What To Watch This Week: Stream Our Top 7 TV and Movie Picks (Jan. 5–11)

The Pitt | HBO Max | Medical drama

Season 2 premiere, Thursday, January 8: Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch (Noah Wyle) is back for another 15-hour shift at the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center—the titular Pitt. The real-time medical drama premiered almost exactly a year ago and promptly became one of the hottest shows of the year, banking five Emmy awards out of 13 nominations. HBO Max describes the show as “a realistic examination of the challenges facing healthcare workers in today’s America as seen through the lens of the frontline heroes working in a modern-day hospital in Pittsburgh.” After tonight’s one-episode debut, new eps will drop weekly through April 16.

Alpha Males | Netflix | Comedy

Season 4 premiere, Friday, Jan. 9: This Spanish-made, lighthearted confrontation of toxic masculinity returns for a fourth season. This time around, the four central characters, all fortysomething, decide to move into the same apartment to help each other through their midlife crises—only to learn that mutual support doesn’t necessarily make things any easier. A fifth season is already in the works. That’s great, but could someone greenlight a US version of this, pronto?

A Thousand Blows | Hulu | Drama

Season 2 premiere, Friday, Jan. 9: This gritty drama (from the creators of Peaky Blinders) set in London’s East End in the 1880s returns for a second season of bareknuckle boxing and crime. In the new season, Mary Carr (The Crown’s Erin Doherty) and her crew the Forty Elephants seek to get back on top no matter what it takes. All six episodes are available to stream today.

Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal | Adult Swim, HBO Max | Adult animation

Special, Sunday, Jan. 11, 11:30 p.m. ET: While I’ve been aware of Genndy Tartakovsky and his various animated exploits (Dexter’s Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, and more), I only recently started watching Primal. Like, I just watched the first episode this morning. I never thought I’d be moved to tears by a badass, dialogue-less, prehistoric cartoon—but I was. And now I’m gonna watch the whole damn series, including this new third season.

Industry | HBO, HBO Max | Drama, thriller

Season 4 premiere, Sunday, Jan. 11: The long-awaited return of this acclaimed London-set HBO financial drama comes with a lot of new blood, including Kiernan Shipka, Claire Forlani, Kal Penn, and more. Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) returns, but Harry Lawtey is no longer part of the cast, having left after the third season.

The Night Manager | Prime Video | Drama

Season 2 premiere, Sunday, Jan. 11: After nearly a decade, we’re finally getting a second season of this gripping espionage thriller. That’s gotta be some kinda record. (It’s not—see The Jetsons’ 22+ year gap.) The series stars Tom Hiddleston as Jonathan Pine, the night manager of a luxury hotel and ex-British soldier who gets pulled into risky missions. This season Pine, now living a comparatively snoozy life in London as low-level MI6 officer Alex Goodwin, winds up in a violent confrontation with a Colombian “businessman” that leads him to the South American country where he must infiltrate the man’s arms operation.