New TV Shows Streaming This Weekend on Netflix, HBO and Hulu, October 23-25

Happy weekend. It’s a slow week for TV releases. Over the past month, Carrie, Crystal Lake and VisionQuest all dropped and kept many viewers busy. Things pick up soon, though. The coming months bring the final season of Yellowjackets, the third season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power and more.

Until then, here are eight shows to watch. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners returns for a second season and takes viewers back to Night City, which looks as striking as it did the first time. The romantic comedy Nobody Wants This follows Joanne and Noah, who have just moved in together.

Genre fans have several options. Yaga is a Canadian series starring Heated Rivalry‘s overnight star Hudson Williams. It draws on the legend of Baba Yaga and has nothing to do with John Wick. Lupin comes back for a fourth season about a charismatic con artist. Orphan Black now streams in full on HBO Max, which gives it a chance to find a wider audience.

Two more are worth a look. Phony is a comedy-mystery about a mother and son with a co-dependent relationship. The Terminal List, with Chris Pratt, is back for a second season. Happy watching.

1. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

• Available on Netflix
• Genre: Anime
• Episode count: 10
• Cast: Kentaro Tone, Koki Uchiyama, Momoka Terasawa

Edgerunners is set in the world of the Cyberpunk 2077 video game. Its second season follows a new cast whose lives cross in Night City. One storyline centers on an edgerunner past his prime who is trying to redeem himself. Another follows a teenager who wants to rebel against her Corpo family. A third features a cinephile who tries to preserve traditional movie-making in a world where the art form has become obsolete.

Per our Polygon review:

Across 10 episodes, director Kai Ikarashi and the teams at CD Projekt Red and Studio Trigger deliver another spectacular collision of corporate cruelty, dangerous technology, and people pushing themselves past their limits. The ingredients are familiar, sometimes a little too much. But an extraordinary ensemble and the relationships that develop among its members make this return to Night City richer, more rewarding, and downright better.

2. Nobody Wants This

• Available on Netflix
• Genre: Romance
• Episode count: 10
• Cast: Kristen Bell, Adam Brody, Justine Lupe

Nobody Wants This has become one of Netflix’s biggest recent hits. It draws on Millennial nostalgia for two of their teen icons, Kristen Bell and Adam Brody. They play Joanne, a sex podcaster, and Noah, a rabbi, who fall in love despite their different backgrounds and interests. In the third season, their relationship reaches its most serious point yet. The two move in together, and Joanne considers converting to Judaism.

3. Yaga

• Available on AMC+
• Genre: Thriller
• Episode count: 8
• Cast: Hudson Williams, Carrie-Anne Moss, Noah Reid

Yaga is based on a stage play, which in turn draws on the Slavic myth of Baba Yaga. The series opens with a detective (Noah Reid) investigating the disappearance of Henry Park (Hudson Williams), heir to a powerful fishery. The search leads him to a university professor (Carrie-Anne Moss) who has an interest in younger men.

4. Lupin

• Available on Netflix
• Genre: Crime
• Episode count: 8
• Cast: Omar Sy, Ludivine Sagnier, Shirine Boutella

Lupin is back for a fourth season. The hit Netflix series follows Assane Diop, a con artist who takes inspiration for his crimes from the fictional master of disguise Arsène Lupin. The new season picks up four years after season three. Diop has just been released from prison and is ready to leave crime behind.

5. The Terminal List

• Available on Prime Video
• Genre: Action
• Episode count: 8
• Cast: Chris Pratt, Constance Wu, Jared Shaw

Chris Pratt returns to the action in The Terminal List. The show follows James Reece, a Navy SEAL who was ambushed on a mission in Afghanistan and took revenge on those responsible. In the second season, Reece gets pulled into an even larger conspiracy. It takes him to different parts of the world, and this time he works as a CIA operative.

6. Phony

• Available on Hulu
• Genre: Comedy-mystery
• Episode count: 8
• Cast: Sam Nivola, Connie Britton, Mahaela Park

Phony follows high school student Sonny (Sam Nivola) and his mom, Ellen (Connie Britton), who have an unusually close relationship. After a car crash, Sonny wakes from a coma convinced that an identical impostor has replaced his mother. No one believes him.

7. Newlyweds

• Available on Peacock
• Genre: Comedy
• Episode count: 13
• Cast: Tea Leoni, Tim Daly, Jamie Lee Curtis

Newlyweds sounds like a show from a different era. It follows a newly married couple, a free-spirited woman and a buttoned-up guy, as they balance their relationship and their contrasting personalities. It’s a sitcom, and each episode is recorded in front of a live audience.

8. Orphan Black

• Available on HBO Max
• Genre: Sci-fi
• Episode count: 50 episodes total
• Cast: Tatiana Maslany, Jordan Gavaris, Evelyne Brochu

Orphan Black is now on HBO Max, which introduces the series to a wider audience. Tatiana Maslany leads as Sarah Manning, an ex-con who returns home to reunite with her family, including her daughter, her adoptive brother and her adoptive mother. Her plans for a peaceful life fall apart when she sees a woman jump onto the train tracks. The woman looks exactly like her.

Per our Polygon recommendation:

Underneath a complicated conspiracy plot that involves scary corporations, mad scientists, awful tests on human subjects, and dozens of clones, the series features one of the best performances of all time. Through her years in the show, Tatiana Maslany went from an unknown Canadian actress to an Emmy winner, playing 17 distinct clones across five seasons. More than a decade later, while some of the series’ special effects have aged, the scenes of Maslany’s clones speaking, yelling, hugging, and dancing with each other feel as magical and unique as they did when they first aired, luring you into believing that there really are multiple women onscreen.

Source: Polygon