Premieres Wednesday:
1670 — The second season of the Polish historical comedy picks up with Yakub fighting to hold onto the family money and Mache seeking to dull her personal heartbreak by joining a theater company. Given my lived experience, I know which of those initiatives I’m expecting to bear sweeter fruit. (Netflix)
Gen V — In Season 2, the students at Godolkin University welcome a new dean, whose agenda is hopefully clearer than his name: Cypher. I tell ya, these DeSantis picks are getting sketchier and sketchier. (Prime Video)
Matchroom: The Greatest Showmen — Follow the real-life ascent of father-and-son duo Barry and Eddie Hearn, whose British sports-promotion company encompasses everything from snooker to golf to gymnastics. No pickleball, though, because that’s controlled by guys you just don’t want to f*** with. (Netflix)
The Morning Show — Season 4 finds our cast of ethically conflicted broadcasters dealing with life under a newly merged corporate banner, while reconciling the compromises they’ve made in the name of career expediency. Fortunately, the season is set in Spring 2024, so they can still devote their discretionary income to whiskey instead of White House shakedowns. (Apple TV+)
Next Gen Chef — The Culinary Institute of America is the setting of the latest kitchen competition show, which features 21 up-and-coming chefs who are all under the age of 30. Why not go all the way? Give us 30 chefs under the age of 21. Dairy Queen has needed a replacement for that stale Flamethrower Stackburger for years now. (Netflix)
Premieres Thursday:
The BA***DS of Bollywood — India gets its own Entourage in this story of young actors trying to make it in the biggest filmmaking community on earth. The only question is what that redacted word in the title is supposed to be. Count the asterisks, because it’s not what you think. Maybe “ballads?” Does this version of Ari Gold break out in spontaneous choruses of “Beth”? (Netflix)
Black Rabbit — Jude Law plays a successful New York restaurant owner and Jason Bateman is his troublesome brother in a dramatic miniseries that’s out to grab some of those precious The Bear eyeballs. Oh wait, what am I thinking? There’s no similarity here whatsoever. The Bear is a comedy, remember? (Netflix)
Platonic: Blue Moon Hotel — Turkish sisters fight over the wooing rights to a mysterious guest who’s checked himself into their hotel under an assumed name. When stuff like this happened to Basil Fawlty, he wasn’t stupid enough to fall in love: He poured a pitcher of water into the bounder’s luggage and called him a bastard, just like God intended. (Netflix)
Reasonable Doubt — The plot of Season 3 has L.A. lawyer Jax (Emayatzy Corinealdi) taking up the defense of a troubled former child star named Ozzie. And it’s going to take all of her skill and resourcefulness, because not everyone can wrangle a “not guilty” verdict for somebody who holds up a 7-Eleven and then bites the head off a bat. (Hulu)
Same Day With Someone — Groundhog Day comes to Thailand, as a museum curator is forced to repeatedly relive the day when her idyllic life spontaneously collapsed. It all started when she was ordered to remove the exhibit about the Siamese Revolution of 1932 because it was too woke. (Netflix)
Premieres Friday:
Billionaires’ Bunker — Familial enmities threaten the security of a bunch of 1 percenters after they flee to a subterranean shelter to avoid an impending nuclear holocaust. Almost restores your faith to know these slobs are going to be emotionally unfulfilled while the rest of us are fighting irradiated possums for potable water. (Netflix)
Haunted Hotel — Will Forte provides the voice of a dead hotelier who helps his sister run a spook-infested hostelry in this animated comedy from Rick and Morty writer Matt Roller. The hotel’s angriest guest: the ghost of Justin Roiland’s career. (Netflix)
Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy: Pieces of the Past — To protect the cosmos from newly arisen danger, our heroes Sig Greebling and Darth Dev must rely on their abilities of Force Building and Sith Breaking. Fair play to them, because I’ve had those on my LinkedIn under “special skills” for years now and I haven’t heard bubkes. (Disney+)
Night of the Reaper — The Halloween ethos reaches into a new generation in this story of a babysitter who discovers that her latest gig may have put her in the crosshairs of a psychotic killer. Or in the best-case scenario, she could just be destined to wreck another of Shania Twain’s marriages. (Shudder)
She Said Maybe — A woman who has always thought of herself as German learns she’s actually the heiress to a vast Turkish fortune. Gosh, that sounds so much better than moving to Argentina and changing her name to Arturo like they used to have to do. (Netflix)
Premieres Saturday:
Every Minute Counts — This series about the 1985 Mexico City earthquake wraps up with Season 2, which is set against the backdrop of a looming aftershock. It’s probably just as well they’re not trying push things to a third season, because it’s hard to distinguish an after-aftershock from simple indigestion. (Prime Video)
Premieres Sunday:
Inside: USA — America gets its own version of the British reality competition, in which a bunch of online content creators have to work together to earn a big cash prize. Talk about instant obsolescence. Next year, we’ll watching Copilot try to snag the entire pot for itself by faking nudes of ChatGPT. (Netflix)
Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery — Return with us to the days of acoustic guitars and estrogen in this documentary retrospective of the landmark music festival, as memorialized on film by producer Dan Levy. Fun fact: Levy got his break in the business when Sarah McLachlan rescued him from a kill shelter. (Hulu)
Tulsa King — In Season 3, Sylvester Stallone’s Dwight discovers that even a gangster like him could learn a thing or two about unscrupulous behavior from the icons of generational wealth that control Oklahoma. On the other hand, old money is good to have on your side when you’re angling for a Kennedy Center honor. (Paramount+)
Premieres Monday:
Into the Void: Life, Death and Heavy Metal — If Lilith Fair isn’t your speed, get set to loosen your neck vertebrae to a panoply of the most influential acts in heavy music. That is, if the plug doesn’t get pulled at the 11th hour because Sharon Osbourne decides she has beef with Sully Erna. (Hulu)
Premieres Tuesday:
Crime Scene Zero — True crime meets the reality competition genre, with a bunch of Korean contestants acting out the roles of both detective and suspect. Wait a minute, detective AND suspect? How far do they intend to go with this in a country that still has the death penalty? (Netflix)
Cristela Alonzo: Upper Classy — Among the other topics she touches on in her third Netflix special, the Texan Latina comic shares the joy of taking her family on their very first vacation ever. For her fourth special, expect her to follow Ali Wong’s lead and recount the first vacation she took with her second family. (Netflix)
This article appears in Sept. 17-23, 2025.