Premieres Wednesday:
Anthracite — The disappearance of a French reporter brings his daughter to an Alpine mountain town, where she’s been led by clues she found on the internet. Because “I do my own research” sounds even more obnoxious when you say it in French. (Netflix)
Blood Free — A veteran of Korea’s military elite poses as the bodyguard to a female CEO so he can investigate her company’s potential involvement in a terrorist attack that literally crippled their country’s government. Meanwhile, everybody in this country knows MTG planted that pipe bomb, and we can’t even nail her for jaywalking. (Hulu)
The Challenge: All Stars — Twenty-four contestants converge on Cape Town, South Africa, for Season 4, with the lineup including some legendary players who haven’t been seen on the show for two decades. By this point, their biggest challenge should be lowering their A1C. (Paramount+)
The Hijacking of Flight 601 — Six scripted episodes dramatize the true-life story of a 1973 terrorist action that resulted in the longest-lasting appropriation of an aircraft in Latin-American history. It only ended when the hijackers found out the plane was a Boeing and immediately turned themselves in. (Netflix)
Unlocked: A Jail Experiment — Learn what happened when Arkansas sheriff Eric Higgins experimented with a bold new approach to incarceration that gave felons unprecedented freedom to move about the grounds. This docuseries has been a little late making it to Netflix, because the original camera crew all had their throats slit when they broke to use the bathroom. (Netflix)
What Jennifer Did — One fateful night in 2010, Vietnamese immigrant Jennifer Pan called the Ontario police to notify them that intruders had burst into her family home and killed both her parents. So guess who immediately became Suspect No. 1? OK, you got me: The answer is “Alex Murdaugh,” just like always. But Jennifer was definitely a close second. (Netflix)
Premieres Thursday:
As the Crow Flies — Season 3 is the final go-’round for this Turkish drama, a sort of All About Eve set in the world of broadcast news. My money says the whole thing ends with Erdoğan seizing control of the studio and sentencing everybody to work on Cocomelon. (Netflix)
Baby Reindeer — Performer Richard Gadd has now wrung an entire seven-episode series out of the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe show in which he recalled being stalked by an unhinged woman. How many more media does he have to tell the story in before we get to ask who’s really the stalker here? (Netflix)
Midsummer Night — A cast of Swedes and Norwegians depicts the panic that erupts when a long-married couple chooses to divulge a shocking secret in the midst of a party that’s being held on the longest day of the year. SPOILERS: The secret is that they’re making everybody watch Rebel Moon, and it only seems like the longest day of the year. (Netflix)
Premieres Friday:
Amar Singh Chamkila — Diljit Dosanjh plays the title role in a biopic about “the Elvis Presley of Punjab.” Admit it: Now you’re dying to know what their Screamin’ Jay Hawkins was like. (Netflix)
Fallout — The classic game franchise becomes a live-action series in which the survivors of a nuclear apocalypse have to leave their underground shelters and navigate the mutated world above. Or as you and I know it, “going to Costco.” (Prime Video)
Franklin — Michael Douglas plays founding father Benjamin Franklin in a limited series that shows how a humble, possibly syphilitic kite fetishist got the French to support us in the Revolutionary War. Can’t wait until the KKKarens on Twitter see the title and start kvetching that we shouldn’t be giving any more oxygen to the Black kid from Peanuts. (Apple TV+)
Good Times — Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the classic sitcom with an animated remake developed by Carl Jones of The Boondocks. Jones was replaced as showrunner just a few months ago, and I don’t think I’ve ever wanted more to hear what Uncle Ruckus had to say on a subject. (Netflix)
The Greatest Hits — Romance meets science fiction as a young woman (Lucy Boynton) discovers that music can transport her through time, forcing her to choose between a promising new suitor (Justin H. Min) and a former flame (David Corenswet). Funny how the guy in the past is the one with a future. (Hulu)
A Journey — Given the choice between undergoing cancer treatment and going on vacation in Tasmania, a headstrong Filipina makes an unconventional decision. Shot under the working title You Can’t Be Yahoo Serious. (Netflix)
Stolen — The novel by author Ann-Helén Laestadius yields a dramatic feature about a member of Sweden’s Indigenous Sámi community who takes drastic steps to defend her people’s endangered reindeer-herding tradition. Listen, if Donder and Blitzen want protection, tell ’em to stop running over all those grandmas. (Netflix)
Premieres Tuesday:
CTRL+ALT+DESIRE — “Local boy made good” alert! Three documentary episodes revisit the story of Chuluota’s Grant Amato, who dropped out of UCF and got fired from his job as an AdventHealth nurse before developing an obsession with a Bulgarian cam girl that led him to murder his entire family. Shocking stuff, right? Who knew you could get fired from AdventHealth? (Paramount+)
Jimmy Carr: Natural Born Killer — In his fourth Netflix stand-up special, the British edgelord explains how he’s managed to bounce back every single time he’s been canceled. Think about that. Take all the time you need. (Netflix)
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This article appears in Apr 10-16, 2024.