On Our Streaming Radar: A Massive Week for Streaming Fans

This is one of those rare weeks when every streaming platform comes to play. It’s premiere-palooza out there. Honestly, there were almost too many shows to mention. You’ve heard of series that hit all four quadrants — this week’s lineup covers the entire spectrum of streaming television.

I’m talking chills, thrills, laughs and family feuds. From Hallowicked origins to another entry in Taylor Sheridan’s never-ending TV empire… from the first family of reality TV to a romantic comedy that’s both spicy and sincere — there’s something for every mood, every screen, and every couch position imaginable.

Let’s hit “Play.”

It: Welcome to Derry

Stephen King’s world of It continues to expand — and somehow, Pennywise just keeps getting creepier. The dancing clown has always had a chokehold on American horror pop culture. Sure, Jason stalked you. Freddy invaded your dreams. But Pennywise? He knows your fears — and smiles through razor-sharp teeth while exploiting them.

I mean, really — a killer clown who preys on kids, lures them with balloons, and lives in the gutter? That’s childhood trauma in cinematic form.

It: Welcome to Derry takes us back to where it all began. Set in 1962, the series serves as a prequel to the hit films and follows a Korean War vet named Leroy, his wife Charlotte, and their son as they relocate to Derry, Maine — a picturesque little town with a stomach-turning secret.

The show connects directly to the 2017 and 2019 It movies, keeping that eerie mix of nostalgia and nightmare. Expect flickering streetlights, echoing laughter in the sewers, and a slow, suffocating dread that builds until you’re checking the corners of your room at 2 a.m.

Bottom line: Welcome to Derry isn’t just another cash-in on King’s mythos. It’s a return to the origin of fear itself — and it’s streaming this week on Max.

Nobody Wants This – Season 2

Sometimes love stories are messy. Sometimes they’re magnetic. And sometimes — like in Nobody Wants This — they’re both.

Kristen Bell stars as Joanne, an outspoken woman who co-hosts a sex podcast with her sister. She’s brash, funny, and brutally honest — the kind of person who says out loud what everyone else just Googles. Enter Noah (Adam Brody, a.k.a. Seth Cohen from The O.C.), a charming but conflicted rabbi whose life is built around faith, boundaries and expectations.

They meet at a dinner party. Sparks fly. And suddenly, the podcaster and the rabbi are trying to make sense of a connection that feels both right and totally impossible.

Their chemistry? Off the charts. Their comedic timing? Surgical. Bell and Brody make every scene hum with wit, warmth and that rare kind of emotional tension that makes you grin one moment and wince the next.

What elevates Nobody Wants This beyond the usual rom-com fare is its depth — the cultural and spiritual tug-of-war, the vulnerability beneath the humor, and the way it asks: Can love really bridge belief?

If you loved Season 1, Season 2 only doubles down on everything that worked. And if you’re new to it — congrats, you just found your next binge.

Nobody Wants This Season 2 is now streaming on Netflix.

The Kardashians — Season 7

Let’s face it: you might not keep up with the Kardashians, but the Kardashians always keep up with you.

The most famous (and infamous) family in television history returns for Season 7, and the drama is as thick as ever. Kris is still the CEO of chaos, there’s Kylie, Kendall, Kourtney, Khloe and Kim — and well, Kim’s taking things to a whole new level.

This season, we see Rob Kardashian step back into the spotlight (finally!), and Kim trades SKIMS for scripts as she films All’s Fair, a Ryan Murphy legal drama where she stars opposite — wait for it — Glenn Close. That’s right, Kim Kardashian and Glenn Close, in a courtroom, on Hulu. The crossover we never knew we would get.

But there’s more to Kim than her headline-grabbing career moves. She’s also waiting on her California Bar results and continuing her push for criminal justice reform — a storyline that’s genuinely admirable.

Love them or love to hate them, the Kardashians have permanently tattooed themselves on pop culture’s forehead. They’ve turned self-awareness into a business model and luxury into a language. The Kardashians Season 7 hits Hulu this week — fur thongs, sibling spats, and all.

Carl Weber’s The Family Business — Season 6 

Ernie Hudson might be the busiest man in Hollywood, and somehow, he just keeps getting cooler. He’s back as L.C. Duncan, patriarch of Carl Weber’s The Family Business, a show that blends slick mob drama with pure soap opera flair — and fans can’t get enough.

The Duncans are the definition of “dual life.” By day, they run a luxury car dealership in New York. By night? They’re deeply entrenched in the city’s underworld — handling secrets, betrayals, and business the old-fashioned way: with power and precision.

This season, things get even messier. A child stolen at birth resurfaces, a $100 million theft rocks the family, and loyalties are tested like never before.

Hudson commands every frame, giving L.C. that rare mix of gravitas and danger. The show has heart, heat, and just enough swagger to make you feel like you’re watching a modern-day Black Godfather story unfold.

The Family Business Season 6 is streaming now on BET+, and it’s a ride worth taking.

Mayor of Kingstown — Season 4

Taylor Sheridan might be a machine. Between Yellowstone, Tulsa King, and now Mayor of Kingstown, the man’s building his own cinematic universe — one dust storm and shootout at a time.

Jeremy Renner returns as Mike McLusky, the unofficial “mayor” of Kingstown, Michigan — a town where the only thriving industry is incarceration. He’s the broker, the fixer, the one man who can walk between worlds: gangs, guards, cops, and politicians, all of them equally corrupt and desperate.

Season 4 finds Kingstown boiling over. Violence spills from the prisons into the streets, alliances crumble, and Mike’s attempts to keep order feel more like holding back a hurricane with his bare hands.

The show isn’t just about power — it’s about what power does to people. Sheridan uses the prison system as both setting and metaphor, turning the entire town into a moral cage.

It’s grim. It’s gripping. It’s Sheridan doing what Sheridan does best: crafting stories about flawed men trying to hold their worlds together while everything burns around them.

Mayor of Kingstown Season 4 is streaming now on Paramount+.

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