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Article snippet: Summer television has improved more than that of any other season, but it’s still a time for escapist pleasures — they’re just smarter and better made than they used to be. Here are 13 choices for summer fun (on American television or streaming services) that won’t starve your brain of oxygen. All premiere dates are subject to change. Season 1, Comedy Central, June 6 The Australian comedian Jim Jefferies takes on John Oliver and Samantha Bee on their own turf, the weekly, topical, host-centric late-night (10:30 p.m.) show. Mr. Jefferies probably got the gig on the strength of his popular gun-control routine and his caustic exchange with Piers Morgan about Donald J. Trump, but for the full range of his talent check out his tenderly abrasive 2013-14 sitcom, “Legit.” Season 1, TNT, June 11 The increasingly crowded category of the quirky Southern crime drama with a dark-comic edge — Elmore Leonard-Carl Hiaasen country — adds this series that was originally in the works at HBO. Niecy Nash, Carrie Preston and Judy Reyes star as Florida manicurists who do a little money laundering on the side. Season 1, Netflix, June 23 Period dramas about pop-culture scenes have generally come attached to men with big swinging reputations: Baz Luhrmann (“The Get Down”), Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger (“Vinyl”), Jim Carrey (“I’m Dying Up Here”). Now we get one from a female perspective: “Glow,” a comic drama about a women’s professional wrestling circuit in the 1980s, was created by Li... Link to the full article to read more