📺 Four new shows that are nothing alike but all worth watching

Reviews of Side Quest (Apple TV+), Dying for Sex (Hulu), The Bondsman (Prime Video), and LOL: Last One Laughing (Prime Video), plus a weekly watchlist

Happy Thursday! Our readers have spoken. Thank you to all who voted throughout the week as we whittled down the buzziest recent TV shows from sixteen to one. After a surprisingly neck-and-neck race to the top, The Double Take TV March Madness champion is Severance (Apple TV+)! Abbott Elementary (Hulu), you put up a good fight. Maybe next time.

In today’s edition:
Weekly Watchlist
Side Quest
Dying for Sex
The Bondsman
LOL: Last One Laughing

— Jess Spoll and Jenni Cullen

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Below is a selection of new shows and movies premiering this week on streaming. Our unabridged list of April releases, including 5 movies premiering in theaters this week is available for premium subscribers.

• Y2K* (Movie) — Kyle Mooney (Saturday Night Live) directs this disaster comedy film starring Rachel Zegler in which two high school nobodies crash the last major party before the new millennium on New Year’s Eve 1999.
  Watch on Max: April 4 (*Streaming Premiere)

• The Bondsman (Season 1) — An action horror following a bounty hunter (Kevin Bacon) who is resurrected by the Devil to trap and send escaped demons back to Hell.
  Watch on Prime Video: April 3 (all 8 episodes)

• Pulse (Season 1) — Grey’s Anatomy fans should keep an eye on this new medical drama about a group of ER residents navigating medical crises and personal issues amid a divisive allegation at their Miami hospital.
  Watch on Netflix: April 3 (all 10 episodes)

• Dying for Sex (Limited Series) — Based on a true story, this provocative series follows a woman who embarks on a journey of self-discovery and sexual liberation after a terminal diagnosis, revealing the power of intimacy and connection. Michelle Williams and Jenny Slate star.
  Watch on Hulu: April 4 (all 8 episodes)

• The Handmaid’s Tale (Season 6) — The final season of this dystopian drama promises suspense, political turmoil, new threats, and impossible choices as June attempts to topple Gilead once and for all.
  Watch on Hulu: April 8 (3 of 10 episodes, then weekly)

• Spy High (Docuseries) — When teenager Blake Robbins filed a lawsuit claiming his school is spying on him in 2010, it sparked a wild scandal with alarming digital privacy implications.
  Watch on Prime Video: April 8 (all 4 episodes)

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Our thoughts on brand new streaming content, and where you can watch.

Side Quest

Photo: Apple TV+

Keywords: comedy, anthology, geek culture
Watch if you like: Mythic Quest, The Guild, Community
Jenni’s Rating: B

Mythic Quest Season 4 just went out with a bit of a bang (if you know, you know), some major dangling threads, and no official renewal announcement. While fans are left wondering if more episodes are on the horizon, there’s a saving grace in Side Quest—a new anthology series from Ashly Burch, John Howell Harris, and Katie McElhenney that broadens the Mythic Quest universe through four unique stories. The episodes delve into the lives of different individuals—employees, players, and fans—touched by the video game at the heart of the original show.

One of Apple TV+’s most underrated comedies, Mythic Quest has always balanced its commentary on more serious subjects with irreverent humor. Side Quest follows suit, alternating between cheeky and earnest as it explores themes of friendship, professional passions, and creative priorities. These four episodes are quick, enjoyable, well-made morsels. They don’t quite reach the heights of the best Mythic Quest episodes, but they’re still a solid watch, bolstered by fun performances from familiar faces like Anna Konkle (PEN15), William Stanford Davis (Abbott Elementary), Derek Waters (Drunk History), and Shalita Grant (NCIS).

The anthology format makes Side Quest a perfect low-commitment watch, ideal for anyone wary of getting sucked into a show and accidentally binging seven seasons in a weekend. Ultimately, this is a fun extension of the Mythic Quest world—enough to tide fans over until the next chapter, should it ever arrive.

— Jenni

Length: 30-min runtime, 1 season / 4 episodes
Watch on: Apple TV+

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Dying for Sex

Photo: FX

Keywords: comedy-drama, poignant, raunchy
Watch if you like: Somebody Somewhere, Sex Education, Minx
Jess’s Rating: A-

Dying for Sex sets itself up like a raunchy comedy—but quickly reveals it has way more on its mind and in its heart. Created by New Girl’s Elizabeth Meriwether and Kim Rosenstock and based on the podcast of the same name, the show follows a woman with terminal cancer who leaves her husband and sets off on a no-holds-barred sexual journey. What could’ve been gimmicky is instead something bold, unapologetically kinky, and genuinely moving, walking a tightrope between gallows humor and emotional sincerity without ever losing its footing.

Michelle Williams stars as Molly, a woman facing death while trying to reclaim some kind of control over her body, her pleasure, and her past. The show doesn’t pretend sex is always steamy or that dying is always tragic; it lets both be messy, funny, awkward, and occasionally profound. If the series has a flaw, it’s that the half-hour runtime doesn’t leave much room to explore Molly outside of her diagnosis and desires, but there’s still enough here to make you feel and laugh in equal measure.

The real heart of the show, though, isn’t the sexual exploration but the friendship between Molly and her best friend, Nikki (Jenny Slate), who in real life created the original podcast. Their bond gives the series its emotional core, grounding the more outrageous scenes in something heartfelt. Dying for Sex isn’t perfect, but it’s unlike anything else on TV: raunchy, raw, compassionate, and totally uninterested in being “for everyone”—and is the better for it.

— Jess

Length: 30-min runtime, Limited Series / 8 episodes
Watch on: Hulu and Disney+ (premieres April 4)

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The Bondsman

Photo: Prime Video

Keywords: thriller, dark comedy, supernatural
Watch if you like: Supernatural, Reaper, Ash vs. Evil Dead