Here comes a wave of Netflix Oscar bait

I found the news that Suits was the most-watched show on streaming pretty funny… three months ago. But now that it’s STILL the most-watched show and has been for 15 weeks? I’m terrified. If you don’t watch yourselves, we’re going to end up getting a Suits reboot with a handsome redheaded English gent joining the show as the new mailroom boy. Luckily, there are some good things to watch this week to prevent you from Suiting up again. -Tim   Your Watch This Now! newsletter is created by Senior Recommendations and Reviews Editor Tim Surette and more show-obsessed editors at TV Guide!   SERIES PREMIERES WEDNESDAY ON APPLE TV+ [The Buccaneers brings much-needed young girl energy to a period piece soap]( Need to unstuff a stuffy British period piece? Just add Americans. This adaptation of Edith Wharton's unfinished novel, published in 1938, will no doubt draw appropriate comparisons to Netflix's wildly popular Bridgerton, but the story of five young, new-money American women who head to London in the 1870s to catch British aristocrats for marriage adds a different enough wrinkle to make it stand out. These girls are rowdy and raucous, making the conservative Brits spit out their tea (metaphorically, sadly) at their brash behavior. But behind the culture clashes is a whopper of a love triangle as Nan (future leading lady Kristine Frøseth) finds herself caught between two best friends. A finale that holds its secrets tight until the last minute, sets and costumes that used every farthing of Apple's generous budget, and a youthful energy make this show a fun watch. [In her review]( Maggie Fremont called it “as compelling and fun a soap opera as we’ve seen in a while.” MINISERIES PREMIERES WEDNESDAY ON NETFLIX [Escaping Twin Flames exposes the internet’s grossest matchmaking love cult]( [Despite — or perhaps because of — the so-called connectivity of the internet, loneliness seems to be at an all-time high. Straight grifters and trash people Jeff and Shaleia Ayan pose as spiritual love gurus and prey on these people via YouTube using the idea of the Twin Flame: the inane assumption that everyone has one person who was put on this Earth to be their romantic partner. Prime Video just released a docuseries about them last month, but the Netflix version is the superior one, as it gets more in-depth testimonials from former members and slowly amps up the ridiculous twists with each episode. This thing is WILD, y’all. By the third and final episode, it’s clear this is a cult that stripped its members of their identities and much more, tearing families apart while funding Jeff’s lavish lifestyle. Jeff is the absolute worst.]( SEASON 4 PREMIERES FRIDAY ON APPLE TV+ [For All Mankind stays current in the past]( [We're watching Joel Kinnaman grow older before our very eyes! Well, at least a makeup artist's rendition of him getting older. Kinnaman is one of the few original cast members whose characters have survived For All Mankind's many leaps into the future, and his character is getting up there in age as the series launches into the early 2000s. The alt-history drama about the space race that never ended finds Ed (Kinnaman) very much in his scraggly gray years commanding a multinational outpost on Mars while tensions, both foreign and domestic, threaten progress, both technological and societal. This season we're mining asteroids for resources and bringing workers to the Red Planet to show that even hundreds of millions of miles away, unionizing labor is just as important as it is on Earth.]( FRIDAY ON NETFLIX [David Fincher’s The Killer leads Netflix’s award season push]( [Because many Academy Awards voters can’t remember anything that happened before September, most of the movies angling for Oscars come out in November and December, when initial voting begins and a contender can stay in the conversation for as long as possible. Netflix’s first big movie is David Fincher’s The Killer, which comes out on Friday and stars Michael Fassbender as an assassin. You’re going to want a big TV for Fincher’s wide shots. Also coming out over the next month on Netflix are Todd Haynes’ May December (Dec. 1), Sam Esmail’s Leave the World Behind (Dec. 8), and Bradley Cooper’s Maestro (Dec. 20).]( SERIES PREMIERE FRIDAY ON PARAMOUNT+ WITH SHOWTIME, SUNDAY AT 10/9C ON SHOWTIME [The Curse is truly a weird blessing]( This is the biggest show of the year to a very specific group of people. Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie created and co-star in this eerie dark comedy about a recently married couple (played by Fielder and Emma Stone) who host a house-flipping show on HGTV, which is overseen by a slimy producer (Safdie). As they gentrify the struggling city of Española, New Mexico, by building eco-friendly homes and opening trendy businesses, their lives are upended when a young girl puts a curse on them. It’s an unpredictable, [dizzyingly ambitious show you have to see to believe](. -Allison Picurro [Privacy Policy]( | [Terms of Service]( | [View in Browser]( [Unsubscribe]( © 2023 TV Guide, A Fandom, Inc. company. All rights reserved. TV Guide, [130 Sutter St., San Francisco, CA 94104, U.S.A.](#)