📺 John Mulaney's Live, the Gemstones are Back, and the Deli Boys Deliver
9 streaming premieres this week, plus reviews of Deli Boys (Hulu), Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney (Netflix), The Righteous Gemstones - Season 4 (Max), Yellowjackets - Season 3 (Showtime)
Happy Thursday. Lots of cancellation news lately: Cruel Intentions (Prime Video) and The Recruit (Netflix) won’t be returning for any further seasons, and Disney’s planned animated sequel series to The Princess and the Frog has halted production. But in more fun news, two new trailers dropped this week: one for Jon Hamm’s first lead TV role since Mad Men, and the other for Hacks Season 4! Woohooo!
In today’s edition:
Weekly Watchlist
Deli Boys (Hulu)
Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney (Netflix)
The Righteous Gemstones (Max)
Yellowjackets - S3 (Showtime)
— Jenni Cullen and Jess Spoll
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Below is a selection of new shows and movies premiering this week on streaming. Our unabridged list of March releases, including 5 movies premiering in theaters this week, is available for premium subscribers.
The Parenting — Brian Cox, Lisa Kudrow, and Edie Falco lead this horror-comedy about a couple meeting their son’s future in-laws—only to discover the family estate is haunted.
Watch on Max: March 13Adolescence (Limited Series) — Told in four parts, this psychological drama depicts how a family’s world is turned upside down when their 13-year-old son is arrested for the murder of a teenage girl.
Watch on Netflix: March 13 (all 4 episodes)Long Bright River (Limited Series) — Amanda Seyfried leads this adaptation of Liz Moore’s novel, following a Philadelphia cop searching for her missing sister while navigating the opioid crisis.
Watch on Peacock: March 13 (all 8 episodes)Wheel of Time (Season 3) — The epic fantasy adapted from Robert Jordan’s 14-volume (!) book series about a reincarnated hero returns for a three-episode premiere.
Watch on Prime Video: March 13 (3 of 8 episodes, then weekly)Dope Thief (Limited Series) — A high-stakes crime thriller about two con artists posing as DEA agents—until their scheme puts them in the crosshairs of real cartel enforcers.
Watch on Apple TV+: March 14 (2 of 8 episodes, then weekly)The Electric State (Movie) — From the Russo brothers comes this post-apocalyptic sci-fi adventure starring Millie Bobby Brown as a teenager navigating a robot-filled wasteland to find her missing brother.
Watch on Netflix: March 14Anora* (Movie)— Nominated for Best Picture at this year’s Oscars, this comedy-drama from Sean Baker follows a stripper (Mikey Madison) who begins a romance with the son of a Russian oligarch.
Watch on Hulu: March 17 (*Streaming Premiere)Good American Family (Limited Series) — Based on a true story, this limited series follows a midwestern couple who adopt a little girl with dwarfism but gradually start to question her age. Ellen Pompeo stars.
Watch on Hulu: March 19 (2 of 8 episodes, then weekly)
Our thoughts on brand new streaming content, and where you can watch.
Deli Boys
Keywords: crime comedy, slapsticky, violent
Watch if you like: Chuck, The Gentlemen, 2 Broke Girls
Jenni’s Rating: B-
Abdullah Saeed’s new crime comedy subverts expectations from its first moments. When Philadelphia convenience store magnate Baba Dar (Iqbal Theba) dies suddenly, his two pampered sons, Mir (Asif Ali) and Raj (Saagar Shaikh), inherit a business that turns out to be far more tangled and dangerous than either of them could have imagined.
Deli Boys is violent and explicit, but any real edge is blunted by frequent, goofy comedic beats combined with a slapstick approach to gore. It’s an odd but entertaining mix: farcical Godfather-style tropes collide with Philly-centric humor, and the stakes often feel secondary to the show’s more absurdist instincts. It can be over-the-top and lack finesse, but Deli Boys finds its footing over the course of the first season, and a consistent artistic voice carries the show through its rougher patches.
What ultimately keeps this series watchable isn’t its crime plot, but the humor and the chemistry between its characters. Poorna Jagannathan (Never Have I Ever, Ramy) as Lucky Auntie steals nearly every scene she’s in, delivering sharp-tongued line reads and offering a much-needed grounding presence amid the chaos.
Deli Boys is messy, broad, and gleefully unserious—but if you’re in the mood for mob antics with a comedic twist, it’s entertaining enough to stick around and see what hijinks the crew may get up to next.
— Jenni
Length: 20-min runtime, 1 season / 10 episodes
Watch on: Hulu
Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney
Keywords: talk show, comedy, old school
Watch if you like: Everybody’s in L.A., Hound Tall with Moshe Kasher, The David Letterman Show
Jenni’s Rating: C+
Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney bills itself—tongue firmly in cheek—as “the first-ever celebrity sit-down talk show.” It’s a nostalgic callback, with a ‘70s-inspired set and meandering run-of-show, and also a direct follow-up to Mulaney’s 2024 six-episode series Everybody’s in L.A. If that was a quirky, affectionate letter to Los Angeles, Everybody’s Live feels more like Mulaney throwing a weekly kaffeeklatsch (with a few comedy sketches thrown in) for whomever he finds interesting.
The show is truly live and unedited, and while the premiere gets off to a stuttering start, it soon settles into a rhythm powered by equal parts chaos and curiosity. Richard Kind returns as the announcer, occasionally sniggering in the background like he can’t believe any of this is actually happening—which adds to the charm—and the first episode’s guest list is delightfully random: Michael Keaton, folk legend Joan Baez, Fred Armisen, and personal-finance columnist Jessica Roy all join, with music from Cypress Hill to round out the night. Mulaney’s instinct to pair celebrities with non-famous experts on his panel leads to some of the show’s better moments. There’s also a call-in segment where people ask for advice—this week’s theme is “lending money”—and Mulaney ends each call by asking what kind of car they drive, a weird but fun carryover from Everybody’s in L.A. that works because he commits to the bit.
Not much about Everybody’s Live feels like it was made with an audience or focus group in mind—everything seems catered specifically to the tastes of John Mulaney himself. It’s wonderful to see someone so funny following his own comedic north star, but it means that inevitably some parts will fall flat to others. I wouldn’t say I’m itching to tune in live every Wednesday at 10 p.m., but I’m excited to catch the best clips floating around on YouTube or TikTok after the fact.
— Jenni
Length: 1 season / 1 of 12 episodes available now, new Wednesdays at 10pm ET
Watch on: Netflix
These popular shows came back with new episodes. Here’s what we thought and where you can watch them.
The Righteous Gemstones
Keywords: slapstick comedy, satire, dark humor
Watch if you like: Vice Principals, Eastbound & Down, Silicon Valley
The Righteous Gemstones is back for its fourth (and sadly final) season, and if you haven’t yet experienced the chaos of HBO’s televangelist satire, now is the time to catch up.
Created by Danny McBride, Gemstones follows a filthy-rich family of preachers whose greed, hypocrisy, and incompetence fuel some of the sharpest, most absurd comedy on TV. Over the past three seasons, it’s delivered everything from high-stakes family feuds to motorcycle-riding assassins to impromptu gospel performances, all while skewering the world of megachurches with biting humor. Season 3 wasn’t quite as strong as its predecessors—shifting the focus away from the family’s own misdeeds in favor of a more external villain—but even at its messiest, the show remains wildly entertaining, thanks to the cast’s total commitment to the bit. McBride, John Goodman, Edi Patterson, and Adam DeVine all return this season, and we can expect more over-the-top scheming, backstabbing, and full-throttle ridiculousness.
If you’ve been meaning to start The Righteous Gemstones, consider this your sign from above. The first three seasons are streaming on Max, and new episodes air Sundays on HBO/Max.
— Jess
Length: 30-min runtime, 4 seasons / 36 episodes (1 of 9 available in S4, new on Sundays)
Watch on: HBO/Max
Yellowjackets - Season 3
Keywords: survival thriller, drama, puzzle box mystery
Watch if you like: Lost, Cruel Summer, The Wilds
Jess’s Rating: B-
Like all good puzzle box shows, Yellowjackets thrives on mystery. But heading into Season 3, the biggest mystery wasn’t about what happened to the stranded girls, but whether the show could course correct after its uneven second season. The first five episodes of Season 3 leave a lot up in the air—sometimes frustratingly so. But even when the show stumbles, there’s enough intrigue (and stellar performances) to keep me on board.
After Season 2’s explosive finale, Yellowjackets returns with a surprisingly muted premiere that doesn’t just slow the show’s momentum, but seems to stall it completely. The pacing feels off, lingering on familiar conflicts rather than pushing the story forward, and some of the more interesting threads from last season are either sidelined or underdeveloped. But as the season progresses, Yellowjackets starts to engage more directly with its biggest lingering mysteries: what really went down in the wilderness and why its impact still looms so large in the present. There are moments where it feels like the show is finding its footing again, but certain subplots and creative choices muddy the waters.
Even at its messiest, though, Yellowjackets still has its strengths. Its eerie atmosphere remains intact, and the character work, particularly in the past timeline, continues to be compelling. Certain storylines—especially those tied to the psychological and supernatural ambiguities of the show—are still gripping, even if they don’t always get the space they deserve. And when Yellowjackets does take big swings, they at least make for interesting TV, even if the results are mixed.
At its best, Yellowjackets is a show about survival—not just in the wilderness, but in the way trauma sticks, forcing people to adapt and claw their way through the wreckage of the past. Season 3 hasn’t fully clicked into place yet, but there are flashes of the show’s former brilliance that remind me why I was hooked in the first place. If the rest of the season can build on that, Yellowjackets might just pull me back in.
— Jess
Length: 60-min runtime, 3 seasons / 29 episodes (5 of 10 available in S3, new on Fridays)
Watch on: Paramount+ with Showtime
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Going to check this out for sure!