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What To Watch This Weekend: New Shows And Movies To Stream On Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, Apple TV And More
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What to watch this weekend.Credit: Prime Video / GettyIts not the biggest weekend for new streaming TV shows and movies, but its a pretty huge weekend if youre into sports. Super Bowl LIXthe 59th NFL championship gamekicks off Sunday with a halftime show headlined by hip-hop star, Kendrick Lamar. The Kansas City Chiefs return yet again, this time against the Philadelphia Eagles.The Chiefs have won the last two championship games. Last year they eked out a win over the San Francisco 49ers 25 to 22. The year before that, they beat the Eagles 38 to 35. The Chiefs also won back in 2020 against the 49ers, though they lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2021. In the last five years, the Chiefs have only missed one Super Bowl, and 2025 makes that 5 out of six. If they win this year, it will be the first time a team has won 3 consecutive Super Bowls. Its impressive, even if I think were all a little tired of having the same teams play year after year. The Chiefs are basically the new New England Patriots.In any case, read on to see what else is out this weekend. As always, I spend every week trying to find all the new stuff for you to watch on all the various streaming services. I tested out writing a What To Watch This Week to post on Mondays this past week, and while I think its a super informative post, it didnt seem to hit the same nerve as my Weekend Streaming guide. Oh well!If you have any tips or I missed something, shoot me a message on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook. You can check out last weekends streaming guide right here.MORE FOR YOUWhats New & Notable This WeekendInvincible - Season 3 (Prime Video)The excellent animated superhero series from The Walking Dead creator, Robert Kirkman, returned this week. The first three (out of seven) episodes are already out on Prime Video. This is a terrific show with excellent writing, characters and a compelling story, but its also quite dark and cynical and violent, so go in with expectations set closer to The Boys than The Avengers. New episodes drop each Thursday for the next four weeks.Apple Cider Vinegar (Netflix)An Australian series about a feud between two young health and wellness influencers, one of whom pretends to suffer from all sorts of illnesses in order to gain popularity and sell bad healthcare products and advice to the masses. Kaitlyn Dever (Abby in the upcoming second season of The Last Of Us) plays Belle Gibson, the fraud, and Alycia Debnam-Carey (of Fear The Walking Dead fame) plays Milla Blake, who actually suffers from cancer. Both characters are based off of real people. Devers character is based off of and named after the actual Belle Gibson, while Debnam-Careys character is based on Jessica Ainscough. It looks pretty good, and Dever really nails that Aussie accent! All six episodes are out now on Netflix with an 84% Rotten Tomatoes score.In The Summers (Hulu)If you can make it through this trailer without getting emotional, youre a lot more resilient than I am. In The Summers follows a father living in New Mexico who sees his two daughters, who live with their mother in California, over the summers. He struggles with addiction. All three struggle with their relationship over the course of this four-part movie that uses time-jumps to show multiple phases of the family drama. It looks brilliant and powerful, though get a box of tissues handy.Clean Slate (Prime Video)Another estranged father-daughter story, though this time the daughter in question left as a son and has now come back as a daughter. This actually looks pretty good, with a nice blend of humor and heart.Newtopia (Prime Video)Half love-story, half zombie show, Newtopia certainly looks like a new twist on both. The South Koreans really know how to do great zombie stuff, so this might be worth checking out.The re Murders - Season 1 (Netflix)Nordic noir is a popular crime subgenre, and while Ive heard mixed things about this one, its certainly worth checking out if you enjoy cold cases (the type that take place in cold environments, that is, not actual cold cases).Marvels Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur - Season 2 (Disney+)For the kids, Marvels Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur should be a fun binge this weekend. For the kids and kids at heart, that is. Its actually reviewing better than most grown-up MCU TV.Wolf Man (VOD)If you missed Wolf Man at the movie theaters, you can now rent or buy the film at Prime Video and elsewhere. This werewolf horror movie didnt fare that well with critics, but if youre looking for something scary to watch on a cold winters evening, you could do worse.September 5 (VOD)A new telling of the horrific 1972 Munich Olympics hostage crisis, this time from the point of view of an American sports broadcasting crew. With a 92% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes and a 91% audience score, this is definitely a film anyone interested in modern history should check out.Bonus: The Wire (HBO / Max)Why am I currently so far behind on lots of new TV shows? The answer is simple: The Wire has kidnapped me! I watched Season 1 back in 2005 or 2006 when I was just a kid, really, 24 or 25 years old. That was when I was watching The Sopranos and other great HBO shows. Then we had our first kid. Sticking with compelling TV dramas became extremely difficult with the amount of work and parenting time, and the lack of sleep. So I never watched any other seasons of The Wire! Recently, I rewatched Season 1 since it had been two decades since Id seen it, and I liked it a lot more this time around. Now Ive binged my way through Season 2 and started Season 3. Its terrific! If you enjoy stories of organized crime, corrupt officials, police forces dragged down by the whims of petty bureaucrats and politicians, and a great cast of characters on both the police and criminal side of things, give it a shot.Whats Streaming WeeklyA number of TV shows are airing weekly at the moment, though the only one Ive been covering with recap/reviews is currently Severance. Well start there!Severance - Season 2 is everything I hoped it would be so far. The latest episode of Severance was one of the best of the entire series, and Season 2 continues to be a wild ride. If you arent watching because you dont have Apple TV, well its cheap compared to most other streaming services and has lots of great shows. If you arent watching because its about an office or youve heard its boring just stop it, stop listening to the wrong people and listen to me. This is a brilliant series. (Apple TV)Prime Target continues airing new episodes on Apple. This spy thriller follows a math genius obsessed with prime numbers who heads down a twisty turny path of no return. I still havent started it yet, as I caught up on the first season of Lioness and then started rewatching The Wire. But Ill check it out soon. New episodes drop Wednesdays. (Apple)The Pitt is genuinely great, though Ive decided not to watch it weekly and instead let a few episodes build up so I can binge them all at once. The medical drama follows a sprawling cast of characters in a Pittsburgh emergency room department, and manages to weave all these stories together expertly. Read my review here. (Max)Traitors - Season 3 is the most popular reality TV competition show out at the moment and Ive heard great things, but as I am not a reality TV show fan, I have not watched it. I might have to break my own rules, however, just to see what all the fuss is about. (Peacock)Dexter: Original Sin is the show I look forward to most each week (though only because Ive already watched the entire second season of Severance). Its just delightfully fun, with a great cast playing younger versions of the original shows characters. Were down to the wire, too, with just two more episodes to go. I dont want it to end but Im dying to know what happens. Heres my review. (Paramount)Paradise is another show I started and am behind on. I enjoyed the twisty-turny political thriller thats actually also a sci-fi show about big, calamitous events. But after one episode I switched back over to The Wire so I cant really tell you how its progressing. (Hulu)Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is another fun one for the whole family, a very vintage-animation take on one of the most popular superheroes of all time. Three episodes drop each week. (Disney+)A bunch of stuff is coming out next week/weekend so while this weekend felt a little slow, get ready for overload soon enough. Which reminds me, I have screeners to watch for shows like Reacher, Yellowjackets and if Im lucky, The White Lotus. Fun times!Further Reading From Yours Truly:Dont forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel!What are you watching these days? What should I put on this list or add to my backlog? Let me know on Twitter, Instagram, Bluesky or Facebook.
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