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

This week’s “What To Watch” picks include the new series from “Baby Reindeer” creator Richard Gadd (“Half Man,” on HBO and HBO Max), Zach Galifianakis’s new gardening reality show (Netflix), and a couple of new cartoons: “Stranger Things: Tales from ’85” (Netflix, natch) and “Kevin” (Prime Video).

We’ve also got Nikki Glaser’s latest standup special (Hulu), the third season of “The Freak Brothers” (Tubi), and the horror comedy “Weekend at the End of the World” on video-on-demand (VOD). Let’s hit the couch!

“The Freak Brothers” | Tubi | Adult animation

Season 3 premiere, Monday, April 20: Hey it’s, like, weed’s birthday or something so you should kinda totally mark the occasion by watching cartoons about three stoners (Woody Harrelson, John Goodman, and Pete Davidson) from a classic alternative comic book series (by Gilbert Shelton) who get too high on a mystery drug and wake up 50 years in the future where weed is (mostly) legal, cats can talk, it’s not uncommon for shows to take three years between seasons, and hyperbolic 84-word run-on sentences count as entertainment journalism and . . . and . . . What were you saying?

“Kevin” | Prime Video | Action, comedy

Series premiere, Monday, April 20: When a couple breaks up, their anthropomorphic tuxedo cat Kevin (Jason Schwartzman) decides to find somewhere else in New York City to live. The poor little guy winds up at the Furrever Friends pet rescue, where he befriends other unwanted pets and tries to start over, see if he can figure out what he really wants out of life. Co-creator Aubrey Plaza also stars, alongside John Waters, Whoopi Goldberg, Amy Sedaris, and more. All eight episodes are available to stream today.

“This Is a Gardening Show” | Netflix | Reality

Series premiere, Wednesday, April 22: Is a gardening reality show the natural evolution of Zach Galifianakis’ absurdist talk show “Between Two Ferns?” Maybe, maybe not. This is a serious endeavor—as close as Galifianakis gets, anyway. “If I were to offer a remedy to the human condition,” the comedian says in a trailer for the Netflix show, “it would be a garden—or acid.” He goes on to say, “The way we get food is so perverse right now. I think it’s worth talking about it . . . How dare you get your food from a supermarket? How dare you not know how radishes are grown? Sitting at home with your f**king Netflix.” Bottom line: Expect silliness and serious information. We can binge all six episodes starting today.

“Half Man” | HBO, HBO Max | Drama

Limited series premiere, Thursday, April 23, 9 p.m. ET: Creator/star Richard Gadd wove quite an entertaining, intgriguing tale with the semi-autobiographical 2024 Netflix black comedy “Baby Reindeer.” This new HBO show finds Gadd again in the creator/star role in a story about two unrelated “brothers” (Gadd, Jamie Bell) who, after a violent wedding incident, must confront the events of their 30-year relationship. Sounds like we should expect more of the delicious drama of “Baby Reindeer,” but not much comedy (an observation, not a complaint). New episodes premiere weekly.

“Stranger Things: Tales from ’85” | Netflix | Animation, horror, science fiction

Series premiere, Thursday, April 23: Developing more “Stranger Things” shows is a no-brainer, but the mega-popular series’ young cast has aged into more adult roles. Well, there’s no reason you can’t keep such a show rollin’ if you convert it to an animated series—just look at “Trailer Park Boys.” Now we have this animated show from Eric Robles (executive produced by “Stranger Things” creators the Duffer Brothers), which occurs between the events of the original show’s second and third seasons. The thing is, unlike TPB, “Stranger Things: Tales from ’85” uses the Hawkins crew’s likenesses, but also an entirely new voice cast. That doesn’t have to be a bad thing, though, and I love that Robles is going for an ’80s Saturday-morning cartoon vibe.

“Nikki Glaser: Good Girl” | Hulu | Stand-up comedy

Special, Friday, April 24: From the Hulu press site: “Nikki Glaser delivers a brutally honest special that takes on aging, beauty and fame — confronting what it means to stay relevant, desirable and real in a culture that never looks away.” In the trailer to her new hour-long special, Glaser offers a taste: “I’m 41 . . . my career’s going great now, but I know eventually Hollywood is gonna kick me out ’cause I’m gonna do something horrible like age naturally. That’s #MeToo for women.” She’ll also likely deliver some of her trademark self-deprecating raunch: “It’s not a good sign when you tell your therapist something and they go, “Woof.” Maybe not, Nikki, but it sure is funny.