Every month, streaming services add movies and TV shows to their libraries. Here are our picks for some of March’s most promising new titles. (Note: Streaming services occasionally change schedules without giving notice. For more recommendations on what to stream, sign up for our Watching newsletter here.)
New to Amazon Prime Video
‘Scarpetta’ Season 1 Starts streaming: March 11
The mystery writer Patricia Cornwell is best known for creating Kay Scarpetta, a Virginia medical examiner who first appeared in Cornwell’s 1990 debut novel. In the decades since, multiple Scarpetta movie projects have stalled in the development phase. Now the character is finally making it to the screen, in a TV series, with Nicole Kidman playing Kay and Jamie Lee Curtis playing her sister Dorothy. The “Scarpetta” showrunner is Elizabeth Sarnoff, whose writing credits include “Deadwood,” “Lost” and “Barry.” The creative team — which also includes the director and producer David Gordon Green — is taking an unusual approach to the first season, with a mystery that has the older Scarpetta reinvestigating her first big case. Rosy McEwen plays the young Kay, in a story that jumps between the past and present, taking advantage of 30-plus years of Cornwell’s lore.
Also arriving:
March 2 “Siren’s Kiss” “Tribunal Justice” Season 3
March 4 “Young Sherlock” Season 1
March 18 “Invincible” Season 4
March 19 “Meal Ticket”
March 20 “Agent Zeta” “Deadloch” Season 2 “Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat”
March 25 “Bait” Season 1 “Pretty Lethal”
March 27 “House of David” Season 2
New to Apple TV
‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Starts streaming: March 27
One of Apple TV’s longest-running series returns for a fifth season of alternate-history science-fiction thrills. Season 1 began in 1969 with the Soviets landing on the moon ahead of the United States, sparking an accelerated space race. Season 4 is set in 2012, in a version of our universe where humanity has a mining colony on Mars, controlled largely by a tech billionaire but run by an increasingly disgruntled collection of workers and soldiers. Most of Season 1’s heroes are either dead or very old, but the show has been cycling in new characters each year. Season 5 signals something of a transition for “For All Mankind,” as a group of young people who have lived most of their lives on Mars find themselves involved in the next phase of space exploration: the search for intelligent alien life.
Also arriving:
March 4 “The Hunt”
March 18 “Imperfect Women”
New to Disney+
‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2 Starts streaming: March 24
The first season of this Marvel Cinematic Universe TV series had a complicated production history, with a big change in creative direction that required reshoots and re-editing. So if nothing else, fans should expect Season 2 of “Daredevil: Born Again” to have a more consistent vision, led by the showrunner Dario Scardapane. Charlie Cox returns as the blind lawyer Matt Murdock, who uses his well-trained physical dexterity and his enhanced sensitivity to sound to fight crime as Daredevil. In Season 1, the hero’s archnemesis — the criminal boss Wilson Fisk, a.k.a. Kingpin (Vincent D’Onofrio) — became the mayor of New York City and launched a campaign against vigilantes. In Season 2, Daredevil has to find allies — including an old friend, the private detective Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) — to push back against Kingpin.
Also arriving:
March 1 “Vet Detective”
March 8 “Ghost Elephants”
March 24 “Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special” “Magicampers”
New to HBO Max
‘Rooster’ Season 1 Starts streaming: March 8
The prolific TV creator Bill Lawrence (“Scrubs,” “Ted Lasso,” “Shrinking”) takes on modern campus life in this new comedy, set at a small liberal arts college. Steve Carell plays Greg Russo, a mild-mannered novelist who writes punchy crime novels about a tough guy detective named Rooster. His daughter Katie (Charly Clive), an art history professor, is still reeling from a recent separation from her philandering husband, Archie (Phil Dunster), when Greg comes to visit. Through a chain of circumstances, Greg ends up accepting an offer from the university president (John C. McGinley) to be an author-in-residence, which he hopes will help him keep a closer eye on the emotionally unstable Katie. But he will need advice from his new colleague Dylan (Danielle Deadwyler) about how to connect with today’s students.
‘Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare’ Starts streaming: March 10
From James Jones, the director of the chilling documentary “Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes,” comes this very similar film, which also uses rare footage and survivors’ testimonials to tell the story of a horrifying disaster that could have been worse. “Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare” begins on March 11, 2011, the day that a huge earthquake caused a tsunami that washed across the northeast coast of Japan, killing thousands and leaving apocalyptic destruction in its wake. The wave also swamped the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, knocking out its cooling systems and causing radiation levels to rise rapidly. Jones and his co-director, Megumi Inman, reconstruct the crisis-management that followed, as a group of plant employees risked their lives to keep the entire plant from exploding. The images from those days are startling; and the tales of what these workers had to overcome are inspiring.
Also arriving:
March 1 “DTF St. Louis”
March 6 “Fackham Hall” “Women’s Hell” Season 1
March 13 “Mira: Life After Divorce” Season 1
March 16 “Born to Bowl”
March 19 “Colosio: Political Assassination”
March 22 “The Comeback” Season 3
March 27 “From the World of John Wick: Ballerina” “Privileges” Season 1
New to Hulu
‘It Was Just an Accident’ Starts streaming: March 1
The winner of the top prize at the Cannes film festival last year, this Iranian drama follows a handful of former political prisoners as they abduct and subdue a man who may have tortured them years ago, when they were detained and blindfolded. With only the sounds of their captive’s voice and squeaky prosthetic leg as identifiers, this eclectic bunch argues over whether they even have the right person — and if they do, how they should punish him. Written and directed by Jafar Panahi (himself imprisoned by the state more than once), “It Was Just an Accident” balances moments of high suspense with moments of farcical humor. The movie’s characters navigate a modern Iran where the government’s control over daily life is sometime iron-fisted and sometimes frustratingly petty and bureaucratic.
‘The Secret Agent’ Starts streaming: March 1
Nominated for four Oscars this year — including best picture and best actor — this Brazilian political drama is set in the late 1970s, at a time when the country’s authoritarian rulers were flexing their power against an emerging movement toward democracy and human rights. Wagner Moura stars as Armando, a former college professor and activist who has been hiding under an assumed name since his wife died. Written and directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho, “The Secret Agent” has the basic plot of a thriller, with Armando working alongside fellow dissidents while dodging would-be assassins. But the movie is really more an impressionistic portrait of this time, depicting what it’s like to live in a place where basic political expression can lead to the loss of a career and the destruction of a family.
‘Sentimental Value’ Starts streaming: March 23
The Academy Awards ceremony is on March 15 this year, so by the time this Norwegian family drama arrives on Hulu, it could be an Oscar winner. Stellan Skarsgard (a best supporting actor nominee) plays Gustav Borg, a famous movie director who intends to use his heavily autobiographical new project to heal his fractured relationship with his two daughters: the neurotic actress Nora (Renate Reinsve, a best actress nominee) and the more down-to-earth wife and mother Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, a best supporting actress nominee). When Nora balks at her father’s demands, Gustav proceeds without her but finds that working on the film dredges up painful memories, for his children and for himself. In “Sentimental Value,” Joachim Trier (a best director and best original screenplay nominee) shows movingly how some artists try to turn their messy lives into work that they hope will endure beyond their lifetimes.
Also arriving:
March 4 “RJ Decker” Season 1
March 6 “Friends Like These: The Murder of Skylar Neese”
March 11 “Sunny Nights” Season 1
March 12 “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” Season 4
March 15 “Rooster Fighter”
March 27 “Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice”
March 28 “Dangerous Animals”
March 31 “If It’s Tuesday … It’s Murder”
New to Paramount+
‘The Madison’ Season 1 Starts streaming: March 14
The writer-producer-director Taylor Sheridan is known for TV shows like “Yellowstone” and “Landman,” about rugged men and women who work mostly outdoors — except when they have to squirm their way through meetings in big city boardrooms. His latest series, “The Madison,” inverts this formula. Michelle Pfeiffer plays Stacy Clyburn, the matriarch of a family that lives a comfortable high-society life in Manhattan. Her husband, Preston (Kurt Russell), on the other hand, prefers to spend his share of the Clyburn fortune on fishing trips in Montana with his brother, Paul (Matthew Fox). When circumstances lead to Stacy visiting Preston and Paul’s rustic getaway, she and her grown daughters and granddaughters have to learn to appreciate a life away from high-end restaurants and upscale shopping.
Also arriving:
Mar. 6 “The Pink Pill: Sex, Drugs & Who Has Control”
Mar. 13 “Not Without Hope”
Mar. 31 “F.B.I. True” Season 8
New to Peacock
‘Top Chef’ Season 23 Starts streaming: March 9
Longtime “Top Chef” viewers may wonder why this year’s competition is subtitled “Carolinas,” given that the series — which changes locations every season — already set Season 14 in Charleston, S.C. But Season 23 does in fact turn a spotlight on some new cities, as some of the world’s most talented chefs gather first in Charlotte, N.C., and then in Greenville, S.C., for culinary challenges that incorporate regional delicacies and cultural landmarks. (Yes, there will be barbecue. And Carolina Reaper peppers. And NASCAR.) The judges Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons return, alongside the host, judge and former contestant Kristen Kish, who in her impressive tenure so far has shown a lot of empathy for what these competitors endure.
Also arriving:
March 5 “Ted” Season 2
March 6 “Hamnet”
March 13 “It’s Dorothy!”
March 20 “Wicked: For Good” “Wicked: For Good — Jon M. Chu Commentary Version” “Wicked: For Good — Sing Along”
March 27 “Bambi: The Reckoning”
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