The Week ’s guide to what’s worth watching
Jacqueline Novak: Get on Your Knees
Heterosexual sex has always been, among other things, hilarious. But it took comedian Jacqueline Novak to write a one-woman show about blowjobs that became an acclaimed off-Broadway sensation. In this new filmed version, the playfully overanalytical performer strips away centuries of male mythmaking about the penis, retraces her own history with the reproductive organ, and constructs farcical cases for and against oral sex that are sure to be parroted at parties and water coolers nationwide. Tuesday, Jan. 23, Netflix
Griselda
You know Pablo Escobar, but do you know Griselda Blanco? Rising from obscurity, the Colombian-born drug trafficker became one of the world’s most feared cartel bosses in the 1970s when she established a Miami-based narcotics distribution network that at one point grossed $80 million a month. This new series from the creators of Narcos has been a passion project for Modern Family’s Sofia Vergara, who is nearly unrecognizable as Blanco, a woman who never shied from using violence to extend her reign. Thursday, Jan. 25, Netflix
In the Know
If you only watch one stop-motion animated series this season, make it this one. A workplace comedy created by Mike Judge and Silicon Valley’s Zach Woods, it centers on an irritating public-radio interviewer voiced by Woods. Even the real-life celebrities who sit for his interviews—including Hugh Laurie, Norah Jones, and Mike Tyson—can’t help noticing that his ego is enormous and his questions are always slightly off. Thursday, Jan. 25, Peacock
Sexy Beast
A cult-favorite 2001 British crime drama has spawned a series-length prequel. Gal Dove and Don Logan, played by Ray Winstone and a menacing Ben Kingsley in the original, shared some deep history before their clash at a sun-drenched Spanish villa, and the series fills it in. Scottish stage actor James McArdle plays levelheaded Gal to Emun Elliott’s hot-tempered Don, two crooks on the rise in 1990s London. With Sarah Greene as Gal’s future wife and Stephen Moyer as crime lord Teddy Bass. Thursday, Jan. 25, Paramount+
Expats
Nicole Kidman–led series have practically become a new TV category. In her latest, the star of Big Little Lies, The Undoing, Faraway Downs, and many films before them plays an American living luxuriously among other expats in Hong Kong when her young son slips away from his Korean-American au pair at a busy night market and goes missing. Sarayu Blue and Ji-young Yoo co-star. Friday, Jan. 26, Prime
Other highlights American Experience: Nazi Town, USA
Revisit the rise of the German-American Bund, an antisemitic pro-Nazi organization that had chapters across the U.S. in the 1930s. Tuesday, Jan. 23, at 9 p.m., PBS; check local listings
A Real Bug’s Life
Actress-comedian Awkwafina narrates a playful new docuseries that zeroes in on the lives of insects in nine different micro worlds. Wednesday, Jan. 24, Disney+
The Many Lives of Martha Stewart
A four-part series examines Stewart’s astonishingly long run as America’s preeminent domestic tastemaker, prison time included. Sunday, Jan. 28, at 9 p.m., CNN