If you’re new to the world of streaming services (which provide content through your high-speed internet connection), you might not know what you’ve been missing — it’s a growing universe out there. Below we list some of the top streaming services and detail each one’s content options and pricing to help you determine what might be right for you.
NEW ORIGINAL SERIESSubscription Cost: Basic $7.99/month (can only watch on one device at a time), Standard $10.99/month (two devices at a time), Premium $13.99/month (four devices at a time); one-month free trial.
FIRST-RUN ACQUIRED SERIES
The Alienist Season 1 Available April 19If you missed TNT’s new hit psychological thriller set in the underbelly of New York City during the Gilded Age, you can now stream a first-run encore of its recently ended first season on Netflix.
Aggretsuko Available April 20In this anime series, Retsuko is a 25-year-old red panda who works as an office associate in a Tokyo accounting department and who vents her day-to-day frustrations through death-metal karaoke-singing.
Lost in SpaceAvailable April 13
Toby Stephens, Molly Parker and Parker Posey headline the cast of this reimagining of the classic 1960s series, with the Robinson family finding themselves lost in an alien environment. Stranded along with the Robinsons are two outsiders with a mutual knack for deception. The unsettlingly charismatic Dr. Smith (Posey) is a master manipulator with an inscrutable end game. And the roguish but inadvertently charming Don West (Ignacio Serricchio) is a highly skilled, blue-collar contractor who had no intention of joining the colony, let alone crash-landing on a lost planet.
NEW ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARYRam Dass, Going Home Available April 6
This documentary looks at Ram Dass, a beloved spiritual teacher who was one of the most important cultural figures of the 1960s and ’70s.
Chef’s Table: PastryAvailable April 13This four-part series goes inside the lives and kitchens of the world’s most renowned pastry chefs, with each episode focusing on a single chef.
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STILL-SHOWING ORIGINALS — DON’T MISS!
What’s A Good Show ToBINGE-WATCH?We get asked that all the time, so here we’re starting a running log of series we absolutely love.
1. Freaks and Geeks1 Season, 18 EpisodesAvailable On: NetflixLimited to one season, 1999’s Freaks and Geeks is now a cult classic because of its all-star cast (Seth Rogen and the like). However, the reason this show is worth watching is its hilarious, not-so-uber-famous actors.
2. Lost6 Seasons, 118 EpisodesAvailable On: HuluThis bingeworthy show will have you constantly asking, “What the heck is going on?” A passenger plane crashes, stranding the survivors on a remote island. As they wait to get rescued, they realize the island is not what it seems. The series is a cross between Cast Away, Survivor and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
3. Godless1 Season, 7 EpisodesAvailable On: NetflixGodless is a classic Western miniseries that has desperados, chases, gunfights and an ex-outlaw trying to redeem himself. The cast includes actors who portrayed arguably some of the best characters on TV in the last few years — Michelle Dockery (Lady Mary in Downton Abbey) and Merritt Wever (Zoey in Nurse Jackie).
Santa Clarita Diet Season 2 Launched March 23Picking up where the first season left off, Season 2 finds Joel (Timothy Olyphant) and Sheila (Drew Barrymore) Hammond trying to adapt to Sheila’s now-advanced undead state, even though she’s desperately trying to hold on to her suburban lifestyle and not be defined as just another monster. Joel McHale and Maggie Lawson are among the guest stars this season, playing a couple who are a “more successful, more aggressive” version of the Hammonds.
The Week Of Available April 27
Adam Sandler and Chris Rock star as flustered fathers of a bride and groom, respectively, in this wedding comedy cowritten by Sandler and Robert Smigel (a.k.a. Triumph the Insult Comic Dog), and directed by Smigel. Rachel Dratch and Steve Buscemi also star.
NETFLIX NEWS■ Production on the sixth and final season of House of Cards resumed Jan. 31, with Oscar-nominated actors Diane Lane and Greg Kinnear joining the cast of the drama, which is now headlined by Robin Wright.
■ Kiernan Shipka (Mad Men, Feud: Bette and Joan) has been cast as Archie Comics’ character Sabrina the Teenage Witch in Netflix’s as-yet-untitled reimagining of the graphic novel The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. The series is described as a “darker, more macabre version of Sabrina” and as being “tonally in the vein of Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist,” with Sabrina struggling to reconcile her half-witch, half-mortal nature while standing against evil forces.
■ First it was Shonda Rhimes, and now another big name among linear TV producers is moving over to the Netflix family. Ryan Murphy (American Crime Story, American Horror Story) has entered into a multiyear deal with the streaming service to produce new series and films exclusively at Netflix. The deal begins July 1. Murphy’s two previously announced upcoming new series, The Politician and Ratched, based on the Nurse Ratched character in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, will premiere globally on Netflix. Murphy will still oversee production on his FX series (the two aforementioned anthology series, as well as Feud and the forthcoming Pose) and his FOX series 9-1-1, which will all remain at their respective networks.
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Amazon Originals: The Man in the High Castle, Transparent, Bosch, Mozart in the Jungle, Catastrophe, Goliath, The Tick
Popular Titles: Orphan Black, Veep, Vikings, The Night Manager, Downton Abbey, The Americans
Other Notables: If you have Amazon Prime, the streaming service comes with it, along with Amazon photos and music. Allows downloads, so you can save content to
watch somewhere you may not have an internet connection. Includes some of HBO’s back catalog — Sex and the City, Deadwood, True Blood, Six Feet Under and more. Subscribe to a favorite show and you will be alerted when new episodes are available.
Subscription Cost: Amazon Prime subscription is $12.99/month, $99/year (includes access to music, e-books and expedited shipping on many items from Amazon); Prime Video subscription is $8.99/month; 30-day free trial.
Crackle Originals: The Art of More, StartUp, Chosen, Sports Jeopardy!, Snatch
Classic Titles: Seinfeld, All in the Family, The Shield, Who’s the Boss?
The Beast (Season 1)Breaking In (Seasons 1-2)Brothers (Season 1)Final Fantasy: The Spirits WithinFranklin & Bash (Seasons 1-2)The Grinder (Season 1)Joey (Season 1)Last Resort (Season 1)Malcolm & Eddie (Season 1)Marry Me (Season 1)The Mob Doctor (Season 1)PaprikaReign Over Me
WHAT’S NEW
The Dangerous Book for Boys (Amazon Original)Now Streaming
When the untimely passing of family patriarch Patrick (Chris Diamantopoulos) leaves the McKenna family reeling, hope appears in the form of a book called The Dangerous Book for Boys that Patrick created as a handbook for his three sons. The book is a how-to guide for childhood that inspires fantasies in his youngest son, Wyatt (Gabriel Bateman). While in his fantasy world, Wyatt reconnects with his father and learns life skills that help him navigate the real world. Diamantopoulos also plays the role of Terry, Patrick’s twin brother, alongside Erinn Hayes, Drew Powell, Kyan Zielinski and Swoosie Kurtz. The series is inspired by Conn and Hal Iggulden’s beloved book of the same name.
AirheadsAmerican CrudeApril Fool’s DayBack to SchoolThe BlobBoa vs. PythonBreakoutCleanerCleanskinDesperadoDevil in a Blue DressEl Mariachi
First SundayFuryGirlfi ghtGloryHigh School HighHollow ManHot Fuzz (Starts 4/16)Hustle & FlowI Know What You Did Last SummerLinewatch
MallratsMaximum RiskMenace II SocietyOnce Upon a Time in MexicoPanic RoomThe Perfect ScorePriestRed HillSlackersThe ShepherdThe Social Network (Expires 4/16)
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Hulu Originals: The Handmaid’s Tale, Harlots, Casual, Diffi cult People
Other Notables: Next-day episodes of select shows from FOX, NBC, ABC, Comedy Central, MTV, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and past seasons of select shows.
Subscription Cost: Limited commercials $7.99/month, commercial-free $11.99/month, Live (plus library with limited commercials) $39.99/month, Live (commercial-free library) $43.99/month. Add-ons: Showtime $8.99/month, Cinemax $9.99/month, HBO $14.99/month. Free trial available.
Acorn TV offers new and classic television programming from the U.K., Canada, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. New shows added every Monday.
Reilly, Ace of SpiesAvailable April 2This BAFTA-winning 1983 miniseries dramatizes the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever to work for the British. Stars Sam Neill (Jurassic Park).
Tiny Shoulders: Rethinking Barbie (Hulu Original) Available April 27This documentary reveals, through both archival material and fl y-on-the-wall observations of Barbie’s current architects, the progression and regression in the fi ght for gender equality. Interviews include Gloria Steinem, Roxane Gay and Peggy Orenstein.
National Treasure: Kiri (Hulu Original) Season 2 Available April 4Season 2 is a four-part drama about a young black girl named Kiri (Felicia Mukasa), who is in the process of being adopted by a middle-class white family. She goes missing on an unsupervised visit to her birth family arranged by her social worker, Miriam (Sarah Lancashire).
Interview With a Murderer Available April 9Criminologist David Wilson conducts a series of revealing interviews with convicted murderer Bert Spencer, the man never charged with — yet widely suspected of — killing paperboy Carl Bridgewater in 1978, an infamously unsolved case.
No Offence Season 1 Available April 16This is the North American premiere of an outrageous, female-driven police procedural from Britain starring Joanna Scanlan and Elaine Cassidy.
Don’t Miss: Goodnight Sweetheart Series 5 and The Good Karma Hospital Series 2 4/2, Killer Net 4/16, Murdoch Mysteries Season 11 Finale 4/23, Station X 4/30
The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu Original) Season 2 Available Beginning April 25As Season 2 opens, Offred (Elisabeth Moss) and the Handmaids must deal with the consequences of their disobedience. Joining
the cast this season are Bradley Whitford as a Gilead Commander, Cherry Jones as Offred’s
mother, Sydney Sweeney as a prospective teenage bride and Clea DuVall as the wife of Emily (Alexis Bledel). Marisa Tomei also makes a guest appearance.
The Looming Tower (Hulu Original) Season Finale Available April 18
