Premieres Wednesday:
Bad Sisters Season 2 — Two years after Grace strangled her husband and made it look like an accident, she and her siblings are learning that some secrets aren’t so easy to keep. Listen, they should count their blessings, because in another life they could have confided in Tom Holland, and then everybody would know about it. (Apple TV+)
Emilia Pérez — Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez are among the big names in a Cannes prize-winning musical about a lawyer who helps a wanted drug trafficker obtain gender-affirmation surgery. Guys, go easy: Tucker Carlson is still having nightmares about Myra Breckenridge. (Netflix)
Hot Frosty — Hallmark swears they aren’t ditching Lacey Chabert for being too deep into middle age. But just in case, she’s testing the waters at Netflix by playing a widow who falls for a snowman come to life. Fingers crossed her raging hot flashes don’t melt him to a puddle. (Netflix)
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley — Archival footage and interviews with his ever-faithful acolytes underline the significance of Elvis’ 1968 comeback special, which did more for black leather than Marco Rubio’s entire undergraduate experience. (Netflix)
Sisters’ Feud — The battle for custody of a child locks a pair of Mexican sisters into a vicious cycle of betrayal, recrimination and violence. And if you think that’s bad, imagine what’s going to happen when one of them is finally forced to take him. (Netflix)
Sprint — Season 2 profiles more than 12 of the quick-on-their-feet competitors who made the 2024 Olympics the spectacle it was, thus laying the groundwork for great things at the 2028 event. Just don’t get too fast, anybody, because you see how society turned on Ezra Miller. (Netflix)
Premieres Thursday:
Beyond Goodbye — The Japanese send us a vaguely metaphysical romantic drama in which a woman loses her fiancé on the very day he proposes, only to end up pining for the stranger who receives his heart as a transplant. Think carefully, lady: Don’t you want to know where the other parts went first? (Netflix)
Cross — This series based on James Patterson’s mystery novels stars Aldis Hodge as the titular forensic detective — a role previously played by Morgan Freeman and Tyler Perry on the big screen. The show has already been renewed for a second season, and since it isn’t Netflix we’re talking about here, that may actually happen! (Prime Video)
The Day of the Jackal — The 1973 feature film centered on a plot to assassinate Charles de Gaulle, but in re-adapting Frederick Forsyth’s source novel as a series set in the present day, star Eddie Redmayne and the rest of the creative crew have structured the story around what they’re cagily referring to as “a new target.” And even speculating about who that might mean could get this content flagged by seven different government agencies. (Peacock)
The Lost Children — Rescue workers and other concerned adults laud the pluck of a quartet of indigenous children who had to rely on their wits to survive a 2023 plane crash in the Colombian Amazon. Please don’t tell me three of them ate the other, because I don’t think I could take any Lord of the Flies ish this close to Thanksgiving. (Netflix)
Say Nothing — A nine-episode miniseries dramatizes the atrocities committed by the IRA in the Northern Ireland of the late 20th century, from kidnapping and murder to inspiring entire albums’ worth of material by U2. (Hulu)
Premieres Friday:
The Creep Tapes — Just like the two feature films on which it’s based, this spinoff series reveals the dangers of responding to a psychopath’s (Mark Duplass) call for temporary help. Should be a fun one to squeeze in while you’re waiting to see if you picked up another holiday shift at Seuss Landing. (Shudder)
It’s All Country — Luke Bryan stalks the streets of Nashville, searching for the true stories behind some of country’s greatest songs. If he finds out Lee Greenwood was actually born in France, he’ll be dead by morning. (Hulu)
Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson — We probably don’t talk about it enough, but when this high-profile bout was postponed from July due to Iron Mike’s ulcer, the co-main event pitting Katie Taylor against Amanda Serrano was pushed back right along with it. Hey, now there’s a switch: a woman having to wait for a man to finish. (Netflix)
Silo — Season 2 of the post-apocalyptic series sees Steve Zahn joining the cast as Solo, a character who in the source novels is the sole survivor of a revolt the authorities did their murderous best to put down. That’s gotta be the loneliest feeling this side of running sound for As I Lay Dying. (Apple TV+)
Premieres Sunday:
Landman — Billy Bob Thornton, Demi Moore and Jon Hamm are among the stars of a drama series set against the backdrop of a Texas oil boom. And speaking of trends that are unsustainable and dangerous to the environment, the show was co-created by Taylor Sheridan. (Paramount+)
Premieres Monday:
Wonderoos Season 2 — The animated inhabitants of Roo City return to tackle more of life’s little stressors, like getting a haircut. Expect a long wait for Season 3 if somebody’s bangs get cut too short and they spend the next three years locked up in their house hiding from the world, like a grown-up would. (Netflix)
Premieres Tuesday:
Adam Ray Is Dr. Phil Unleashed — Dressed and made up as the notorious Dr. McGraw, comedian Ray interviews a parade of celebrity guests—including Patton Oswalt, Jay Pharoah and even ol’ Phil himself. Next month: Emo Philips impersonates history’s greatest Nazi collaborators. (Netflix)
Interior Chinatown — Author Charles Yu is showrunner for an episodic series wrought from his novel of the same name, in which a bit player from a crime show gets caught up in the real-life world of gangs and guns. But he should be able to hold his own, because he’s been working with the same armorer as Alec Baldwin. (Hulu)
Making Manson — Twenty years’ worth of previously unheard interviews with Charles Manson yield an avalanche of surprises. Personally, I thought the man was misunderstood until I learned he was so tight with Epstein. (Peacock)
Zombieverse: New Blood — The second season of Zombieverse conscripts eight new celebrities to fend off the attacks of the hungry undead. A roster that’s light on influencers seems odd at first, until you remember that zombies traditionally crave brains. (Netflix)
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This article appears in Nov 13-19, 2024.