Alicia’s Law — This Mexican remake of The Good Wife could really open doors for star Fernanda Castillo: If it’s as big of a hit, she too could end up with a mantel full of awards and an adoring public that can’t stop asking, “Do you really know Noah Wyle?” (Netflix)
Avedon — Ron Howard is behind the lens for a documentary tribute to the late photographer Richard Avedon. The Hollywood Reporter calls it “a celebration of a complicated man.” Meanwhile, Amateur Photographer is disappointed there wasn’t more about shutter speeds. (Netflix)
ChiaroScuro — An Italian police inspector teams up with an art expert to solve a series of killings that were apparently modeled on famous paintings. Reminds me of that time the OPD had to crack a murder spree based on the collections at the Orlando Museum of Art. But not everybody remembers the FedEx Killer. (Netflix)
The Gospel of Christmas — The ubiquitous Tyler Perry introduces us to an embattled pastor and his wife whose New York church faces a host of existential threats as the holiday approaches. I’m sorry, I mean the holidayS, plural. Now how about you take the padlock off the door, Mamdani? (Netflix)
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 3 — We’re several years past the events of Season 2, and Sauron is finally preparing to forge the fabled One Ring on which the entire Tolkien canon rests. Yeah, we know you can’t just walk into Mordor, but what happens when the fandom finds out he merely went to Jared? (Prime Video)
Rivals — The final six episodes of Season 2 find our cast of competing broadcasters still jockeying for position in the TV landscape of the ’80s, but this time with the added complication of watching their personal lives “spiral into chaos.” Listen, if you were alive in the ’80s, spiraling into chaos WAS your personal life. (Hulu)
Allen — An Australian whose childhood friend was an alien is reunited with his long-lost pal in a comedy/drama from the Aussies who brought us Bluey. Great, now we’re going to be seeing Crocodile EeTee on sippy cups for the rest of our natural life. (Netflix)
The Christmas Switch — Real-life sisters Felice and Happy Jankell play Swedish sibs — one a humble country girl, the other a vivacious city dweller — who are forced to trade lives at the holidays. Based on the audiobook Jul i Sankt Anna, which translates roughly as “We don’t have mice here, right?” (Netflix)
The Empress — Emperor Franz (Philip Froissant) is back from war and haunted by trauma as the third and final season begins, but his decision to seek solace in an extramarital affair sends wife Elisabeth (Devrim Lingnau Islamoğlu) into the orbit of an alluring revolutionary. “Yeah, let me know how that works out,” snorts the ghost of Dolores Huerta. (Netflix)
The Good Daughter — Author Karin Slaughter adapts her 2017 novel into a six-episode limited series, with Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy as estranged sisters forced into a final reckoning with the traumatic home invasion they experienced 20 years earlier. All due sympathies I’m sure, but that seems like a long time to get over your first look at a plumber’s crack. (Peacock)
The Jigsaw Puzzle Murder — A U.K. true-crime documentary examines the 2024 case of murder victim Stuart Everett, whose various body parts were found wrapped in cellophane and strewn throughout greater Manchester. The coroner’s verdict: blunt force trauma and dismemberment, but also a pretty fun scavenger hunt for three or more players. (Paramount+)
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