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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!
Like Water for Chocolate, Season 1
In this adaptation of Laura Esquivel’s magical realism novel, Irene Azuela and Azul Guaita play Tita de la Garza and Pedro Múzquiz, lovers who are kept apart by their families’ customs. Tita uses cooking to fight her oppression, creating recipes so powerful they act as spells on the people who taste them. If you’re a sensualist, you’ll want to clear time to watch Like Water for Chocolate.
Where to stream: Max
Eat Slay Love
Celebrity BFFs Nivea, Eva Marcille, Tammy Rivera, and London Hughes decided to celebrate Nivea’s birthday with a trip to Vietnam and brought back a three-episode mini-series to document their adventures. More than just a “four fishes out of water” goof, according to the Eat Slay Love‘s official description, the spirituality and beauty of Vietnam will help the famous four-pack “heal from heartache, strengthen friendships, and reevaluate their priorities back home.” I’m all about the redemptive power of travel, so I’m giving this one a shot.
Where to stream: Peacock
Every Minute Counts
This Amazon original series dramatizes the 1985 earthquake that devastated Mexico City. Prime Video Latin America’s most expensive production ever, Every Minute Counts is an intense look of the hours after the 8.1 on the Richter scale quake shook the city apart, following a doctor and his nurses working to rescue the unfortunate souls trapped underneath the rubble of the General Hospital.
Where to stream: Prime
America’s Cutest Puppies, Season 1
You can turn on Hulu right now and binge an entire season of America’s Cutest Puppies! I have a feeling a lot of us need some cute puppies this week.
Where to stream: Hulu
Last week’s picks
The Diplomat, season 2
If you’re thinking, “Oh, great, a television drama about global politics and diplomacy—sounds fascinating,” you’re not getting what people liked about the first season of The Diplomat. Yes, Keri Russel plays the U.S. ambassador to the UK, but the show is a pot-boiler packed with snappy dialogue that uses geopolitics to raise the stakes on over-the-top situations. In other words, it’s fun, I swear.
Streaming on: Netflix
Special Ops: Lioness, Season 2
In Taylor Sheridan’s Special Ops: Lioness, Zoe Saldaña, Nicole Kidman, and Laysla De Oliveria play agents of the Lioness Program, an all-female CIA operation designed to infiltrate global criminal organizations. Season 2 begins with a new mission: A Texas congresswoman is kidnapped and taken to Mexico. Expect more of the morally murky, “who are really the bad guys here?” action that made season one a hit with critics and fans alike.
Where to stream: Paramount+
Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 5
Star Trek is awesome, but its best-and-brightest starship crews full of infinitely capable officers with straight white teeth make me ask: “Aren’t there any screw-ups in the future?” Enter Star Trek: Lower Decks. This canonical animated series adds much needed irreverence to the Star Trek’s sometimes self-serious universe. It follows the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos, the ship where Starfleet sends its problem children to make “second contact” with alien lifeforms. This is Lower Decks‘ final season, so check it out while it lasts.
Where to stream: Paramount+