The weekend is officially upon us, and while you could spend it wrapping gifts until you’re exhausted, or driving around in search of the perfect Christmas tree, you could also give yourself a break; reason that Chrismukkah is less than two weeks away and there’s no point trying to force merriment now; and settle back with a bunch of good streaming fare. Luckily, this month isn’t short on great movies and TV shows. Below, find everything you absolutely need to stream this weekend on Netflix, Peacock and more:
No Good Deed
Should there be more TV shows about real estate transactions? Reality TV seems to have clocked the potential: Selling Sunset, Property Brothers. Why hasn’t prestige TV caught up? That might change if the quirky but charming No Good Deed takes off. The show stars Lisa Kudrow and Ray Romano as empty-nesters coming to terms with the fact that their grand Los Angeles Craftsman no longer suits their downsized life (or diminished wallets). The first episode sees them cloistered in an upstairs bedroom while they watch a live security-cam feed of prospective buyers attending an open house, delivering merciless verdicts on strangers who might want to pay them millions of dollars.
As anyone who has ever engaged in any kind of real estate transaction knows, it is never just about a place to live, and emotions can run very high. This is, in fact, excellent fodder for drama and the excellent supporting characters—Abbi Jacobson, Linda Cardellini, Luke Wilson, Teyonah Parris, among others—give this show a delicious texture, each of their backstories fuelling varying degrees of desperation in their quests to buy the house. The show has a slightly strange tone; it’s undeniably funny while also circling around a tragedy that increasingly comes into focus. (If you’ve seen creator Liz Fedman’s previous show, Dead to Me, which somehow made a biting muder-comedy out of female rage, the hard-to-place tone might be familiar.) But give No Good Deed a chance, even if it throws you. The appeal of this show grows with each episode. —Chloe Schama
How to watch: Stream on Netflix.
