This week on the TV Gold podcast, Andrew Mercado and James Manning review:

It Gets Worse (Binge, 6 episodes)
Three close college best friends—Ethan (Leo Reich), Abi (Emily Fairn), and Sam (Olive Gray)— and their chaotic lives in London. Good cast, but does this Gen-Z comedy try too hard? Memorable first episode with Andrew Scott cameo. We mean memorable! Strap yourself in…

Black Doves S2 (Netflix, 6 episodes)
Speaking of strapping yourself in, are you ready for more assassins on the loose in London? Undercover spy Helen Webb (Keira Knightley) struggles to balance her double life while her husband, Wallace (Andrew Buchan), ascends to become the Prime Minister of the UK. Suspend your disbelief here to enjoy the storyline as Black Doves boss Reed (Sarah Lancashire) goes missing with fellow undercover spy Sam (Ben Wishaw) joins the search.

Adultery (HBO Max, 6 episodes)
This week’s surprise packet. Love this script for its honesty, ironically in a series about cheating! There is no villain here with neither of the adulterers encouraging the other into a relationship. No tricks or shock twists, but it builds to a must-watch last episode. Fantastic cast dealing with life and some of the challengers it throws up as best they can.

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This City Is Ours S2 (Stan, 8 episodes)
The second season of the crime saga set in Liverpool follows the Phelan crime family as it faces challenges with young Jamie steering the business. But just how much influence does the ghost of Ronnie (Sean Bean) have over the family, how much does Ronnie’s widow Elaine have over the family and how do they feel about Michael (James Nelson-Joyce) who has returned to Liverpool from Spain.

Yaga (Binge/Foxtel, 8 episodes)
Private investigator Charlie Rapp (Noah Reid) arrives in the isolated coastal town of Whittock, British Columbia, to look into the mysterious disappearance of billionaire fishery heir Henry Park (Hudson Williams). He teams up with local detective Carson (Clark Backo) and crosses paths with Katherine (Carrie-Anne Moss), a seductive and enigmatic university professor.

Nocturne (Apple TV, 10 eps)
Retired homicide detective Jonah Lynn (Liev Schreiber) returns to an old investigation when Michael Frost—a boy who went missing years ago and was linked to the sadistic serial killer Jurek Walter (Stephen Graham)—unexpectedly turns up alive. To extract answers and find Felicia, Jonah teams up with the FBI, while his protégée and goddaughter, Agent Saga Bauer (Zazie Beetz), goes undercover as a patient inside the facility.

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Phony (Disney+, 8 episodes)
A teenager named Sonny (Sam Nivola) wakes up in the hospital after a car accident and suspects his mother and best friend, Ellen (Connie Britton), has been replaced by an impostor.

Crystal Lake (Stan, 8 episodes)
A psychological thriller and prequel to the Friday the 13th franchise exploring the origin of Jason Voorhees.
The series stars Emmy nominee Linda Cardellini as Pam Voorhees, a grieving single mother whose past is upended when two strangers arrive a year after her son Jason tragically drowns in the lake.

The Diplomat (Netflix S4, 8 episodes)
Can’t say much about Season 4 except that you need to see it. We can recap Season 3 though and how Russia lost contact with one of its submarines. It was carrying a highly dangerous nuclear-powered weapon known as the Poseidon, and ended up several miles off the northeast coast of England.
US Ambassador to Great Britain Kate Wyler (Lerrie Russell) convinced Prime Minister Nicol Trowbridge (Rory Kinnear) that the US and UK should work together to bury the weapon in cement. But instead, US President Grace Penn (Allison Janney)and her Vice President Hal Wyler (Rufus Sewell) secretly sent an American submarine to capture the Poseidon for themselves.

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