The Best TV Series to Stream This Week
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If you’re looking for a new show to watch this week, the vast landscape of streaming networks will provide plenty of them. Some of them are even good! Among the best of this week is a One Hundred Years of Solitude, a series based on the famous novel. If that’s a little too ambitious for you, there’s weird-crime documentary The Kings of Tupelo. If even that is too much for you, you can check out Paris & Nicole: The Encore, the reality show reunion of Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Based on the masterpiece of magical realism by Nobel-Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the epic story of generations of the cursed Buendía family, condemned to solitude for 100 years. José Arcadio Buendía (Marco González) and Úrsula Iguarán (Susana Morales) are cousins and lovers who set out to build a perfect town called Macondo, but the result is not the Utopia they’d envisioned.
Where to stream: Netflix
No Good Deed
Ray Romano and Lisa Kudrow star in this black comedy about the cutthroat world of real estate in Los Angeles. No Good Deed follows three families competing to buy the same 1920s Spanish-style villa in Los Feliz, each convinced the house will make their dreams come true. But it’s actually all a bigger nightmare than trying to buy a real house in Los Angeles. The all-star cast also includes Linda Cardellini, Luke Wilson, Teyonah Parris, and Denis Leary.
Where to stream: Netflix
The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga
Wanna hear something weird? Last week I was reading about a ricin attack on President Obama that the FBI traced back to Tupelo, Mississippi and a feud between a karate instructor and an Elvis impersonator. I thought, “I need a documentary series about this right away, so I can learn more about the eccentrics involved and the place that gave birth to them.” Then Netflix announced The Kings of Tupelo. Maybe I should have wished for world peace, but this show is a more-than-adequate consolation prize.
Where to stream: Netflix
Paris & Nicole: The Encore
Want to feel old? Me neither. But it doesn’t change the fact that it’s been 20 years since Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie starred on pioneering reality show The Simple Life. This three-part series reunites the pair. No longer carefree party girls, Hilton and Richie are getting serious, kind of. The Encore sees the pair trying to turn their “famous song” “Sanasa, Sanasa” into an opera. It’s a stupid premise, but so was putting them on a farm; they’re still entertaining to watch.
Where to stream: Peacock
Queer Eye, Season 9
It’s time for more Queer Eye, the reality show where a pack of gay men change the lives of good-hearted, regular people who need new clothes, new furniture, and new lives. Even though this series has been running for approximately 83 years and each episode is pretty much the same, it’s not boring at all. Every great story is about transformation, and watching caterpillars morph into butterflies never gets old. I’ve cried when I’ve watched this show, not gonna lie.
Starts streaming December 11.
Secret Level
Secret Level is an animated anthology series featuring stories set in the universe of various video game franchises. From the team behind the excellent sci-fi series Love Death + Robots, Secret Level features episodes set in the worlds of Pac-Man, Warhammer 40,000, Mega Man, Unreal Tournament, and many others—it’s the perfect show for gamers.
Where to stream: Prime
Dexter: Original Sin
Cable TV’s most famous serial killer returns in this prequel series. Dexter: Original Sin stars Patrick Gibson as a young, bright-eyed Dexter Morgan, interning with the Miami PD/CSI. But Morgan is plagued by an overwhelming need to murder. Luckily, Dexter has a role model—his father, played by Christian Slater. Pops Morgan is all too ready to teach his son how to pick the right victims and how to not be caught. If you like murder and father-and-son relationships, this is the show for you.
Where to Stream: Paramount+
Last week’s picks
Get Millie Black
Get Millie Black’s title character is an ex-Scotland Yard detective who returns to her childhood home in Kingston, Jamaica to work missing person cases. Played by Tamara Lawrance, Black’s mission to find lost souls is complicated when Scotland Yard detective Luke Holborn (Joe Dempsie) shows up in Kingston on an investigation of his own.
Where to stream: Max
The Madness
Netflix is closing out November with the premier of The Madness, an action series blissfully free of Christmas cheer. Colman Domingo stars as Muncie Daniels, a media pundit who witnesses a murder deep in the Pennsylvania woods. The killing leads to a deep, dark conspiracy, forcing Daniels to fight for his very life and comes to grips with the fact that what he thinks he knows of the world is not true.
Where to stream: Netflix
Making Manson
I’m not a fan of murderer Charles Manson, but he was friends with one of the Beach Boys, Guns N’ Roses covered a song he wrote, and he convinced a bunch of hippies to slay a movie star, so you can’t deny he’s compelling. Peacock apparently thinks so too, as they’re streaming Making Manson, a documentary series featuring “20 years of exclusive unheard conversations,” where “Manson openly talks about the infamous crimes as well as his upbringing and true feelings about ‘The Family.'” (He sure was a talkative little feller.)
Where to stream: Peacock
