Issue 13 — Prime Video Ate The Week And A Dog Went Missing In Atlanta

Netflix announced this week that its live-action Scooby-Doo series, now officially titled Scooby-Doo: Origins, has started production in Atlanta — and the first-look photos reveal the Mystery Inc. gang with one small casting note. No Scooby. The dog is not in the photos. Per Variety, the dog — the title character, the reason the franchise exists, the guy whose name is literally in the name of the show — is absent from the first look. They've got Mckenna Grace as Daphne and a Fred and a Velma and a Shaggy, and somewhere in Atlanta a CGI artist is getting notes about "dog energy" from a 34-year-old VP of Content. This is the streaming business in 2026. Make Scooby-Doo. Forget the Doo. Spend $80 million. Put it on the carousel between a Korean thriller and a documentary about a woman who married a ghost.

Anyway, here's what actually dropped.

The Boys, Season 5 (Prime Video)

The final season of The Boys is here and Homelander is still doing the thing where he smiles at a crowd and then privately threatens to liquefy an intern. Eric Kripke gets to land this plane, which is more than most showrunners get — ask anyone who worked on GLOW. Karl Urban is still chewing every piece of scenery that isn't nailed down. Antony Starr is still the best villain on television and nobody's going to give him an Emmy because the Academy thinks superhero means Marvel. Episode's called "King of Hell." Sounds about right.

Invincible, Season 5 (Prime Video)

The other animated show where a dad beats his son into a building is back. Invincible has quietly become the best superhero thing going, and the new episode is called "DON'T LEAVE ME HANGING HERE," which, you know, fine, the caps are a choice. J.K. Simmons is still voicing Omni-Man like he's reading a divorce filing. Steven Yeun is still good at everything. If you've been waiting for the week where Prime Video owns the whole weekend, this is it — they've got this, they've got Butcher, and they've got a cat.

Kevin (Prime Video)

Speaking of. Kevin is a new animated comedy from Aubrey Plaza and Joe Wengert about a housecat who decides he doesn't want to live with humans anymore, loosely based — per the synopsis — on a real breakup and a real cat. So this is Plaza processing a relationship by making Jason Schwartzman voice a cat having an existential crisis for Amazon. Amy Sedaris and Aparna Nancherla are in it. It's probably either great or completely unwatchable, which is the correct ratio for an animated show about a cat's divorce. Six votes on TMDb. I'm gonna watch it.

Euphoria, Season 3 (HBO Max)

It's been four years. Four years since season 2 of Euphoria. Four years of Sam Levinson saying things like "I'm writing it in a bunker" and Zendaya winning Emmys for other shows and Sydney Sweeney becoming — per The Hollywood Reporter's Winners & Losers column this week — the only person in Hollywood who isn't losing. The new season is finally here. The episode is called "America My Dream," which is either going to be profound or going to be two hours of a neon-lit high schooler monologuing about capitalism through eyeliner. Could be both. Will be both. I will watch every minute of it and complain the whole time.

FROM, Season 4 (Prime Video)

The show where a bunch of people are trapped in a town with monsters and nobody can explain why and after four seasons they're still not going to explain why. Harold Perrineau deserves combat pay. If you started this, you finish this. If you haven't started, don't start now — the water is deep and the bottom is somehow deeper.

Unchosen (Netflix)

British six-parter about a young mother from a cult having an affair. Christopher Eccleston is in it, which means somebody's going to get yelled at in a kitchen. Asa Butterfield is the mysterious stranger, which — Asa Butterfield, the kid from Hugo, is now playing adult seducers in cult dramas, and this is how you know time is real and moving forward and nobody is coming to save us. Seven votes, 8.4 rating. Probably great. It's British, it's sad, it's about religion and sex, and Netflix will bury it under the sixth season of a Spanish dating show in about nine days.

The rest

We Are All Trying Here is a Korean drama about a failed director and a burned-out producer, and the early ratings are extremely high from a very small sample, which on TMDb usually means five Korean drama Reddit mods discovered it and are voting accordingly. Worth a look if you like your television quiet and your characters in pain. The Rookie season 9, NCIS season 23, SVU season 27, Law & Order season 25 all rolled over another episode this week. Nathan Fillion, Mariska Hargitay, and whoever is currently playing the DA on Law & Order will outlive us all. These shows will air on Hulu in 2047 alongside whatever procedural the AI has generated that week about a detective who also makes soup.

Also: per Decider, Richard Gadd's new HBO show Half Man dropped, and he's being sued for $170 million over Baby Reindeer, which is the kind of thing that either kills a career or makes it, and in his case appears to be making it. Nothing more Hollywood than parlaying a defamation suit into a second series.

Pick of the Week

Invincible, season 5, on Prime Video. The Boys is going to be great and I'll be there. But Invincible has been the more consistent show for three seasons running, and a new season premiere is the one thing this week where you can sit down, hit play, and know you're going to get exactly what you want — which is animated people exploding through drywall while J.K. Simmons explains that love is a weakness.

One last thing. Charter lost 51,000 pay TV subscribers last quarter. The cable bundle is finally dying the slow embarrassing death it's deserved for twenty years, and what are those people doing instead? Watching a live-action Scooby-Doo without Scooby. We're not going to make it. See you next week.