What to Watch: If you’ve ever watched the Food Network or enjoyed a celebrity-chef branded item from your supermarket, then you should probably thank Shep Gordon, who started out as a manager for rock stars like Alice Cooper. While many celebrity chefs can thank Shep for their success, you can thank me for linking to his Netflix documentary: Supermensch.

+ What to Read: The Teenage Whaler’s Tale, by Julia O’Malley. I’ll let O’Malley’s own writing provide the intro: “A hundred years ago — even 20 years ago, when Gambell was an isolated point on the map, protected part of the year by a wall of sea ice — catching the whale would have been a dream accomplishment for a teenage hunter, a sign of Chris’ passage into adulthood and a story that people would tell until he was old. But today, in a world shrunk by social media, where fragments of stories travel like light and there is no protection from anonymous outrage, his achievement has been eclipsed by an endless wave of online harassment.”

+ What to Watch: A six-part series on Bob Hurley, a New Jersey high school basketball coach with a remarkable streak of wins and state championships faces his toughest challenge yet: Keeping his school in business.