The Hype Line: Five things we can't look away from this week, including Restrepo.

Welcome to the Hype Line, where we tell you the five things that are getting us excited for the week ahead.

June 22

Memphis Beat Premier: TNT has a history of police procedurals that don't take themselves quite as seriously as some of their peers (see The Closer), and this new addition to their now cop-heavy line up doesn't seem to be breaking that mold. The series stars the ever-reliable Jason Lee — ever reliable when he's not being a Scientology kook, that is — as a Memphis detective who moonlights as an Elvis impersonator and lives with his mother. It may not be the next Wire, but this is just the kind of slightly off character we like to see Lee play, and if all goes right this could be the perfect bit of summer TV popcorn to carry us through to the fall.

June 22

New Albums From The Roots and Stars: While we're certainly excited for Stars' The Five Ghosts, which we hope will be just as beautiful and heartbreaking as the Canadian group's previous efforts, we'd be lying if we said we weren't just a little more thrilled about The Roots' How I Got Over. Why? Because for a while there, The Roots maintained that their previous album (Rising Down) was also going to be their last. You might worry about the negative effects of a proximity to Jimmy Fallon will have on this album — How I Got Over was recorded during The Roots' time as his house band — but frankly, we're just happy that it exists at all.

June 22

Sam Lipsyte's The Ask: Sam Lipsyte's trademark is his bilious black humor, and by all accounts, he remains in fine, jaded form in his newest novel. The protagonist is Milo Burke, a development officer at a third-tier university and general failure, who is given one last chance to snag a potential donor who requested Milo specifically. (These sorts of things are invariably bad signs.) While Milo submits to the big "ask's" requests, Lipsyte uses his story to examine everything from the white collar world to the effect of war to Benjamin Franklin. And it might almost sound like too much, if it wasn't supposed to be so goddamn funny.

June 25

Dogtooth: What would you get if you combined Napoleon Dynamite with The Village and added just a hint of The Virgin Suicides? That question may be answered (somewhat) by the Greek drama Dogtooth, which tells the story of three children who have been confined to their family complex by their parents and told they can only leave the grounds when one of their dog-teeth falls out. (They also believe their greatest enemy is a house cat.) The film — which won the Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes — looks to be as engaging as it is mysterious, but with a light touch of the awkward, somehow stylish quirks that have so permeated indie films here for years.

June 25

Restrepo: It can be — sadly — hard at a time like this, when the Gulf of Mexico is being covered in oil and the economy is still on shaky footing, to remember that there are still two wars being fought by the US overseas. Watch Restrepo, though, and you'll have no problem: this bracing documentary, which received the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, follows one platoon into the unimaginatively dangerous Korangal Valley in Afghanistan, where they man a remote, fifteen-person outpost. Shot entirely on the ground, with no off-site interviews to give you even a brief break from the tension, Restrepo is a taut and visceral reminder of the day-to-day life of our troops abroad.