Streaming Wednesday, Oct. 28:
The Gift of Deceit — Her determination to find a cure for her daughter’s illness leads a Brazilian art collector into the clutches of a shady spiritual counselor, who may be running a scam operation. Geez, and they always seem so legit when they’re explaining how you can use a dreamcatcher to cure cyclospora. (Netflix)
Streaming Thursday, Oct. 29:
The Fall of El Mayo — A three-part docuseries probes the mysteries behind the 2024 arrest of Mexican drug kingpin Ismael Mario Zambada García. Was he ratted out by one of his own? Was it a kidnapping? Or had he actually been doing undercover work for the feds? This one has a built-in audience: namely, apprentice narcos who’ll be filing it in their viewing history under COMMON PITFALLS. (Netflix)
You, Me, Us — An Italian couple have to reconcile their wildly disparate outlooks on life when they make the decision to adopt a child. It was so much easier when you could just carve them out of wood, right? Because then all you had to worry about was them getting swallowed by Whalefall. (Netflix)
Streaming Friday, Oct. 30:
Akka — The time frame is the 1980s and the location is a fictional South Indian city, as a ruling class of female criminals has to defend their turf from an outside force that could upend their entire way of life. Scoff all you want, but it sounds like they saw Dick Wolf coming before any of us. (Netflix)
Beat Luke Littler — Be in front of your device at 3 p.m. EDT if you want to see 20 hopefuls take on top-ranked darts player Luke “the Nuke” Littler live from Manchester for a £501,000 prize. And don’t forget to check back next month, when a different batch of novices tries to unseat reigning snooker champ Trevor “the Totally Made-Up Tomahawk Shipment” Davies. (Netflix)
The Birthday Gift — The best-laid plans of a German single mom go seriously astray thanks to the guests at her son’s swanky birthday party, one of whom arrives bearing the highly questionable gift of a toy firearm. Well, no wonder she’s offended. She goes to all that trouble, and the cheap bastards couldn’t even spring for a real one? (Netflix)
A Couple of Lies — A Stockholm couple agree to swap homes with a pair of strangers who are living in Sicily, but what they find in one another’s domiciles could have shattering implications for all of them. Hey, let’s be fair: You’d probably find it hard to resist going to the police if you found out some sicko was rolling their toilet paper the wrong way. (Netflix)
Collision Course — Spanish bank robbers discover some unsettling truths about one another in the aftermath of a job gone wrong. As opposed to a job gone right, which basically teaches you who’s worse about bogarting the Cristal. (Netflix)
Dead-End Job — The promise of hourly pay that’s 50 times the minimum wage puts a cash-strapped Korean behind the counter of a convenience store where every shift is like a contest on Squid Game. But it could be worse: He could be running a food truck for Mr. Beast. (Netflix)
Dexter: Resurrection — New cast arrivals in Season 2 include Brian Cox as a serial killer dubbed The New York Ripper. His schtick is that he doesn’t stab or strangle his victims; he just annoys them to death because he won’t shut up about what all the other New York murderers are doing wrong. (Paramount+)
How to Ruin Diwali: Meet the Parents — A Zulu bride-to-be makes the holiday difficult for her Indian fiancé by inadvertently exposing his father’s marital infidelity. And I think we all know what that means: Kathleen Turner has struck again. (Netflix)
LOL: Last One Laughing Philippines — Season 2 brings a whole new batch of comics to the fore to try to keep a straight face under the watchful eye of host Vice Ganda. Wait, isn’t Vice Ganda an immigrant neighborhood in Grand Theft Auto VI? I NEED THAT GAME, DAMMIT! (Prime Video)
Nocturne — The novels of author Lars Kepler are the basis for a series that casts Liev Schreiber as a homicide detective being targeted by a serial killer in a small town in Western Pennsylvania. Man, it really breaks some guys when they fall just short of getting to live in Ohio. (Apple TV)
Obsess — While those of us who don’t have Peacock wait patiently for Obsession to drop on Netflix (psst: Nov. 17), Ted Sarandos would really hate it if we got that movie confused with this psychological horror series about a curse that haunts a Kuwaiti family. I mean, other than the somewhat similar titles, they’re nothing alike, right? No? NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, DON’T DO THAT! I THOUGHT WE WERE HAVING A NICE KUWAIT! (Netflix)
SCTV: The Greatest Show You’ve Never Heard Of — Seriously, fellas? You think we’ve never heard of it? The show that was as important to the health and development of comedy in North America as, well, the John Birch Society? Well, if there is indeed anybody out there who needs a remedial lesson, they’ll get it from this reunion of the surviving cast members, who look back fondly on the years of frenzied creativity that introduced the world to John Candy, Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara and … uh, Tony Rosato. Hey, not even Ty Cobb batted 1.000! (Netflix)
Streaming Tuesday, Nov. 3:
Bass X Machina — Brian Tyree Henry executive-produced and provides the lead voice for an adult animated show that reframes the legacy of Black U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves in a steampunk context. In this version, he even has a mechanical arm! (Somewhere, an ashamed Taylor Sheridan is asking himself why he didn’t pay someone else to think of that.) (Netflix)
Mike Tyson: Return of the Mike — It has to be maddening to plan a four-part documentary about the life of Mike Tyson. All you can do is cross your fingers and hope it doesn’t happen to drop during one of those windows when we’ve all momentarily remembered why we don’t like him. Anyway, good try, Netflix. Got any thoughts on Matthew McConaughey you’d care to share? (Netflix)
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This article appears in Oct. 28-Nov. 3, 2026.