The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
I Just Killed My Dad
When 17-year-old Anthony Templet shot and killed his father, Burt, in 2019, evidence supported the teenager’s claim that he had acted in self-defense. But the shooting wasn’t the result of a single clash. Director Skye Borgman, who also made the recent hit Girl in the Picture, has now built a limited series around a jaw-dropping tale of abduction—this one stretching across a decade plus and beginning when Anthony was kidnapped at age 5. Available Tuesday, Aug. 9, Netflix
A League of Their Own
It’s a whole new ballgame for the Rockford Peaches. The real-life women’s baseball team that inspired the 1992 movie have now inspired a series reboot, with co-creator Abbi Jacobson of Broad City leading the cast. Once again, it’s the 1940s, and dozens of talented women gather for tryouts for a new professional women’s league. But the adventures and trials that follow this time will raise issues that the film elided. D’Arcy Carden and Chante Adams co-star, while Nick Offerman plays the Peaches’ cantankerous manager. Available Friday, Aug. 12, Amazon Prime
Day Shift
What’s summer without a celebrity-driven splatter comedy? Jamie Foxx answers the call by playing a pool cleaner whose makes his real money hunting vampires and blasting them to smithereens. But he’s fallen out of favor with the vampire hunters union and, with his wife threatening to leave L.A., has one last chance to prove he can toe the line as a zombie assassin. Dave Franco and Snoop Dogg co-star. Available Friday, Aug. 12, Netflix
Never Have I Ever
Devi has a new problem in this lovable high school comedy series. No longer a girl trying to get noticed, she’s now dating one of her school’s biggest hunks as Season 3 begins, and is catching envy from all sides. Better for viewers, she still has a divided heart, which means the only way to find out if she sticks with Paxton or dumps him for Ben is to start streaming new episodes and watch star Maitreyi Ramakrishnan as she works sitcom magic. Available Friday, Aug. 12, Netflix
Children of the Underground
Faye Yager appeared, at a glance, to be a heroic crusader. Having fled a husband who’d sexually abused her young daughter, she built an underground network to help other women hide their children from abusive spouses and courts that failed to protect the kids. But in 1992, Yager herself was charged with kidnapping. A new docuseries examines whether Yager’s vigilantism went too far. Begins Friday, Aug. 12, at 8 p.m., FX
Other highlights
Rogue Agent
In a fact-based thriller that’s also new to theaters, a woman falls for a con man who poses as an MI5 agent to take control of his lovers’ lives. Gemma Arterton and James Norton co-star. Available Friday, Aug. 12, AMC+
This Fool
Comedian Chris Estrada leads a new offbeat comedy series about a hapless do-gooder in South Central L.A. who works for a charity that tries to rehabilitate gang members. Available Friday, Aug. 12, Hulu
The Princess
A brilliantly edited documentary from filmmaker Ed Perkins turns archival footage of Princess Diana into a wrenching retelling of her tragic story. Saturday, Aug. 13, at 8 p.m., HBO