What’s Streaming Right Now? ‘The Good Fight,’ ‘The Tick’ & More
CBS All Access
The Good Fight
Season Premiere, Season 2, Sunday, March 4
Diane (Christine Baranski) and her colleagues freak after two rival lawyers are murdered by their clients for overcharging. Time to lower that fee!
Netflix
The Frankenstein Chronicles
Series premiere, Tuesday, Feb. 20
Early 19th-century London detective John Merlott (Sean Bean) investigates when a corpse turns out to be made from the body parts of several different children. (And that’s before things get weird.)
Seven Seconds
Series Premiere, Friday, Feb. 23
This new crime anthology series, from The Killing creator Veena Sud, focuses on the fallout (and cover-up) after a New Jersey cop runs over a black teenager with his car.
Derren Brown: The Push
New Special, Tuesday, Feb. 27
The British mentalist pulls an elaborate prank that starts by convincing four people at a charity event to cover up another attendee’s death. Later, three of them are persuaded to kick the corpse. When it’s not too Weekend at Bernie’s, it’s all quite mental!
Ugly Delicious
Series Premiere, Friday, Feb. 23
Momofuko founder and celebrity chef David Chang goes on a worldwide cooking tour with some of his famous friends (including talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, comedian-actress Ali Wong and chef Wolfgang Puck). He aims to prove that meals break down ethnic barriers, destroy cultural misconceptions and reveal shared experiences. Hence, there’s a lot of crazy-delicious-looking fusion cooking.
Re:Mind
Series Premiere, Available now
Eleven high school classmates wake up posed around the table of a ridiculously ornate dining room with no memory of how they got there and no idea how to get out of the medieval shackles trapping them in their seats.
Mute
Movie Premiere, Friday, Feb. 23
Berlin, 2048: Mute ex-Amish bartender Leo (Emmy winner Alexander Skarsgård) hunts for his missing girlfriend in the city’s vile underbelly, where he repeatedly crosses paths with two lippy, looney and liquored-up American surgeons (Paul Rudd and Justin Theroux). Think: M*A*S*H’s B.J. and Hawkeye, but homicidal.
Flint Town
Series Premiere, Friday, March 2
Have trouble with authority? Imagine how the people of Flint, Michigan, felt when they learned that government failure (and straight-up corruption) was behind the fatal poisoning of their water supply. This eight-episode docuseries follows the local cops as they patrol the city, while dealing with their own infrastructure issues, in the aftermath of the crisis.
Marlon Wayans: Woke-ish
Stand-up Premiere, Tuesday, Feb. 27
The baby Wayans brother (he’s now 45!) mulls over racism, gay rights and raising kids in his first stand-up special.
Amazon Prime
Thunderbirds Are Go
Season Premiere, Season 4, Friday, Feb. 23
International Rescue’s archenemies, the Hood (Andres Williams) and the Mechanic (Chris Jarman), reappear and aren’t going to disappear without a massive battle that could be the end of the Thunderbirds.
Breathe
Season 1, Available now
An outlying Indian cop is the only guy to put the pieces together after several seemingly unconnected organ donors die.
The Tick
Midseason Premiere, Season 1B, Friday, Feb. 23
The Tick (Peter Serafinowicz) calls in a few friends to save Arthur (Griffin Newman) from the Terror (Jackie Earle Haley). Now, if they could fix Arthur’s crippling anxiety…
Hulu
The Looming Tower
Series Premiere, Wednesday, Feb. 28
This sobering drama (based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning book) follows the rise of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in the 1990s, while chronicling the battles between the FBI and CIA just before the events of September 11. When the series opens, FBI counterterrorism chief John O’Neill (Jeff Daniels) and his team are fighting to get access to information they need from the CIA. Meanwhile, the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania are being bombed.
Filmstruck
Holly Hunter on Jane Campion
Available now
The Oscar winner talks exclusively to cinema expert Alicia Malone about her Piano director Campion. The well-versed pair touch upon the groundbreaking New Zealand filmmaker’s entire oeuvre, as well as Hunter’s experiences while making that particular movie.
Night and the City/Sweet Smell of Success
Available now
Can’t knock their hustle! Admire the art of the con with this pair of noir classics. In 1950’s Night, Richard Widmark is a hustler running a wrestling scheme. In 1957’s Success, Burt Lancaster plays an NYC gossip columnist messing with a press agent (Tony Curtis).
Britbox
Maigret
Series Premiere, Wednesday, Feb. 28
Georges Simenon’s French sleuth, Inspector Maigret (Rowan Atkinson), stalks a serial killer in Montmarte. Atkinson may not look like the famous detective described in Simenon’s books, but he’s got the pipe smoking and musing down pat.
Also Streaming
Amazon Prime
The Expanse, Season 2, Available now
Logan Lucky, Feb. 16
