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If you're looking for a new show to watch this week, I've got your back. I've scoured the schedules of Netflix, Prime, Max, Hulu, and other streaming platforms to bring you the best and most notable shows streaming this week. There are some excellent new shows this week: First on my list is gritty crime drama Dope Thief. If you're more into talk shows, Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney is premiering on Netflix, and it aims to blow some fresh air into the genre. And don't miss the return of the mighty The Righteous Gemstones.
Dope Thief
Apple TV+ has found the perfect vehicle for actor Brian Tyree Henry (Causeway, Atlanta). In Dope Thief, Henry plays Ray Driscoll, an outlaw and antihero who remains sympathetic. Ray and his best pal Manny, played by Wagner Moura, are a couple of Philly dudes who hit on a plan to make money: dress up as DEA agents and rob low-level drug dealers. It's not a good plan, and it gets extra not-good when they inadvertently target the kind of large narcotics operation that will send men to kill everyone you know if you cross them.
Where to stream: Apple TV+
Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney
Netflix is entering the talk show world with Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney, a weekly live show hosted by Mulaney, who also serves as co-showrunner and executive producer. If his first Netflix live show, John Mulaney’s Everybody’s in LA, is the model, expect eclectic celebrity guests, phone calls with the viewing audience, and the spontaneous magic that only working live brings. At a recent press event, Mulaney promised, "We will never be relevant. We will never be your source for news. We will always be reckless. Netflix will always provide us with data that we will ignore.” Sounds promising.
Where to stream: Netflix
The Righteous Gemstones, season 4
The fourth and final season of HBO original comedy The Righteous Gemstones features the titular family of scummy televangelists fighting America's "war on Christianity" while continuing to grift suckers hilariously. The show's talented cast—including Danny McBride, Adam DeVine, Edi Patterson, and John Goodman—will be returning, and a couple of new faces will be on hand to keep things fresh. Will & Grace star Megan Mullally plays Lori, an old family friend of the Gemstones, and Sean William Scott from American Pie plays her son.
Where to stream: Max
The Wheel of Time, season 3
If fantasy is your sort of thing, check out Prime's sprawling sorcery and orcs (sorry, "trollocs") series The Wheel of Time. The show is returning for a third season, and the White Tower is really in peril now. Right off the bat, Liandrin is revealed as a Black Ajah in front of the Hall of the Sitters. Later, Rand, Moiraine, Lan, Egwene, and Aviendha embark on an epic journey to the Aiel Waste. If you haven't seen the first two seasons or read Robert Jordan's 14(!) Wheel of Time novels, there's no better time than now to dig in.
Where to stream: Prime
Adolescence
The dramatic question at the center of four-part Netflix series Adolescence is, "What would you do if your teenage son was accused of murder?" Stephen Graham plays Eddie Miller, whose 13-year-old son Jamie, played by Owen Cooper, is arrested for the murder of a teenage classmate. To illustrate the provocative premise, each episode of Adolescence is presented as a single, continuous shot, so both film nerds and drama fans should put this on their watch list.
Where to stream: Netflix
Am I Being Unreasonable? season 2
If you're looking for something unusual to watch, check out Am I Being Unreasonable? Produced by BBC, the first season of this dark comedy/thriller series earned rave reviews for its anarchic, try-everything cinematic style, its sharp writing, and its talented cast headed by Daisy May Cooper. She plays Nic, a woman stuck in an unhappy marriage whose life unravels in hilarious ways when she tells someone her darkest secret.
Where to stream: Hulu
Last week's picks
Deli Boys, season 1
Created by Abdullah Saeed, Deli Boys is an outrageous comedy series about a pair of sheltered, pampered Pakistani American brothers whose lives are upended when their father dies, and they learn that baba's real money didn't come from the delis he owned, but from the illegal drugs he dealt. Now the sons must take over the family business, but these goofs are the furthest thing on Earth from drug dealers.
Where to stream: Hulu
Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue
You gotta respect the title of this new original series from MGM+. The pot-boiling premise: Nine strangers are stranded in a Mexican jungle after their small plane crashes. An aviation disaster is bad, but things get much worse when someone starts killing the survivors off, one by one, forcing them to catch the killer or become the next victim. Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue is the kind of bingeable, twisty murder mystery that streaming was designed for.
Where to stream: MGM+
Delicious
This Netflix original from Germany tells the story of a wealthy family unraveling during their summer vacation in Provence. After they hit a woman with their car, the family agrees to take her on as their maid. It seems like kindness, but it's anything but: Each member of the family secretly wants something different from this beautiful young woman, leading to consequences that spin out of control and shatter the facade of their perfect lives. This is one of many excellent, not-in-English series on Netflix.
Where to stream: Netflix
Celtics City
This sports reality series takes viewers inside the locker rooms and boardrooms of the Boston Celtics, the winningest team in NBA history. From its founding back in 1946, through the 1980s Larry Bird years, to the triumphant 2024 season, Celtics City examines the complex forces that shapes the squad into an enduring sports legacy.
Where to stream: Max
When No One Sees Us
Based on the novel by Sergio Sarria, When No One Sees Us is Max's first original Spanish language series. It stars Maribel Verdú (The Flash) as local Spanish police officer Lucía Gutierrez. When a series of disturbing murders take place around Holy Week in Morón de la Frontera (Seville), Gutierrez must work with lieutenant Magaly Castillo from the American military base nearby. More than a thriller and police procedural, When No One Sees Us explores the clash of culture between “deep Spain” and one of the largest U.S. military bases in the world.
Where to stream: Max
Berlin ER
This German-language original medical drama from Apple TV was co-created by emergency room doctor-turned-screenwriter Samuel Jefferson, so expect an unusual level of realism. It stars Haley Louise Jones of Dear Child, one of the best TV shows I've ever seen, so expect some seriously great acting too. Jones plays Dr. Parker, who juggles managing one of the most chaotic emergency rooms on Earth with her imploding personal life. Drama!
Where to stream: Apple TV+
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