How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend?

‘Couples Therapy’
When to watch: Friday at 8 p.m., on Showtime.

Everyone’s favorite revelatory documentary series is back with nine new episodes, which Showtime is billing as a second half of Season 3 — but it’s four new couples and operates as a new season would. Dr. Orna Guralnik helps these pairs interrogate their feelings, communicate better and see their behaviors more clearly, often despite the patients’ best deflective efforts. “What can I tell you about myself that has to do with my wife’s anger?” one frustratingly evasive guy asks. Hmm! If superhero fare has made even cosmic catastrophe seem banal, and you want to reconnect to the small-scale vicious potencies of real life, watch this.

… an hour, and I crave a more slobbery connection.

‘The Dog House: UK’
When to watch: Now, on HBO Max.

If you like matchmaking shows but want something more heartfelt, try this darling British series in which people adopt rescue dogs. Season 4 is now available, and the show remains committed to the idea that the most important factor in successful dog-human pairing is having the same back story. Here’s an interfaith couple whose families rejected them after they married. Will they perhaps adopt the dog who also “fell out” with her mom and has suffered from the abandonment and rejection? Friends, would you believe we can all help heal one another? Bring tissues.

‘Rough Diamonds’
When to watch: Now, on Netflix.

This Belgian series (in English, Flemish and Yiddish, with subtitles or dubbed) is set within the Haredi Jewish community in Antwerp, where the prodigal son, Noah (Kevin Janssens), who has left the religion and his family, returns after his brother’s shocking suicide. But don’t expect the textured patience of “Shtisel”: “Rough” is more an action drama, with Noah discovering his brother’s shady debts and investigators tracking corruption in the diamond trade. There are eight episodes, each with a balance of punching and wistful gazing, of violence and reverence. If you want something meaty and about family strife, but not as intense as “Succession,” watch this.