What To Watch This Weekend: New Shows And Movies To Stream On Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, Apple TV And More

What to watch this weekend.

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Super-secret spec-ops subject squads facing disconnected against the adjacent diabolical violent threat. Actual docuseries astir the fallout and investigation into 1 of the astir superior violent attacks successful history. Superhero movies that might conscionable reconstruct our religion successful the genre aft each these years. There’s truthful overmuch to watch this weekend, this guideline is astir apt excessively agelong for its ain good.

But hopefully it’s bully for you, dearest scholar of mine, because I want you to person thing nosy to watch aft a agelong time of work, aliases a agelong time of play, aliases hell, moreover conscionable thing to watch each time agelong while you do nothing. That is my quest. My beatified mission. To thief you find what to watch and what not to watch, and past to person a nosy clip talking astir it pinch you connected societal media aliases YouTube.

Speaking of which, I’ve started my YouTube transmission backmost up again! Here’s my return video:

And you tin watch my video reappraisal and breakdown of what went incorrect pinch Season 4 of FROM correct here.

As per usual, I’ve searched precocious and debased for the champion TV shows and movies streaming connected Netflix, Prime Video, Apple TV, Disney+ for you to watch this weekend. If you person immoderate recommendations, tips aliases different thoughts consciousness free to sprout maine a note. Let maine cognize what you’re watching these days, aliases if you’ve enjoyed immoderate of my recommendations, connected Twitter, Instagram, aliases Facebook. Be judge to also cheque retired past weekend’s streaming guide below:

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Shall we proceed, my droogies?

New TV Shows To Watch This Weekend

Lioness – Season 3 (Paramount+)

What It’s About: Taylor Sheridan's Lioness returns for a 3rd play pinch Zoe Saldaña backmost arsenic CIA operative Joe McNamara, who finds herself caught up successful her astir vulnerable ngo yet. As a sprawling conspiracy threatens some nationalist information and the group she cares astir most, Joe is forced to equilibrium her loyalty to the ngo pinch her responsibilities astatine home. Nicole Kidman, Morgan Freeman, Michael Kelly, Laysla De Oliveira, Genesis Rodriguez, and Dave Annable each return for different play of high-stakes espionage and subject action.

Why You Should Watch: You know, I thought the first play of Lioness was beautiful fantabulous subject spy thriller fare, and I’m a sucker for that benignant of stuff. I’m okay pinch shows that make Islamic extremist terrorists and South American cartels the bad guys and I’m okay pinch shows that constituent retired that often the bad guys tin beryllium correct present successful the West, too. Taylor Sheridan is simply a spot much “red-blooded” than a batch of modern Hollywood and that’s fine, but I conscionable sewage benignant of sick of the characters successful Season 2, truthful I’m behind. New episodes driblet Sundays pinch the finale landing connected September 20.

Batman: Caped Crusader – Season 2 (Prime Video)

What It’s About: Gotham’s Dark Knight is backmost for a 2nd play arsenic Hamish Linklater returns to sound Batman successful this noir-inspired animated bid from executive producers Bruce Timm, J.J. Abrams, and Matt Reeves. Season 2 pits Batman against much of Gotham’s astir notorious criminals while continuing the show’s stylish blend of detective stories, classical comic book influences, and old-school movie noir. All 10 episodes are retired now connected Prime Video.

Why You Should Watch: You did spot that Hamish Linklater is the sound of Batman, right? If that isn’t capable of a reason, I don’t cognize what to show you. There was immoderate contention complete gender-swapping the Penguin (which was weird, but whatever) but I thought the animation was terrific and it was a nosy Batman story. But I’m a Batman nerd. Batman > each different superheroes. Season 2’s reviews are a spot weaker (down from 94% to 88%) but still strong.

Adults – Season 2 Teaser Episode (Hulu/FX)

What It’s About: Before Season 2 arrives, FX is releasing a typical teaser section of Adults, the drama astir a group of twenty-somethings trying—and usually failing—to fig retired adulthood. Created by Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw, the bid has earned comparisons to Friends and Girls acknowledgment to its awkward humor, relatable characters, and chaotic friendships.

Why You Should Watch: I conjecture if this benignant of young big sitcom is your cup of beverage (or immoderate 20-somethings portion these days, boba tea?) past this show mightiness beryllium for you. I haven’t seen it, truthful I can’t say. The first play has pretty bully reviews, though.

The Bombing of Pan Am 103 (Netflix Documentary)

What It’s About: This six-part constricted bid dramatizes the investigation into the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 complete Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people. Starring Connor Swindells, Patrick J. Adams, and Merritt Wever, the bid follows investigators and victims' families arsenic they activity to uncover the truth down 1 of history's deadliest violent attacks.

Why You Should Watch: It’s a really fascinating, really depressing and frustrating portion of history and we should each strive to study arsenic overmuch astir history arsenic we perchance tin earlier we ourselves go mislaid to that awesome heavy water of time.

You tin besides watch the TV series, Lockerbie, connected Peacock for a fictionalized type of the communicative starring Colin Firth.

New Movies To Watch This Weekend

There are a full bunch of movies dropping connected the 1st of the period (Saturday) and I’m putting together a abstracted guideline for these because astir of them are older releases – for illustration the full Fast and the Furious saga coming to Netflix – and it’s conscionable excessively overmuch to database here. So I’m really going to support a fewer of the movies from past week’s guideline successful this database because location are immoderate bully ones that I dream you watch. Look for different guides for caller movies and shows releasing this period soon correct present connected this blog (which you should subscribe to!)

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (Prime Video)

What It’s About: Set generations aft Caesar's reign, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes follows a young chimpanzee named Noa (Owen Teague) arsenic he sets retired connected a travel that challenges everything he believes astir ape society. Along the measurement he teams up pinch a mysterious quality (Freya Allan) while facing the ruthless ape ruler Proximus Caesar (Kevin Durand). Directed by Wes Ball, the movie launches a caller section successful the long-running sci-fi franchise.

Why You Should Watch: I haven’t been the biggest instrumentality of the caller Planet of the Apes series, but I really liked this one. It made maine spell backmost and rewatch the first 3 and I enjoyed them each much than I did the first clip around. Go figure. There’s conscionable immoderate awesome drama, unthinkable typical effects and moreover immoderate bully humor. Freya Allan, of The Witcher, does a awesome job.

The Drama (HBO Max)

What It’s About: A24's latest movie comes from Dream Scenario head Kristoffer Borgli and stars Zendaya and Robert Pattinson arsenic a mates whose narration originates to unravel conscionable earlier their wedding. Also starring Alana Haim and Mamoudou Athie, The Drama blends romance, comedy, and psychological hostility successful Borgli's signature offbeat style.

Why You Should Watch: I haven’t seen this but some Zendaya and Pattinson were successful The Odyssey and I bask some actors (though Pattinson, I’d person to argue, is benignant of connected different level). I typically emotion what A24 serves up, truthful moreover if a wedding movie mightiness not usually beryllium my cup of tea, this 1 is connected my radar. It has a 76% / 78% divided pinch critics/audiences connected Rotten Tomatoes, which is absorbing for an arthouse film, which usually goes the different measurement around.

Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender (Paramount+)

What It’s About: The first animated characteristic movie featuring the original characters from the wildly celebrated Nickelodeon series, Avatar: The Last Airbender, this movie was primitively intended for a wide theatrical merchandise but now drops connected Paramount+ this Saturday, July 25. The communicative picks up 13 years aft the original series, and follows Aang, Katara, Sokka, Zuko, Toph, Appa and Momo connected a marque caller quest to reconstruct bid and bid to the world, and possibly revive the Air Nomads.

Why You Should Watch: Well, alternatively of going into immoderate awesome magnitude successful this guide, I should statement that I was capable to watch an early screener of the film, which I rather enjoyed, though I do person immoderate caveats. You tin publication my reappraisal of Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender correct here.

Masters of the Universe (Prime Video)

What It’s About: After being separated for 15 years, the Sword of Power leads Prince Adam (Nicholas Galitzine) backmost to Eternia, wherever he discovers his location shattered nether the fiendish norm of Skeletor (Jared Leto). To prevention his family and his world, Adam must subordinate forces pinch his closest allies, Teela (Camila Mendes) and Duncan/Man-At-Arms (Idris Elba), and clasp his existent destiny arsenic He-Man — the astir powerful man successful the universe. Alison Brie besides stars arsenic villain Evil-Lyn. Directed by Travis Knight (Bumblebee, Kubo and the Two Strings)

Why You Should Watch: I already devoted an full station to why you should watch this fantastically fun, hilarious, heartfelt action-packed movie that’s not conscionable awesome for guys for illustration maine who loved the toys and cartoons backmost successful the day, but for kids of each ages. You tin besides read my very glowing reappraisal of this underrated gem correct here. Seriously, springiness this a watch. It’s 1 of my favourite films of 2026.

Mortal Kombat II (HBO Max)

What It’s About: The instrumentality favourite champions of the celebrated video crippled series, now joined by martial arts master and washed-out actor, Johnny Cage (Karl Urban), are pitted against 1 different successful the eventual conflict to conclusion the acheronian norm of Shao Kahn (Martyn Ford) that threatens the very beingness of Earthrealm and its defenders.

Why You Should Watch: While the movie has divided critics and audiences, pinch audiences liking it measurement much than critics, I’m going to spell pinch the communal man this clip around. Mortal Kombat II is cheesy, fun, funny, action-packed – galore of the aforesaid qualities and really a remarkably similar crippled to Masters of the Universe. And who cares? This is much 80s-style action-movie awesome sauce. I enjoyed it to pieces, overmuch much than the first movie from 2021.

Pressure (Peacock)

What It’s About: In the tense 72 hours earlier D-Day, pinch the destiny of the free world hanging successful the balance, General Dwight D. Eisenhower (Brendan Fraser) and Group Captain James Stagg (Andrew Scott) look an intolerable prime — motorboat the largest and astir vulnerable seaborne penetration successful history aliases consequence losing the warfare altogether.

Why You Should Watch: I thought this movie looked absolutely phenomenal erstwhile I first learned astir it and the formed is beautiful overmuch arsenic bully arsenic it gets. Yes, it’s a spot of an overseas premise, the destiny of the awesome warfare hanging successful the equilibrium based connected competing predictions from meteorologists – but that’s besides what makes it cool and unsocial and a different benignant of warfare movie.

New Movies In Theaters This Weekend

Spider-Man: Brand New Day

What It’s About: Several years aft the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home, Peter Parker (Tom Holland) is simply a reclusive loner, still the friends vicinity Spider-Man but without immoderate existent friends aliases heroic friends since he asked Doctor Strange to swipe the world’s representation of Peter Parker. When a new, mysterious threat arrives connected the scene, Peter has to scope retired for thief from immoderate improbable places, including Frank “The Punisher” Castle (Jon Bernthal).

Why You Should Watch: Because I said so. That’s bully enough, right? I thought this movie was an absolute banger – easy 1 of the champion superhero movies I’ve seen successful years. You should read my reappraisal of Spider-Man: Brand New Day if you want the existent logic to spot this successful theaters. The first half is wholly spoiler free, and past the 2nd half talks astir the ending and why I thought it conscionable made this specified a profound, emotionally resonant portion of cinema. Good stuff.

TV Shows Currently Streaming Weekly

House of the Dragon – Season 3 (HBO Max)

What It’s About: HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon, follows the Westerosi civilian warfare known arsenic the Dance of Dragons and the struggle for the Iron Throne betwixt Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) and her supporters (Team Black) and her half-brother, King Aegon II (Tom Glynn-Carney) and his supporters (Team Green). It’s adapted from George R.R. Martin’s clone “history” of Westeros, Fire & Blood (which has a very bully illustrated companion book, Rise of the Dragon, arsenic well).

Why You Should Watch: While Season 2 was a spot of a dreary affair, and not overmuch happened complete the people of its 8 episodes, Season 3 has been overmuch much compelling television. It’s acold from perfect, acold excessively bleak and location hasn’t been arsenic overmuch conflict and bloodshed truthful acold arsenic I would person liked, but the pacing and penning and wide accumulation conscionable feels overmuch stronger this season. The penultimate section airs this Sunday. Read my reappraisal of Episode 6 correct here.

New episodes driblet play pinch the play finale airing connected HBO and HBO Max connected Sunday, August 9.

The Walking Dead: Dead City – Season 3 (AMC+)

What It’s About: The Walking Dead: Dead City returns pinch an eight-episode play 3, pinch Lauren Cohan arsenic Maggie Rhee and Jeffrey Dean Morgan arsenic Negan returning, now moving alongside Perlie Armstrong (Gaius Charles) to build a "functioning" organization successful post-apocalyptic Manhattan. The vulnerable confederation is tested by newcomer Renata (Aimee Garcia), her expert relative Luis (Raúl Castillo), and loner Dillard (Jimmi Simpson of Westworld fame). New showrunner Seth Hoffman, a Walking Dead seasoned writer and erstwhile co-executive shaper connected the original series, is taking complete this season. New episodes driblet Sundays, running done September 13.

Why You Should Watch: I don’t deliberation this show should exist, rather frankly, and aft watching the Season 3 premiere, I not only wrote a scathing review, I made a scathing video to spell pinch it, which you tin watch above. It’s not good, folks, but I genuinely dream that it gets amended because location are different ways I could beryllium spending my Sunday evenings.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Season 4 (Paramount+)

What It’s About: The unit of the U.S.S. Enterprise is backmost for different information of adventures arsenic Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) continues starring his unit crossed the last frontier. Season 4 picks up aft past season’s cliffhanger and sends Pike, Spock, Number One, and the remainder of the Enterprise unit connected a bid of vulnerable caller missions, from mysterious alien encounters to intolerable technological mysteries, while continuing to build toward the events of Star Trek: The Original Series. The caller play is comprised of 10 episodes airing Sundays done September 24

Why You Should Watch: I really gave up connected New Star Trek immoderate clip ago, having doggedly tried my champion pinch the JJ Abrams films, Discovery and Picard. And while I’d heard immoderate very affirmative things astir Strange New Worlds, I conscionable couldn’t find the power to drawback up. Maybe someday. I do really for illustration the casting successful this series, and Anson Mount is the cleanable Pike (though I thought he looked much handsome successful the very first section earlier he shaved and trim his hair). However, it should beryllium noted that Season 4 has a stellar 100% connected Rotten Tomatoes, higher than immoderate erstwhile season. If location is simply a show that could lure maine backmost to Star Trek, it’s this one.

Sugar – Season 2 (Apple TV)

What It’s About: Colin Farrell returns arsenic backstage interrogator John Sugar for a caller play of Apple's stylish neo-noir mystery. This time, Sugar is hired to way down the missing older relative of a rising young boxer, but the lawsuit quickly spirals into a overmuch larger conspiracy arsenic he continues searching for his ain missing sister. New formed members see Jin Ha, Raymond Lee, Tony Dalton, Laura Donnelly, Sasha Calle, and Shea Whigham, pinch Sam Catlin taking complete arsenic showrunner from bid creator Mark Protosevich. Like the first season, Sugar blends classical detective storytelling pinch unexpected twists—but if you someway avoided learning that Season 1 reveal, it's champion to support it that way.

Why You Should Watch: I tin deliberation of very fewer shows pinch a much shocking twist than Apple TV’s Sugar. It’s specified a shocking twist that I won’t spoil it here. I’m very excited to commencement Season 2, which I’ve been hoarding truthful I tin binge a fewer episodes astatine once, but now I recognize that I’ve hoarded excessively galore and the show is almost over. There’s conscionable excessively galore shows connected correct now! A full of 8 episodes comprise Season 2, pinch caller episodes landing Thursday evenings and the play finale dropping connected August 6.

Silo – Season 3 (Apple TV)

What It’s About: Set successful a dystopian future, 10,000 group unrecorded successful a massive, self-sustaining underground "Silo" comprising 144 levels. Residents are strictly governed by regulations and judge the extracurricular world is toxic, but the protagonist, an technologist named Juliette Nichols, originates to uncover secrets astir the Silo’s history and the truth down their world.

Why You Should Watch: I thought the first play was a spot slow but ended up being a really compelling mystery. For immoderate reason, I couldn’t get into Season 2 and still request to drawback up. I support looking astatine this and Sugar and thinking, I request to watch these shows! But past thing other is retired that I person to watch. Time is my enemy, and yet the only point that tin conclusion my force is much of it, which I cannot get. What a conundrum! Season 3 airs play connected Thursday evenings for a full of 10 episodes, pinch the finale dropping connected September 4.

The Westies – Season 1 (MGM+)

What It’s About: Set successful the 1980s, this caller MGM+ play centers connected the New York City Irish pack of the aforesaid sanction and the building of the Jacob Javits Convention Center connected the gang’s location turf successful Hell’s Kitchen. The Westies person to contend not only pinch the NYPD and the FBI but besides the Italian mafia, which has them outnumbered, outgunned but not needfully outwitted. The formed is, arsenic the kids say, “stacked” including Titus Welliver, J.K. Simmons, Tom Brittney, Sarah Bolger, Jessica Frances Dukes, Alan Leech and galore more.

Why You Should Watch: I’ve seen the first 3 episodes and support meaning to constitute up a due review, but truthful acold it’s for illustration if Martin Scorsese directed a TV show (with a TV show budget) and I’m enjoying it rather a bit, warts and all. New episodes driblet Sundays pinch the finale airing August 23.

X-Men '97 – Season 2 (Disney+)

What It’s About: This animated bid follows the X-Men arsenic they proceed to look caller challenges and threats successful a world that fears and hates them. Season 2 released earlier this week and consists of 9 episodes and picks up pursuing the events of the first season. The first 3 episodes are retired now, though Episode 3 is only the first portion of a two-episode double feature.

Why You Should Watch: I really started Season 1 and past sewage sidetracked, truthful I’ll person to prime this backmost up. It sewage coagulated reviews, though location was immoderate contention surrounding its lead writer, Beau DeMayo, who near the series. New episodes driblet Wednesdays, pinch the play finale airing connected August 12.

Ghost successful the Shell (Prime Video)

What It’s About: Ghost successful the Shell has been astir forever, but it’s ever nosy to spot a caller return connected an aged classic. The caller series, which debuted connected Prime Video this past Tuesday, was created by Science Saru (aka Science Monkey), the workplace down the deed Devilman Crybaby and Danadan. The caller bid is based connected the 1989-91 negociate of the aforesaid sanction and takes spot successful the distant early (well, 2029) successful a futuristic Japan replete pinch elite cyborgs, tactical anti-terrorism forces and mysterious hackers. You tin besides watch the aged 1995 movie connected Prime Video. A full of 10 episodes will comprise the first season, pinch the finale airing connected September 8.

Why You Should Watch: If you for illustration this anime series, aliases you’re conscionable into anime successful general, this is astir apt your thing. I recovered that moreover though I’ve seen the movie, I was wholly mislaid and confused aft the first section and truthful I haven’t continued. Maybe someday.

Gone (BritBox)

What It’s About: Headmaster Michael Polly (David Morrissey) becomes the premier fishy successful his woman Sarah's disappearance, drafting him into a tense crippled of feline and rodent pinch Detective Annie Cassidy (Eve Myles) arsenic she fights to uncover the truth. The six-part British crime play is partially inspired by the existent crime book "To Hunt A Killer," detailing a existent 1984 execution investigation that wasn't solved until 2016.

Why You Should Watch: First of all, David Morrissey is ever great. He was awesome arsenic the Governor successful The Walking Dead and I precocious watched him arsenic the lead detective successful the UK crime show, Sherwood. With 100% connected Rotten Tomatoes and critics utilizing phrases for illustration “an absorbing crime thriller” and satisfying “slow burn” this is straight up my alley. My alley is very overmuch UK crime thrillers, aft all. I did commencement this show but it was connected the aforesaid nighttime I’d had anesthesia earlier successful the time and, well, I fell asleep. Not the show’s fault! It could person been the loudest, astir action-packed show you’ve ever seen and my lights would person been out. I will spell backmost to it and watch arsenic it seemed beautiful damn good!

Cape Fear – Season 1 Finale (Apple TV)

The finale of Cape Fear is present astatine last. Javier Bardem and Amy Adams prima successful this tv bid based connected the caller The Executioners and its 2 movie adaptations (1962 and 1991) some of which were besides called Cape Fear. The communicative follows vicious ex-con, Max Cady (Bardem) and his revenge crippled against joined mates Tom (Patrick Wilson) and Anna Bowden (Adams). The bid holds a 76% connected Rotten Tomatoes.

Lucky (Apple TV)

What It’s About: Lucky is simply a seven-episode crime thriller based connected Marissa Stapley’s bestselling novel, starring Anya Taylor-Joy arsenic a erstwhile con creator named Lucky, forced backmost into the criminal underworld aft a multimillion-dollar heist goes disastrously incorrect and Lucky is betrayed by personification she trusted.

Why You Should Watch: I’ve watched the first section and enjoyed it rather a bit, though truthful acold it’s not 1 of those shows I’m telling everyone I cognize to watch (like Widow’s Bay, for instance). A beautiful modular crime thriller truthful far, but Anya Taylor-Joy is really bully truthful acold and I’ll watch conscionable astir thing pinch Timothy Olyphant – even thing really bad for illustration Alien: Earth.

The first 2 episodes are retired now pinch caller episodes dropping connected Tuesday evenings connected Apple TV and the finale airing August 18.

Stuart Fails To Save The Universe (HBO Max)

What It’s About: Stuart Fails to Save the Universe stars Kevin Sussman, reprising his Big Bang Theory domiciled arsenic Stuart. Comic book shop proprietor Stuart Bloom is tasked pinch restoring reality aft he breaks a instrumentality built by Sheldon and Leonard, accidentally bringing astir a multiverse Armageddon — and arsenic the title implies, things don't spell well. Along the measurement he meets alternate-universe versions of acquainted Big Bang Theory faces.

Why You Should Watch: First, a confession: I person ne'er watched moreover a azygous section of Big Bang Theory. Sure, I’ve seen the overseas clip present aliases there, but I really couldn’t moreover show you what it’s about. And yet, this show sounds for illustration a really clever spinoff. It takes the sitcom into an wholly caller genre, and moreover though I’m sick of multiverse stuff, this sounds really fun. It has a 71%/78% critic/audience divided connected RT. New episodes onshore Thursdays and the finale drops connected September 24.

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