8 New TV Shows to Watch This Weekend on Netflix, Prime Video, and HBO (November 13-15)

From the return of one of the biggest fantasy series, to a new Netflix horror

It’s a big weekend for new TV. VisionQuest has concluded its first season, including a post-credits scene with big implications for Avengers: Doomsday. The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power is back with a third season, continuing the story of a Middle-earth set thousands of years before Bilbo and Frodo Baggins. The Body is also available on Netflix, delivering a fun and campy high school drama with some religious horror thrown in the mix.

Thriller lovers have some shows to look forward to. The Good Daughter, a 6-episode series based on Karin Slaughter's bestseller, has just been released. It’s adapted by Slaughter herself, making her the rare novelist who’s also the showrunner for her own story. There’s also 12 12 12, starring Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan, as two men involved in a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game that starts with a robbery.

We have a few picks for lovers of documentary and true crime. Murder in Galicia is streaming on Netflix, telling the story of the murder of 66-year-old Isabel Fuente, who was beaten in her sleep, with her husband claiming that some intruders had gotten inside their house.

There’s also HBO’s Silent Night, a series based on the murders that took place on Christmas Eve in 1976 in a small community in Poland. Lastly, if you want something a little breezier, there’s The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County, premiering on Hulu and Disney. Happy watching!

1 The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power

• Available on Prime Video
• Genre: Fantasy
• Episode count: 8
• Cast: Morfydd Clark, Robert Aramayo, Charlie Vickers.

The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power is back with a third season, exploring the tales of Middle-earth thousands of years before the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Season 3 tries to course-correct a series that has never managed to get things right. Set five years after the events of season 2 and billed as a soft reboot to welcome in new watchers, the season finds Sauron establishing his power.

Per our Polygon review:

Prequels always have difficulty justifying their existence since it’s a foregone conclusion how the story will end. Last season, Rings of Power leaned into that inevitability in the same way as the Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon, building a Shakespearean tragedy from the corruption of the dwarf king Durin III (Peter Mullan) and the elven smith Celebrimbor (Charles Edwards). There’s still some of that in season 3 as the island kingdom of Númenor and the dwarven stronghold of Khazad-dûm inch closer to their dark fates. But the show also spends too much time taking the same approach as Solo: A Star Wars Story, providing unnecessary origins for everything from the construction plans of Lothlorien to the origins Gandalf’s hat.

2 The Body

• Available on Netflix
• Genre: Horror-comedy
• Episode count: 8
• Cast: Kristina Bogic, Geena Meszarous, Sara Boustany

The Body is set in 2004 and follows a dance team at a Catholic High School located somewhere in the Northeast. After partying too hard and botching a dance initiation ceremony, the girls inspire a mass hysteria in the town, with residents believing they have a saint in their midst.

Per our Polygon review:

One of the best parts of The Body is its many references. Shephard borrows archetypes and textures from films like Bring It On, Mean Girls, and White Chicks. Story-wise, there are clear shades of The Crucible and The Exorcist. The show’s cast of characters take these archetypes and complicate them. With dyed eyebrows and a sweet but alienating approach, Lisbeth feels like Needy from Jennifer’s Body with a dash of Brigitte from Ginger Snaps. Anya and Elise are clear successors to Bring It On’s Torrance and Missy, who raised a generation of queer viewers with their ridiculously charged friendship. But the great thing about The Body is that even though it depicts the aughts and the social concerns of the era, it’s made in 2026, allowing the writers to revisit these tropes and probe further.

3 The Good Daughter

• Available on Peacock
• Genre: Thriller
• Episode count: 6
• Cast: Rose Byrne, Meghann Fahy, Brendan Gleeson

Set in Georgia, The Good Daughter follows two estranged sisters reunited by a school shooting that may be closely tied to their past. The women have spent years apart due to an incident in their childhoods, when a group of men broke into their home, killing their mother and leaving one of them gravely injured.

4 12 12 12

• Available on Apple TV
• Genre: Crime-thriller
• Episode count: 8
• Cast: Anthony Mackie, Jamie Dornan, Kali Reis

Following a massive heist in Europe, 12 12 12 follows three timelines and two main characters: Paul (Jamie Dornan), the skilled criminal who pulled off the heist, and Jack (Anthony Mackie), a disgraced FBI agent with a personal vendetta against Paul.

5 Murder in Galicia

• Available on Netflix
• Genre: Crime
• Episode count: 3
• Cast: Tristan Ulloa, Miguel Borines, Carlos Blanco

Based on the real-life crime of Isabel Fuente, “Murder in Galicia” is a scripted series following a seemingly perfect aging couple based in a small town in Spain. After the woman is almost beaten to death after a break-in at their house, a civil guard becomes convinced that the culprit is actually the husband.

6 Silent Night

• Available on HBO Max
• Genre: True crime
• Episode count: 6
• Cast: Lukasz Simlat, Dariusz Chojnacki, Tomasz Wlosok

Based on a series of notorious crimes that took place on Christmas Eve in a small town in ‘70s Poland, the 6-episode series tells the story of the three murders that were committed on a snowy night in the town, initially staged as a hit-and-run.

7 The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County

• Available on Netflix
• Genre: Reality TV
• Episode count: 8
• Cast: N/A

The spin-off series trades the internet-famous Salt Lake City moms and swaps them for a new location: Orange County. The new reality series follows a new batch of influencers and features moments captured in famous reality TV destinations like Laguna Beach and Huntington Beach.

8 Power

• Available on Netflix
• Genre: Crime
• Episode count: 63
• Cast: Omari Hardwick, Joseph Sikora, 50 Cent

Power, the Starz series that ran for six seasons, is now available on Netflix in full. The show follows a wealthy New York City club owner who’s also a drug kingpin and is trying to leave his life of crime behind to protect and focus on his family.