
Streaming Wednesday, July 22:
Elize: Shadows of a Woman — She’s already been the subject of a Netflix doc, so now Brazilian true-crime celebrity Elize Matsunaga gets her own biopic too, to help us understand more deeply what would motivate a housewife to kill her husband and cut his body up into little pieces. Cue every married woman in the world: “What wouldn’t?” (Netflix)
A Shop for Killers — Season 2 of the South Korean thriller series welcomes a new proprietorship at Murthehelp, the secret armory for assassins. Meanwhile, Mitch McConnell’s outfit, Turtlehelp, is still wholly owned and operated by the Chinese. (Hulu)
A Toxic Love Story — The new wife of a U.S. Marshal receives threatening emails from his ex in a twisty doc that asks us to ponder who the real villain is here anyway. I mean, at first blush it seems like a no-brainer, but I’m willing to consider the answer might be Outlook. (Netflix)
Streaming Thursday, July 23:
The Debt Collector — Tired of cookie-cutter action thrillers about retired hitmen who are lured into taking on one final job? Thailand has heard our prayers! They’re sending us a movie about a retired debt collector who’s lured into taking on one final job. Listen, sometimes you have to slide a few steps down the ladder of vocational excitement to keep things fresh. I mean, wait until you find out what happens to claims adjusters right when they think they’re out of the life. (Netflix)
Kaulitz and Kaulitz — Season 3 follows twin brothers Bill and Tom to L.A., Berlin and their hometown of Magdeburg as we learn more about what it means to be Germany’s favorite pair. (Well, after salted pork and tactlessness, that is.) (Netflix)
Love in Slow Motion — Watching the male pal she’s always considered just a friend prepare to walk down the aisle forces a Kuwaiti woman to confront the true nature of her feelings for him. This one’s going to be worth the watch just for its heart-tugging theme song, “I Don’t Want to Kuwait for Our Lives to Be Over.” (Netflix)
Ransom Canyon — The Texas-set drama returns for a second season, in which Staten tries to regain control of the family ranch and Quinn wonders if it’s time to abandon the Lone Star State for New York City. Or as Jessica Tarlov would call it, “the reverse Mamdani effect.” (Netflix)
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — The fourth and penultimate season of the prequel series sees the return of Paul Wesley’s James T. Kirk and Carol Kane’s Pelia, while welcoming the products of Jim Henson’s Creature Shop for an all-puppet episode. For added fun, try to tell ’em all apart! (Paramount+)
Stuart Fails to Save the Universe — The harried comic-shop owner from The Big Bang Theory takes a bunch of that show’s supporting players on a jaunt through alternate realities, where they encounter mirror versions of some of their old friends and foes. This time, Wil Wheaton has superpowers — so Larry David had better think twice before he gets any more big ideas about whipping Elmo’s ass. (HBO Max)
Streaming Friday, July 24:
72 Hours — Youthful SNLers Marcello Hernández, Ben Marshall and local comic Kam Patterson have to put up with having 40-something Kevin Hart at their bachelor party after they accidentally add him to their group text. What’s worse, he now knows all about their plans to bomb the crap out of Yemen. (Netflix)
Adarsh Baal Vidyalaya — This Hindi-language series finds both comedy and drama in a headmaster’s drive to reverse the fortunes of his failing school. His novel approach: prowling the halls 24/7 Joe Clark style, armed with what he calls “the baseball bat of big ol’ f***in’ karma.” (Prime Video)
Musafir Café — The Hindi novel by Divya Prakash Dubey yields a romantic drama series in which an IT worker is torn between two women who offer him very different perspectives on love. “This time, it isn’t just the server going down!” (Netflix)
Soy Luna: Let’s Roll Again — Trying to bounce back from a debilitating accident, a freestyle skater returns to the rink just in time for an all-important competition in her native Buenos Aires. OK, I take it back. Maybe the World Cup wasn’t such a drag after all. (Disney+)
The Truthers — Summoned back home after her mother dies unexpectedly, a Spanish woman begins to suspect her father might just be the culprit. Now the only question is if he murdered her intentionally or just bored her to death talking endlessly about the World Cup. (Well, that was fun while it lasted.) (Netflix)
Streaming Saturday, July 25:
Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender — Eric Nam and Dave Bautista are among those lending their voices to a feature film that depicts the arrival of a savior who can rescue the Airbender culture from extinction. That might seem like a tall order for Matt Walsh, but mostly because he’s used to only controlling the hotter air. (Paramount+)
Streaming Monday, July 27:
Colin From Accounts — Season 3 of the Aussie comedy has Gordon and Ashley pondering if the only thing that’s keeping them together is their love of the titular pooch. I mean, there are flimsier reasons to prolong a relationship. Like having kids. (Paramount+)
Furious — It’s The Silence of the Lambs for a new generation, as FBI agent Emmy Rossum races against the clock to track down an elusive serial killer. The twist this time is that the miscreant is — gasp! — also a woman. What’s fun is that she doesn’t have to stab, shoot or poison anybody; she just cocks an eyebrow and asks if you’re really going to eat that, and you fall down dead of your own accord. (Hulu)
Streaming Tuesday, July 28:
Mary Beth Barone: Galaxy Brain — The New York comic takes to the stage of that city’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts to favor us with an hour’s worth of observations on reproductive freedom and guys with tattoos. Your mom would like to remind you that if you stayed away from the latter, you wouldn’t have to worry about the former! (Netflix)

This article appears in July 22-28, 2026.
