The House of the Spirits Credit: Prime Video

Streaming Wednesday, April 29:

Envious — The fourth season is the last for Argentinian anti-heroine Vicky, who’s been drawing out her midlife crisis for almost two years now. Underachiever much? If this were a show about a dude from the States, we would have seen a shiny new sports car and at least one dead hooker by now. (Netflix)

The House of the Spirits — Decades of Chilean patriarchy come under the microscope in an eight-episode series adopted from Isabel Allende’s sprawling, award-winning novel. The 1993 feature-film version was a notoriously brownface affair that starred those renowned chilenos Meryl Streep, Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons, but the casting of this rendition is promised to be far more authentic. Good, I love it when Ariana Grande gets work. (Prime Video)

Je m’appelle Agneta — A Swedish woman seeking a change of scenery accepts a job as an au pair in France, but the kid she thought she was going to be taking care of is actually a senior citizen with dementia. It’s like that Bugs Bunny cartoon where the gangster poses as a baby, except this one smokes Gitanes and can’t remember where he put the car keys. (Netflix)

Widow’s Bay — A cursed New England town is the setting of a horror-comedy series starring Matthew Rhys and created by Katie Dippold. If that name rings a bell, it’s because Dippold wrote the Not-as-Good-as-It-Shoulda-Been Ghostbusters (2016) and the Better-Than-It-Coulda-Been Haunted Mansion (2023). So I will boldly go out on a limb and predict the show will be exactly as good as you personally expect. Kalshi, here I come! (Apple TV)

Should I Marry a Murderer? — And in this week’s installment of Questions That Shouldn’t Need to Be Asked, we follow Scotswoman Caroline Muirhead as she agonizes over whether to turn in her fiancé for killing a cyclist and then burying the body. On second thought, maybe there is a moral quandary here, because it isn’t like the world is overrun with prospective husbands who’ve already learned to take out the trash. (Netflix)

streaming Netflix Man on Fire
Man on Fire Credit: Juan Rosas/Netflix

Streaming Thursday, April 30:

Man on Fire — Twenty-two years after it was adapted into a typically ridiculous Tony Scott flick starring Denzel Washington, A.J. Quinnell’s book about a mercenary who will stop at nothing to rescue a kidnapped 9-year-old becomes a seven-episode limited series. This version has Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in the lead role and is said to follow a “more psychological” approach. As if there’s a more compelling psychological exercise than trying to figure out why Tony Scott thought everything in a movie had to be constantly ablaze and the onscreen titles all needed to be THIS GODDAMN BIG. (Netflix)

The Glass House — This six-episode, Canadian-made dramedy uses the travails of a self-made businessman to symbolize the 1995 Quebec referendum, in which the province narrowly voted against declaring sovereignty. Smart move, as we’ll see in next year’s Paramount+ miniseries The 51st State. (Prime Video)

Glory — After an Indian boxer turns up dead under mysterious circumstances, the country’s dashed Olympic hopes kindle a yearning for revenge. And gosh, it’s always such a shame when violence intrudes on a peaceful and contemplative activity like boxing. (Netflix)

My Dearest Señorita — Newcomer Elisabeth Martinez portrays a woman living in Pamplona whose rigid upbringing has prevented her from realizing she’s intersex. This is a remake of a movie of the same name from 1972, and it’s kind of amazing there’s even a call for it at all, given how much good and reliable information social media has given us about the topic since then. (Netflix)

Lord of the Flies — The critics are gushing over the BBC’s four-part adaptation of the classic William Golding novel about schoolboys gone wild, with The Independent’s Nick Hilton saying the show will “terrify parents as much as Adolescence.” I think he meant the Emmy-winning miniseries and not the developmental stage, but as I remember that one’s a doozy too. (Netflix)

Lord of the Flies Credit: Lisa Tomasetti/Sony Pictures TV

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This article appears in April 29-May 5, 2026.