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Lucky has spent her whole life running cons, and now a multi-million-dollar heist has collapsed around her. On the run with both the FBI and a crime boss closing in, she is fighting for an exit and for her life. The limited series premieres July 15 on Apple TV, and it comes from Marissa Stapley’s novel, a Reese’s Book Club pick told as one self-contained story rather than a sprawling saga. Anya Taylor-Joy plays the lead. If you would rather read ahead, a single book covers everything the show is built on, and the audiobook is narrated by AudioFile Golden Voice narrator Soneela Nankani.

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Two hundred years before Game of Thrones, House Targaryen turns on itself, and the dynasty’s slow slide into civil war is the whole engine here. Season 3 is well underway on HBO, with the fourth episode landing Sunday night. Dragons, contested succession, and a family that cannot stop feeding on its own resentments carry the story from one hard turn to the next. The stakes have only climbed as the two sides harden. If you drifted away earlier in the run, the Sunday slot is a clean place to pick it back up.

Thousands of people live out their entire lives inside a giant silo buried deep underground, told that the air outside will kill them. After a sheriff broke the silo’s cardinal rule and deaths followed, the engineer Juliette kept pulling at threads the authorities would rather she leave alone. Season 3 continues streaming on Apple TV this Friday, pushing further into the questions of who built the place and why. It is a slow-burn mystery that rewards paying attention to small details, and this stretch keeps tightening the noose around the truth.

Paula is a newly divorced mom who tumbles into a mess of blackmail, murder, and youth soccer politics after becoming convinced she witnessed a crime. While a custody battle and an identity crisis pull at her from every direction, she runs her own investigation, one that could either expose a larger conspiracy or help her rebuild her family and her sense of self. The first season wraps on Apple TV this Wednesday with its tenth episode, so this is the finale. Everything the season has been circling comes to a head here.

Set on the South Side of Chicago, The Chi follows a group of neighbors whose lives keep crossing through coincidence and a shared need for connection and redemption. Across eight seasons it has tracked its characters from childhood into adulthood, through love, loss, ambition, and hard choices, holding a whole block’s worth of stories together. This is the show’s final season on Paramount+, and its series finale is coming up soon, so the Friday episode is part of the wind-down. For a run this long, the last stretch carries real weight for anyone who has stayed with it.

The Westies drops into Hell’s Kitchen as the Jacob Javits Convention Center goes up on the gang’s home turf, promising a windfall worth fighting over. Outnumbered fifty to one by the Italian Mafia’s Five Families, the Irish crew has held its ground through sheer brutality and nerve, keeping a fragile truce intact. The premiere, “The Troubles,” cracks that truce open: a reckless kidnapping unravels the deal, Flanagan is released from Bellevue and rejoins Roarke’s crew, Keenan gets pulled onto an FBI task force, and Bridget takes a dangerous job from an IRA contact. It starts Sunday on MGM+.

Rick is a genius scientist with a mean streak and a drinking problem, and Morty is the nervous grandson he keeps dragging across dimensions. Season 9 rolls on with “Rickuiem Mort a Dream,” airing late Sunday on Adult Swim. As usual, expect the show’s mix of sci-fi absurdity and family dysfunction, plus whatever cosmic mess the two of them stumble into this time. Nine seasons in, it still runs on the same engine: Rick’s schemes, Morty’s protests, and the collateral damage to everyone standing nearby.

Inspired by the life of pro player Spencer Paysinger, All American started with a South Central Los Angeles football talent recruited to play in Beverly Hills, and the collision between those two worlds has driven it ever since. Season 8 opens Monday on The CW with “Rewind.” It picks up about six months after the playoff game between Beverly and Crenshaw, with a stretch of days ahead that quietly reshape the characters’ lives just as summer break arrives. The premiere resets the board for Cassius, KJ, and the rest before the next chapter gets going.

Lestat has turned his immortality into a rock career, touring while old muses from his past keep surfacing to haunt him. As the band climbs, his sway over both vampires and humans grows, and the looming Great Conversion hangs over everyone around him. This week’s episode, “Montreal,” has the band’s new album hitting the charts while Lestat and Louis argue over whether to meet an old neighbor who could dredge up painful history. By the end, Louis learns Lestat’s biggest secret, and he is a long way from understanding. It streams Sunday on AMC+.

Big Brother locks a group of strangers inside a camera-rigged house and films them around the clock while they scheme, argue, and vote each other out one by one. Season 28 is just getting going on CBS, with the second episode airing Sunday night as the house sorts itself into its first alliances. The last houseguest standing walks away with half a million dollars. This is the part of the season where nobody trusts anyone yet and the earliest power moves start to take shape, which is often when the whole thing is at its most watchable.

Anna and Tom Bowden are married attorneys who once helped put a killer named Max Cady behind bars. Now Cady is out, and he has come looking for vengeance, turning the couple’s settled life into something closer to a siege. Season 1 continues streaming on Apple TV this Friday with its eighth episode, tightening the screws as Cady works his way toward the family. It is a slow, menacing thriller built on the feeling that the threat is always one step closer than it looks, and the pressure only builds from here.

John Sugar is a private investigator with an old-fashioned code, working the disappearance of Olivia Siegel, granddaughter of a legendary Hollywood producer. The deeper he digs, the more Siegel family secrets he turns up, some fresh and some buried for decades. Season 2 continues on Apple TV this Friday with its fifth episode, carrying forward the case and the stranger currents running beneath it. It keeps one foot in classic detective territory and the other somewhere harder to pin down, and this run leans further into that second half.