The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
Raised by Wolves
An ambitious new sci-fi series from Ridley Scott imagines a future in which Earth is a lost cause and human children are being reared by android parents on a distant planet. The director of Alien and Blade Runner helmed the first two episodes himself, bringing his unique visual imagination to a tale that eerily echoes the fable of the Three Little Pigs while exploring the challenges presented by the human instinct for religion. With Travis Fimmel of Vikings as a human warrior who initiates a violent clash. Available for streaming Thursday, Sept. 3, HBO Max
Young Wallander
Detective Kurt Wallander didn’t become a weathered loner overnight. In this new prequel series inspired by Henning Mankell’s Swedish crime novels, Wallander is a newly sworn-in police officer who’s unable to save a teenager murdered in front of him in a gruesome public execution. Adam Palsson steps into the role Kenneth Branagh filled across four previous seasons and quickly must track down his first killers. Available for streaming Thursday, Sept. 3, Netflix
The Boys
The first season of The Boys was a happy surprise, particularly for people who believe superheroes need to be taken down a peg. The small group of humans who banded together last year to battle the world’s arrogant, misbehaving “supes” are coming off a serious thumping but far from ready to quit as new episodes arrive. Available for streaming Friday, Sept. 4, Amazon Prime
I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Welcome back, Charlie Kaufman. The writerdirector who made the early aughts so meta returns with a horror-tinged thriller that plays like Get Out mixed with such signature Kaufman screenplays as Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Things get existential quickly for a woman on a snowy trip to visit her boyfriend’s parents, as a series of strange events causes time and identity to unravel. With Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette, and David Thewlis. Available for streaming Friday, Sept. 4, Netflix
Power: Book II—Ghost
Fans still reeling from the shocking fifth-season finale of Power should receive some long-awaited clarity in this first of four planned spin-offs.
With the mystery of who killed James “Ghost”
St. Patrick solved, the new series shifts focus to the former drug kingpin’s son, Tariq (Michael Rainey Jr.), who is starting college while his mother, Tasha, sits in prison for the crime he committed. Sunday, Sept. 6, at 9 p.m., Starz
Planet Earth: A Celebration
Never had the time to watch those epic BBC nature series? View the greatest hits in this onehour special featuring new narration by Sir David Attenborough. Monday, Aug. 31, at 8 p.m.,
BBC America
Transplant
A talented young doctor from Syria starts a new life while bringing the lessons of war to his work at a Toronto hospital in a new medical drama series starring Hamza Haq. Tuesday, Sept. 1, at 10 p.m., NBC
The Sounds
New Zealand’s picturesque Marlborough Sounds provide the backdrop for a thriller series about a Canadian woman who learns she’s chosen the wrong paradise when her new husband disappears while kayaking. Available for streaming Thursday, Sept. 3, Acorn TV