Six series and a documentary to watch this week

If you're still connected to The Walking Dead universe, then you can't miss the journey of Daryl Dixon, one of the most beloved characters from the original series, played by Norman Reedus. The third season arrives in Portugal one day after its US premiere, and new episodes—seven in all—will arrive weekly.

Madalena Almeida, Maria João Bastos, Ana Vilela da Costa, Lúcia Moniz, Gabriela Barros, Kelly Bailey, and Daniela Ruah play seven spies who will reshape Portugal during World War II—fictional, of course. It all takes place in 1942, and Portugal is presented in the series as a haven for European espionage due to its stance on the conflict. It is in this context that the spies are contacted by MI6 with the mission of discovering the whereabouts of German submarines in the Atlantic. September kicks off on RTP1 with a thriller on Mondays.

These days, it seems like a lot to ask when it takes a few episodes for something big to happen. Especially if the wait is for a fifth episode. Even more so if the series only has seven. But Task comes with baggage: it's the new series from Brad Ingelsby, who created the fabulous Mare of Easttown a few years ago. If Kate Winslet seemed tired as Mare, here it's Mark Ruffalo's turn. Tom is an FBI agent who expected anything but to be taken off the shelf to investigate a serious case. Overweight, disillusionment palpable in every move, Tom is invited to create a team to investigate a series of crimes taking place in the Philadelphia suburbs. He doesn't know it, but we do: Robbie (Tom Pelphrey) leads a group that robs drug dealers' houses. Less Robin Hood and more revenge plot. These suburbs won't be unfamiliar to anyone who watched Ingelsby's previous series; they're a forgotten place, terrified by the very consequences of their existence. The problem here is the gangs and the way they control everything in a place ravaged by drugs. Unfortunately for Tom, shortly after starting the investigation, Robbie oversteps his bounds, and a robbery goes wrong, ending with a lot of drugs on hand and the kidnapping of a child. The case becomes more serious. This is a police procedural that doesn't meet the time demands of the 2025 viewer. But the reward for those who stick with Task is wonderful.

As if there weren't enough reasons to watch new things on television this week, the fifth season of one of the best comedies of recent years also premieres. The Arconia, the Manhattan building where almost everything happens in this series starring Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez, continues to be a place where dead people appear. As in previous seasons, expect a good list of illustrious guests.

Based on the novel of the same name by Michelle Frances, The Girlfriend is the first major series of Amazon's streaming service's reopening. Starring Robin Wright (who directs three of the episodes), Olivia Cooke, and Laurie Davidson, this six-episode series tells a story familiar to many households: what suspicions arise when a mother dislikes her son's new girlfriend? Less familiar is the question that follows: how far is the mother willing to go when the plot takes unexpected turns? The answers are surprising, and the script has generated some buzz.

Issa Rae (Insecure) is behind this project, an idea she came up with a few years ago when she began noticing patterns in how certain trends related to the representation of Black actors on television faded and then reappeared. A two-part documentary about stereotypes and revolution, with guests including Oprah Winfrey, Shonda Rhimes, and Norman Lear.

Clyde Phillips was the showrunner of the original Dexter series for its first four seasons. If memory serves, the fourth season is the one that brought John Lithgow into the fold, playing the Trinity Killer, Dexter's best villain and the one who posed the series' first major challenge. Would it end there or continue? Unfortunately for us, it continued, now without Phillips, and the quality plummeted. These latest iterations of Dexter—New Blood, Original Sin, and this Resurrection—are back under the direction of the showrunner who made the series a hit about fifteen years ago. The first two episodes of Resurrection premiere this week on SkyShowtime, with new episodes arriving weekly. The story of New Blood continues: Dexter (Michael C. Hall) isn't dead after all, and he goes searching for his son, Harrison (Jack Alcott), in New York. We haven't seen it yet, but critics have been very positive about this new reincarnation of one of our favorite serial killers.