Welcome back to The Big To-Do. The Red Sox look to turn things around after a 1-5 start on the road in their home opener today at Fenway Park. Meanwhile, April is bringing all the showers, Passover is underway, and Easter is Sunday (Peeps fans, the Globe’s Christopher Muther has your back.) The NCAA basketball tournaments wrap up this weekend, and if UConn makes both the men’s and women’s title games, Jordan’s Furniture is on the hook for about $50 million. This week’s One Special Thing is “the greatest animated character ever drawn,” and the arts brief section The Rundown includes the Wicked Queer film festival, which starts tonight. Among the new streaming picks from the Globe’s Matt Juul is the return of “Love on the Spectrum.”

And hats off to everyone who had a hand in booking the host and musical guest for “Saturday Night Live,” Jack Black and Jack White.

Movies

The big twist in “The Drama” is such a “repugnant, tasteless surprise” that Globe film critic Odie​ Henderson gives the Boston-set dark comedy zero stars. Starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson as an engaged couple whose wedding is threatened by a revelation, it’s “so despicable that I can’t even muster half-a-star for my grade,” Henderson writes. “In 20 years as a professional film critic, I’ve only given seven movies zero stars.”

“The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” is set in outer space but otherwise nearly indistinguishable from “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” (2023). Glen Powell and Brie Larson join the cast of the sequel, which lands as “yet another big screen rehash of the Nintendo classics that will make you want to go play the games rather than watch this movie again,” Henderson writes in a 2-star review.

Satyajit Ray’s “Days and Nights in the Forest” is a “superb example of directorial craft and beautiful black and white cinematography.” The 1970 male-bonding dramedy, newly restored, opens at the Coolidge Corner today. “If you haven’t seen any of the work of this great, humanist director, this particular film is a good place to start,” writes Henderson.

TV & Streaming

A puzzle box series creates “the sensation that the ground is disappearing beneath your feet as you watch.” Think “Twin Peaks” or “Severance.” “The good ones dole out information bit by bit, or week by week, placing an emphasis on questions rather than answers. They tease and they tantalize,” Globe TV critic Chris Vognar writes. “They also make for great streaming.” He offers “a by-no-means exhaustive tally of 10 prime puzzlers.”

Henry David Thoreau “remains more relevant than ever in our go-go, profit-driven world.” The three-part PBS documentary that bears the name of the philosopher and essayist is “a handsomely mounted, passionate, and convincing piece of filmmaking,” writes Vognar. “It also helped me readjust my own thinking on Thoreau, about whom I hold views more ambivalent than the rhapsodies on display here.”

This week’s One Special Thing is a single facet of the Looney Tunes universe — Bugs Bunny. “Bugs Bunny remains the most malleable of Looney Tunes characters,” writes Odie Henderson. “While directors like Bob Clampett and Tex Avery often used him as an agent of surrealistic chaos, Chuck Jones’s Bugs was usually minding his own business before being pressed into service against his foe.”

The premiere of “Real Housewives of Rhode Island” raises a question: Why isn’t there a “Real Housewives of Boston”? “There are no trailers showing dramatically haired women, bejeweled under black puffy coats, impatiently waiting for the valet,” writes the Globe’s Beth Teitell. “No Market Basket parking lot slap downs. No seaside clambake meltdowns.” The inevitable conclusion: “the problem isn’t that we’re not good enough. It’s that we’re too good.”

Anime Boston is the reason you’re seeing people in costume all over the Back Bay. “From panels and musical performances to dance workshops and cosplay showcases, New England’s premiere anime convention will have plenty on hand to keep attendees busy,” reports the Globe’s Auzzy Byrdsell, who spotlights five events that are worth your time.

Museums & Visual Art

“Framing Nature: Gardens and the Imagination,” at the MFA, is “a jaunt through millennia represented in the MFA’s remarkable collection, from the ancient world to the here and now.” A complement to Art in Bloom, it’s “a game attempt to build heft around a pretty, perennial crowd pleaser,” Globe art critic Murray Whyte writes. “It succeeds, mostly. But where it doesn’t, its verdant beauty can be enough.”

“Labor Daily,” at the Griffin Museum of Photography, is well named. “As the show’s title reminds us, labor isn’t about just one day, let alone an end-of-summer holiday: It’s about dailiness,” writes the Globe’s Mark Feeney. “Although the photographs here are about occupations and workplaces, and memorably so, they’re even more about people, and even more memorably so.”

“Ahab’s Head: American Vengeance,” at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, illustrates how “the need for more always comes clawing back.” Drawing on “Moby-Dick,” multimedia artist Heidi Whitman “packs the novel’s operatic scope into a single gallery that resembles the aftermath of a shipwreck,” writes Globe correspondent Cate McQuaid. The installation “asks how society reflects the psyches of its leaders.”

Comedy

Mae Martin plays Boston Wednesday, part of a national tour by the comedian, actor, writer, and podcaster. The show, they say, “is in favor of having messy friendships and getting out of the house, meeting people who you might not normally meet, and just participating in the world.” On the “Handsome” podcast with Tig Notaro and Fortune Feimster. Martin says, “It’s sort of emerged that I’m this gullible weirdo.”

Theater

S.E. Hinton’s novel “The Outsiders” consists of “potentially rich material that could, in the right hands, be the stuff of potent drama.” The musical adaptation playing Boston is not in those hands. The result, writes Globe theater critic Don Aucoin, is “a production waging a valiant but unsuccessful struggle against the forces of its own nonstop cliches, one-note melodrama, and utter lack of originality.”

Playbill and TV Guide don’t always overlap much, but Broadway is seeing a parade of actors who made their names on the small screen. Aucoin surveys an impressive list: Mariska Hargitay (“Every Brilliant Thing”) and Boston native Ayo Edebiri (“Proof”) making their Broadway debuts; Cedric the Entertainer and Taraji P. Henson in “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone”; and more.

Music

Ted Landsmark: civic leader, academic, civil rights advocate ... banjo collector. The instrument “contradicts all the stereotypes of Southern culture,” says Landsmark, newly retired from the Boston Planning and Development Agency board. “People wanted to believe that Blacks and whites didn’t interact with each other.” He chats with Globe correspondent James Sullivan about his antique banjos and “the art of collecting.”

K-Pop girl group TWICE plays Boston for the first time this weekend. Fans “can expect to hear hit songs such as ‘Strategy’ and ‘What Is Love?,’ which showcase TWICE’s bright, high-energy pop sound,” Globe correspondent Adam Davidson writes. Perhaps the highest-profile members of the group are Jeongyeon, Jihyo, and Chaeyoung, who performed “TAKEDOWN” on the “KPop Demon Hunters” soundtrack and at Lollapalooza.

McCarthy’s and Toad turns one this weekend. The birthday party features “a full day of live music, starting at noon on the McCarthy’s ‘side’ with a three-hour ‘Scottish brunch,’” Globe correspondent Victoria Wasylak writes for Sound Check. A bright spot in the pandemic-shaken local music scene, the venue is a magnet for artists co-owner Tommy McCarthy describes as “middle-aged to 60, 70” as well as traditional Irish musicians.

The Gentleman Brawlers bring “their distinctive live sound” to Plymouth tonight. The collective “layers Afrobeat rhythms atop singer-songwriter sensibilities” and incorporates dance into its performances, writes Globe correspondent Stuart Miller. “We’re always scheming about fun things to bring out onstage to dance with,” says singer and dancer Quincie Hydock. “That’s everything to us. ... It’s about feeling joy.”