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
‘The Wheel of Time’ Season 3
Starts streaming: March 13
Season 1 of this handsome-looking fantasy series introduced the major characters and concepts from the first book of the novelist Robert Jordan’s hefty “The Wheel of Time” saga. Season 2 adapted parts of the second and third books, moving pieces into place for the grand apocalyptic battle prophesied at the start of the story. In Season 3, adapting “The Shadow Rising,” the heroes are tested by a journey into a desert wasteland. Rosamund Pike returns as the mystic Moiraine, who is helping a group of young people escape the shadowy forces pursuing them, leading them on a journey across a magical realm in danger of falling into ruin — just as it did thousands of years ago. Josha Stradowski plays Rand al’Thor, who could be his land’s last best hope to stand up against The Dark One, or the one to usher in a new age of chaos.
Also arriving:
March 6
“For the Win: NWSL”
“Picture This”
March 11
“Iliza Shlesinger: A Different Animal”
March 27
“Bosch: Legacy” Season 3
“Holland”
New to AMC+
‘Dark Winds’ Season 3
Starts streaming: March 9
The novelist Tony Hillerman’s “Leaphorn and Chee” series provides the inspiration for this combination neo-western and neo-noir. Zahn McClarnon plays Joe Leaphorn, a lieutenant in the Navajo Tribal Police, who looks after his own people while holding a healthy suspicion of outsiders. Kiowa Gordon plays Jim Chee, Joe’s deputy, who used to work undercover for the F.B.I., gaining intelligence on Indigenous political groups. “Dark Winds” combines complex mystery plots with an insider’s take on Navajo culture. Season 3 finds Joe and Jim investigating a mysterious disappearance in their jurisdiction while their colleague Bernadette Manuelito (Jessica Matten) begins a new job with the Border Patrol. Guest stars include Jenna Elfman and Bruce Greenwood, in a story that will leave Joe questioning his life’s purpose.
Also arriving:
March 3
“Recipes for Love and Murder” Season 2
March 7
“Starve Acre”
March 10
“The Gone” Season 2
March 18
“Wicked City” Seasons 1 and 2
March 21
“Bloody Axe Wound”
March 24
“The Eclipse”
March 28
“The Rule of Jenny Pen”
New to Apple TV+
‘Dope Thief’
Starts streaming: March 14
Ridley Scott directed the first episode of this moody crime drama, created by Peter Craig (co-writer of “The Town” and “The Batman”), adapting a Dennis Tafoya novel. Brian Tyree Henry plays Ray, who alongside his buddy Manny (Wagner Moura) runs a lucrative scam, in which they rob small-time Philadelphia drug dealers by pretending to be D.E.A. agents. When one of their raids inadvertently hits a major criminal outfit — costing the gangsters a lot of money and a lot of product — Ray and Manny find themselves on the run from both the mob and the real feds. Marin Ireland, Kate Mulgrew and Ving Rhames play supporting roles in this twisty tale, in which everyone involved is a little bit deluded, convinced they have control of a situation that could explode at any minute.
‘The Studio’ Season 1
Starts streaming: March 26
The comedy writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg have, in passing, dealt with the culture and business of Hollywood in their movies “This Is the End” and “The Interview.” But they dive more fully into the compromises and venality of showbiz with their comedy series “The Studio,” which has Rogen playing Matt Remick, the newly promoted head of Continental Studios. A true film buff, Matt has to balance his genuine desire to make great movies with the demands of a boss (Bryan Cranston) and a marketing guru (Kathryn Hahn) who would rather do licensing deals with Kool-Aid than bankroll masterpieces by Martin Scorsese. Each episode is filled with famous actors as themselves, including Steve Buscemi, Charlize Theron, Paul Dano and more.
Also arriving:
March 21
“BE@RBRICK” Season 1
March 26
“Side Quest” Season 1
New to Disney+
‘Daredevil: Born Again’
Starts streaming: March 4
It has been 10 years since the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s television division topped the Netflix ratings with “Daredevil,” an acclaimed series that kicked off a whole sub-universe of New York-set Marvel superhero shows — which then wound down in 2019, once Disney debuted its own streaming service. Disney+ is now the home to the “Daredevil” sequel, which takes its name from one of the most beloved Marvel Comics story lines of the mid-1980s, written by Frank Miller and illustrated by David Mazzucchelli. The Netflix series already partly adapted the “Born Again” comics. But this new show will have some thematic connections, telling a story in which the blind lawyer and superhero Matt Murdock (Daredevil, played by Charlie Cox) is rediscovering his passion for vigilantism, while his archnemesis Wilson Fisk (Kingpin, played by Vincent D’Onofrio), is leveraging his criminal power to make a move into politics.
Also arriving:
March 3
“Malawi Wildlife Rescue” Season 2
March 5
“Primos” Season 1
March 12
“Port Protection Alaska” Season 8
March 19
“Life Below Zero” Season 23
March 22
“Animals, They’re Just Like Us!” Season 1
March 24
“David Blaine Do Not Attempt”
March 28
“Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip”
New to Hulu
‘Deli Boys’ Season 1
Starts streaming: March 6
In the first episode of this crime comedy, a Pakistani immigrant (Iqbal Theba) who built a billion-dollar business conglomerate from his success with one Philadelphia convenience store, dies in a freak golfing accident. His two spoiled sons, Mir (Asif Ali) and Raj (Saagar Shaikh), expect to inherit the empire. But when the F.B.I. storms in and starts seizing assets, the boys discover their dad was heavily connected to organized crime, alongside his gun-toting business partner, Lucky Auntie (Poorna Jagannathan). As Mir and Raj work to rebuild their lives, they try to make the most of the one remaining piece of their legacy: that same convenience store where their father started.
‘Anora’
Starts streaming: March 17
By the time “Anora” makes its streaming debut on Hulu, it could be an Oscar-winner. One of the front-runners for best picture this year, this raucous dramedy stars Mikey Madison (a best actress nominee) as the title character, a Brooklyn stripper who gets seduced by Vanya (Mark Eydelshteyn), a rich, free-spending, wildly unreliable young Russian. The accomplished indie filmmaker Sean Baker (a nominee for best director and best original screenplay) presents the whirlwind romance as pure delirious sensation, giving the audience the same taste of the good life that Anora is enjoying. We then see what happens when Vanya’s parents try to pull the couple apart. The highs are high and the lows are low in this film, one of 2024’s most entertaining, emotionally draining movies.
Also arriving:
March 11
“Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna”
March 12
“Am I Being Unreasonable?” Season 2
March 13
“Control Freak”
March 14
“Bill Burr: Drop Dead Years”
March 19
“Gannibal” Season 2
“Good American Family”
“Hyper Knife”
March 20
“O’Dessa”
March 28
“Mid-Century Modern”
New to Max
‘The Righteous Gemstones’ Season 4
Starts streaming: March 9
“The Righteous Gemstones” creator and star Danny McBride has chosen to end the show with its fourth season; and depending on how this final run goes, the series could go down as his finest achievement as a comedian and writer, just edging out his HBO series “Eastbound & Down” and “Vice Principals.” “Gemstones” started as a raunchy parody of megachurch televangelists, but over the course of the first three seasons, McBride and his cast and crew have expanded their narrative scope to tell a multigenerational story about religion, power, family secrets and southern living. For Season 4, Megan Mullally and Seann William Scott join one of the funniest casts on television, which includes McBride as the ambitious, lustful preacher Jesse Gemstone, John Goodman as his controlling father, Walton Goggins as his sleazy uncle, and Adam DeVine and Eli Patterson as his very strange siblings.
Also arriving:
March 3
“Celtics City”
March 7
“Heretic”
“When No One Sees Us”
March 13
“The Parenting”
March 21
“Sing Sing”
March 27
“Paul American”
March 28
“Queer”
New to Paramount+
‘Happy Face’
Starts streaming: March 20
Dennis Quaid plays Keith Hunter Jesperson — the real-life serial murderer and rapist known as the Happy Face Killer — in this adaptation of the podcast “Happy Face” and the book “Shattered Silence,” both of which tell Jesperson’s story from the perspective of his daughter Melissa Moore. Annaleigh Ashford plays a lightly fictionalized version of Moore, renamed Melissa Reed, who when this mini-series begins is a syndicated daytime talk show makeup artist. When Melissa’s father contacts her out of the blue and says he wants to confess to another murder, her bosses urge her to reopen contact with him, thinking it could make for good TV. The conversations they have in prison prompt Melissa to reflect on her childhood and to confront memories she has long tried to avoid, about the darker impulses of a man she grew up loving.
Also arriving:
March 1
“Strange Darling”
March 3
“Rumours”
March 4
“Sin City Gigolo: A Murder in Las Vegas”
March 10
“Ringo & Friends at the Ryman”
March 11
“Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party”
New to Peacock
‘Long Bright River’
Starts streaming: March 13
Based on Liz Moore’s best-selling novel, this police procedural stars Amanda Seyfried as Mickey, a Philadelphia beat cop who takes a special interest in the drug-addicted women working the streets on her beat, because she knows that her sister is one of them. Adapted for television by Nikki Toscano (“Hunters,” “The Offer”), the mini-series may remind some prestige TV connoisseurs of “Mare of Easttown,” another location-specific drama about a determined Philly detective with a personal connection to her cases. But “Long Bright River” is set in a darker downtown world, where crime happens more or less out in the open — and at such a volume that it’s harder to focus on any one victim.
Also arriving:
March 7
“Hitpig!”
March 16
“Yellowstone” Season 5, Part 2
March 21
“Wicked”
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