What to Watch This Week with Kate Casey

March 11-18, 2024

Happy Monday!

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Also, look forward to Trishelle from The Traitors on my podcast on Tuesday, and on Saturday by friend who won Wimbledon and survived cancer.

Here is your list this week:

Reality Television Shows

Love Is Blind (Netflix) season six reunion special airs this week. Filmed in front of a live audience and filled with surprise guests, hosts Nick & Vanessa Lachey will bring together the love hopefuls for the first time since the experiment ended. (March 13)

Check out the final episode of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (Bravo) reunion, with Kathy Hilton making her entrance. (March 13)

The McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys (Peacock) follows patriarch [and farmer] Steve McBee, the hard-working founder of the family business, and his four sons. Viewers get a behind the scenes of the high-stakes world of farming and ranching in rural Missouri. McBee Farm and Cattle is on the brink of becoming a billion-dollar business... or a financial disaster. It all depends on the decision from a venture capital firm of over $100 million. Steve McBee, the patriarch of the family and recent divorcee, started McBee Farm and Cattle, but his lifestyle may be its undoing. While Steve is in a rocky romantic relationship with McBee's CFO, Galyna, he continues sleeping with other women, which creates tension with his eldest son and McBee's CEO, Steven Jr. With the farm on the line, Steve’s three sons, Steven Jr., Jesse, and Cole all vie to take over the farm when he retires, causing conflict within the family. Will the farm survive? If it does, who will be leading it into the future? (March 11)

Amazing Race (CBS) airs a new season on March 13.

Documentaries

Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War (Netflix) traces Cold War history past the collapse of the Soviet Union to the rise of Vladimir Putin and into the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (March 12)

The Lionheart (HBO) has an intimate portrait of a family navigating the loss of legendary race car driver Dan Wheldon. In 2011, the two-time Indianapolis 500 champion nicknamed ‘The Lionheart,’ died in a horrific crash at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, shaking the world of motorsports to its core. Ten years later, his two sons, Sebastian and Oliver, supported by their mother and Dan’s widow Susie, follow in their father’s footsteps as they work through their loss the only way they know how – getting behind the wheel to race. (March 12)

The Outreau Case: A French Nightmare (Netflix) delves into one of France’s biggest judicial tragedies. In the early 2000s, in northern France, the young Judge Burgaud is in charge of investigating accusations of pedophilia in a family. But the case becomes increasingly complex as the investigation moves ahead when other inhabitants of the town appear also to be involved. Between accusations and counter-accusations, the legal machine entangles. (March 15)

The Indrani Mukerjea Story: Buried Truth (Netflix) , which explores the notorious 2015 case involving Indrani Mukerjea, accused of the murder of her daughter, Sheena Bora. The series started streaming on Netflix on February 23, 2024. (Streaming now)

Sheena Bora, an executive working for Mumbai Metro One (Reliance Infrastructure) based in Mumbai, went missing in April 2012. In August 2015, Mumbai Police arrested her mother Indrani Mukerjea, her step-father Peter Mukerjea, and her mother's driver, Shyamvar Pinturam Rai, for allegedly abducting and killing her and subsequently burning her corpse. Peter Mukerjea, Rai, and Indrani's ex-husband Sanjeev Khanna confessed to the crime, while Indrani Mukerjea has said that Sheena Bora is living in the United States.

Enjoy!