Premieres Wednesday:
Nine Perfect Strangers — Christine Baranski and Lena Olin are among the wellness hounds being manipulated by spa mistress Nicole Kidman in the series that’s taken four full years to get to a Season 2. But give Nic a break, because in the interim, she’s had to appear in every single other show on streaming. We come to this sofa for magic! (Hulu)
Real Men — Here comes yet another comedy series about middle-aged guys who are confused by the shifting definition of masculinity. This one’s set in Italy, which means the main conundrum is going to be learning not to pinch a chick on the street unless you’re sure she’s 21. (Netflix)
Sneaky Links: Dating After Dark — The reality genre defines “dating” downward once again: A bunch of ostensibly single horndogs check into a motel to find some action, only to discover they’ve been paired up with people they’re already screwing yet had avoided making a genuine commitment to. You know what? I’m going to give Project 2025 a mulligan on this one. Tariff the shit out of these chuds. (Netflix)
Premieres Thursday:
90 Minutes, Season 1 — A gone-to-seed soccer player signs on to help reverse the fortunes of a formerly beloved team that’s fallen into disgrace. But once you’ve already dedicated your life to playing soccer, how much more of a disgrace can fate hold? (Peacock)
Earnhardt — Get pumped for the Coca-Cola 600 by brushing up on the legendary career of Dale Earnhardt Sr., who defined NASCAR before dying on the track at age 49. Now it’s up to Junior to continue the family philosophy of “If you ain’t first, you’re last.” (Or was that the other guy?) (Prime Video)
Sirens — Playwright Molly Smith Metzler adapts her 2011 work Elemeno Pea into a series vehicle for Julianne Moore, Meghann Fahy, Milly Alcock and Kevin Bacon, in which an impressionable personal assistant develops an unhealthy relationship with her wealthy boss. As far as I’m concerned, the only unhealthy relationship you can have with the rich is getting salmonella from their undercooked flesh. (Netflix)
Tyler Perry’s She the People — A newly elected lieutenant governor learns that fulfilling the duties of her office is a lot harder for a Black woman than getting elected, in a series that was clearly in production back when we thought May 2025 was going to find us hip-deep in Kamalot. Another element that’s ripped from today’s headlines: The cameo by unshakable cultural avatar Diddy. (Netflix)
Premieres Friday:
Air Force Elite: Thunderbirds — A documentary crew follows our military’s Air Demonstration Squadron as they rehearse the intricate maneuvers that sell U.S. dominance of the skies to impressionable audiences. Just remember, if we still had a draft, you could be watching Severance instead. (Netflix)
Big Mouth — The eighth and final season adds Holly Hunter as the voice of Compassion, who helps our teen protagonists navigate thorny concepts like cancel culture and enthusiastic consent. For those of you without kids, “enthusiastic consent” is what we teach them to seek these days instead of Boone’s Farm. (Netflix)
Clarkson’s Farm — Series 4 finds Jeremy adding to the complexities of farming life by attempting to open his own pub. The hardest part is getting just the right edge in your voice when you have to warn a customer “Be careful, lad! The moors tonight are full of werewolves!” (Prime Video)
Forget You Not — Difficulties with her husband and her father help fuel a Taiwanese convenience-store owner in her side career as a stand-up comic. It’s like The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, except China recognizes her right to exist. (Netflix)
Fear Street: Prom Queen — The fourth flick based on R.L. Stine’s series of teen horror stories takes us to Shadyside in the year 1988, where a mysterious killer is eliminating the nominees for high-school prom queen. Not to be outdone, the AV club has reported an epidemic of being stuffed in a locker. (Netflix)
Off Track 2 — Three years ago, a Swedish single mom and her brother teamed up to compete in a 90-kilometer ski race. Now they’re paired up once again, but for a 200-mile bicycle tournament that tests their relationships with their respective significant others. Whatever comes out of it, at least they’ve managed to graduate from that stupid metric system. (Netflix)
The Surrender — Horrific consequences await a newly widowed wife and mother who strikes a Faustian bargain to reanimate her dead husband’s corpse. And when I say Faustian, I mean Faustian: She had to sacrifice a perfectly good goat she was going to use for yoga. (Shudder)
Premieres Monday:
Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders — Some 43 years later, we still don’t know who turned the American pharmaceutical industry upside down by lacing commercially available painkillers with cyanide. But if we did, Luigi Mangione would be doing a bang-up job of explaining why the CEO of Johnson & Johnson should get the gas chamber instead. (Netflix)
Mike Birbiglia: The Good Life — In his fourth Netflix special, the comic explains the life-changing epiphany he had after his father suffered a stroke. Here’s where we learn if there’s a bittersweet way to say “Always tell them you love them while they’re still coherent enough to give you the combo to the safe-deposit box.” (Netflix)
Premieres Tuesday:
The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy — In Season 2, our pair of alien surgeons discovers that a loss of privacy is the price of success in the medical game. Not to beat a dead horse here, but I understand this is the exact defense strategy being prepared for Luigi Mangione. (Prime Video)
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This article appears in May 21-27, 2025.