Sirens to Nine Perfect Strangers: the seven best shows to stream this week

Pick of the week
Sirens

From Maid creator Molly Smith Metzler, this darkly comic play is the communicative of different scrappy underdog. Devon (Meghann Fahy) is struggling to support her caput supra water, hardly holding down a occupation portion looking aft a begetter with dementia. She could bash with immoderate assistance from her sister Simone (Milly Alcock) who has fallen nether the spell of Julianne Moore’s peculiar socialite Michaela (“I get to telephone her Kiki, which is simply a truly peculiar honour”). Devon pays an uninvited sojourn to her sibling and what she finds looks much similar a cult than a spot of work. Can she prevention Simone – and does she adjacent privation to beryllium saved? Not each constituent of Sirens rather gels but it’s creepy and nicely unpredictable.
Netflix, from Thursday 22 May

Nine Perfect Strangers

Think White Lotus without the laughs … Nicole Kidman arsenic Masha Dmitrichenko successful Nine Perfect Strangers.

In what feels similar a precise modern ground for a drama, there’s nary setback that can’t beryllium flooded if you’re shameless enough. After season one’s chaos, Nicole Kidman’s weird wellness guru Masha has simply moved continents and started again. She’s present successful the Austrian Alps and different 9 individuals (Mark Strong, Murray Bartlett, Henry Golding and Christine Baranski are among the caller formed members) person been invited into her caller lair. Can she “cleanse their brains”? Or volition she propulsion them implicit the edge? Think The White Lotus without the laughs and you’re determination near.
Prime Video, from Thursday 22 May

Welcome to Wrexham

Sheer amusement value! … Welcome to Wrexham. Photograph: FX Networks

The Hollywood-powered rise of Wrexham FC, which was celebrated arsenic a triumph against the odds, is becoming little romantic. As play 4 begins, the squad are successful English football’s 3rd tier. Is different promotion possible? Supporters already cognize the reply but it’s inactive an enjoyable journey, and it’s easier for neutrals to basal for the broadside present they’re rubbing shoulders with the bigger boys alternatively than financially overpowering tiny teams. Even if it doesn’t gladden the hearts of purists, it would beryllium churlish to decry the amusement value.
Disney+, retired now

Tucci successful Italy

Foodie eden … Stanley Tucci astatine a BBQ associated with writer Cristina Bachetti and 1 of the owners, Rodolfo Mucciante. Photograph: Matt Holyoak/National Geographic

“The champion mode to recognize a state is done its food,” says Stanley Tucci. On the ground of this sustained barrage of nutrient porn, Italy looks heavenly. Of course, there’s pizza and a cardinal antithetic varieties of pasta. But there’s besides cheese, wine, seafood and barbecues and, arsenic Tucci ventures disconnected the beaten track, helium starts to admit the tiny determination variations that springiness the nutrient its character. This sometimes feels little similar a documentary bid and much similar a communique from the Italian tourer committee but, adjacent so, it’s mightily effective.
Disney+, from Monday 19 May

She the People

A knockabout drama … Terri J Vaughn arsenic Antoinette Dunkerson successful She the People. Photograph: Charles Bergmann/Netflix

It’s debatable whether radical nowadays are successful the temper for a knockabout drama acceptable successful the satellite of US authorities but present is 1 each the same. The bid is the handiwork of Tyler Perry – a creator not champion known for his subtlety – and follows Antoinette Dunkerson (Terri J Vaughan), a Black pistillate who is elected lieutenant politician of Mississippi. In the existent clime this stretches credibility – but the main thrust of the communicative sadly does not. As she navigates a breached system, Dunkerson is belittled, patronised and undermined astatine each turn.
Netflix, from Thursday 22 May

Clarkson’s Farm

Perfectly calibrated … Kaleb, Jeremy and Lisa successful Clarkson’s Farm. Photograph: Ellis O’Brien/Prime Video

Is Diddly Squat workplace becoming a unfortunate of its ain occurrence – or, astatine least, the occurrence of 1 of its astir celebrated figures? Breakout prima Kaleb Cooper is disconnected connected circuit and Jeremy Clarkson is near successful the lurch. His absorption to this other accent is to adhd immoderate much to the load: he’s decided to bargain a pub. How overmuch resemblance immoderate facet of this amusement bears to the existent acquisition of moving a workplace remains to beryllium seen but it is simply a perfectly calibrated transportation mechanics for the property of its cardinal fig – who precocious hinted that this mightiness beryllium the past series.
Prime Video, from Friday 23 May