Once again, there are too many great shows streaming right now and not nearly enough time to watch all of them.
Watch With Us feels your pain, which is why we’ve curated a list of the best new TV shows to stream this weekend.
If you have time for one show, it has to be East of Eden, Netflix’s lavish new adaptation of John Steinbeck’s novel starring Florence Pugh, Christopher Abbott and Mike Faist.
For those with more time on their hands, check out HBO Max’s War, a scathing drama about a nasty divorce involving even nastier lawyers.
We also recommend streaming Tip Toe, a British drama on Starz starring The Traitors’ Alan Cumming, and AMC+’s Kill Jackie, which gives Catherine Zeta-Jones one of her best roles in years.
‘East of Eden’ (2026) — Netflix
Half-brothers Adam (Christopher Abbott) and Charles (Mike Faist) Trask are about as different as two related people can be. Adam is almost painfully shy, while Charles is more brooding and masculine. They do share a few things in common, like resenting their stern, one-legged pops, Cyrus (Tracy Letts), and being instantly intrigued by the arrival of Cathy Ames (Pugh), a woman with a past so dark, you’d need a spotlight to see it. Cathy is beautiful and charismatic, but she’s also as rotten as the apple Eve took a bite out of in the Garden of Eden. That’s enough to repel the brothers, whose lives, and the lives of their children, will be dominated by Cathy for years to come.
John Steinbeck’s 1952 novel was first adapted as a feature film starring James Dean and Jo Van Fleet, who won an Oscar for playing Cathy. That version only adapted the last third of Steinbeck’s epic book, but this superb new iteration from writer/director Zoe Kazan (the granddaughter of Elia Kazan, who directed the ‘55 film) is mostly faithful to the original story. And what a story! Across seven episodes, Kazan chronicles the rise and fall of a family from the Civil War to World War I. A Western, a family drama and a tragic romance, East of Eden’s scope is as wide as its ambitions, resulting in Netflix’s best 2026 shows yet. It also contains one of Pugh’s best performances ever; she makes Cathy, one of the nastiest characters in 20th-century American literature, palatable, if not quite sympathetic.
East of Eden is streaming on Netflix. If you want to read along to see what’s different between the book and the series, you can purchase the official Netflix tie-in novel here.
‘War’ Season 1 — HBO Max
It’s war between spouses Martin (Dominic West) and Carla (Sienna Miller). Martin just had a one-night stand with one of Carla’s friends, and she has the morning-after selfie to prove it. But what seems like an open-and-shut divorce case becomes much more complicated when it’s quickly revealed that Carla orchestrated the affair and the incriminating evidence to get out of her marriage with as much money as possible.
Is Carla, then, the villain? No, but she’s no hero either, and neither is Martin of the law firms they hire to handle their increasingly nasty divorce case. War, a new anthology series that takes a look at different fictional law cases in each season, intentionally blurs the moral lines so it’s hard to know who to root for — and who is telling the truth. That’s also the show’s main point, and the pleasure of watching War is seeing its characters transform into whoever they need to be to get what they want. The show’s characters are great to watch, but you’d never, ever want to meet them in real life.
‘Kill Jackie’ — AMC+
Why does everyone want to kill Jackie Price (Catherine Zeta-Jones)? She’s only a posh London art dealer who deals with even posher clients. Is it because she was a cocaine dealer who stole some money from some very bad men 20 years ago? Probably, which is why she has to get her Tarantino on, haul out the weaponry and defeat a group of assassins named the Seven Demons who all want her dead.
Kill Jackie is a pulp crime series that is more comic book than Michael Mann. It also steals “borrows” liberally from Kill Bill, right down to its title. Still, it’s fun seeing Zeta-Jones wearing haute couture while gunning down an assortment of weirdo assassins in exotic places. Is Kill Jackie a guilty pleasure? If it is, then, well, guilty as charged.
‘Tip Toe’ Season 1 – Starz
Next-door neighbors Leo (Alan Cumming) and Clive (David Morrissey) have almost nothing in common. Leo is a sixtysomething gay man and bar owner who is out, proud and infinitely patient. Clive is in his fifties, straight and unhappily married, and the father of two grown sons, one of whom is in the closet and the other is secretly an OnlyFans influencer who films content in his bedroom. When a nearly-nude Leo is locked out of his house after a hookup steals his laptop, he has no choice but to seek help from Clive, who gives him a spare key to his flat in case he needs a place to crash. Is this the start of a beautiful yet unlikely friendship?
In another time and place, sure, but this is Great Britain in 2026, and creator Russell T. Davies argues it’s more difficult than ever for a gay man and a straight man to relate to one another. Brexit, the rise of the Reform Party, and the manosphere have rolled back some of the progress made in the last 25 years, which is why some simple misunderstandings between Leo and Clive quickly balloon into an all-out war. Cumming is getting his pop-culture flowers right now as the campy host of The Traitors, but Tip Toe shows he’s also a fine actor who can still charm you one minute and break your heart the next. Tip Toe is often funny, sometimes (deliberately) comfortable and always rewarding to watch.
