What To Watch This Week: Stream Our Top 7 TV and Movie Picks (Oct. 20–26)

Michelle Wolf: The Well | Netflix | Stand-up comedy

Special, Tuesday, October 21: Comedian Michelle Wolf’s well of jokes is deep, and she’s fearless. She’ll pick on anybody, even Netflix in her own Netflix special: “Netflix put that Jeffrey Dahmer documentary out and they put it under the LGBTQ category. And then a lot of people got angry, so Netflix took it out of the LGBTQ category. That made me really angry because you don’t just get the good gays. Yeah, sure. Sometimes you’re Elton John, and that’s great. And other times you eat people.” Yeah, she went there—you’ll wanna go other places with her, too.

Nobody Wants This | Netflix | Comedy

Season 2 premiere, Thursday, October 23: Kristen Bell and Adam Brody return as Joanne and Noah, the unevenly yoked yet hot-and-heavy couple (she’s a loud, proud agnostic sex podcaster; he’s a kind rabbi) at the center of this series, which earned raves in its debut season. Where will their love take them? You’ll have to wait and see, but it involves guest appearances from Alex Karpovsky (Girls), Leighton Meester (Gossip Girl), and Seth Rogen (The Studio). The full season premieres today on Netflix.

Joe Bob’s Splatterween | Shudder | Horror

Special, Friday, Oct. 24, 9:00 p.m. ET: We don’t know yet which films Joe Bob Briggs will screen in this Halloween special. Shudder, however, has released a few details about the special, which is also The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs’s 200th episode: “Halloween is gonna be messy this year! Joe Bob and Darcy are joined by the interdimensional rock legends of GWAR for Splatterween—a night filled with spew, goo, live music, and of course: two nasty flicks busting at the seams with Splatter Fu!” Count me in. There’s no trailer, but I’ve linked you to a moment from the show’s current (seventh) season, where Joe Bob drops science on slashers.

Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost | Apple TV+ | Documentary

Movie, Friday, Oct. 24: Actor/director Ben Stiller drops a love letter to his parents—comedy actors Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara—that functions as a home movie and a documentary. From Apple TV: “Ben Stiller tells the story of his parents, comedy icons Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, exploring their impact both on popular culture and at home, where the lines between creativity, family, life and art are often blurred.”

IT: Welcome to Derry | HBO, HBO Max | Horror, drama

Series premiere, Sunday, Oct. 26, 9 p.m. ET: This is the first of three seasons plumbing the origins of Pennywise the Dancing Clown from Stephen King’s novel IT and Andy Muschietti’s adaptations IT (2017) and IT: Chapter Two (2019). The first season of IT: Welcome to Derry is set in 1962 (relative to the events of the 2017 film) and will reveal parts of the origin story of the film’s iconic villain, once more played by Bill Skarsgård. The second and third seasons will jump back 27 years each to cross paths with Pennywise in 1935 and 1908. After tonight’s premiere, new episodes will come weekly.

Anne Rice’s Talamasca: The Secret Order | AMC, AMC+ | Drama

Series premiere, Sunday, Oct. 26, 9 p.m. ET: Anne Rice fans should salivate over this latest Immortal Universe (Interview with the Vampire and The Mayfair Witches) series. A group known as the Talamasca—charged with tracking and containing witches, vampires, and other creatures around the world—as it recruits a soon-to-be lawyer (Nicholas Denton) they’ve tracked since childhood. The first two of six episodes air live today on AMC and stream on AMC+.