David West Read’s ‘The Big Door Prize’ debuts, Netflix goes back to ‘Lenox Hill’ and more streaming this week

With so many different streaming platforms and cable offerings to navigate, choosing what to watch has never been harder. To make things easier, here are our best tune-in tips for the week ahead.

WEDNESDAY

The Big Door Prize

I don’t usually choose comedies as pick of the week, but I have been waiting anxiously for the release of this one. Created by Emmy Award winner David West Read (“Schitt’s Creek”) and based on the novel by M.O. Walsh, “The Big Door Prize” is the story of a small town being changed forever by a machine that promises to reveal each resident’s true life potential. The ensemble cast is led by Chris O’Dowd (“Bridesmaids”) who plays Dusty, a teacher who doesn’t buy into the machine’s ability to predict the future and who also doesn’t understand why anyone would want their entire life revealed to them in advance.

Apple TV Plus

Emergency NYC

This new medical documentary series offers audiences an inside look at everything emergency doctors and first responders face behind the scenes. The show serves as a spinoff to “Lenox Hill,” a 2020 series that focused on four doctors at New York City’s Lenox Hill Hospital. This one follows nine first responders (including a pediatric trauma surgeon, an EMT and a chairman of neurosurgery) in its attempt to offer the experience of “the relentless pulse of the city’s health-care system.”

Netflix

THURSDAY

Riverdale

It’s pretty shocking that “Riverdale” is still on the air, but it is. After last season’s finale that saw Cheryl save Riverdale from total obliteration, the series returns to 1955 for its last instalment. While it will be fun to see Archie and company as teenagers again, Jughead will be the only one who can remember what the present day looks like. Will he be able to convince the others to go back? That will be one of the primary plot lines of the final season.

Netflix

Unstable

Rob Lowe introduces his kid to the family business as the father stars opposite his real-life son John Owen Lowe in this new Netflix sitcom. The Lowes play Ellis and Jackson Dragon and apparently their scripted relationship is quite different from the real thing. Ellis (Rob) is an increasingly unstable (hence the title of the series) biotech engineer. So unhinged in fact that his company enlists his son Jackson (John Owen) to try to reach him.

Netflix

FRIDAY

Tetris

I remember playing Tetris on my Game Boy when I was in middle school and I am sure many others get the same sense of nostalgia when the subject of the building block puzzle piece games come up. It’s hard even typing that the game was originally released in 1984 and this new movie chronicles how Henk Rogers (Taron Egerton) teamed up with the game’s inventor, Alexey Pajitnov (Nikita Efremov), to push the game worldwide.

Apple TV Plus

Murder Mystery 2

Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston reprise their Nick and Audrey Spitz characters in a “Murder Mystery” sequel. Now full-time detectives, our faves are invited to the wedding of their friend the Maharaja (Adeel Akhtar) but soon find themselves in the middle of another whodunnit after the groom is kidnapped.

Netflix

The Power

This British sci-fi drama is based on a 2016 book by Naomi Alderman (who also serves as an executive producer on this show). The concept is that, without warning, all teenage girls in existence suddenly develop the power to electrocute people at will. This “power” cannot be removed and they soon figure out a way to “waken” the power in older women as well. The series stars Toni Collette as the mayor of Seattle, with John Leguizamo as her husband.

Prime Video

DON’T MISS

Perfect Addiction

This adaptation of a Wattpad web novel stars Kiana Madeira (“After We Fell”) and Matthew Noszka (“Star”) as Sienna and Jax. Sienna trained Jax to be an MMA champion and the pair seemingly share the perfect life. That’s until she catches her boyfriend cheating on her with her younger sister. Sienna’s desire for vengeance leads to her meeting Kayden (Ross Butler), an undisciplined fighter whom she decides to train to beat some sense into her ex.

Prime Video

The Pez Outlaw

This is the story of Steve Glew, a Michigan man who made millions by smuggling fake and rare Pez candy dispensers from Europe and selling them in the U.S. His business eventually leads to a showdown between Glew and the former president/Pezident of America’s Pez division, Scott McWhinnie, as both men try to monopolize the market.

Prime Video

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