, asked in January, after announcing the fact that 21st Century Fox would be sold to the Walt Disney Company. . There is no sign of these famous ears in the eighth season trailer of the series – and the fact that the violence has not been toned down – but this season, titled "Apocalypse," is still a new form for the series. "Apocalypse" is a cross between the first and third seasons of the show, "Murder House" (about an obsession) and "Coven" (about contemporary witches).

PITCH BLACK (2000) 20h on Sho 2. The public had two opportunities to see Vin Diesel exerting its acting muscles (and the other kind) when this cult science fiction movie opened in February 2000, the same day as Wall Street's Boiler Room series. . . In this first installment of the "Riddick" franchise, Mr. Diesel plays Richard B. Riddick, a prisoner whose spaceship lands on a desert planet populated by bloodthirsty flying foreigners. Riddick "suggests a crushing hybrid of Hannibal Lecter, Harry Houdini and Hulk Hogan coming out of the private dungeon of a leather fetishist," Stephen Holden. wrote in his review for the New York Times, adding that "by evoking the fear of darkness and howling like bat when the lights go out, the film cleverly exploits the primitive terrors of those who have already slept. a night light.

CRISIS ON WALL STREET: THE WEEK THAT STARTED IN THE WORLD 22h on CNBC. Times columnist and CNBC presenter Andrew Ross Sorkin hosts this documentary on the 2008 financial crisis, retracing the fall of Lehman Brothers and questioning Wall Street leaders about the turbulent events. The effects of the period "still resonate with the way we live today – in the attitudes that permeate our economy, culture and politics," Sorkin wrote in The Times this week. "The crisis was a moment that split our country."

On my skin (2018) sure Netflix. While viewers will have to wait for some of the movies broadcast by Netflix this year at the Venice Film Festival, one of them – this Italian film by director Alessio Cremonini – will be available on Wednesday. It tells the fictional story of the real case of Stefano Cucchi, who died in 2009 while he was in police custody in Rome.