Top TV picks for May 2: 'The Loud House,' 'Houdini & Doyle,' 'Claude Lanzmann'

Chris Savino mines the thrills and tribulations of growing up with 10 sisters in "The Loud House," a promising new animated series that moves at a rapid clip without ever feeling rushed. The girls run the gamut from tomboy to preppy, ensuring that young viewers will form some sort of connection, even if they're not a young male who has had to spend an exorbitant amount of time waiting to use the bathroom.

4 p.m. Nick

Our fascination with a certain Founding Father and an undying thirst for crime dramas will inevitably lead to the series "Hamilton, Private Detective." Until that fateful day, there's "Houdini & Doyle," a rather pedestrian procedural that gets a slight boost from the novelty of magician Harry Houdini and writer Arthur Conan Doyle as the mismatched investigators. "X-Files" fans, disappointed by the latest reboot, will enjoy the pair bickering over the existence of an afterlife, although any sexual sparks are — at least so far — nonexistent.

8 p.m. KMSP, Ch. 9

"Shoah," the landmark documentary about the Holocaust, is difficult to revisit, because of the subject matter and the 10-hour running time. But you'll be tempted to invest the time after watching "Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of Shoah," the Oscar-nominated short that pays tribute to the director who risked his mental health — and physical life — to investigate perhaps the darkest chapter of 20th-century history.

8 p.m. HBO

Neal Justin