A stacked weekend is led by Jason Segel’s trippy new series

Saturday Night Live is guaranteed to be funny with this ace host, two-time Emmy-winning reality competition works it into a 12th season, and Showtime’s new documentary is a riveting festival favorite. Hello! The weekend is here! Take off your pants, throw your alarm clock in the trash, and get comfy on the couch. Not only do you have all these expertly curated picks tested by the TV Guide labs below, but Friday is the day Netflix backs up its dump truck and unloads a bunch of new releases on you. Did you know that we round up everything new that Netflix has to offer over the week? Start with our [breakdown of Netflix’s new originals]( it has all the anime, foreign shows, big releases (and trailers for all of them so you can judge for yourself), and everything between, and we do our best to make it as un-boring as possible unlike those other sites that are definitely run by lobotomized zombies. Here are the weekend’s TV picks. –Tim [Your Watch This Now! newsletter is created by Senior Recommendations and Reviews Editor Tim Surette and more show-obsessed editors at TV Guide!]( WATCH THIS NOW! [Dispatches From Elsewhere]( [Dispatches from Elsewhere is your weekend mind-bender]( Sunday at 10/9c on AMC, Monday at 10:15/9:15 on AMC Jason Segel created this experimental dramedy, and How I Met Your Mother fans are [in for a real trip](. Segel stars as Peter, a lonely man whose humdrum existence gets shaken up when he answers a flyer that gets him involved in a mysterious conflict between something called the Jejune Institute and something called the Elsewhere Society. It might be a game, it might be a conspiracy, it might be nothing, it might be something. Joining him on his quest are Simone (Eve Lindley), Fredwynn (Andre Benjamin), and Janice (Sally Field), who each get their own episodes as the season progresses (Episode 2 on Monday is Simone's). The show is heavily influenced by acclaimed screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich), which means it's whimsical and sad at the same time. –Liam Mathews THRIVE MARKET [25% Off Your First Order + FREE 30-Day Trial]( SPONSORED Join Thrive Market for this exclusive offer and see howe make shopping for the highest quality, healthy and sustainable products easy. Filter by 70+ diets and values that fit your lifestyle. Plus, you’ll get fast, carbon-neutral shipping on us. [SHOP NOW]( RU THE DAY [RuPaul's Drag Race]( [That’s the Emmy-winning RuPaul’s Drag Race to you]( Season 12 premieres Friday at 8/7c on VH1 The venerable reality competition show, in which drag queens compete against each other to become America’s next drag superstar, is back! What started off as an introduction to a fun subculture has become an international sensation, and the series is finally getting its due with back-to-back Emmys in the Reality Competition category and four straight Emmys for RuPaul as Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program. Guest judges this season include Jeff Goldblum, Nicki Minaj, Daisy Ridley, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE [Babylon Berlin]( [Get your reading glasses on for Babylon Berlin]( Season 3 premieres Sunday on Netflix Netflix's commitment to bringing exceptional international programming to American audiences continues with the highly anticipated third season of [Babylon Berlin]( a stunning and cinematic crime drama from Germany that took Netflix by storm when the first two seasons debuted on the service in 2018. Set during the last years of the Weimar Republic and said to be the most expensive series produced in Germany, Babylon Berlin follows a young police detective and veteran suffering from PTSD and an intuitive flapper who longs to be the first female detective as they dig into the seedy underbelly of Berlin. –Kaitlin Thomas IT’S GOTTA BE THE SHOES [The Kingmaker]( [The Kingmaker crowns Imelda Marcos as a regal sham]( Friday at 9/8c on Showtime Director Lauren Greenfield loves her documentary subjects to be filthy rich and parades them around on their opulent home turf before surgically dissecting the vulgarity of affluence, as she did in her award-winning movies The Queen of Versailles and Generation Wealth. The festival favorite The Kingmaker puts Greenfield’s lens on Imelda Marcos, the former First Lady of the Philippines known for her vast collection of footwear and her penchant for handing out cash to the poor. What you’ll get is a portrait of a self-pitying matriarch of a family that swindled a country of aid and money and is trying once again to insert itself in the country’s politics. Told through extensive interviews with Imelda herself, The Kingmaker was a [universal hit among critics](. THE HOST WITH THE MOST [John Mulaney on SNL]( [John Mulaney returns to save Saturday Night Live]( Saturday at 11:30/10:30c on NBC We’re not recommending an episode of SNL unless we can guarantee some laughs, and John Mulaney hosting is as close as you can get to a guarantee. Forget the Johnaissance, the former SNL writer and Big Mouth star is in the midst of his own personal Mulaney-um, and he’s cementing himself as one of the series’ best hosts in recent memory after a pair of great episodes ([remember the toilet-ejector seat sketch](. David Byrne, who appeared in Mulaney’s excellent kid-centric Netflix special John Mulaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch, is the musical guest. If Sack Lunch Bunch member Lexie doesn’t cameo to perform “Pay Attention” with Byrne, we’ll be sad and [forced to listen to the song over and over again](. [Unsubscribe]( | [View online]( ©2020 CBS Interactive | All Rights Reserved. CBS Interactive - [235 2nd St., San Francisco, CA 94105](#) [Privacy Policy]( | [Terms and Conditions](