This will make you want to cancel your Friday night plans. More than two years after its acclaimed first season captured viewers’ hearts, Apple TV+’s cross-generational family drama Pachinko returns for its highly anticipated second season, and it has lost none of what has made it so special in recent years.

The intimate series of So, Hughadapted from Min Jin LeeThe 2017 novel of the same name once again impresses with the way it uses multiple timelines to tell the story of a Korean family living in Japan in the 20th century. In the new season – the first episode of which is streaming now – the timelines move ever closer together and we see how Sunja’s (Kim Minha in the earlier timeline and Oscar winner Yuh-jung Youn In the latter case, her life at the end of World War II is connected and comparable to the life of her family, including her grandson Solomon (,).Jin Ha), in the 1980s. It’s another gripping chapter in one of TV’s best series, making “Pachinko” an award contender to watch this weekend.

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However, it is not the only show worth watching. Other candidates are:

• “Devilish”: In a perfect world, we would call this week’s episode the season finale. But we don’t live in a perfect world, so for now, “Fear of the End” is the last stop for the popular supernatural series, which first aired on CBS before moving to Paramount+. Creator Robert And Michelle King and star Katja Herbers have all expressed a desire to see the story continue beyond this week’s thrilling VR adventure. So if anyone out there is listening and wants to catch one of the best shows on TV before it’s too late, now’s your chance. Until then, you can stream the series finale on Paramount+.
• “The wild nineties”: If you can’t wait for more charming Netflix follow-ups to the popular sitcom That ’70s Show, you’re in luck, because the debut of Part 3 (or more accurately, the second half of Season 2, if you want to be precise) has been brought forward from its original October date. In the new episodes, Red (Kurt Wood Smith) and Kitty’s (Debra Jo Rupp) Granddaughter Leia (Callie Haverda) make some monumental life decisions and reveal some surprising news about Eric (Topher Grace) as well. All eight episodes are now available on Netflix.
• “Bad Monkey”: With each new episode comes another twist in this entertaining comedy about a former police detective (Vince Vaughn) in the Keys, determined to get his job back by solving a case involving a boating accident, a severed arm and a not-so-grieving widow. In this week’s episode, “Nobody Said He Was Alvin Einstein,” Yancy and Rosa (Natalie Martinez) plunge headlong into their investigations against Nick, the owner of the aforementioned arm, while Nick’s daughter accuses her stepmother (Meredith Hagner) of killing her father, which leads to a rather surprising discovery. The episode is now streaming on Apple TV+.

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