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Dear Wags,

Shall we make a little room for Spring? Dreary as life gets, you can hardly depress a daffodil. That’s the sort of thing you notice when you bob up from your phone. We’re hardly licensed to give advice, but we dispense it in any case: This Easter weekend, go find yourself a sunny spot and turn your face up to the sky like a grateful tulip (ever so briefly, warns our translucent dermatologist). This is still the best planet we know, and we’re thrilled to have you in it. If it clouds up, dive into these diversions.

Yours Ever,

Well, Excuuuse Us

Steve! (martin) (AppleTV +). Steve Martin, National Treasure, is somehow 78. He’s also happier than he’s ever been. That’s made clear in this two-part doc from Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?), which traces the comedian’s life and times from his days selling Disneyland guidebooks through the Wild and Crazy Guy Period, and up to today. We still miss the white suit. — Dolores Benedict

Bolshie vs. Bougie

A Gentleman in Moscow (Showtime/Paramount+). Amor Towles’ bestseller about a Russian count (Ewan MacGregor) exiled to the attic of a Moscow hotel by the Bolsheviks is given first class treatment by Ben Vanstone. The banished aristo finds a sidekick in a spunky kid (Alexa Goodall as Eloise at the Politburo) and a nemesis in a glowering secret policeman (Johnny Harris). Sweet as a blini. — Tanya Kamarova