What To Watch This Week: Stream Our Top 6 TV and Movie Picks (Nov. 9–15)

This week’s “What To Watch” picks include the mockumentary “Cunk on Cinema” (Netflix), thriller “12 12 12” (Apple TV), the horror-drama “The Body” (also Netflix), and the thriller “The Good Daughter” (Peacock).

I’m also pluggin’ the second half of the second season of the drama “Rivals” (Hulu) and, if you feel like renting a movie this week, I suggest the “Misery” send-up “Loves Company,” which hits video-on-demand retailers this Tuesday. Let’s hit the couch!

“The Body” | Netflix | Drama, horror

Series premiere, Wednesday, Nov. 11: A coming-of-age drama about a group of naughty, hard-partying Catholic schoolgirls who aim to summon the devil so their dance team will go to regionals? Sounds straight out of my pubescent 1980s fantasies — or the notebook of a music video director from the same time. So I’m already kinda hooked on this story, which finds the girls performing a mass ritual that throws an entire community into chaos. Good thing all eight episodes are available to binge today.

“Rivals” | Hulu | Comedy, drama

Season 2 (second half) premiere, Wednesday, Nov. 11: After the first season ended on a cliffhanger, this UK series’s second season premiered last May — but Hulu made us wait six months for the second half of the season. Well, gratification is delayed no more as the back half of Season 2 explodes into a juicy 1980s turf war. With the deadline looming for the coveted broadcast franchise license, the bitter feud between scheming media titan Tony Baddingham (David Tennant) and dashing Parliament member Rupert Campbell-Black (Alex Hassell) turns downright venomous. We get three episodes today, with the final three coming weekly thereafter (oh great, more wait).

“The Good Daughter” | Peacock | Drama, thriller

Limited series premiere, Thursday, Nov. 12: Peacock calls this series “a suspenseful thriller wrapped in a deeply emotional story about love, family and resilience.” Sounds like it oughta be airing on Lifetime — too gritty, maybe? Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy play the Quinn sisters, who’ve spent the last two decades trying to rebuild their lives after they were torn apart in a single night. You know what’s coming next: A new case that brings up old baggage. So why recommend it? Rose Byrne, Brendan Gleeson — both somehow never disappoint.

“12 12 12” | Apple TV | Drama

Series premiere, Friday, Nov. 12: What’s with all the 12’s? Well, it has to do with the three-part timeline of this thrilling drama’s episodes. Each episode covers the 12-month planning period of a 12-hour heist, then the ensuing 12-day aftermath. (Seems a bit gimmicky, but okay.) Anthony Mackie plays a disgraced FBI agent chasing a career criminal (Jamie Dornan) across Europe as the latter attempt to pull off an “epic raid on a bank vault deep beneath the streets of Zurich.”

“Cunk on Cinema” | Netflix | Comedy

Limited series premiere, Sunday, Nov. 15: A new Philomena Cunk mockumentary? Thank you, TV gods! No matter the topic, Cunk (Diane Morgan) breaks it down with probing, bonkers queries and garbled facts that she manages to say with the straightest of faces. In her latest outing, Cunk takes on humankind’s “greatest achievement,” cinema, by talking with actors, filmmakers, critics, and screenwriters. Says Netflix, “[Cunk will] “attempt to demystify [cinema] all while sitting in lumpy seats with stale popcorn, asking herself where did cinema come from? And why? What does it want? And why can’t it tell us?” Please, inject this into my veins.

Wanna watch “12 12 12”? You’ll need an Apple TV subscription ($14.99/mo.).

Catch the second half of the second season of “Rivals” with a Hulu subscription ($12.49–$21.49/mo.).

If you wanna watch “Rivals” and have access to scores of live channels, you can subscribe to Hulu + Live TV ($98.99/mo.).

A subscription to Netflix ($8.99–$26.99/mo.) is what you’ll need to watch “The Body” and “Cunk on Cinema.”

To stream “The Good Daughter,” you’ll need to subscribe to Peacock ($7.99–$16.99/mo.).

You can stream “The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power” with a Prime Video subscription ($8.99–$19.98/mo.). But you can rent VOD movies from Prime without subbing.