Streaming this week: ‘The Polygamist,’ ‘The Evil Lawyer,’ ‘UFC at the White House’

Viral Hit hits streaming Thursday Credit: Netflix

Streaming Wednesday, June 10:

All the Queen’s Men — The fifth and final season begins with the assailant who shot Madam still running around free, and the male dancers who work at her club feeling suitably imperiled. In other words, it’s probably the third most awful set of circumstances that could possibly surround a bachelorette party. (Paramount+)

Every Year After — This romance series that follows the ebb and flow of a relationship over the course of six years and one week is based on Carley Fortune’s novel Every Summer After. With a title change like that, you can tell these people aren’t going to let themselves be boxed in by a calendar the way Tina Fey fucked herself with The Four Seasons. (Prime Video)

Outlast: The Jungle — After two seasons in frigid Alaska, the reality survival show switches locations to the punishing tropical heat of Panama. Contestants this time include a lady boxer, a boar hunter and a former employee of the defense department. But if his height-to-waist ratio isn’t just right, that pussy is doomed. (Netflix)

My Family, Season 2 — The Italian dramedy returns for a second round, picking up the action one year after patriarch Fausto passed away and finding his surviving family members still struggling to process their grief. Things get even more complicated with the arrival of another blood relation; just please tell us it isn’t Ricky Gervais, because I think we’ve heard enough of what he has to say about the subject. And by “the subject,” I mean anything. (Netflix)

The Rest Is Football — Starting today, podcast hosts Gary Lineker, Micah Richards and Alan Shearer provide daily coverage of the FIFA Men’s World Cup. And if you didn’t know that was going on, don’t kick yourself too hard: Streaming has barely mentioned it. (Netflix)

Streaming Thursday, June 11:

The Evil Lawyer — When an honest young Thai attorney is falsely accused of killing the son of a cop, his only recourse is to turn his defense over to an unscrupulous lady lawyer who will stop at nothing to win. Since I learned most of what I know about the legal profession from TV commercials, I’m assuming her grand strategy is staging a slip-and-fall on his way up to the stand. (Netflix)

Sweet Magnolias — Distance is the adversary in Season 5, as one of our trio of South Carolina heroines transfers to New York to pursue her career in publishing. Which really leaves only one of them as a viable player in the story, since the Black one just got neutralized by redistricting. (Netflix)

Viral Hit — Striking back against his oppressors becomes a windfall for a perennially bullied Japanese student, whose unexpected prowess at fighting turns him into an online sensation. As opposed to in this country, where you can only get those clicks by hitting yourself with a hammer. (Netflix)

Streaming Friday, June 12:

Find Your Friends — A girls’ trip to Joshua Tree takes a detour into horror for a quintet of besties when they’re set upon by the inexplicably hostile locals. Given that one of the beleaguered tourists is played by Bella Thorne, I guess we should amend that to “mostly inexplicably hostile.” (Shudder)

I Am Frankelda — Guillermo del Toro protégés Arturo and Roy Ambriz are behind this stop-motion journey into the imagination of a 19th-century Mexican writer who’s having trouble getting her spooky stories published. Given how long it took Mary Shelley, they could milk a good three-season series out of this at a minimum. (Netflix)

Maternal Instinct — Remember the story of Taylor Parker, the Texan who faked a pregnancy six years ago just so she could murder another woman and take her baby? Well, if you didn’t, it sounds like I just saved you an hour and a half. You’re welcome! (Netflix)

The Polygamist — South Africa has managed to wring a full 22 episodes out of the travails of a CEO who undercuts his own success by trying to maintain an elaborate portfolio of wives and mistresses. And yes, I did say “wives,” plural. But forget it, Jake; it’s Cape Town. (Netflix)

Raakh — Disillusionment awaits an Indian cop as he follows the trail of a pair of missing teenagers in the Delhi of 1978. Hey, why are the heroes of these stories always so shocked by the corruption and perversion they encounter while investigating crimes? You’d think they had sort of been trained to anticipate it. What did they expect instead, a series of wacky misunderstandings? (Prime Video)

Streaming Sunday, June 14:

UFC at the White House — At press time, all systems were still go for the highly controversial MMA event, set to begin streaming from the lawn of the former People’s House at 8 p.m. ET. Heck, at this point, they might even let Dana White sing! (Paramount+)

The Ultimate Fighter — And timed perfectly to coincide with the big White House event, here’s Season 34 of the UFC-themed reality series, in which star athletes Daniel Cormier and Michael Bisping mentor competing teams of young hopefuls. Winner gets to have a Japanese kid beat the shit out of him on Twitch. (Paramount+)

Streaming Tuesday, June 16:

America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders — Season 3 depicts a fierce battle for spots on the 2025-26 squad, with only six positions open amid a roster of seasoned returnees. OK, boomer: Tell me again why you’re against term limits. (Netflix)