How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? - The New York Times

No matter how much free time you have this weekend, we have TV recommendations for you. Come back every week for new suggestions on what to watch.

This Weekend I Have … an Hour, and I Love ‘Call the Midwife’

‘The New Nurses’

When to watch: Now, on MHz Choice.

This Danish series (in Danish, with English subtitles) is set in 1952, when Erik (Morten Hee Andersen), a soldier, decides to enroll in nursing school during a nursing shortage. Not everyone is down with male nurses, of course, so Erik and his allies face down nonsense gender essentialism and a polio outbreak. A lot of period medical dramas veer bleak, but this is definitely in the more hopeful, sweeter vein. The first two episodes are available now; Episode 3 comes out Dec. 3, and the final two episodes will be available starting Dec. 10.

… Two and a Half Hours, and I Like Emotions

‘Kinky Boots’

When to watch: Friday at 9 p.m., on PBS.

If you’ve enjoyed “Billy Elliot,” “Hairspray” or both, watch this 2013 musical about a struggling shoe factory that finds a new revenue stream in making boots for drag queens. The Broadway staging scooped up six Tonys, but this broadcast version features the London cast, which itself won three Oliviers. Cyndi Lauper wrote the music and lyrics, and the show has a lot of her signature sensitive anthem style, big and self-possessed and lovable. (Check local listings for broadcast times.)

… 10 Hours, and I Need British Crimes

‘The Five’

When to watch: Now, on Netflix.

When DNA recovered at a crime scene matches that of a child who disappeared 20 years before, everyone connected to the original case gets thrown back into the devastating unsolved mystery. Jesse (Alfie Bloor) was 5 when he vanished from the woods, and his brother and friends have never fully recovered from his disappearance; one thing the show does particularly well is show how childhood trauma can permanently shatter one’s sense of stability. “The Five” was created by the novelist Harlan Coben and is full of twists without seeming stalled out. The pace is breathless — which makes it even more bingeable.

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