Premieres Wednesday:
A Copenhagen Love Story — A Danish couple desperate to have a child find their relationship tested by the rigors of fertility treatment. Speaking on behalf of our own country, you know what’s a real rigor? Needing to tell the cashier at Walgreens if you’re ovulating before she’ll sell you Twinings Nightly Calm. (Netflix)
Berlin ER — Now that Noah Wylie is back in the ER saddle again, we might as well let the Germans in too. Fatigued medical workers are the stars of this drama series, which shows how out of hand things can get when a hospital is overcrowded with emergency patients. Wait a minute: They don’t just kill them and call it “experiments” like they used to? (Apple TV+)
Miss Italia Mustn’t Die — Go behind the scenes of the embattled beauty pageant to see if it can survive a combination of self-inflicted wounds and evolving social attitudes. Well, we thought they were evolving anyway. Next year, there’ll probably be a genital check before the winner gets to do her wave walk. (Netflix)
Premieres Thursday:
Cóyotl: Hero and Beast —When Mexican drug cartels go to war, preserving the peace becomes the mission of a young guy who’s half human and half monster. It’s such a shame that country has to settle for protection that’s only 50 percent supernatural, just because we wasted Dan Newlin on Colombia. (Max)
Dalah: Death and the Flowers — A candidate for the Thai prime ministership is murdered, and the suspects range from his fiancée to the owner of the flower shop where his corpse was found. As opposed to FTD, which guarantees everything will be dead by the time you see it. (Netflix)
Demon City — The Japanese comic Oni Goroshi becomes a live-action feature about a hitman on a revenge mission. The film is expected to ape the source material’s extreme violence — which should reassure fans of the genre, who don’t want to see the Yakuza going all soy. (Netflix)
Graveyard — As Season 2 begins, Turkish Police Commissioner Önem (Birce Akalay) is learning that the violence-against-women problem she had promised to curtail is still going strong. That’s a terrible turn of events if you’re reporting to the Ministry of Interior, but not so bad if you’re Mariska Hargitay’s agent. (Netflix)
House of David — The makers of faith-based claptrap like Jesus Revolution and American Angels bring us a drama series about the life of the Bible’s King David. OK, Bezos, we get it: You aren’t going to stop sucking up until you get Instacart frozen out of Gaza. (Prime Video)
Running Point — Kate Hudson has to work twice as hard as a man to prove her worth as the president of an NBA franchise, in this series throwback to the “lady fish out of guy-fish water” era of Major League and her mom’s Private Benjamin. Or, as Pete Hegseth calls them, “the salad days.” (Netflix)
Sosyal Climbers — Fun With Dick and Jane meets The Talented Mr. Ripley as a down-on-their-luck Filipino couple pose as upper crusters to scam the real thing for $$$. And they’ve got their work cut out for them, because a country that grew up on Imelda Marcos isn’t going to be impressed with a closet full of Uggs. (Netflix)
Su Majestad — The good-for-nothing Princess of Spain is abruptly thrust into the responsibilities of the throne while her father the King deals with an embarrassing scandal. It’s like The Princess Diaries for girls who spent their quinceañera reading Politico. (Prime Video)
Toxic Town — Former Doctor Who Jodie Whittaker stars in a British miniseries about real-life mothers who sued their borough council for poisoning their children with toxic waste. Whittaker was a last-minute no-show at the recent MegaCon, so I think I speak for all of Central Florida when I say I hope those kids grew noses on their backs. (Netflix)
Premieres Friday:
Aitana: Metamorphosis — A documentary crew tags along with the Spanish singing sensation as she shows off the talent and determination that got her nominated for two Latin Grammys. And they don’t just hand those things out like they’re candy. (So don’t get any ideas, Karla Sofía.) (Netflix)
Counterstrike — Five soldiers in the Mexican special forces have their back up against the wall when they’re set upon by evil actors who want to flood the country with drugs. Americans on vacation, amirite? (Netflix)
Dabba Cartel — A quintet of Indian women enter a world of unfathomable danger thanks to their bright idea of augmenting their lunch-delivery service with drug dealing. You always know something’s up when one of the curry specials on the menu is called “the Kumar.” (Netflix)
I’ll Be Right There — She’s been a mob wife and a drug-addicted nurse, and now Edie Falco plays a stressed-out bookkeeper who’s trying to keep her head amid the demands of her trying family. Funny, these sound like the kind of problems that overwhelm people before they discover drugs. (Peacock)
Squad 36 — A disillusioned French cop takes it upon himself to investigate when somebody starts murdering his old comrades. What happens next will shock you! (Especially if you’ve never been to France and don’t watch a lot of cop shows.) (Netflix)
Premieres Tuesday:
Andrew Schulz: Life — Fresh off a world tour, the comic walks us through the miracles and pitfalls of in vitro fertilization, operating at a level of keen insight and lived experience only a man can reach. Next up for Andrew: deconstructing the lies we’re fed by Big G-Spot. (Netflix)
Daredevil: Born Again — Charlie Cox is back as The Man Without Fear in this second streaming series, which is said to carry a darker tone than its Netflix predecessor. Maybe in this version, when he kicks the shit out of a guy in a stairwell, he’ll be humming Bauhaus? (Disney+)
Sin City Gigolo: A Murder in Las Vegas — Reality schadenfreude gets a poster boy in the person of Akshaya Kubiak, a former cast member on Showtime’s Gigolos who’s now in prison for brutally murdering a client. This is probably the farthest a streamer has gone to discredit one of somebody else’s shows, especially since that Friends reunion on Max sadly didn’t end with all of them offing one another. (Paramount+)
With Love, Meghan — Meghan Markle’s lifestyle series was already being called out of touch and tone-deaf in advance of its planned January debut, and that was before the California fires forced her to postpone the whole thing by seven weeks out of “sensitivity.” Talk about covering your ash. (Netflix)
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This article appears in Feb 26 – Mar 4, 2025.