Refreshed weekly · This week

What to Watch This Week

The shows worth your evening, ranked by what we’d actually watch.

Last refreshed 2026-05-08 · covers releases through Sunday May 10, 2026

This week’s slate

Twelve shows, one verdict each.

Every Sunday we look at what shipped or got new episodes in the past seven days, and what’s arriving next. Verdicts are short by design.

Must Watch New This Week Worth A Look Skip
Apple TV+ Returning · Wed
Severance — new episode
If you stopped paying attention to season 2, this is your week to catch up. The Macrodata Refinement floor is, as ever, the smartest material on television.
Must Watch
Max Returning · Thu
The Pitt — new episode
Hour 12 of 15 in season one’s emergency-department shift. The most accurate medical show ever made, per the actual healthcare workers on the platform formerly known as Twitter.
Must Watch
Netflix Limited series · March
Adolescence
If you missed it on release, watch all four episodes back-to-back this weekend. Each filmed in a single uninterrupted take. The best four hours of TV in 2025.
Must Watch
HBO Anthology · S3 ended
The White Lotus — Season 3 (Thailand)
All eight episodes streamable. Walton Goggins is the season MVP; Parker Posey’s lorazepam scenes are the year’s most-quoted. Comedy of class, sustained.
Must Watch
Apple TV+ 5 seasons
Slow Horses
Season 5 wrapped October 2025; renewed through season 7. Best Gary Oldman performance you can stream right now. Bingeable in five-episode chunks.
Must Watch
Disney+ Final season
Andor — Season 2 complete
Tony Gilroy’s political-thriller closing argument. The best Star Wars production ever filmed. If you stopped watching prestige Star Wars, this is the one to come back for.
Must Watch
Apple TV+ New · Fri
Mythic Quest — final season
The studio sitcom is wrapping. Worth checking back in if you were a season-one or two fan; the late seasons have been quietly good.
New This Week
Prime Video Returning
The Boys — final season episodes
Eric Kripke’s satirical superhero ending its run. Mixed reception so far this final season; for franchise loyalists, not a starting point.
Worth A Look
FX / Hulu Limited · ongoing
Shōgun — Season 2
The 2024 Emmy juggernaut returns for the next chapter of the Toranaga arc. Production values still ridiculous; pace still meditative.
Worth A Look
Netflix Ongoing
Black Mirror — new season
Charlie Brooker’s dystopia anthology, episode quality variable as ever. Pick the one with the cast you like and skip the others.
Worth A Look
HBO Ongoing
The Last of Us — Season 2
The Pedro Pascal show. Polarizing season-two arc among book readers; less polarizing among everyone else. Strong if you can disconnect from source-material expectations.
Worth A Look
Netflix New limited · this week
An Untitled True-Crime Documentary
Yet another four-part true-crime documentary. The genre is exhausted; the cases are increasingly recycled. Skip unless the specific case is one you care about.
How we pick. Hand-curated weekly. We don’t auto-publish. If something is on this list it’s because someone watched it — not because an algorithm guessed at relevance.
Coming next

On the calendar — next two weeks.

More from us

If you want a deeper read —

Every show on the “Must Watch” list above has a full review on the site. Each one ends with a verdict you can read in twenty seconds, then unfolds for the long version.

→ Browse all reviews