THE BEST TV SERIES TO STREAM THIS WEEK
If you're looking for a new show to watch this week, here are the best you can stream. If you're a Sandman fan (or just an appreciator of things that are awesome), don't miss Dead Boy Detectives. True crime fans can dig deeper into the life and crimes of wealthy slayer Robert Durst with the second season of The Jinx. And aging rockers can finally get the full story of Bon Jovi's rise to super-stardom with Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story. Plus: There's a TV series about Sonic the Hedgehog's pal Knuckles to enjoy.
Dead Boy Detectives
The ghosts at the center of Dead Boy Detectives don’t spend time haunting people; they solve crimes instead. Based on the comic from Neil Gaiman and Matt Wagner, and set in Gaiman’s Sandman universe, Dead Boy Detectives follows Edwin and Charles (George Rexstrew and Charles Rowland), best dead friends spending their afterlives solving supernatural crimes. With the help of their clairvoyant pal Crystal (Kassius Nelson), the Dead Boys will face off against witches, monsters, and other supernatural enemies to solve the earthly realm's most baffling mysteries.
Where to stream: Netflix
The Jinx: Part 2
Andrew Jarecki’s Emmy-winning series The Jinx caught lightning in a bottle when it came out in 2015—how often does a guy confess to multiple murders while mic'ed up for a true crime documentary, right? The Jinx—Part 2 completes the story of weird-rich-dude-turned murderer Robert Durst, and promises shocking new revelations. Durst is dead, so he won't be confessing to any more murders, but it's a fascinating story nonetheless.
Where to stream: Max
THEM: The Scare
The second season Little Marvin’s horror anthology series is set in 1991 Los Angeles and stars Deborah Ayorinde as Dawn Reeve, an LAPD detective investigating a particularly grisly series of murders. With the city teetering on the edge of chaos, Reeve tracks down the killer, but begins to suspect that something worse than human evil may be behind the crimes, and it’s targeting her and her family. THEM: The Scare also stars Pam Grier as Athena Reeve, and that’s reason enough to check it out.
Where to stream: Prime
Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story
This four-part documentary series takes viewers deep inside the world of New Jersey’s favorite sons, pop metal hair rockers Bon Jovi. Through never-before-seen personal videos and photos, concert footage, and interviews with the Bon Jovis themselves, Thank You, Goodnight details the band’s 40-year career of rocking and/or rolling. If you’re in the mood for old duffers telling “we came from nothing” stories and wistfully discussing their days of rock-star excess, this is the series for you. Includes unreleased demos from Bon Jovi and interviews with Bruce Springsteen, John Shanks, Obie O’Brien, and more.
Where to stream: Hulu
Knuckles
This mini-series features the voice of Idris Elba in the role of Knuckles, a hotheaded, super-strong anthropomorphic anteater/alien you might know from the world of video games. This six-episode, live-action-meets-animation spin-off of the Sonic the Hedgehog movies details Knuckles' attempt to train hapless human Wade Whipple (played by Adam Pally) in the ways of the Echidna warrior. If you like over-the-top action and comedy featuring beloved video game characters, don't miss Knuckles.
Where to stream: Paramount+
Secrets of the Octopus
Whether it’s submarines or sunken ocean liners, director James Cameron loves crap that’s underwater. With the help of National Geographic, Cameron adds octopuses to his list of soggy documentary subjects, exploring the unique lives and minds of these mysterious under-the-ocean aliens who can change colors, squeeze into spaces the size of their eyeballs, and might be more intelligent than we can even understand.
Where to stream: Hulu
We're Here, Season 4
Season four of HBO's Emmy-winning reality show features some big changes: Original cohosts Bob the Drag Queen, Shangela, and Eureka have been replaced with RuPaul's Drag Race franchise winners Sasha Velour, Jaida Essence Hall, Priyanka, and Latrice Royale. The essence of We're Here will remain the same though; the quartet of drag queens will travel to small communities around Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, to spread the good word that drag is actually fun and maybe you should loosen up?
Where to stream: Max
Last week's picks
The Sympathizer
Legendary filmmaker Park Chan-wook (Old Boy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance) teams up with actor and co-producer Robert Downey Jr. on this sweeping historical black comedy series. Based on the Pulitzer-Prize-winning debut novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer tells the story of a Vietnam-era spy with conflicting loyalties. When the war ends, the North Vietnamese agent, who goes by the moniker "The Captain," is forced to flee to America, but he's not finished his job, and reports on his neighbors to the Viet Cong.
Where to stream: Max
Conan O'Brien Must Go
Conan O'Brien is the funniest person alive, maybe, and this series puts him in situations designed to draw out his supernatural ability to be spontaneously hilarious. The premise: Conan visits fans in Norway, Thailand, Argentina, and Ireland, interacts with locals, and creates inspired, impromptu comedy. It's a formula that worked great on his late night shows, but HBO money means Conan O'Brien Must Go will feature better production values—they even got Werner Herzog to narrate.
Where to stream: Max
Under the Bridge
Based on author Rebecca Godfrey’s account of a real-life crime, Under the Bridge tells the story of 14-year-old Reena Virk (played by Vritika Gupta) who went out to hang with her friends one night in 1997 and never returned home. Riley Keough plays Godfrey, whose research for her book takes her inside the hidden, menacing world of the teenagers of British Columbia and finds her teaming up with a local police officer who is also investigating Virk’s murder.
Where to stream: Hulu
Orlando Bloom: To the Edge
Have you ever wanted to watch actor Orlando Bloom defy death itself by trying dangerous sports like wingsuiting, free diving, or rock climbing? Me neither! But only because it never occurred to me. Orlando Bloom could be home rewatching Lord of the Rings or counting money, but he's jumping off mountains and nearly drowning himself instead. Is it only because he wants to be in a TV show? Or is it a legitimate Freudian death drive drawing him toward a tragic demise? I hope we finally get some answers when we watch Orlando Bloom: To the Edge.
Where to stream: Peacock
Our Living World
Cate Blanchett narrates this family-friendly nature documentary that travels the world to explore the interconnectedness of nature. Our Living World’s stunning wildlife photography, breathtaking locations, and timely and trenchant observations about the beauty and fragility of the natural world probably won’t slow mankind’s destruction of the planet by a single second, but you never know, and we might as well look at it while it's here.
Where to stream: Netflix
Dinner with the Parents
Don’t discount this original comedy series because it’s on FreeVee. Dinner with the Parents’ cast includes some of the funniest people who have ever been seen on a screen, including Dan Bakkedahl, Michaela Watkins, and Carol Kane—there’s even a YouTube star, Daniel Thrasher, for the kids. Adopted from wildly popular British sitcom Friday Night Dinner, each episode of Dinner with the Parents revolves around a family meal at the eccentric Langer family’s house, a meal that inevitably descends into chaos.
Where to stream: FreeVee (Prime)
Secrets of Miss America, Season 1
The Miss America Pageant is a deeply weird and creepy American institution, and it's long overdue for a deep dive into its troubling and sleazy history and culture. Made by the people who brought us Secrets of Playboy, this docu-series features interviews with former Miss Americas (and runners-up) who dish out the secrets the nation's best woman hides inside her huge hairdo and shiny, white teeth.
Where to stream: Hulu
Going Home with Tyler Cameron
This reality/renovation show chronicles former Bachelorette star and current handsome boy Tyler Cameron’s quest to start a construction business in his hometown of Jupiter, Florida. We are meant to believe that Cameron has always dreamed of working in construction, and now that he no longer stars in a top-rated television show, he is finally free to pursue his real passion: renovating other people’s houses. Each of the eight episodes of Going Home features a remodeled home, and the series also boasts appearances from reality TV stars like Matt James, Rachael Kirkconnell, Jason Tartick, and Hannah Brown.
Where to stream: Prime
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