Analysis: Hulu’s ‘The Patient’ has just the cure for your streaming woes

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As we slide into September, it’s time to rotate out that warm weather wardrobe for something more conducive to the temps dropping.

I’m not quite ready to give up my sandals just yet, but I will gladly spend more time indoors – there’s so much to watch and listen to, after all.

‘The Patient’

Steve Carell became one of my favorite stars to interview years ago, and that pretty much guarantees I want to watch everything he is in.

So count me in for new Hulu series “The Patient” in which Carell stars as a therapist whose patient (played by Domhnall Gleeson) takes him hostage, confesses to being a serial killer and demands to be cured of his homicidal ways.

Sounds easy enough, right?

It’s streaming on Hulu now.

‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Season 3

I love how, after all these years, there is still more of the “Star Trek” universe to explore.

In this animated series, the support crew of the starship USS Cerritos have their stories told. Season 3 finds the ship impounded and the crew seeking justice for their captain, as well as engaged in all sorts of other interplanetary hijinks.

Sci-fi, comedy and animation make for an entertaining trio.

The first two episodes of the new season are streaming on Paramount+.

‘The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family’

Long-time Tudorphile over here, so this new PBS series is right up my alley.

A three-part historical documentary, “The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family” charts the meteoric rise – and equally seismic fall – of the Boleyn family in Tudor England.

Of course, Anne Boleyn was one of Henry VIII’s wives – the second wife, but first to lose her head, literally. But she was not the only Boleyn to have charmed the King; PBS describes the series as “a thrilling story of love, sex, betrayal and obsession played out in a Tudor court rife with gossip, backstabbing rivalries and intrigue.”
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