What to Watch on TV: Gentefied, Passing, Yellowstone

Welcome to a new week and another round of What to Watch on TV for the week of November 7th! We’ll be sharing our picks for what to watch this week, from marathons to big guest spots, and significant episodes of TV to look forward to while stuck inside.

This week’s picks include Gentefied’s return, Passing’s hits streaming, and more.  

Here are our recommendations for what to watch on TV this week:

Dexter: New Blood – Sunday, November 7

Dexter is back and living his life 10 years after everyone thought he had died. The revival follows him as he lives his life under an assumed name in upstate New York and it all seems normal until someone from his past returns. Dexter: New Blood debuts Sunday, November 7 at 9/8c on Showtime.

Series Description: The world at large believes Dexter Morgan died in a tragic boating accident, and in a way the world at large isn’t wrong. Far from the life he knew, living under a false name in the small town of Iron Lake, N.Y., he’s successfully tamped down his Dark Passenger for nearly 10 years. With a normal job and a girlfriend who’s chief of police, it seems he’s got life under control — until his son shows up and turns his world upside down. Rattled, Dexter yields to his homicidal urges and soon finds himself on a collision course with a very dangerous local.

Yellowstone – Sunday, November 7

The gritty, rough world filled with feuding families, corruption, and greed in the Midwest returns with a two-hour premiere. Yellowstone returns Sunday, November 7 at 8/7c on the Paramount Network.

Episode Description: The coordinated attack on the Duttons continues, as everyone searches for answers on who is responsible. Rip delivers on a promise.

Clifford the Big Red Dog – Wednesday, November 10

After endless roasting a few months ago, The Big Red is ready to make his formal live-action debut with the new film that follows this canine’s adventures with his new humans, Emily Elizabeth and her uncle Casey. Clifford the Big Red Dog makes its streaming premiere Wednesday, November 10 on Paramount+.

Movie Description: When Emily Elizabeth meets a magical animal rescuer who gives her a little red puppy, she never anticipated waking up to find a giant, 10-foot hound in her small New York City apartment. With her single mother away on business, Emily and her fun but impulsive uncle set out on an adventure that takes a bite out of the Big Apple.

Gentefied – Wednesday, November 10

After what seems like a long hiatus, Erik, Ana, Pops, Chris, and the entire crew are back and ready to pick things up where they left off as they continue to strive to keep everything they hold dear together in a changing world. Gentefied returns Wednesday, November 10 on Netflix.

Season Description: Created by two Chicano first-gen writers, Gentefied is a half-hour dramatic comedy adapted from the 2017 Sundance digital darling of the same name. In this badass bilingual series about family, community, brown love, and the displacement that disrupts it all, three Mexican American cousins struggle to chase the American Dream, even while that same dream threatens the things they hold most dear: their neighborhood, their immigrant grandfather, and the family taco shop. Set in a rapidly changing Los Angeles, the Spanglish dramedy will navigate important themes like identity, class, and balancing insta-fame with translating memes for their parents. But most importantly, Gentefied will settle once and for all how to pronounce Latinx.

Passing – Wednesday, November 10

Adapted by the novel of the same name, the film tells the story of two Black women who take diverging paths in how they go about living their lives during the Harlem Renaissance. Starring a stellar cast led by Ruth Negga and Tessa Thompson, Passing makes its streaming debut Wednesday, November 10 on Netflix.

Movie Description: Adapted from the celebrated 1929 novel of the same name by Nella Larsen, PASSING tells the story of two Black women, Irene Redfield (Tessa Thompson) and Clare Kendry (Academy Award nominee Ruth Negga), who can “pass” as white but choose to live on opposite sides of the color line during the height of the Harlem Renaissance in late 1920s New York. After a chance encounter reunites the former childhood friends one summer afternoon, Irene reluctantly allows Clare into her home, where she ingratiates herself to Irene’s husband (André Holland) and family, and soon her larger social circle as well. As their lives become more deeply intertwined, Irene finds her once-steady existence upended by Clare, and PASSING becomes a riveting examination of obsession, repression and the lies people tell themselves and others to protect their carefully constructed realities.

South Side – Thursday, November 11

The Comedy Central series heads to HBO Max with a new season continuing to follow the exploits of two friends as they follow their dreams to become venture capitalists while working their non-VC jobs post-college. South Side returns Thursday, November 11 on HBOMax.

Series Description: Two friends and aspiring venture capitalists who just graduated from community college are ready to take over the world but must work at a rent-to-own store in Chicago’s Englewood neighbourhood until then.

The Shrink Next Door – Friday, November 12

The latest Apple TV+ limited series is a dark comedy that follows the shifting, dysfunctional dynamic of a psychiatrist and their longtime patient. The Shrink Next Door drops Friday, November 12 on Apple TV+.

Series Description: How a seemingly normal dynamic between a charming psychiatrist and a longtime patient morph into an exploitative relationship filled with manipulation, power grabs, and dysfunction.

Red Notice – Friday, November 12

An FBI profiler and an art thief team up to chase down one of the world’s most wanted criminals, “The Bishop.” With a cast that includes The Rock and Ryan Reynolds, things are about to get ludicrous. Red Notice drops Friday, November 12 on Netflix.

Movie Description: When an Interpol-issued Red Notice — the highest-level warrant to hunt and capture the world’s most wanted— goes out, the FBI’s top profiler John Hartley (Dwayne Johnson) is on the case. His global pursuit finds him smack dab in the middle of a daring heist where he’s forced to partner with the world’s greatest art thief Nolan Booth (Ryan Reynolds) in order to catch the world’s most wanted art thief, “The Bishop” (Gal Gadot). The high-flying adventure that ensues takes the trio around the world, across the dance floor, trapped in a secluded prison, into the jungle and, worst of all for them, constantly into each other’s company.

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Those are our picks for the week! What are you planning to watch? Share in the comments below!

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