Here’s the deal: I didn’t screen anything last week, partly because of the usual embargoes, partly because some screeners weren’t available, partly because — after more than two years of working seven days a week to feed the blog while also fulfilling my duties as a Toronto Star editor and writer — I gave myself permission to take a weekend off. So unfortunately, I haven’t sampled any of the shows I’m presenting below, but these are the things that seem to me to be worth a shot.

Bob Odenkirk as Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman in “Better Call Saul” Season 6.
PHOTO CREDIT: Greg Lewis/AMC/Sony Pictures Television

The sixth and final season of “Better Call Saul” has been like summer: over way too soon. In the series finale (Aug. 15, 9 p.m., AMC), we presumably find out how things end for Gene Takavic, the post-“Breaking Bad” alias of Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman, after Marion (Carol Burnett) dropped a dime on him in the penultimate episode. You better believe if I’d been able to get my hands on a screener I would have watched this one in advance.

Manti Te’o in “Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist.” PHOTO CREDIT: Netflix © 2022

Most promising for Netflix this week, in my view, is “Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist” (Aug. 16), a docuseries about the catfishing scam that befell Hawaiian college football player Manti Te’o in 2012. The streamer also has the film “Look Both Ways” (Aug. 17), in which a young woman (Lili Reinhart) lives two parallel realities, one in which she becomes a single mother, one in which she pursues a career in L.A. There’s also the Spanish series “The Girl in the Mirror” (Aug. 19), about a teenager with amnesia after a bus crash that kills most of her classmates, and “Echoes” (Aug. 19), an Australian series about twin sisters who trade lives.

Tatiana Maslany in “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.” PHOTO CREDIT: Courtesy of Marvel Studios

Superhero shows are usually not my thing, but I want to give “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” (Aug. 18, Disney+) the benefit of the doubt because it stars talented Canadian actor Tatiana Maslany (“Orphan Black”). Here she plays a lawyer who is also a six-foot-seven hulk. She gets advice from her cousin Smart Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), and Tim Roth (Emil Blonsky) and Benedict Wong (Wong) are among the MCU veterans who are along for the ride.

Anne-Marie Duff, Sharon Horgan, Eva Birthistle, Sarah Greene and Eve Hewson in “Bad Sisters.”
PHOTO CREDIT: Apple TV+

The dark comedy “Bad Sisters” (Aug. 19, Apple TV+) sounds very promising. It was created by Sharon Horgan, known for “Catastrophe,” “Pulling” and “Divorce”; it stars some talented actors besides Horgan, including Anne-Marie Duff (“Shameless”), Eva Birthistle (“Brooklyn”), Sarah Greene (“Dublin Murders,” “Normal People”) and Eve Hewson (“The Knick”); and it’s set in Ireland, which is always a plus for me. Although the official synopsis describes it as being about five sisters bound by the premature death of their parents, from what I’ve read it has more to do with the death of John Paul (Claes Bang), the husband of Grace (Duff) and who killed him.

Four adolescents search for three teenage girls who mysteriously disappeared in “Paraiso.”
PHOTO CREDIT: CBC Gem

“Mi’kma’ki” (Aug. 19, all shows CBC Gem) is a short documentary series about Indigenous people and their connections to their land, culture and community. The first three episodes stream Friday with the fourth to follow at a later date. “Paraiso” (Aug. 19) is a sci-fi series that sounds like a Spanish “Stranger Things.” Three 15-year-old girls disappear from a nightclub in 1992 and four other kids set out to find them, discovering that supernatural beings are involved. Finally, the documentary “The River of My Dreams: A Portrait of Gordon Pinsent,” about the revered Canadian actor, makes its TV debut on Aug. 20.

Eve Best in “House of the Dragon.” PHOTO CREDIT: Ollie Upton/HBO

“House of the Dragon” (Aug. 21, 9 p.m., HBO/Crave) is the big one if you’re a “Game of Thrones” or fantasy TV fan. I will get screeners at some point, since I’m interviewing Steve Toussaint, who plays Lord Corlys Velaryon, on Thursday. I just don’t know when. In the meantime, I can tell you that “Dragon” is a “GoT” prequel set 200 years before the events of that series that focuses on the forebears of Daenerys Targaryen. Crave also has the premiere of “Drag Race Philippines” (Aug. 17) for those of you who can’t get enough “Drag Race” and the streaming debut of the movie “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” (Aug. 19), with Jessica Chastain channelling the late Tammy Faye Bakker in an Oscar-winning turn.

“Cinema A to Z” (Aug. 21, 9 p.m., Hollywood Suite) does what its title suggests, explore a film topic from A to Z with interviews and clips. First up is “Books,” already available online and making its broadcast debut on Sunday. Expect insights into everything from Jane Austen adaptations to Stephen King to J.R.R. Tolkien and Stefan Zweig (“The Grand Budapest Hotel,” for one, was inspired by his literature).

NOTE: The listings here are in Eastern Standard Time and I’ve verified the times where possible, but it’s always best to check listings for your own area. The selection of programs reviewed reflects what I’m given access to by networks and streamers, whether reviews are embargoed, how many shows I have time to watch and my own personal taste.