14 New Shows to Watch This Weekend on Netflix, Max, Hulu, Prime Video, More

And just like that, Sex and the City keeps chugging along. The sequel series is entering its third season, and it’s the rare show that just keeps getting better. It helps that Carrie’s (Sarah Jessica Parker) rekindled relationship with Aidan (John Corbett) is so interesting to watch, especially after last season’s dramatic cliffhanger.

It’s not all about Carrie, though. Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) explores being single after her breakup with Che, while Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Lisa (Nicole Ari Parker) explore the comedic side of Upper East Side life. Meanwhile, Seema (Sarita Choudhury) is still on the prowl, and Anthony (Mario Cantone) deals with some unresolved issues with his mother (Patti LuPone).

Bonds between sisters can be strong, but are they strong enough when murder is involved? That’s the central question behind The Better Sister, Amazon’s intriguing new mystery series. Chloe (Jessica Biel) has a picture-perfect life, but when her husband Adam (Corey Stoll) is murdered and she’s the prime suspect, she’ll have to rely on the one person who can help her — her sister, Nicky (Elizabeth Banks). But Nicky has problems of her own, and Chloe hasn’t talked to her in years. Can the sisters reconnect in time to clear Chloe’s name and find Adam’s killer?

The Better Sister is a solid thriller series starring two criminally underappreciated actresses. Biel gives her best performance yet as the dazed and confused Chloe, while Banks is reliably terrific as her devoted yet wayward sibling.

The world can always use a good mystery show, and they don’t get much better than Dept. Q. Matthew Goode stars as Carl Morck, a British detective tasked with leading a department no policeman wants: Department Q, which oversees cold cases no one else can solve. It’s a career dead-end, but Carl, along with his quirky team of investigators and forensic scientists, makes it work, and they even manage to solve a mystery or two.

On paper, Dept. Q sounds like CSI: Edinburgh, but the writer-director, Scott Frank, makes the series more complex, deeper and ambitious than a routine procedural. This show drips with atmosphere (dig those water-soaked hallways!), and Goode’s haunted detective has enough hidden trauma for several seasons of juicy storylines. If you’re looking for a summer thriller binge, queue up Dept. Q.

Devon (Meghann Fahy) is your typical big sister — loving, funny and a bit overprotective — so it’s no surprise that she’s just a little curious about her younger sister Simone’s (Milly Alcock) close relationship with her employer, Michaela Kell (Julianne Moore). As the wife of a billionaire and a prominent animal activist, Michaela seems too good to be true to Devon, and she suspects Simone is being taken advantage of. 

When she’s invited to spend time with both women on Michaela’s island home over Labor Day weekend, Devon believes she can persuade her sister to leave with her. But Michaela has other plans for Simone and, as Devon soon finds out, for her as well.

Fans of Netflix’s 2024 hit The Perfect Couple with Nicole Kidman and Hulu’s 2021 thriller Nine Perfect Strangers with Melissa McCarthy will surely enjoy Sirens, which combines a suspenseful narrative with luxurious settings and a game cast that has fun with the material. 

After standout supporting turns in The White Lotus season 2 and The Perfect Couple, Fahy finally takes center stage in her own streaming series, and she knocks it out of the park as a disreputable sibling who doesn’t want to be pushed out of her sister’s life. The show is more comedic than serious, and it should satisfy those looking to see rich people who are up to no good. 

When it premiered in 2021, Nine Perfect Strangers was intended as a limited series that more or less faithfully adapted Liane Moriarty’s bestselling novel. The show was successful enough to get a second season, with only Nicole Kidman returning from the original cast as the shady, wig-happy spiritual leader, Masha.

Masha has set up another retreat, this time in the Swiss Alps, and invited nine desperate souls who harbor secrets they don’t want anyone to find out about. Among the guests are Peter (Henry Golding), who brings his estranged businessman father, David (Mark Strong), so they can bond, and Imogen (Annie Murphy), who also has serious issues to work out with her mother, Victoria (Christine Baranski).

The latest season of Nine Perfect Strangers doesn’t stray too far from what worked so well in season one — there’s the requisite amount of shocking revelations and at least one guest who shares an unexpected history with Masha. It’s a bit campy and unbelievable, but that’s what makes the show so enjoyable.

Don’t let the title fool you — Murderbot is actually a comedy rather than the dark sci-fi tale you’d expect. While the titular genderless android (played by Alexander Skarsgård) doesn’t much care for the human scientists it’s assigned to help, it’s more interested in watching trashy TV shows like The Rise & Fall of Sanctuary Moon than killing them. Over time, it grows to begrudgingly tolerate them, but when one of the scientists discovers it has overridden its programming, will Murderbot live up to its name and kill to gain its freedom?

Based on the popular novel series The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells, Murderbot is written and directed by Chris and Paul Weitz, who made American Pie and About a Boy. That should tell you what kind of show Murderbot is — fun, irreverent, a little raunchy and somewhat sentimental. Skarsgård has fun with his role, showcasing a deadpan comic delivery not seen since his True Blood days. 

t’s 1972, and Nina Hayes (Rachel Hilson) wants nothing more than to see Ezra Saxton (Keith David) behind bars. He’s the head of a crime family in Phoenix, and she’s an FBI agent who is tasked with capturing him. She needs help, though, and she finds it with Jim Ellis (Lost‘s Josh Holloway), Saxton’s loyal getaway driver. Together, they might take down Saxton once and for all, but the kingpin won’t go down without a fight.

Duster is a charmingly retro buddy cop show that doesn’t reinvent the genre so much as it executes all of its elements very well. The story isn’t really anything new, but the lead performances by Hilson and Holloway make it seem fresh and appealing. If you’re a fan of ‘70s crime movies like The French Connection and Southwestern murder mysteries like Dark Winds, give Duster a try. Season 1 has 8 episodes, with a new installment released every Thursday.

Everyone’s favorite casino-worker-turned-amateur-sleuth is back on the case in Poker Face season 2. Actually, make that several cases as Charlie Cale (Natasha Lyonne) has to solve mysteries involving murderous quintuplets (all played by Wicked actress Cynthia Erivo), a missing funeral owner’s wife and a female mob boss who needs help finding a mole within her gang.

Much of what made season 1 so entertaining is present in season 2, including a still-terrific Lyonne as the sarcastic gumshoe, a cavalcade of unusual guest stars (John Mulaney, Haley Joel Osment and Katie Holmes all show up at some point), and a case-of-the-week plot structure that feels both retro and different from other mystery shows. Poker Face season 2 has 10 episodes and will conclude on July 8.

In numerous movies and TV shows, the French are portrayed as excelling at three things: making food, having sex and fighting wars. In Carême, the lead character, Antoine Carême (Benjamin Voisin), engages in all three as one of the first celebrity chefs ever. (Gordon Ramsay has nothing on this guy.) Antoine’s skills in the kitchen are matched by his prowess in the bedrooms of the elite, which makes him the perfect spy for those with revolution in mind.

The eight-episode series plays fast and loose with history, but when a show is this sexy and fun, you don’t mind the slight exaggerations of fact. Voisin portrays Carême as a sort of punk rock chef, a Sid Vicious with a butter knife and an endless appetite for whatever pleases him. The show is somewhat similar to Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette in that it emphasizes mood and style over substance, and it works incredibly well here. 

What happens when the whole world changes overnight and you don’t know how it happened or why? That’s the central premise of The Eternaut, an outstanding new sci-fi series from Argentina that’s already one of Netflix’s most popular shows. Based on a popular 1950s graphic novel, the six-episode series begins with a beautiful but deadly snowfall that wipes out most of humanity.

The survivors are left to pick up the pieces, and that includes Juan Salvo (Ricardo Darín), who wants to find his missing daughter and ex-wife. But first, he’ll have to figure out a way to venture outside without touching the lethal snow. Will Juan find his family? And more importantly, will humanity’s survivors find answers to why this apocalyptic event happened in the first place?

The Eternaut is a riveting sci-fi show that finds new ways to explore its end-of-the-world scenario. At only six episodes, it doesn’t overstay its welcome, and provides just enough closure to end on a satisfying, if somewhat ambiguous, note.

Are you ready to go back to the Werk Room? It’s only been a couple of weeks since RuPaul’s Drag Race crowned its latest queen, but that won’t stop RuPaul and her Pit Stop crew from returning to TV with yet another edition of All Stars. 

This time around, the drag competition show adopts a tournament structure with 18 returning queens placed into three brackets, where they will compete before advancing to the semi-finals and then a final with the last three remaining competitors. Some notable contestants include Jorgeous, Ginger Minj, Aja, Bosco, Daya Betty, Olivia Lux and more. Expect gag-worthy runways, wig reveals and lip-syncs that will bring the house down.

The world of competitive ballet has been the inspiration for lots of great movies like 1977’s The Turning Point, 2000’s Center Stage and 2010’s Black Swan. It’s now the subject of the new eight-episode Amazon Prime Video series Étoile, which stars Charlotte Gainsbourg and Luke Kirby as the heads of competing French and American ballet companies who agree to swap their top dancers to save their jobs.

Things don’t go according to plan as clashing egos, secret backstage romances and inter-office politics threaten to end the ambitious experiment before it ever really begins. Gilmore Girls and Marvelous Mrs. Maisel masterminds Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino created Étoile, so expect a lot of witty banter and random pop culture references between the pirouettes and heartbreaks. The show is breezy and fun, and gives the talented French actress Gainsbourg a rare lead role in an American TV series. 

Andrew “Coop” Cooper (Jon Hamm) has it all: a nice house in the country, a fancy car, two kids in private school and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife, Mel (Amanda Peet). But all that is threatened when he loses his job, and his savings won’t sustain his luxurious lifestyle for more than six months. Jobless and desperate, Coop decides to steal from the rich — his friends and neighbors — to give to himself. How long can Coop keep selling chic Chanel handbags and stolen jewels on the black market before someone finds out?

Your Friends & Neighbors has an intriguing hook, but what makes the show so watchable is what it does with it. The show works best as a social satire of the wealthy class, who are oblivious to one of their own stealing from them. As Coop, Hamm has his best role since Mad Men’s Don Draper. Like Don, Coop is amoral and reckless, even if his intentions are good. Your Friends & Neighbors is nine episodes long and streams a new installment every Friday until May 30. 

One of the best comedies around is Hacks, HBO’s hit series about the combative relationship between a veteran comedian and her Gen Z writer. Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) has been a successful stand-up for decades, but her jokes have become too routine and irrelevant. Enter Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder), who has a quick wit and her pulse on the zeitgeist. The two women don’t really like each other, but they need to team up to succeed in a business that’s often cruel and unforgiving.

Season 3 ended on a bit of a cliffhanger with Ava blackmailing Deborah to land the head writer job that her boss had promised her. The fragile friendship the two forged all last season is now destroyed, so what happens when they have to work together to make Deborah’s new late show a hit? Hacks season 4, which begins streaming its 10-episode season on April 10 through May 29, promises new developments in that complicated relationship, plus appearances by Jimmy Kimmel and Carol Burnett as themselves.