‘The Naked Director’

Starts streaming: Aug. 8

The adult filmmaker Toru Muranishi is credited with revolutionizing the porn industry in Japan, but in challenging societal norms, he faced controversy and numerous legal setbacks. Set in the 1980s, when Muranishi and the business flourished amid an economic boom, the 10-episode series “The Naked Director” looks like a Japanese “The People vs. Larry Flynt,” a stylized portrait of smut peddlers and censorious prigs, built around a character whose innovations, for better or worse, are still relevant. It also gives time to young women who press for sexual liberation, often at a steep personal cost.

‘Wu Assassins’

Starts streaming: Aug. 8

In the martial arts series “Wu Assassins,” Kai Jin (Iko Uwais) is an aspiring young chef in San Francisco’s Chinatown whose knife skills are about to be useful for more than chopping scallions. Long ago, 1,000 monks sacrificed themselves to empower his chosen-one hero to stop ancient warlords from destroying the world — so, you know, no pressure. Kai Jin does enjoy the benefits of mystical powers and a team of attractive, dynamic fighters, but his chief adversary is a Chinese Triad boss, who also happens to be his father. Martial arts fans will recognize Uwais as the Indonesian dynamo at the center of “The Raid” movies, and hope that this series has a similar punch.

‘The Family’

Starts streaming: Aug. 9

Controversy seems certain to follow the five-episode documentary series “The Family,” about a secretive Christian organization called the Fellowship that has long been engaged in dismantling the separation of church and state in Washington. The Fellowship has sponsored the National Prayer Breakfast since the Dwight Eisenhower administration and every president since has participated, addressing a room of over 3,000 guests. That gathering is symbolic of a larger mission to influence policymakers and steer the country toward fundamentalist values, even through an “imperfect vessel” like Donald J. Trump. “The Family” brings the Fellowship into the light with surprising access to its members.

‘GLOW’: Season 3

Starts streaming: Aug. 9

Though inspired by the rise and fall of the ’80s syndicated women’s wrestling circuit, “GLOW” has never been interested in historical fidelity so much as mining what it needs from the past and discarding the rest. Each season has been a quick, pleasurable binge of 10 half-hour episodes, following a constantly exasperated director (Marc Maron) and a coterie of failed actresses and misfits as they produce a cheap, down-the-dial mix of action, titillation and broad comedy. The second season reserved an entire episode for a complete “GLOW” broadcast, and the third takes the gang to Las Vegas for a live show at the Fan-Tan Hotel and Casino.

‘Tiffany Haddish Presents: They Ready’

Starts streaming: Aug. 13

A month after her spectacularly filthy performance in “Girls Trip” put her on the map, Tiffany Haddish told her story in the hourlong Showtime stand-up performance “Tiffany Haddish: She Ready! From the Hood to Hollywood.” Now Haddish is elevating a handpicked selection of six female comics with “They Ready,” each getting her own half-hour set. All of the performers have experience on showcases like “Wild ’n Out,” “Last Comic Standing” and “Def Comedy Jam,” but none are household names. Yet.

‘Diagnosis’

Starts streaming: Aug. 16

In her New York Times Magazine column, “Diagnosis,” Dr. Lisa Sanders, a Yale University associate professor, focuses on solving medical mysteries, rounding up patients who have unusual symptoms and searching the globe for diagnoses. This seven-episode series reveals the results of an experiment in which Dr. Sanders chose various subjects — a gulf war veteran with memory loss, a little girl beset by paralyzing seizures, a young woman with chronic and unaccountable pain — and had them share their stories on video, in the hope that they would find useful information from readers. “Diagnosis” follows every step of the process, often to inspirational ends.