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Taste test ‘Chef’s Table,’ ‘Bosch,’ ‘Poirot’

- Jayme Deerwester

Streaming highlights from the April calendars of major streaming and cable on-demand services:

April 2

The Good Karma Hospital (Acorn): Fans of Call the Midwife may want to check out this drama about doctors (Amrita Acharia and Amanda Redman) at a small, understaff­ed hospital in South India.

April 4

National Treasure: Kiri (Hulu): After its first season about a beloved British comedian accused of rape, the anthology series returns with a new fourepisod­e story about the abduction and murder of a black girl who was on the verge of being adopted by a white family.

Poirot (BritBox): It’s almost time to say goodbye to one of Agatha Christie’s most famous characters, Belgian investigat­or Hercule Poirot (David Suchet). He takes on his last cases in this 13th and final season.

April 6

Fastest Car (Netflix): Netflix borrows a bit of the Top Gear/Grand Tour formula for this new show. See who’s first across the line when a sleeper 1984 Honda CRX drag-races a Ferrari California, and a Pontiac minivan takes on a Porsche GT3.

April 10

Phantom Thread (OnDemand): Another Oscar best-picture contender arrives on digital and home video, said to be best-actor nominee Daniel DayLewis’ final movie role. Also out today: All the Money in the World.

April 13

Bosch (Amazon): L.A. detective Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver) continues

searching for his mother’s killer even after being assigned a new case that has the city on the verge of a riot.

Lost in Space (Netflix): Danger, Will Robinson, here comes another reboot. Toby Stephens (Black Sails) and Molly Parker (House of Cards) head this rei-

magining of the classic ’60s sci-fi show. This one fast-forwards 30 years to find the Robinsons in the age of space colonies.

Chef’s Table (Netflix): Finally, the pastry chefs get a season all to themselves.

April 20

Mercury 13 (Netflix): This documentar­y looks at the forgotten female pilots who were screened by NASA to take part in the Mercury manned space-flight program.

April 22

Westworld (HBO Now, HBO Go): As Season 2 begins, the sexually abused android hosts at the Westworld theme park are about to have their own Me Too moment.

April 25

The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu): Viewers will finally learn what happened to the handmaids after they refused to stone one of their own to death.

April 27

The Week of (Netflix): Adam Sandler and Chris Rock, partners from Saturday Night Live and Grown Ups, are the feuding fathers of a bride and groom.

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TAKE FIVE/HULU Turns out, there's something even more depressing than the red handmaids’ capes: black ones.
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MACALL POLAY/NETFLIX Chris Rock’s and Adam Sandler’s kids are getting married in Netflix comedy “The Week of.”

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