What To Watch This Week: Stream Our Top 7 TV and Movie Picks (July 13–19)

This week’s “What To Watch” picks include Will Ferrell’s golf comedy “The Hawk” (Netflix), the girl-powered buddy comedy series “Ride or Die” (Prime Video), a celeb-reality show to pick the “Nation’s Dumbest” (FOX), and the crime thriller miniseries “Lucky” (Apple TV).

You can also feast your eyeballs on a “Hot Ones” spinoff (also Netflix), a “Faces of Death” double feature (Shudder), and “Backrooms” (what, again?) on video-on-demand (VOD). Let’s hit the couch!

“Hot Ones: Extra Heat” | Netflix | Talk show

Series premiere, Monday, July 13: No, the hit YouTube talk show with “with hot questions and even hotter wings” isn’t migrating over to Netflix. This is simply a spinoff, with host Sean Evans bringing his spicy, sticky, schtick to the streaming platform. Actors and athletes from Netflix shows — like Will Ferrell, Fortune Feimster, and Jimmy Tatro from “The Hawk” — will be in the hot seat, getting progressively sweatier between interview questions. If you like the YouTube series, Netflix, and low-key torture, you’ll enjoy “Extra Heat.”

“Lucky” | Apple TV | Drama, thriller

Limited series premiere, Wednesday, July 15: Showrunners Jonathan Tropper (“Banshee,” “Your Friends and Neighbors”) and Cassie Pappas adapt Marissa Stapley’s novel into this miniseries starring Anya Taylor-Joy (“Peaky Blinders”). When a big-money heist goes kablooey, a would-be retired con artist (Joy) goes on the lam from the federal fuzz (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) and the mad mob (Annette Bening). Timothy Olyphant, William Fichtner, Drew Starkey, and Clifton Collins, Jr. also star in the series, which premieres with two episodes tonight (the other five come weekly thereafter).

“Ride or Die” | Prime Video | Comedy, drama

Series premiere, Wednesday, July 15: Would you feel betrayed if your BFF turned out to be a secret assassin? No way, right? ‘Cause a ride-or-die friend would join the action — and, on the other side of the friendship, lie to keep you from harm. In this action comedy, Judith Burton (Hannah Waddingham) is the killer and Debbie Claybourne (Octavia Spencer) is the clueless friend. When someone from Judith’s past reappears and a hit goes poorly, she has to confess to Debbie, who joins her pal on an impromptu European road trip with cops, criminals, and other assassins hot on their trail. All eight episodes stream today.

“Nation’s Dumbest” | FOX | Game show

Series premiere, Wednesday, July 15: “Welcome to the show that nobody wants to win.” So says host Jack Whitehall in a first-look video for this celebrity game show, where the winner is actually the dumbest contestant. So, interestingly, the object of the game is to get eliminated. (That sounds suspiciously like Sir Adrian Edmondson’s board game “How to Be A Complete Bastard” — but whatever.) As is standard with celeb-reality shows, the roster includes stars who you might consider cringey or washed up (or just fine). You be the judge as far as who’s what among this list: Jo-Jo Siwa, Steve-O, Ice-T, Andrew Yang, Elle King, Anthony Michael Hall, Carmen Electra, John Heder, Dr. Drew, and, uh, Hilaria Baldwin. Also sez Whitehall, “[The show’s] got that kind of play-along factor, laugh along, family fun, and just the right amount of cringe.”

“The Hawk” | Netflix | Comedy

Series premiere, Thursday, July 16: This Will Ferrell series looks kinda like a golf-coded “Eastbound & Down” (the baseball comedy the actor co-executive produced and appeared in). Ferrell plays a former top-ranked golf pro who doesn’t want to face facts: He’s aging, and it’s time to step back. Now, you know Ferrell’s titular character, The Hawk, just ain’t gonna do that — and you can almost see the jokes coming thanks to that other comedy about a sport where you hit a ball with a stick. Is that a bad thing? Not if you liked “Eastbound & Down,” which I certainly did.

“Faces of Death Double Feature” | Shudder | Horror

Special, Friday, July 17: When I was growing up, the original 1978 “Faces of Death”—a “documentary” showing purportedly real death scenes—was a dirty secret kept in roped-off video backrooms with all the softcore porn. I somehow still bamboozled my mom into renting it for me. Although “Faces of Death” has since been debunked as (mostly) fake, it freaked me out a little. It was a simpler time. Now, thanks to the internet bringing us such atrocities as cartel videos, “Faces of Death” and its sequels seem almost quaint. So why not curl up with a blankie and watch it, followed by Daniel Goldhaber’s reimagining of the film? In the latter, a content moderator (Barbie Ferreira, “Euphoria”) for an online video platform discovers a serial killer (Dacre Montgomery, “Stranger Things”) is copycatting scenes from the original film. Seeing it right after the o.g. “Faces of Death” is therefore kinda perfect.

You’ll need a Netflix subscription ($8.99–$26.99/mo.) to watch “Hot Ones: Extra Heat” and “The Hawk.”

To watch “Lucky,” you’ll have to subscribe to Apple TV ($12.99/mo.).

If you wanna watch the “Faces of Death” double-feature, you gotta subscribe to Shudder ($8.99/mo.).

A Prime Video subscription ($8.99–$17.98/mo.) is necessary to see “Ride or Die” — but you don’t need one to rent VOD movies on Prime.

You’ll need a live TV provider to get the live FOX channel. YouTube TV ($82.99/mo.) is the best overall.