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Last Week Tonight

As the news becomes more alarming, many turn to late night comedy to help process the overwhelm. John Oliver’s HBO series has been delivering timely new episodes each Sunday night, boldly tackling the latest headlines while often shedding new insights, thanks to carefully researched segments and the host’s irreverent, meta perspective on the news. There’s a reason the series has taken home the Emmy seven years in a row. Watch it to help ward off the Sunday Scaries.

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April 17, 2025
  Season 1
The Stolen Girl
Available on: Hulu More Hulu
A adapted from the bestselling novel Playdate, The Stolen Girl is a parents-nightmare thriller stock full of twists and shocks, all of which come together in a revealing finale. As a limited series with just five episodes (at roughly 45 minutes each), it’s a propulsive binge watch full of cliffhange  …
April 17, 2025
  Season 1
#1 Happy Family USA
Available on: Prime Video More Prime
Set in the wake of 9/11, a patriotic New Jersey Muslim family suddenly become pariahs in this darkly funny animated comedy from Ramy Youseff (creator of Ramy and Mo), who drew from his own childhood.  Co-starring Alia Shawkat, Mandy Moore, and Chris Redd, the sometimes surreal social satire has a di  …
April 17, 2025
  Season 1
Ransom Canyon
Available on: Netflix More Netflix
Aiming squarely for Yellowstone fans while appealing more to the romance lovers and Texans among them, Ransom Canyon delivers a visually stunning escapist soap about three contemporary ranching families facing corporate takeovers, environmental crises, love triangles, and family betrayals. Josh Duha  …
April 16, 2025
  Season 1
Government Cheese
Available on: AppleTV+ More AppleTV+
A surreal comedy set in 1969 California, Government Cheese follows eternal optimist and recently released inmate Hampton Chambers (David Oyelowo) as he tries to reconnect with his wife and kids and launch his invention, the Bit Magician. Balancing the heartfelt with the absurd, it’s a slow burn with  …
April 16, 2025
  Season 1
Agatha Christie’s Towards Zero
Available on: Britbox More Britbox
Kicking off at an opulent party at a seaside estate featuring a tennis star, his wife, and his ex-wife (said to be inspired by David and Victoria Beckham), the BBC’s latest Agatha Christie adaptation, set in 1936, focuses more on events leading up to a murder, with complex motives and overlaps to un  …
April 16, 2025
  Season 1
No Man’s Land
Available on: Hulu More Hulu
A gripping war drama about a young Frenchman who believes he’s spotted his presumed-dead sister in a news clip, and sets off on a dangerous journey through Syria – leading him to join Kurdish female fighters battling ISIS amidst the Syrian Civil War. Themes of grief, identity, the search for belongi  …
April 15, 2025
Eephus
Available on: PVOD
A tribute to small towns, adult rec leagues, and the power of baseball to create community, Eephus is for anyone who remembers the Bad News Bears.  It follows two recreational baseball teams filled with aging men as they play their final game on a field doomed for demolition, and it features two Red  …
April 15, 2025
The Dark Money Game
Available on: HBO Max More HBO Max
An urgent and revealing two-part documentary about the role and impact of untraceable donors to political campaigns — also known as dark money. Divided into two films, the first investigates the death of a powerful political lobbyist and its overlap with Ohio’s largest public corruption case, expos  …
April 15, 2025
  Season 1
Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Available on: Netflix More Netflix
A behind-the-scenes look at the production of the Stranger Things prequel play, “The First Shadow,” which ran on the West End in London and told the origin story of two of the hit show’s characters, Henry Creel and the Upside Down. The challenges of adapting a special effects-laden world for the sta  …
April 15, 2025
Captain America: Brave New World
Available on: PVOD
Harrison Ford has just been elected president of the U.S. (as Thaddeus Ross), and he wants to control superheroes…until he turns into the Red Hulk. And the newly-minted Captain America (Anthony Mackie) uncovers an international conspiracy to destabilize the world in this follow-up to Captain Ameri  …
April 13, 2025
  Season 2
The Last of Us S2
Available on: HBO Max More HBO Max
The long-awaited follow-up to the Emmy-winning drama about life in the wake of a pandemic, Season 1 followed a teenager who was immune to the virus and a father figure who somehow survived and protected her in their harrowing cross-country quest to reach the scientists with the cure. Play catch-up o  …
April 12, 2025
  Season 2
Dr. Who S2
Available on: Disney More Disney+
The BBC/Disney reboot offers an easy jump-in for newcomers curious about how the 62-year-old British sci-fi story draws in so many generations. It continues the story of the 15th Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) but pairs him with an all-new companion, ER nurse Belinda (Varada Sethu), who gets kidnapped by robo  …



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