Last week, the major streamers dropped a number of original shows, including Manhunt and Apples Never Fall. By comparison, this week is a little light on new shows. But if you love sci-fi and superheroes, then Netflix’s 3 Body Problem and Disney+’s X-Men ’97 are going to get you through the weekend with some very entertaining stories. And next week, Paramount+ with Showtime will debut a new British drama, A Gentlemen in Moscow, which looks like it might be a fan-favorite in the making.
We rely on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Max, Disney+, Paramount+, Peacock, and Apple TV+ to keep us entertained with a steady supply of original series on a week-to-week basis. For the most part, they do. But that doesn’t mean you should relegate yourself to paying higher prices to keep your subscriptions active. You can always save money by using the ad-supported tiers, assuming you can sit through a few commercials. In the meantime, here’s our weekly roundup of the best new shows to stream.
When you’re done here, check out the best new movies to stream this week, as well as the best shows on Netflix, best shows on Hulu, best shows on Amazon Prime Video, and best shows on Disney+.
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X-Men '972024
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3 Body Problem2024
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The Gentlemen2024
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Manhunt2024
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Apples Never Fall2024
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Disney+
X-Men '97 (2024) new
X-Men: The Animated Series made Marvel’s mutant superheroes into TV stars 32 years ago, and arguably paved the way for both the X-Men movies and the MCU itself. Now, X-Men ‘97 is picking up where the original show left off, as the X-Men deal with the fallout of the apparent death of their mentor, Charles Xavier.
A lot has changed since we last saw the team, as Cyclops and Jean Grey prepare to have their first child, and pro-mutant sentiment has never been higher. Even Magneto, the team’s greatest foe, is attempting to follow Xavier’s legacy and create a better world for mutants and humans alike. However, there are storm clouds on the horizon as the X-Men are blindsided by tragedy and by a surprising return that calls the identity of one of their own into question.
Star Wars: The Bad Batch (2021)
There’s a tendency for some fans to overlook the various Star Wars animated series as being inconsequential or kid’s stuff. Nothing could be further from the truth, especially in Star Wars: The Bad Batch. The premiere of the third and final season strikes a somber chord and actually lets the audience empathize with the plight of the youngest clone, Omega (Michelle Ang), as she is forced to serve the Empire at their secret cloning facility.
Omega’s clone brothers — Hunter, Wrecker, and Echo (all of whom are voiced by Dee Bradley Baker) — aren’t willing to abandon her to the Empire. However, the team doesn’t have many allies left, and finding Omega may be one of the last missions that they ever embark on.
Netflix
3 Body Problem (2024) new
The scientific principles behind an actual three body problem are difficult for any layperson to grasp. But don’t worry, you won’t need to understand all of the science in 3 Body Problem, especially because there’s a more pressing issue at hand. Scientists from all over the world are committing suicide at an alarming rate as five friends begin to grasp a mystery that may change the destiny of humanity forever.
Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss returned to TV for 3 Body Problem, based on Liu Cixin’s novel of the same name. It’s not a spoiler to say that aliens are real in this sci-fi series, but the nature of the threat they represent is something humanity simply can’t handle. And all the time in the world may not be able to change that.
The Gentlemen (2024) new
Guy Ritchie revisits the criminal underworld of his film, The Gentlemen, in a new Netflix original series. But don’t worry; it works just as well, even if you have never seen the movie, and the connections between the show and the film are minimal at best.
The series revolves around Eddie Halstead (Theo James), a man raised with wealth, privilege, and even a title to his name. What Eddie doesn’t know is that a lot of his late father’s money came from an illicit marijuana operation that’s run by Bobby Glass (Ray Winstone), and his daughter, Susie Glass (Kaya Scodelario). Now that Eddie’s the Duke of Halstead, he has to face the reality that he can’t get his family out of the Glass’ grasp. However, Eddie may come to enjoy being a criminal.
Supersex (2024)
The controversial and definitely NSFW Netflix series Supersex chronicles the rise of Rocco Siffredi, who became one of porn’s most recognizable figures in the 1990s and 2000s. The series depicts Siffredi’s humble origins in a tiny Italian village to the beginning of his career in Paris’ seedy Pigalle district to finding international fame in America and abroad.
The show is backed by an impressive creative team that includes lead actor Alessandro Borghi, who starred in one of 2023’s best movies, The Eight Mountains, and showrunner Francesca Manieri, who wanted to explore Siffredi’s life and masculinity through a feminist lens.
Apple TV+
Manhunt (2024) new
The Crown’s Tobias Menzies lands the central role in Manhunt as Edwin Stanton, the secretary of war under President Abraham Lincoln (Hamish Linklater) during the Civil War. But in the aftermath of victory, Lincoln has been assassinated and Stanton now finds himself leading the hunt for Lincoln’s killer, John Wilkes Booth (Anthony Boyle).
Stanton had been ready to resign and walk away, but now he feels compelled to see this chase through to the end — even if it threatens his life and his sanity. Meanwhile, Confederate sympathizers and renegade leaders hope to use Booth’s actions for their own gain as the nation faces a crossroads at the beginning of Reconstruction.
The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin (2024)
Talk about a show that lives up to its name! The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin is loosely based on the life of the real highwayman thief Dick Turpin. But the stories are anything but real, unless you believe in ghosts and witches. Noel Fielding stars as Dick Turpin, a guy who’s unsuited for just about every profession in life.
Yet somehow, Dick finds himself leading his own gang of thieves, including Moose (Marc Wootton), Honesty (Duayne Boachie), and Nell (Ellie White). Unfortunately for Dick, his new calling also comes with several new enemies that he has to contend with. And not all of them are human — or alive.
Amazon Prime Video
Invincible (2021)
The best superhero show on TV, Invincible, is back for the second half of its second season. When we last saw the titular hero, Mark Grayson (Beef‘s Steven Yeun), he had a tense reunion with his father, Omni-Man (J.K. Simmons), which ended in their defeat at the hands of the Viltrumites. Now, Omni-Man is a prisoner, and Mark is back on Earth trying to figure out how to raise his new half-brother.
Mark soon discovers that his civilian life wasn’t on pause in the two months while he was away. There’s always a new world-ending crisis to jump into, but Mark has bigger problems on the horizon. The Viltrum Empire has chosen Mark to oversee the conquest of Earth. And if he refuses to conquer his own world, then someone even more brutal will be sent to finish the job.
Peacock
Apples Never Fall (2024) new
In this adaptation of Liane Moriarty’s Apples Never Fall, Stan (Jurassic Park‘s Sam Neill) and Joy Delaney (Annette Bening) present themselves as family to the students of their tennis academy. But they’re not as close with their own children, Amy (Alison Brie), Troy (Jake Lacy), Logan (Conor Merrigan Turner), and Brooke (Essie Randles). And there’s a lot of lingering resentment among all of them.
The inexplicable disappearance of Joy suggests that she may have been the victim of foul play. Through flashbacks, the complicated dynamics of this family are laid bare, as Joy’s children are forced to wonder if any of them, or someone close to the family, could have committed a crime against their mother.
MGM+
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon (2023) new
Paul Simon has been creating music for almost seven decades, and he’s not done yet. The two-part documentary In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon follows the creation of his latest album, Seven Psalms, as Simon contends with his hearing loss, questions of faith, and the pandemic.
The documentary also takes an extended look at Simon’s solo career, as well as his partnership with Art Garfunkel in Simon & Garfunkel, which is a friendship that has had some very public ups and downs over the years. But in the end, their beautiful music remains, and that’s going to be Simon’s legacy, as well as Garfunkel’s.
Max (formerly HBO and HBO Max)
The Regime (2024)
Mare of Easttown’s Kate Winslet is back on HBO and Max with The Regime. This dark new political satire casts her as Chancellor Elena Vernham, the leader of a small European autocratic country. Elena is sharp enough to realize that the threats to her rule are mounting, but she doesn’t recognize that her grasp on sanity is rapidly decreasing.
To hold on to her power, Elena takes a former soldier, Herbert Zubak (Amsterdam‘s Matthias Schoenaerts), as her top advisor. Unfortunately for Elena, Herbert’s not much more stable than she is, and her choices may ultimately bring down her regime before the end of the year.
Tokyo Vice (2022)
It took nearly two years for the second season of Tokyo Vice to arrive, but the show is now once again taking viewers back to the late 1990s. Jake Adelstein (Ansel Elgort) moved to Tokyo to make his name as a crime reporter. But the more Jake learns about the Yakuza and the criminal underworld, the more he gets in over his head.
Season 1 ended with Jake learning that a woman he knew named Polina (Ella Rumpf) had been murdered by one of the Tozawa clan. Now, Jake, his friend Samantha Porter (Rachel Keller), and Jake’s police connection, Detective Hiroto Katagiri (Ken Watanabe), are all looking for answers about Polina’s murder. But there’s never any easy resolution on these mean streets.
Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000)
Hulu
Shōgun (2024)
It took FX almost six years to put together a new adaptation of James Clavell’s Shōgun, and the result is a masterpiece. In this updated take on the story, the narrative doesn’t just follow an English sailor, John Blackthrone (Cosmo Jarvis), who is trapped in Japan during the late 16th century. It also follows John’s closest companion, Toda Mariko (Anna Sawai), as well as their mutual master, Lord Yoshii Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada).
For John, the choice is simple: adapt or die. Things are more complex for Mariko and Lord Toranaga, especially as a civil war is brewing in Japan that will test everyone’s loyalty.
Life & Beth (2022)
Life comes at you fast, but rarely as fast as it comes in the second season of Amy Schumer’s Life & Beth. While still reeling from the death of her mother, Beth (Schumer) has found some form of domestic bliss with a farmer named John (Barbie‘s Michael Cera). And Beth is so eager to hold on to John that she’s going fast forward on their relationship with a quick marriage and even a baby on the way.
Beth may be trying to give herself the happy ending she’s always wanted, but she can’t skip steps and she’s going to have to face the truth about what really makes her happy. As John, certain aspects of his character will also come into sharper focus this season. Can these two really make it work as a family? We’ll find out soon.
FEUD (2017)
After a seven-year hiatus between seasons, FX’s Feud is back with a new season-long storyline: Capote vs. The Swans. The series is based on the real-life breakdown in relations between the famous writer, Truman Capote (Tom Hollander), and his female friends in New York City’s high society. In 1975, an excerpt from Capote’s unfinished novel, Answered Prayers, is published, and the women instantly realize that Capote has betrayed their confidence and used barely disguised versions of them in his book.
The titular Swans — Babe Paley (Naomi Watts), Nancy “Slim” Keith (Diane Lane), C.Z. Guest (Chloë Sevigny), Lee Radziwill (Calista Flockhart), Ann Woodward (Demi Moore), and Joanne Carson (Molly Ringwald) — resolve to destroy Capote no matter how long it takes. And this battle of wills only encourages Capote’s self-destructive streak, especially when he can’t understand why the Swans are so angry with him.
Paramount+
Elsbeth (2024)
Since 2010, Carrie Preston has played an eccentric and autistic lawyer, Elsbeth Tascioni, on The Good Wife and its spinoff, The Good Fight. Now, Elsbeth is putting that character in the spotlight, moving her from Chicago to New York and placing her at the heart of a police procedural.
It does take some pretty big leaps of faith to accept that a civilian lawyer is now accompanying her police partner, Kaya Blanke (Carra Patterson), to crime scenes in order to catch killers who thought they committed the perfect murder. But it’s Elsbeth herself who puts a unique spin on this familiar premise, which seems very old school.
Halo (2022)
The second season of Halo has arrived with a two-episode premiere that may indicate that the show is shifting closer to the narrative of the games. After the first season, Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 (Pablo Schreiber) still has a lot to sort out about himself, but one thing is clear. In order to win the war with the alien Covenant, Master Chief has to find the ringworld known as Halo.
However, time may be running out on the human colony Reach, as the Covenant closes in on the planet’s location. Once that happens, nothing, not even Master Chief himself, can prevent the Fall of Reach.
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