Euphoria to Half Man: 12 of the best TV shows to watch this April

From the return of Sydney Sweeney and Zendaya in HBO's provocative drama to the latest show from Baby Reindeer's creator and the comeback of sitcom classic Malcolm in the Middle – these are the best series to watch and stream.

1. Your Friends and Neighbors

Jon Hamm is once again a charming mess in the second season of this engaging series. His character, Andrew Cooper, is still a burglar, stealing from his rich neighbours. Now it's clearer than ever that while the need for money first drove him to theft, it's the thrill and risk that keeps him going. James Marsden has a major role as a new neighbour, the megarich but shady Owen Ashe. As if Coop's existential crisis isn't enough, Ashe entangles him in more legal jeopardy. "You can help me out or you can get arrested," he tells Coop. The strong supporting cast returns, including Amanda Peet as Coop's ex-wife, Lena Hall as his sister, Hoon Lee as his best friend and Olivia Munn as his former lover, who unsuccessfully tried to frame him for murder at the end of the first series, but isn't a social pariah for very long. Really, the enclave they live in is ridiculously forgiving!

Your Friends and Neighbors premieres 3 April on Apple TV internationally 

Chase Infiniti follows up her breakout performance in the Oscars best picture winner One Battle After Another with the starring role in this sequel to The Handmaid's Tale. Based on Margaret Atwood's 2019 novel, it follows two strands. In one, Aunt Lydia, the only major returning character – played by Ann Dowd, who was so calmly terrifying in the original series – is writing a memoir about the harrowing past that led to her complicity in patriarchal, authoritarian Gilead. The main plot focuses more narrowly than the novel (leaving room for future seasons) on the school years of Agnes (Infiniti), who is actually Hannah, the daughter June and Luke spent the entirety of The Handmaid's Tale trying to find after Gilead took her. She is now a young woman being groomed as a future wife for a commander. Daisy (Lucy Halliday), a new student at the school, arrives from free Canada determined to destroy Gilead from within and enlists Agnes's help. "The rose-coloured glasses just come flying off," Infiniti has said.

The Testaments premieres 8 April on Hulu in the US and Disney in the UK

Dan Levy created and stars in this crime comedy, his first series since Schitt's Creek, which he also acted in and co-wrote. He plays Nicky, a pastor in New Jersey, with Taylor Ortega as his sister, Morgan, and Laurie Metcalf as their mother. When Morgan impulsively steals a necklace from a jewellery store as a present for their dying grandmother, the store's mobbed-up manager blackmails the siblings into working for his crime organisation, a task they are spectacularly ill-suited for. "I have a completely unfounded fear of being entrapped by organised crime," Levy told EW about his inspiration for the series. That comment totally reflects his humour – it's drily witty and arch yet somehow also plausible. He also brought in a crime consultant, who taught him that no scheme is too outlandish. "You think this feels insane. No, someone has thought  of it." Rachel Sennott, star and writer of the film Bottoms and the series I Love LA, is Levy's co-writer on the show.

Big Mistakes premieres 9 April on Netflix internationally

4. The Miniature Wife

This comic series puts a contemporary spin on the concept of shrinking people, a staple of movies for decades – The Incredible Shrinking Man, the Incredible Shrinking Woman, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, the list seems endless. Here Matthew Macfadyen is Les, who has just invented a device that can miniaturise matter, and Elizabeth Banks is his more successful wife, Lindy, a prize-winning writer. When he accidentally shrinks her, he has to prove he can reverse the process, and get her back to full size, or the patent for the technology will revert to someone else. At least Lindy has a doll-sized house to walk around in while she's fuming. There's more to the show than visual effects, though. The series is based on a short story by Manuel Gonzales that uses the shrinking concept to explore the power balance in the characters'........

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