Premieres Wednesday:
Butterfly — Daniel Dae Kim plays a former spy who discovers he’s been marked for death by an assassin — namely, his own daughter, who’s gone into the family business. Guess he’s ruing the day he bought her that Fisher-Price “My First Targeted Execution” set. (Prime Video)
Fixed — Animator par excellence Genndy Tartakovsky treats us to a night on the town with a panicked pup who’s getting neutered in the morning, as the poor critter searches for the most appropriate way to bid farewell to his testicles. Listen, he could just go on Jada Pinkett Smith’s show and be home by 10. (Netflix)
Love Is Blind U.K. — Season 2 contestants include Demola, who has been dreaming of the perfect wedding since he was a boy, and Jordan, who wants to get married to please his mom. Look for these two to fulfill their true romantic destiny on the next season of The Ultimatum: Queer Love! (Netflix)
Saare Jahan Se Accha: The Silent Guardians — The 1970s is the setting for a thriller series starring an elite Indian espionage agent who keeps his country safe from nuclear threats from “across the border.” I’m not saying this thing is anti-Pakistani propaganda, but Bibi Netanyahu saw a screener and wanted to know when we threw fairness out the window. (Netflix)
Songs From the Hole — Groove to the tunes laid down by jailhouse rapper James “JJ’88” Jacobs, In a “documentary-visual album” that shows the artistic and personal growth he underwent while serving 16 years for shooting a fellow teen to death. Meanwhile, El Salvador could be sitting on the next Danny Ocean and we’d never even know about it. (Netflix)
Sausage Party: Foodtopia — Season 2 follows Frank, Barry and Sammy to New Foodland, a seemingly idyllic community that’s harboring some dark secrets under the surface. I thought we had taken care of all this when RFK got rid of Red Dye No. 3. (Prime Video)
Young Millionaires — Comedy and disillusionment ensue when a quartet a French teens win a truckload of money, only to find it causes more problems than it cures. Yeah, that’s what they always tell you to keep you in your place. And by “they,” of course I mean the French. (Netflix)
Premieres Thursday:
Hop Season 1D — The adorable little frog with one leg that’s shorter than the other is back to impart more lessons about the value of kindness. But we have Superman now to teach us that lesson, so hit the road, freak! (HBO Max)
In the Mud — A quintet of female prisoners find their solidarity tested as they navigate the precarious hierarchies of an Argentinian jail. You know which one I wouldn’t trust? That “Ojos Locos.” (Netflix)
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II, The Ashes of Rage — This sequel to last year’s Phantom in the Rain chronicles the rivalry between a bunch of regal concubines, and how their volatile situation is compounded after one of them spontaneously combusts. Exploding hookers — now that would have solved a lot of Ghislaine Maxwell’s problems right out of the gate! (Netflix)
Tyler Perry’s Miss Governor Part 2 — This show was called She the People when Part 1 dropped back in May. But now that the first Black lieutenant governor in the history of Mississippi is back for more episodes, her program has been given a whole new title and identity. Maybe not enough Americans caught the allusion to the Constitution? Maybe not enough of them knew there is a Constitution? (Netflix)
Premieres Friday:
Abandoned: The Woman in the Decaying House — Taking advantage of her country’s narrow extradition laws, Brazil’s Margarida Bonetti has holed herself up in a rotting mansion in São Paulo, avoiding charges that she kept a domestic worker hostage for two decades while she was living in America. Her former husband is accused of doing the exact same thing, but of course he isn’t the focus of this documentary, because we don’t want the medium of streaming to collapse in on itself like a dying galaxy. (Prime Video)
Fatal Seduction — Nandi’s decision to have an extramarital affair with a younger man has further repercussions in Season 2. But if you’re expecting her to learn her lesson anytime soon, take note of this pointed bit of narration: “Sometimes pain is life’s way of teaching us to keep making the same mistakes.” Damn straight! Now hand me that ghost pepper jerky. (Netflix)
Fit for TV: The Reality of “The Biggest Loser” — A timely documentary exposé reveals that TV’s onetime weight-loss dynasty may not have been the healthiest thing for our culture. Highlights include new interviews with former contestants, reached for comment at their current home inside a thimble. (Netflix)
Limitless: Live Better Now — Season 2 has Chris Hemsworth discovering new feats the human body and brain can accomplish when they really have to. Like climbing up 600 feet of a frozen wall, or carrying a Marvel movie on your back because Chris Evans wanted too much money. (Disney+)
Night Always Comes — Vanessa Kirby headlines a thriller flick about a woman who turns to desperate measures to hold on to her family’s home. OK, Vanessa, this is your second chance to learn what we do in a situation like this: We sell the baby. (Netflix)
Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical — Charlie Brown and the rest of the gang put on a show to save their beloved summer camp, in the first Peanuts musical in three and a half decades. Expect a marked upturn in quality, now that Franklin’s learned to drop the bass. (Apple TV+)
The Echoes of Survivors: Inside Korea’s Tragedies — The team behind the 2023 docuseries In the Name of God: A Holy Betrayal returns to uncover more secrets about the Jesus Morning Star religious cult, as well as other public calamities that have befallen the nation of South Korea. Like the second season of Squid Game, for example: What was up with that? (Netflix)
Premieres Monday:
Are You My First? — Yet another group of singles is airlifted to a tropical island to partner up, but this time there’s a twist: They’re all virgins! Actually, there’s a second twist, because somebody gets herpes in Episode 4 and they all have to figure out who was lying. (Hulu)
Premieres Tuesday:
America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys — Explore the checkered history of the Dallas Cowboys under owner Jerry Jones, who took control of the franchise in 1989. Expert testimony comes from former players like Emmitt Smith and Troy Aikman, as well as a Black janitor at North Little Rock High School whom Jones humorously set on fire in 1957. (Netflix)
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This article appears in Aug 13-18, 2025.