This week’s streaming lineup spans black comedy, true-crime drama, relationship TV and glossy reality fare, with several new series landing across Apple TV, HBO Max, Disney+, Netflix and Hayu. For viewers searching for the best shows to stream, the strongest picks include Jon Hamm’s latest lead role in Your Friends and Neighbours, the historically charged Italian drama Portobello, and the fourth season of Love on the Spectrum.
The selection also includes an unusual Spanish holiday mystery, a documentary-style look at a controversial police operation in north London, and a new Real Housewives entry set in Rhode Island. Together, the seven titles offer a broad mix of crime, satire and character-led storytelling, with release dates starting this week and several already available to watch.
1. Your Friends and Neighbours
Jon Hamm headlines Apple TV’s black comedy as Andrew “Coop” Cooper, a financier who turns to burglary after losing his place in conventional success. The character remains wrapped in charm and bad judgment, which gives the series a strong comic push even when the plot leans into repetition.
The show picks up after a dramatic season one ending, with Coop ignoring an offer to return to his old job and continuing his risky side hustle. That decision puts him on a collision course with Samantha Levitt, while a back spasm adds a physical setback to his already messy life, and the series arrives on Apple TV from Friday 3 April.
2. Portobello
HBO’s first Italian original series draws on one of the country’s most notorious legal scandals, centered on television host Enzo Tortora. In the early 80s, Tortora was convicted of involvement with the Camorra, a case that later became a symbol of how a bizarre and damaging conspiracy can spiral out of control.
Marco Bellocchio directs the series with a clear focus on confusion, fear and institutional collapse, while Fabrizio Gifuni plays Tortora as a man trapped in a story he cannot control. The result is a drama that uses a real-life miscarriage of justice to explore how public fame can quickly turn into public ruin, and it is streaming on HBO Max now.
3. Boom Box: Beats and Betrayal
This four-part HBO Max series revisits the story of Boom Box, a recording studio that opened in Edmonton, north London, in 2009. What first looked like a rare opportunity for young people in a deprived area later emerged as something far more troubling, with the project revealed as an elaborate police sting.
The series combines first-person accounts with dramatised scenes to examine whether the operation was smart detective work or racially biased entrapment. That tension gives the documentary a strong social angle, and it is available to watch on HBO Max now.
4. If It’s Tuesday, It’s Murder
This seven-episode comedy drama follows a group of Spanish tourists whose holiday in Lisbon takes a darker turn when one of them is killed on the first day. Instead of going home, the others decide to investigate the death themselves, which sends the story into a playful but deliberately implausible direction.
The premise is light and the tone stays breezy, even when the logic strains credibility. For viewers who want a mystery with humour rather than realism, the series offers an easy watch on Disney+ from Tuesday.
5. Love on the Spectrum
Netflix brings back one of its most widely discussed relationship series with a new season focused on dating, family expectations and the social pressures faced by neurodivergent adults. The show continues to be careful with tone, balancing warmth and humour without reducing its participants to stereotypes.
Several cast members face first dates, conversations with possible in-laws and other emotionally loaded moments that give the season steady momentum. There is also movement toward wedding celebrations, and the new season begins on Netflix from Wednesday 1 April.
6. Dear Killer Nannies
This Disney+ drama shifts the focus of the Pablo Escobar story to Juan Pablo “Juampi” Escobar, the drug lord’s son. The series explores a childhood marked by wealth, fear and severe restriction, with constant surveillance from his father’s armed men and little freedom despite the privilege around him.
The story is built around Juampi’s changing view of his father, as he begins to reject the legend of Pablo Escobar as a Robin Hood-like figure and faces the reality of his violence. That perspective gives the drama a more intimate edge, and it is streaming on Disney+ from Wednesday 1 April.
7. The Real Housewives of Rhode Island
The latest Real Housewives franchise entry moves to Rhode Island, where the show promises the usual mix of wealth, social conflict and public suspicion. The new centre of attention is Rulla, a recent arrival who soon finds herself and her husband at the middle of gossip and uneasy speculation.
The series leans into the franchise’s familiar formula of feuds, rumours and status anxiety, this time set among private boats and polo matches. It starts on Hayu from Friday 3 April, giving reality-TV fans another new ensemble to follow this week.
For viewers deciding what to queue up first, the week’s strongest options split between Jon Hamm’s slick antihero turn in Your Friends and Neighbours and the high-stakes historical drama of Portobello, while Love on the Spectrum and Boom Box: Beats and Betrayal offer very different but equally timely approaches to real people, real pressure and the consequences of public scrutiny.
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