Best New Series to Stream on Hulu This Week
The biggest new show coming to Hulu this week is Feud: Capote vs. the Swans , but if you’re not in the mood to watch a show about a writer who angered some housewives, there’s a dramatization of the lives of MLK and Malcolm X. fantasy documentary series about a sex cult at Sarah Lawrence College and Farmer Wants a Wife , season two. Variety is the name of the game in streaming TV, isn’t it?
Feud: Capote vs. Swans
The second season of Ryan Murphy’s anthology tells the true story of writer Truman Capote’s conflict with a group of rich and powerful wives. While researching his seminal 1966 book In Cold Blood , Capote spent countless hours among the scum and murderers of the Midwest, but it wasn’t until he spilled the literary tea among the social cognoscenti that Capote understood what “ruthless” meant. Directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Chloë Sevigny, Diane Lane, Calista Flockhart, Molly Ringwald, Demi Moore and Naomi Watts, Capote vs. the Swans is a must-see.
Genius: MLK/X
The fourth season of the anthology drama series about historically significant people explores civil rights icons Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Genius dives deep into their lives to reveal personal details, comparing and contrasting two people who shared the same goal. but had completely different ideas about how this should be achieved.
Farmer Wants a Wife, Season 2
There’s probably no TV show that’s less geared toward me than Farmer Wants a Wife , but I like to subvert expectations, so I’m going to watch every episode of season two, starting tonight with episode 1. Next up is reality TV. romantic adventures of four handsome farmers. Each farmer chooses five townspeople to live with them on their farm and wear straw hats, flip-flops, or whatever people do on farms. Through this strict process love is achieved. Yes, and I can’t stress this enough, ha.
The Handmaid’s Tale
I put off watching The Handmaid’s Tale until last year because I found the idea of the series so depressing. And it’s depressing, but it’s also one of the smartest and most perfectly crafted shows ever made. This is as close to perfection as episodic television gets; at least in the first season. Please pretend the other four seasons of The Handmaid’s Tale don’t exist.
Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult of Sarah Lawrence
It’s “wait, what actually happened ?” The documentary series details a sex cult that formed in an unlikely place: a student dormitory at Sarah Lawrence College. It was strange when 50-year-old father Larry Ray moved into his daughter’s dorm room, but he quickly became a mentor to a small group of her pals and roommates, and then things got really weird. Through interviews with victims and witnesses, Stolen Youth reveals how a group of the country’s brightest young minds, at a school that emphasizes individuality, could fall into the unquestioning obedience of an unemployed guy named “Ray.”
Last week’s pick
Daughters of the Cult
I’ve been into cults for a long time, so I can’t believe I’d never heard of Ervil LeBaron until I watched Daughters of the Cult this week. LeBaron was the leader of a next level evil cult. Dubbed the “Mormon Manson” during his reign of terror in the 1970s and ’80s, Erville ran a heretical polygamist cult like a ruthless gang boss, outright gunning down the leaders of rival polygamist gangs. The Daughters of the Cult say, “Wait, what really happened ?” story through interviews with some of his 50 children, which provide an inside look at a nightmarish religious cult that began with polygamy and eventually went completely off the rails.
Death and other details
Hollywood has seen a resurgence of high-quality, behind-closed-doors mysteries lately —Knives Out, The Glass Onion, The Haunting of Venice —and Death and Other Parts takes aim at that rarefied atmosphere. According to many critics , this is a hesitation and a miss, but mystery lovers, like all fans of the genre, are forgiving. They can find something to like in even the worst examples of their obsession, and Death and Other Parts is far from the bottom of the mystery barrel. Think of it as an Agatha Christie movie: it has a murder mystery, an exotic location (a glamorous cruise ship), rich suspects, and even the ish.com version of Hercules Poirot in the form of Mandy Patinkin’s super-detective Rufus Coatsworth.
Superhot: The Spicy World of Pepper People
“Let’s look at people who love spicy food” may seem like a weak premise for a TV show, but these people really do love spicy food, and exploring their subculture reveals an unseen world of inspiration, obsession, beauty, and controversy. Additionally, you may see people sweat profusely while consuming inhumanely hot peppers. What’s not to like?
Floor
I’m not a big fan of game shows, but I love Fox’s The Floor. It pits self-proclaimed experts on various niche topics such as “cereals” or “insects” against each other in fast-paced trivia duels, giving viewers the chance to compare their own knowledge with the “experts” while rooting for (and betting on) their favorites ). computer tester. The territory-expanding metagame adds another layer to The Floor , and host Rob Lowe brings it all together with some impressive game show hosting skills.
The Floor also streams on FuboTV, Tubi, Sling TV and YouTube TV.
This fool
Competition for new streaming series is fierce . The new shows compete not only with every existing show, but with almost every series that has ever aired on television. So it’s encouraging that Hulu’s This Fool survived the streaming’s cutthroat selection process long enough to get a second season. The second season of This Fool takes place in a working-class Latino neighborhood in Los Angeles. Sensitive Julio (the titular fool), his ex-convict cousin Luis, and Julio’s eccentric former boss, Minister Payne, try to open a coffee shop together. This Fool has been available on Hulu for a few months now, so it’s not anything new, but it’s one of the smartest and funniest shows on television right now.
Fargo , season five
Season 5 of Fargo combines a mixture of evil criminals, oddball characters, slapstick and extreme violence, spices it up with a touch of the supernatural, and then takes place in the frozen wastelands of our forgotten north-central states. The series has gotten a little on the nose as it’s gotten older, but Fargo is still one of the best shows on television.
Fargo also streams on FuboTV, YouTube TV and Sling TV.