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Best indie romantic dramas

Caught by the Tides

Melissa Roth August 7, 2025 No Comments
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Caught by the Tides

Part documentary, part drama, the critically-acclaimed indie film follows a singer from Datong, China who falls in love with a gangster. After he disappears one day to find his fortune, she sets out on a journey to find him, traveling through cities reshaped by the tides — and modernization.  Shot over the course of 22 years, director Jia Zhangkethe tells a poetic, impressionistic story about love and loss, transformation and displacement.  Stream it on PVODs like Apple and Fandango for $5.99.

Available

on: PVOD

more RELEASES this week:

September 20, 2026

  Season 1

American Hostage

Available on: MGM+ More MGM+

American Hostage turns the true story of a single desperate act in 1977 Indianapolis into a real‑time pressure cooker: a volatile man with a gun, a city on edge, and a radio reporter suddenly thrust into becoming the voice of a crisis. Instead of replaying a familiar true‑crime arc, the series digs  …
September 20, 2026

  Season 1

Youth

Available on: HBO Max More HBO Max

Youth is Sharon Horgan doing what she does best: turning the chaos of midlife into something brutally funny, painfully honest, and instantly recognizable. She plays a 50‑year‑old literary agent whose life is a three‑ring circus: a teenage son testing boundaries, aging parents slipping into dementia,  …
September 20, 2026

  Season 1

Trespasses

Available on: OTHER

A tense and romantic historical drama set in 1975 Northern Ireland, Trespasses is the story of a young Catholic schoolteacher and an older Protestant lawyer who slip into a forbidden connection that’s as dangerous as it is magnetic. Their relationship unfolds against a community where every gesture  …
August 18, 2026
Romería

Available on: Apple TV More Apple TV

A quietly powerful Spanish family drama, Romería is a moody, transporting modern folktale about a young woman who returns to her coastal hometown to unravel the mystery of her father’s death. Generational wounds, painfully guarded secrets, and the tensions between urban and rural family members thre  …
August 13, 2026

  Season 1

My Brilliant Career

Available on: Netflix More Netflix

A rebellious young woman in 1901 Australia is sent to her wealthy grandmother’s estate to be polished and married off, but instead barrels through high society with wit and defiance — fighting to become a writer and protect her independence. Adapted from a classic period drama but with a contempora  …
August 12, 2026

  Season 4

Reacher S4

Available on: Prime Video More Prime

Topping Prime Video’s global charts, the new Reacher delivers a timely conspiracy plot that will get your pulse going, and you can jump into the latest season without any catch-up needed. Based on Lee Child’s Gone Tomorrow, this installment involves the Pentagon, Al‑Qaeda terrorists, and a missing f  …
August 7, 2026
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

Available in Theatres

Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder star in this queer, chaotic comedy-thriller about a director making a slasher sequel who becomes obsessed with casting the original film’s ‘final girl.’  A neon‑soaked fever dream of summer‑camp nostalgia gone sour, Vogue called it “Mind-melting. Thrillingly sur  …
August 5, 2026

  Season 4

Ted Lasso S4

Available on: AppleTV+ More AppleTV+

Just in time for the World Cup wake, Ted Lasso rises from the dead with an (unexpected) new chapter that finds him pulled back to England to coach a women’s soccer team. They’re fighting hard for respect, and they challenge Ted’s optimism in ways the Richmond men never did. Rebecca, Keeley, Roy, and  …
August 5, 2026

  Season 1

Sterling Point

Available on: Prime Video More Prime

Amazon Prime Video’s answer to The Summer I Turned Pretty follows a Type-A 17-year-old New Yorker who inherits a secluded lake island in Ontario from her estranged grandfather. Chasing clues about her mother’s past, she spends an impulsive summer confronting long-buried family secrets against a back  …
July 17, 2026
The Odyssey

Available in Theatres

It’s the original psychological survival thriller: a harrowing look at trauma, hubris, and what happens to a person’s sanity when every force in the universe works to dismantle it. And while Odysseus faces deadly mythological creatures, his fiercest battles in Christopher Nolan’s adaptation are inte  …
July 12, 2026

  Season 1

The Westies

Available on: MGM+ More MGM+

Set in the early 80s, The Westies is the story of the brutal, bizarre, and strangely magnetic world of Hell’s Kitchen’s most infamous Irish mob, a crew that operated like a neighborhood secret everyone knew but no one dared to say out loud. Instead of glamorizing the violence, the series leans into  …
July 9, 2026

  Season 1

The Five Star Weekend

Available on: Peacock

A vicarious summer vacation to sun‑drenched Nantucket, Five Star Weekend adapts the bestselling Elin Hildebrand novel into a warm, coastal dramedy. Jennifer Garner stars as Hollis Shaw, a once‑effortless lifestyle guru who is suddenly adrift after a personal loss. She gathers four people who shaped  …

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Damascus

Melissa Roth August 7, 2025 No Comments
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Damascus

Imagine being dropped into the alternate versions of your life — those roads not taken — using a new psychiatric therapy?  That’s the premise of this inventive, six-episode comedy that tries out a different genre with each episode and each life, from a relationships reality show to a satire to a domestic drama.  Station 19’s Okieriete Onaodowan plays the lead — with legends Martin Lawrence and Janet Hubert co-starring.  Where to find it: Tubi.  Which is free.

Available

on: OTHER

more RELEASES this week:

September 20, 2026

  Season 1

American Hostage

Available on: MGM+ More MGM+

American Hostage turns the true story of a single desperate act in 1977 Indianapolis into a real‑time pressure cooker: a volatile man with a gun, a city on edge, and a radio reporter suddenly thrust into becoming the voice of a crisis. Instead of replaying a familiar true‑crime arc, the series digs  …
September 20, 2026

  Season 1

Youth

Available on: HBO Max More HBO Max

Youth is Sharon Horgan doing what she does best: turning the chaos of midlife into something brutally funny, painfully honest, and instantly recognizable. She plays a 50‑year‑old literary agent whose life is a three‑ring circus: a teenage son testing boundaries, aging parents slipping into dementia,  …
September 20, 2026

  Season 1

Trespasses

Available on: OTHER

A tense and romantic historical drama set in 1975 Northern Ireland, Trespasses is the story of a young Catholic schoolteacher and an older Protestant lawyer who slip into a forbidden connection that’s as dangerous as it is magnetic. Their relationship unfolds against a community where every gesture  …
August 18, 2026
Romería

Available on: Apple TV More Apple TV

A quietly powerful Spanish family drama, Romería is a moody, transporting modern folktale about a young woman who returns to her coastal hometown to unravel the mystery of her father’s death. Generational wounds, painfully guarded secrets, and the tensions between urban and rural family members thre  …
August 13, 2026

  Season 1

My Brilliant Career

Available on: Netflix More Netflix

A rebellious young woman in 1901 Australia is sent to her wealthy grandmother’s estate to be polished and married off, but instead barrels through high society with wit and defiance — fighting to become a writer and protect her independence. Adapted from a classic period drama but with a contempora  …
August 12, 2026

  Season 4

Reacher S4

Available on: Prime Video More Prime

Topping Prime Video’s global charts, the new Reacher delivers a timely conspiracy plot that will get your pulse going, and you can jump into the latest season without any catch-up needed. Based on Lee Child’s Gone Tomorrow, this installment involves the Pentagon, Al‑Qaeda terrorists, and a missing f  …
August 7, 2026
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

Available in Theatres

Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder star in this queer, chaotic comedy-thriller about a director making a slasher sequel who becomes obsessed with casting the original film’s ‘final girl.’  A neon‑soaked fever dream of summer‑camp nostalgia gone sour, Vogue called it “Mind-melting. Thrillingly sur  …
August 5, 2026

  Season 4

Ted Lasso S4

Available on: AppleTV+ More AppleTV+

Just in time for the World Cup wake, Ted Lasso rises from the dead with an (unexpected) new chapter that finds him pulled back to England to coach a women’s soccer team. They’re fighting hard for respect, and they challenge Ted’s optimism in ways the Richmond men never did. Rebecca, Keeley, Roy, and  …
August 5, 2026

  Season 1

Sterling Point

Available on: Prime Video More Prime

Amazon Prime Video’s answer to The Summer I Turned Pretty follows a Type-A 17-year-old New Yorker who inherits a secluded lake island in Ontario from her estranged grandfather. Chasing clues about her mother’s past, she spends an impulsive summer confronting long-buried family secrets against a back  …
July 17, 2026
The Odyssey

Available in Theatres

It’s the original psychological survival thriller: a harrowing look at trauma, hubris, and what happens to a person’s sanity when every force in the universe works to dismantle it. And while Odysseus faces deadly mythological creatures, his fiercest battles in Christopher Nolan’s adaptation are inte  …
July 12, 2026

  Season 1

The Westies

Available on: MGM+ More MGM+

Set in the early 80s, The Westies is the story of the brutal, bizarre, and strangely magnetic world of Hell’s Kitchen’s most infamous Irish mob, a crew that operated like a neighborhood secret everyone knew but no one dared to say out loud. Instead of glamorizing the violence, the series leans into  …
July 9, 2026

  Season 1

The Five Star Weekend

Available on: Peacock

A vicarious summer vacation to sun‑drenched Nantucket, Five Star Weekend adapts the bestselling Elin Hildebrand novel into a warm, coastal dramedy. Jennifer Garner stars as Hollis Shaw, a once‑effortless lifestyle guru who is suddenly adrift after a personal loss. She gathers four people who shaped  …

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Why watch Wednesday season 2 on Netflix?

Wednesday S2

Melissa Roth August 7, 2025 No Comments
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Wednesday S2

A deeper and darker second season of the hit Addams family show finally arrives for August binge-watching, with an all new supernatural mystery, a quicker pace, and more of the family.  Wednesday investigates a new series of murders and makes new friends, and Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones), Gomez (Luis Guzmán), and Pugsley (Isaac Ordonez) play a bigger part. But look for Lady Gaga, Thandiwe Newton, Steve Buscemi, Christopher Lloyd, Haley Joel Osment, and Frances O’Connor — as well as the fingerprints of Tim Burton (he once again directs half of the episodes).  It’s still considered “horror light,” but the murders, jump scares, monsters, and macabre humor can be unsettling. Four episodes arrive today and end with a cliffhanger. The remaining four arrive September 3rd for the payoff…just before school starts.

Available
on: Netflix More Netflix


more RELEASES this week:

September 20, 2026

  Season 1

American Hostage

Available on: MGM+ More MGM+

American Hostage turns the true story of a single desperate act in 1977 Indianapolis into a real‑time pressure cooker: a volatile man with a gun, a city on edge, and a radio reporter suddenly thrust into becoming the voice of a crisis. Instead of replaying a familiar true‑crime arc, the series digs  …
September 20, 2026

  Season 1

Youth

Available on: HBO Max More HBO Max

Youth is Sharon Horgan doing what she does best: turning the chaos of midlife into something brutally funny, painfully honest, and instantly recognizable. She plays a 50‑year‑old literary agent whose life is a three‑ring circus: a teenage son testing boundaries, aging parents slipping into dementia,  …
September 20, 2026

  Season 1

Trespasses

Available on: OTHER

A tense and romantic historical drama set in 1975 Northern Ireland, Trespasses is the story of a young Catholic schoolteacher and an older Protestant lawyer who slip into a forbidden connection that’s as dangerous as it is magnetic. Their relationship unfolds against a community where every gesture  …
August 18, 2026
Romería

Available on: Apple TV More Apple TV

A quietly powerful Spanish family drama, Romería is a moody, transporting modern folktale about a young woman who returns to her coastal hometown to unravel the mystery of her father’s death. Generational wounds, painfully guarded secrets, and the tensions between urban and rural family members thre  …
August 13, 2026

  Season 1

My Brilliant Career

Available on: Netflix More Netflix

A rebellious young woman in 1901 Australia is sent to her wealthy grandmother’s estate to be polished and married off, but instead barrels through high society with wit and defiance — fighting to become a writer and protect her independence. Adapted from a classic period drama but with a contempora  …
August 12, 2026

  Season 4

Reacher S4

Available on: Prime Video More Prime

Topping Prime Video’s global charts, the new Reacher delivers a timely conspiracy plot that will get your pulse going, and you can jump into the latest season without any catch-up needed. Based on Lee Child’s Gone Tomorrow, this installment involves the Pentagon, Al‑Qaeda terrorists, and a missing f  …
August 7, 2026
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

Available in Theatres

Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder star in this queer, chaotic comedy-thriller about a director making a slasher sequel who becomes obsessed with casting the original film’s ‘final girl.’  A neon‑soaked fever dream of summer‑camp nostalgia gone sour, Vogue called it “Mind-melting. Thrillingly sur  …
August 5, 2026

  Season 4

Ted Lasso S4

Available on: AppleTV+ More AppleTV+

Just in time for the World Cup wake, Ted Lasso rises from the dead with an (unexpected) new chapter that finds him pulled back to England to coach a women’s soccer team. They’re fighting hard for respect, and they challenge Ted’s optimism in ways the Richmond men never did. Rebecca, Keeley, Roy, and  …
August 5, 2026

  Season 1

Sterling Point

Available on: Prime Video More Prime

Amazon Prime Video’s answer to The Summer I Turned Pretty follows a Type-A 17-year-old New Yorker who inherits a secluded lake island in Ontario from her estranged grandfather. Chasing clues about her mother’s past, she spends an impulsive summer confronting long-buried family secrets against a back  …
July 17, 2026
The Odyssey

Available in Theatres

It’s the original psychological survival thriller: a harrowing look at trauma, hubris, and what happens to a person’s sanity when every force in the universe works to dismantle it. And while Odysseus faces deadly mythological creatures, his fiercest battles in Christopher Nolan’s adaptation are inte  …
July 12, 2026

  Season 1

The Westies

Available on: MGM+ More MGM+

Set in the early 80s, The Westies is the story of the brutal, bizarre, and strangely magnetic world of Hell’s Kitchen’s most infamous Irish mob, a crew that operated like a neighborhood secret everyone knew but no one dared to say out loud. Instead of glamorizing the violence, the series leans into  …
July 9, 2026

  Season 1

The Five Star Weekend

Available on: Peacock

A vicarious summer vacation to sun‑drenched Nantucket, Five Star Weekend adapts the bestselling Elin Hildebrand novel into a warm, coastal dramedy. Jennifer Garner stars as Hollis Shaw, a once‑effortless lifestyle guru who is suddenly adrift after a personal loss. She gathers four people who shaped  …

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Platonic S2

Melissa Roth August 7, 2025 No Comments
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Platonic S2

A light and smart “com without the rom” for anyone in the midlife crisis years – or viewers staring down parenting challenges, career pivots, and an identity shift. Platonic follows former lawyer turned stay-at-home mom (Rose Byrne) as she rekindles her friendship with a recently divorced brewery owner (Seth Rogen), and the tricky navigation of a male-female friendship in modern-day Los Angeles. Fans of Shrinking and Neighbors will embrace this one, and expect it to get fresh traction now that Rogen’s other Apple show, The Studio, has become an Emmy darling.

Available

on: AppleTV+

more RELEASES this week:

September 20, 2026

  Season 1

American Hostage

Available on: MGM+ More MGM+

American Hostage turns the true story of a single desperate act in 1977 Indianapolis into a real‑time pressure cooker: a volatile man with a gun, a city on edge, and a radio reporter suddenly thrust into becoming the voice of a crisis. Instead of replaying a familiar true‑crime arc, the series digs  …
September 20, 2026

  Season 1

Youth

Available on: HBO Max More HBO Max

Youth is Sharon Horgan doing what she does best: turning the chaos of midlife into something brutally funny, painfully honest, and instantly recognizable. She plays a 50‑year‑old literary agent whose life is a three‑ring circus: a teenage son testing boundaries, aging parents slipping into dementia,  …
September 20, 2026

  Season 1

Trespasses

Available on: OTHER

A tense and romantic historical drama set in 1975 Northern Ireland, Trespasses is the story of a young Catholic schoolteacher and an older Protestant lawyer who slip into a forbidden connection that’s as dangerous as it is magnetic. Their relationship unfolds against a community where every gesture  …
August 18, 2026
Romería

Available on: Apple TV More Apple TV

A quietly powerful Spanish family drama, Romería is a moody, transporting modern folktale about a young woman who returns to her coastal hometown to unravel the mystery of her father’s death. Generational wounds, painfully guarded secrets, and the tensions between urban and rural family members thre  …
August 13, 2026

  Season 1

My Brilliant Career

Available on: Netflix More Netflix

A rebellious young woman in 1901 Australia is sent to her wealthy grandmother’s estate to be polished and married off, but instead barrels through high society with wit and defiance — fighting to become a writer and protect her independence. Adapted from a classic period drama but with a contempora  …
August 12, 2026

  Season 4

Reacher S4

Available on: Prime Video More Prime

Topping Prime Video’s global charts, the new Reacher delivers a timely conspiracy plot that will get your pulse going, and you can jump into the latest season without any catch-up needed. Based on Lee Child’s Gone Tomorrow, this installment involves the Pentagon, Al‑Qaeda terrorists, and a missing f  …
August 7, 2026
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

Available in Theatres

Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder star in this queer, chaotic comedy-thriller about a director making a slasher sequel who becomes obsessed with casting the original film’s ‘final girl.’  A neon‑soaked fever dream of summer‑camp nostalgia gone sour, Vogue called it “Mind-melting. Thrillingly sur  …
August 5, 2026

  Season 4

Ted Lasso S4

Available on: AppleTV+ More AppleTV+

Just in time for the World Cup wake, Ted Lasso rises from the dead with an (unexpected) new chapter that finds him pulled back to England to coach a women’s soccer team. They’re fighting hard for respect, and they challenge Ted’s optimism in ways the Richmond men never did. Rebecca, Keeley, Roy, and  …
August 5, 2026

  Season 1

Sterling Point

Available on: Prime Video More Prime

Amazon Prime Video’s answer to The Summer I Turned Pretty follows a Type-A 17-year-old New Yorker who inherits a secluded lake island in Ontario from her estranged grandfather. Chasing clues about her mother’s past, she spends an impulsive summer confronting long-buried family secrets against a back  …
July 17, 2026
The Odyssey

Available in Theatres

It’s the original psychological survival thriller: a harrowing look at trauma, hubris, and what happens to a person’s sanity when every force in the universe works to dismantle it. And while Odysseus faces deadly mythological creatures, his fiercest battles in Christopher Nolan’s adaptation are inte  …
July 12, 2026

  Season 1

The Westies

Available on: MGM+ More MGM+

Set in the early 80s, The Westies is the story of the brutal, bizarre, and strangely magnetic world of Hell’s Kitchen’s most infamous Irish mob, a crew that operated like a neighborhood secret everyone knew but no one dared to say out loud. Instead of glamorizing the violence, the series leans into  …
July 9, 2026

  Season 1

The Five Star Weekend

Available on: Peacock

A vicarious summer vacation to sun‑drenched Nantucket, Five Star Weekend adapts the bestselling Elin Hildebrand novel into a warm, coastal dramedy. Jennifer Garner stars as Hollis Shaw, a once‑effortless lifestyle guru who is suddenly adrift after a personal loss. She gathers four people who shaped  …

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best shows about journalism

The Newsreader

Melissa Roth August 7, 2025 No Comments
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The Newsreader

A hidden gem that debuted on the Roku Channel in 2022, The Newsreader is an 80s-set drama that follows a veteran Australian news anchor (Anna Torv) as she’s paired up with a handsome young reporter (Sam Reid) to cover everything from the Challenger explosion to Halley’s Comet to the AIDS crisis. Blackmail, workplace romance, racism, sexuality, and ethical quagmires are all set against a sunny Melbourne backdrop to make this one a brisk, addictive escape watch. Season 2 arrives today on AMC+.  Start with the first season’s six epsiodes. From The Guardian‘s Barbara Ellen: “Like nothing else on the box.” (Read the review)

Available

on: AMC+/Sundance Now

more RELEASES this week:

September 20, 2026

  Season 1

American Hostage

Available on: MGM+ More MGM+

American Hostage turns the true story of a single desperate act in 1977 Indianapolis into a real‑time pressure cooker: a volatile man with a gun, a city on edge, and a radio reporter suddenly thrust into becoming the voice of a crisis. Instead of replaying a familiar true‑crime arc, the series digs  …
September 20, 2026

  Season 1

Youth

Available on: HBO Max More HBO Max

Youth is Sharon Horgan doing what she does best: turning the chaos of midlife into something brutally funny, painfully honest, and instantly recognizable. She plays a 50‑year‑old literary agent whose life is a three‑ring circus: a teenage son testing boundaries, aging parents slipping into dementia,  …
September 20, 2026

  Season 1

Trespasses

Available on: OTHER

A tense and romantic historical drama set in 1975 Northern Ireland, Trespasses is the story of a young Catholic schoolteacher and an older Protestant lawyer who slip into a forbidden connection that’s as dangerous as it is magnetic. Their relationship unfolds against a community where every gesture  …
August 18, 2026
Romería

Available on: Apple TV More Apple TV

A quietly powerful Spanish family drama, Romería is a moody, transporting modern folktale about a young woman who returns to her coastal hometown to unravel the mystery of her father’s death. Generational wounds, painfully guarded secrets, and the tensions between urban and rural family members thre  …
August 13, 2026

  Season 1

My Brilliant Career

Available on: Netflix More Netflix

A rebellious young woman in 1901 Australia is sent to her wealthy grandmother’s estate to be polished and married off, but instead barrels through high society with wit and defiance — fighting to become a writer and protect her independence. Adapted from a classic period drama but with a contempora  …
August 12, 2026

  Season 4

Reacher S4

Available on: Prime Video More Prime

Topping Prime Video’s global charts, the new Reacher delivers a timely conspiracy plot that will get your pulse going, and you can jump into the latest season without any catch-up needed. Based on Lee Child’s Gone Tomorrow, this installment involves the Pentagon, Al‑Qaeda terrorists, and a missing f  …
August 7, 2026
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

Available in Theatres

Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder star in this queer, chaotic comedy-thriller about a director making a slasher sequel who becomes obsessed with casting the original film’s ‘final girl.’  A neon‑soaked fever dream of summer‑camp nostalgia gone sour, Vogue called it “Mind-melting. Thrillingly sur  …
August 5, 2026

  Season 4

Ted Lasso S4

Available on: AppleTV+ More AppleTV+

Just in time for the World Cup wake, Ted Lasso rises from the dead with an (unexpected) new chapter that finds him pulled back to England to coach a women’s soccer team. They’re fighting hard for respect, and they challenge Ted’s optimism in ways the Richmond men never did. Rebecca, Keeley, Roy, and  …
August 5, 2026

  Season 1

Sterling Point

Available on: Prime Video More Prime

Amazon Prime Video’s answer to The Summer I Turned Pretty follows a Type-A 17-year-old New Yorker who inherits a secluded lake island in Ontario from her estranged grandfather. Chasing clues about her mother’s past, she spends an impulsive summer confronting long-buried family secrets against a back  …
July 17, 2026
The Odyssey

Available in Theatres

It’s the original psychological survival thriller: a harrowing look at trauma, hubris, and what happens to a person’s sanity when every force in the universe works to dismantle it. And while Odysseus faces deadly mythological creatures, his fiercest battles in Christopher Nolan’s adaptation are inte  …
July 12, 2026

  Season 1

The Westies

Available on: MGM+ More MGM+

Set in the early 80s, The Westies is the story of the brutal, bizarre, and strangely magnetic world of Hell’s Kitchen’s most infamous Irish mob, a crew that operated like a neighborhood secret everyone knew but no one dared to say out loud. Instead of glamorizing the violence, the series leans into  …
July 9, 2026

  Season 1

The Five Star Weekend

Available on: Peacock

A vicarious summer vacation to sun‑drenched Nantucket, Five Star Weekend adapts the bestselling Elin Hildebrand novel into a warm, coastal dramedy. Jennifer Garner stars as Hollis Shaw, a once‑effortless lifestyle guru who is suddenly adrift after a personal loss. She gathers four people who shaped  …

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My Oxford Year

Melissa Roth August 4, 2025 No Comments
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My Oxford Year

An American woman with literary ambitions lands at Oxford University, the place of her childhood fantasies, but ends up in a steamy romance with a man who isn’t part of the dream. Part romcom, part melodrama, the adaptation of the novel of the same name by Julia Whelan has earned decidedly mixed reviews for its lack of literary heft, but the setting, the set-up, and the leads Sofia Carson and Corey Mylchreest are the draws here. 

Available
on: Netflix More Netflix


more RELEASES this week:

September 20, 2026

  Season 1

American Hostage

Available on: MGM+ More MGM+

American Hostage turns the true story of a single desperate act in 1977 Indianapolis into a real‑time pressure cooker: a volatile man with a gun, a city on edge, and a radio reporter suddenly thrust into becoming the voice of a crisis. Instead of replaying a familiar true‑crime arc, the series digs  …
September 20, 2026

  Season 1

Youth

Available on: HBO Max More HBO Max

Youth is Sharon Horgan doing what she does best: turning the chaos of midlife into something brutally funny, painfully honest, and instantly recognizable. She plays a 50‑year‑old literary agent whose life is a three‑ring circus: a teenage son testing boundaries, aging parents slipping into dementia,  …
September 20, 2026

  Season 1

Trespasses

Available on: OTHER

A tense and romantic historical drama set in 1975 Northern Ireland, Trespasses is the story of a young Catholic schoolteacher and an older Protestant lawyer who slip into a forbidden connection that’s as dangerous as it is magnetic. Their relationship unfolds against a community where every gesture  …
August 18, 2026
Romería

Available on: Apple TV More Apple TV

A quietly powerful Spanish family drama, Romería is a moody, transporting modern folktale about a young woman who returns to her coastal hometown to unravel the mystery of her father’s death. Generational wounds, painfully guarded secrets, and the tensions between urban and rural family members thre  …
August 13, 2026

  Season 1

My Brilliant Career

Available on: Netflix More Netflix

A rebellious young woman in 1901 Australia is sent to her wealthy grandmother’s estate to be polished and married off, but instead barrels through high society with wit and defiance — fighting to become a writer and protect her independence. Adapted from a classic period drama but with a contempora  …
August 12, 2026

  Season 4

Reacher S4

Available on: Prime Video More Prime

Topping Prime Video’s global charts, the new Reacher delivers a timely conspiracy plot that will get your pulse going, and you can jump into the latest season without any catch-up needed. Based on Lee Child’s Gone Tomorrow, this installment involves the Pentagon, Al‑Qaeda terrorists, and a missing f  …
August 7, 2026
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

Available in Theatres

Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder star in this queer, chaotic comedy-thriller about a director making a slasher sequel who becomes obsessed with casting the original film’s ‘final girl.’  A neon‑soaked fever dream of summer‑camp nostalgia gone sour, Vogue called it “Mind-melting. Thrillingly sur  …
August 5, 2026

  Season 4

Ted Lasso S4

Available on: AppleTV+ More AppleTV+

Just in time for the World Cup wake, Ted Lasso rises from the dead with an (unexpected) new chapter that finds him pulled back to England to coach a women’s soccer team. They’re fighting hard for respect, and they challenge Ted’s optimism in ways the Richmond men never did. Rebecca, Keeley, Roy, and  …
August 5, 2026

  Season 1

Sterling Point

Available on: Prime Video More Prime

Amazon Prime Video’s answer to The Summer I Turned Pretty follows a Type-A 17-year-old New Yorker who inherits a secluded lake island in Ontario from her estranged grandfather. Chasing clues about her mother’s past, she spends an impulsive summer confronting long-buried family secrets against a back  …
July 17, 2026
The Odyssey

Available in Theatres

It’s the original psychological survival thriller: a harrowing look at trauma, hubris, and what happens to a person’s sanity when every force in the universe works to dismantle it. And while Odysseus faces deadly mythological creatures, his fiercest battles in Christopher Nolan’s adaptation are inte  …
July 12, 2026

  Season 1

The Westies

Available on: MGM+ More MGM+

Set in the early 80s, The Westies is the story of the brutal, bizarre, and strangely magnetic world of Hell’s Kitchen’s most infamous Irish mob, a crew that operated like a neighborhood secret everyone knew but no one dared to say out loud. Instead of glamorizing the violence, the series leans into  …
July 9, 2026

  Season 1

The Five Star Weekend

Available on: Peacock

A vicarious summer vacation to sun‑drenched Nantucket, Five Star Weekend adapts the bestselling Elin Hildebrand novel into a warm, coastal dramedy. Jennifer Garner stars as Hollis Shaw, a once‑effortless lifestyle guru who is suddenly adrift after a personal loss. She gathers four people who shaped  …

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Fantastic Four: First Steps

Melissa Roth August 4, 2025 No Comments
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Fantastic Four: First Steps

A mostly standalone Marvel movie that doesn’t require multiverse prep, Fantastic Four: First Step picks up four years after the first installment, with Earth teetering on the brink of disaster. Two of the cosmic-powered foursome, Reed and Sue, are expect their first child just a, they are up against the evil Galactus and the Silver Surfer. Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby and Joseph Quinn keep the sci-fi spectacle grounded, and there’s a big tease in the credits that ramps up anticipation for Avengers: Doomsday, making it a must-see setup for next year.

Available

in theatres


more RELEASES this week:

September 20, 2026

  Season 1

American Hostage

Available on: MGM+ More MGM+

American Hostage turns the true story of a single desperate act in 1977 Indianapolis into a real‑time pressure cooker: a volatile man with a gun, a city on edge, and a radio reporter suddenly thrust into becoming the voice of a crisis. Instead of replaying a familiar true‑crime arc, the series digs  …
September 20, 2026

  Season 1

Youth

Available on: HBO Max More HBO Max

Youth is Sharon Horgan doing what she does best: turning the chaos of midlife into something brutally funny, painfully honest, and instantly recognizable. She plays a 50‑year‑old literary agent whose life is a three‑ring circus: a teenage son testing boundaries, aging parents slipping into dementia,  …
September 20, 2026

  Season 1

Trespasses

Available on: OTHER

A tense and romantic historical drama set in 1975 Northern Ireland, Trespasses is the story of a young Catholic schoolteacher and an older Protestant lawyer who slip into a forbidden connection that’s as dangerous as it is magnetic. Their relationship unfolds against a community where every gesture  …
August 18, 2026
Romería

Available on: Apple TV More Apple TV

A quietly powerful Spanish family drama, Romería is a moody, transporting modern folktale about a young woman who returns to her coastal hometown to unravel the mystery of her father’s death. Generational wounds, painfully guarded secrets, and the tensions between urban and rural family members thre  …
August 13, 2026

  Season 1

My Brilliant Career

Available on: Netflix More Netflix

A rebellious young woman in 1901 Australia is sent to her wealthy grandmother’s estate to be polished and married off, but instead barrels through high society with wit and defiance — fighting to become a writer and protect her independence. Adapted from a classic period drama but with a contempora  …
August 12, 2026

  Season 4

Reacher S4

Available on: Prime Video More Prime

Topping Prime Video’s global charts, the new Reacher delivers a timely conspiracy plot that will get your pulse going, and you can jump into the latest season without any catch-up needed. Based on Lee Child’s Gone Tomorrow, this installment involves the Pentagon, Al‑Qaeda terrorists, and a missing f  …
August 7, 2026
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

Available in Theatres

Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder star in this queer, chaotic comedy-thriller about a director making a slasher sequel who becomes obsessed with casting the original film’s ‘final girl.’  A neon‑soaked fever dream of summer‑camp nostalgia gone sour, Vogue called it “Mind-melting. Thrillingly sur  …
August 5, 2026

  Season 4

Ted Lasso S4

Available on: AppleTV+ More AppleTV+

Just in time for the World Cup wake, Ted Lasso rises from the dead with an (unexpected) new chapter that finds him pulled back to England to coach a women’s soccer team. They’re fighting hard for respect, and they challenge Ted’s optimism in ways the Richmond men never did. Rebecca, Keeley, Roy, and  …
August 5, 2026

  Season 1

Sterling Point

Available on: Prime Video More Prime

Amazon Prime Video’s answer to The Summer I Turned Pretty follows a Type-A 17-year-old New Yorker who inherits a secluded lake island in Ontario from her estranged grandfather. Chasing clues about her mother’s past, she spends an impulsive summer confronting long-buried family secrets against a back  …
July 17, 2026
The Odyssey

Available in Theatres

It’s the original psychological survival thriller: a harrowing look at trauma, hubris, and what happens to a person’s sanity when every force in the universe works to dismantle it. And while Odysseus faces deadly mythological creatures, his fiercest battles in Christopher Nolan’s adaptation are inte  …
July 12, 2026

  Season 1

The Westies

Available on: MGM+ More MGM+

Set in the early 80s, The Westies is the story of the brutal, bizarre, and strangely magnetic world of Hell’s Kitchen’s most infamous Irish mob, a crew that operated like a neighborhood secret everyone knew but no one dared to say out loud. Instead of glamorizing the violence, the series leans into  …
July 9, 2026

  Season 1

The Five Star Weekend

Available on: Peacock

A vicarious summer vacation to sun‑drenched Nantucket, Five Star Weekend adapts the bestselling Elin Hildebrand novel into a warm, coastal dramedy. Jennifer Garner stars as Hollis Shaw, a once‑effortless lifestyle guru who is suddenly adrift after a personal loss. She gathers four people who shaped  …

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Chief of War

Melissa Roth August 4, 2025 No Comments
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Chief of War

Weaving together history, indigenous lore, and a showdown between free will and prophecy, Apple’s nine episode epic Chief of War stars Jason Momoa stars as a high-ranking chief of Kauaʻi who rebels against the bloody war that unified the Hawaiian Islands in the late 18th century. A sweeping and layered character drama that will appeal to fans of Shōgun, it’s an Emmy-caliber binge watch that’s visually stunning and immersive, with a score by Hans Zimmer.

Available

on: AppleTV+

more RELEASES this week:

September 20, 2026

  Season 1

American Hostage

Available on: MGM+ More MGM+

American Hostage turns the true story of a single desperate act in 1977 Indianapolis into a real‑time pressure cooker: a volatile man with a gun, a city on edge, and a radio reporter suddenly thrust into becoming the voice of a crisis. Instead of replaying a familiar true‑crime arc, the series digs  …
September 20, 2026

  Season 1

Youth

Available on: HBO Max More HBO Max

Youth is Sharon Horgan doing what she does best: turning the chaos of midlife into something brutally funny, painfully honest, and instantly recognizable. She plays a 50‑year‑old literary agent whose life is a three‑ring circus: a teenage son testing boundaries, aging parents slipping into dementia,  …
September 20, 2026

  Season 1

Trespasses

Available on: OTHER

A tense and romantic historical drama set in 1975 Northern Ireland, Trespasses is the story of a young Catholic schoolteacher and an older Protestant lawyer who slip into a forbidden connection that’s as dangerous as it is magnetic. Their relationship unfolds against a community where every gesture  …
August 18, 2026
Romería

Available on: Apple TV More Apple TV

A quietly powerful Spanish family drama, Romería is a moody, transporting modern folktale about a young woman who returns to her coastal hometown to unravel the mystery of her father’s death. Generational wounds, painfully guarded secrets, and the tensions between urban and rural family members thre  …
August 13, 2026

  Season 1

My Brilliant Career

Available on: Netflix More Netflix

A rebellious young woman in 1901 Australia is sent to her wealthy grandmother’s estate to be polished and married off, but instead barrels through high society with wit and defiance — fighting to become a writer and protect her independence. Adapted from a classic period drama but with a contempora  …
August 12, 2026

  Season 4

Reacher S4

Available on: Prime Video More Prime

Topping Prime Video’s global charts, the new Reacher delivers a timely conspiracy plot that will get your pulse going, and you can jump into the latest season without any catch-up needed. Based on Lee Child’s Gone Tomorrow, this installment involves the Pentagon, Al‑Qaeda terrorists, and a missing f  …
August 7, 2026
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

Available in Theatres

Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder star in this queer, chaotic comedy-thriller about a director making a slasher sequel who becomes obsessed with casting the original film’s ‘final girl.’  A neon‑soaked fever dream of summer‑camp nostalgia gone sour, Vogue called it “Mind-melting. Thrillingly sur  …
August 5, 2026

  Season 4

Ted Lasso S4

Available on: AppleTV+ More AppleTV+

Just in time for the World Cup wake, Ted Lasso rises from the dead with an (unexpected) new chapter that finds him pulled back to England to coach a women’s soccer team. They’re fighting hard for respect, and they challenge Ted’s optimism in ways the Richmond men never did. Rebecca, Keeley, Roy, and  …
August 5, 2026

  Season 1

Sterling Point

Available on: Prime Video More Prime

Amazon Prime Video’s answer to The Summer I Turned Pretty follows a Type-A 17-year-old New Yorker who inherits a secluded lake island in Ontario from her estranged grandfather. Chasing clues about her mother’s past, she spends an impulsive summer confronting long-buried family secrets against a back  …
July 17, 2026
The Odyssey

Available in Theatres

It’s the original psychological survival thriller: a harrowing look at trauma, hubris, and what happens to a person’s sanity when every force in the universe works to dismantle it. And while Odysseus faces deadly mythological creatures, his fiercest battles in Christopher Nolan’s adaptation are inte  …
July 12, 2026

  Season 1

The Westies

Available on: MGM+ More MGM+

Set in the early 80s, The Westies is the story of the brutal, bizarre, and strangely magnetic world of Hell’s Kitchen’s most infamous Irish mob, a crew that operated like a neighborhood secret everyone knew but no one dared to say out loud. Instead of glamorizing the violence, the series leans into  …
July 9, 2026

  Season 1

The Five Star Weekend

Available on: Peacock

A vicarious summer vacation to sun‑drenched Nantucket, Five Star Weekend adapts the bestselling Elin Hildebrand novel into a warm, coastal dramedy. Jennifer Garner stars as Hollis Shaw, a once‑effortless lifestyle guru who is suddenly adrift after a personal loss. She gathers four people who shaped  …

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Eyes of Wakanda

Melissa Roth August 4, 2025 No Comments
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Eyes of Wakanda

Part of the new phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (which just kicked off with the Fantastic Four reboot in theaters), Disney’s four-part animated anthology is also a Black Panther prequel. It follows Wakandan warriors who travel the world recover artifacts from four pivotal eras—1260 BC Crete, the Trojan War, 1400 AD China, and 1896 AD Ethiopia. Each 30 minute episode stands alone, but also falls within the MCU’s Sacred Timeline. But you don’t need any prior Marvel knowledge to get into the action, intrigue, and cultural history lessons.

Available

on: Disney More Disney+


more RELEASES this week:

September 20, 2026

  Season 1

American Hostage

Available on: MGM+ More MGM+

American Hostage turns the true story of a single desperate act in 1977 Indianapolis into a real‑time pressure cooker: a volatile man with a gun, a city on edge, and a radio reporter suddenly thrust into becoming the voice of a crisis. Instead of replaying a familiar true‑crime arc, the series digs  …
September 20, 2026

  Season 1

Youth

Available on: HBO Max More HBO Max

Youth is Sharon Horgan doing what she does best: turning the chaos of midlife into something brutally funny, painfully honest, and instantly recognizable. She plays a 50‑year‑old literary agent whose life is a three‑ring circus: a teenage son testing boundaries, aging parents slipping into dementia,  …
September 20, 2026

  Season 1

Trespasses

Available on: OTHER

A tense and romantic historical drama set in 1975 Northern Ireland, Trespasses is the story of a young Catholic schoolteacher and an older Protestant lawyer who slip into a forbidden connection that’s as dangerous as it is magnetic. Their relationship unfolds against a community where every gesture  …
August 18, 2026
Romería

Available on: Apple TV More Apple TV

A quietly powerful Spanish family drama, Romería is a moody, transporting modern folktale about a young woman who returns to her coastal hometown to unravel the mystery of her father’s death. Generational wounds, painfully guarded secrets, and the tensions between urban and rural family members thre  …
August 13, 2026

  Season 1

My Brilliant Career

Available on: Netflix More Netflix

A rebellious young woman in 1901 Australia is sent to her wealthy grandmother’s estate to be polished and married off, but instead barrels through high society with wit and defiance — fighting to become a writer and protect her independence. Adapted from a classic period drama but with a contempora  …
August 12, 2026

  Season 4

Reacher S4

Available on: Prime Video More Prime

Topping Prime Video’s global charts, the new Reacher delivers a timely conspiracy plot that will get your pulse going, and you can jump into the latest season without any catch-up needed. Based on Lee Child’s Gone Tomorrow, this installment involves the Pentagon, Al‑Qaeda terrorists, and a missing f  …
August 7, 2026
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

Available in Theatres

Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder star in this queer, chaotic comedy-thriller about a director making a slasher sequel who becomes obsessed with casting the original film’s ‘final girl.’  A neon‑soaked fever dream of summer‑camp nostalgia gone sour, Vogue called it “Mind-melting. Thrillingly sur  …
August 5, 2026

  Season 4

Ted Lasso S4

Available on: AppleTV+ More AppleTV+

Just in time for the World Cup wake, Ted Lasso rises from the dead with an (unexpected) new chapter that finds him pulled back to England to coach a women’s soccer team. They’re fighting hard for respect, and they challenge Ted’s optimism in ways the Richmond men never did. Rebecca, Keeley, Roy, and  …
August 5, 2026

  Season 1

Sterling Point

Available on: Prime Video More Prime

Amazon Prime Video’s answer to The Summer I Turned Pretty follows a Type-A 17-year-old New Yorker who inherits a secluded lake island in Ontario from her estranged grandfather. Chasing clues about her mother’s past, she spends an impulsive summer confronting long-buried family secrets against a back  …
July 17, 2026
The Odyssey

Available in Theatres

It’s the original psychological survival thriller: a harrowing look at trauma, hubris, and what happens to a person’s sanity when every force in the universe works to dismantle it. And while Odysseus faces deadly mythological creatures, his fiercest battles in Christopher Nolan’s adaptation are inte  …
July 12, 2026

  Season 1

The Westies

Available on: MGM+ More MGM+

Set in the early 80s, The Westies is the story of the brutal, bizarre, and strangely magnetic world of Hell’s Kitchen’s most infamous Irish mob, a crew that operated like a neighborhood secret everyone knew but no one dared to say out loud. Instead of glamorizing the violence, the series leans into  …
July 9, 2026

  Season 1

The Five Star Weekend

Available on: Peacock

A vicarious summer vacation to sun‑drenched Nantucket, Five Star Weekend adapts the bestselling Elin Hildebrand novel into a warm, coastal dramedy. Jennifer Garner stars as Hollis Shaw, a once‑effortless lifestyle guru who is suddenly adrift after a personal loss. She gathers four people who shaped  …

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King of the Hill reboot Hulu

King of the Hill

Melissa Roth August 4, 2025 No Comments
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King of the Hill

Could this be the show where political opponents find common comedy ground?  Sixteen years after it ended its reign on FOX, Hulu is bringing back the animated TV-14 sitcom from legends Mike Judge (Silicon Valley, Beavis and Butt-Head) and Greg Daniels (The Office, Parks and Recreation).  After a decade in Saudi Arabia Hank and Peggy Hill are back in Arlen, Texas and retired, and trying to come to terms with all of the Ubers and Whole Foods.  Their son Bobby now owns a Japanese-German fusion restaurant in Dallas, and they’re up against “manosphere influencers, soccer haters, and conspiracy theorists — but the hot button topics are handled with nuance and lighthearted comedy.  Several of the original cast return, including Judge, Pamela Adlon, Kathy Najimy, Lauren Tom, Stephen Root, Toby Huss, and the late Johnny Hardwick (who passed away after recording a few episodes). Ronny Chieng joins as neighbor Kahn.  Ten new episodes drop today.

Available

on: Hulu More Hulu


more RELEASES this week:

September 20, 2026

  Season 1

American Hostage

Available on: MGM+ More MGM+

American Hostage turns the true story of a single desperate act in 1977 Indianapolis into a real‑time pressure cooker: a volatile man with a gun, a city on edge, and a radio reporter suddenly thrust into becoming the voice of a crisis. Instead of replaying a familiar true‑crime arc, the series digs  …
September 20, 2026

  Season 1

Youth

Available on: HBO Max More HBO Max

Youth is Sharon Horgan doing what she does best: turning the chaos of midlife into something brutally funny, painfully honest, and instantly recognizable. She plays a 50‑year‑old literary agent whose life is a three‑ring circus: a teenage son testing boundaries, aging parents slipping into dementia,  …
September 20, 2026

  Season 1

Trespasses

Available on: OTHER

A tense and romantic historical drama set in 1975 Northern Ireland, Trespasses is the story of a young Catholic schoolteacher and an older Protestant lawyer who slip into a forbidden connection that’s as dangerous as it is magnetic. Their relationship unfolds against a community where every gesture  …
August 18, 2026
Romería

Available on: Apple TV More Apple TV

A quietly powerful Spanish family drama, Romería is a moody, transporting modern folktale about a young woman who returns to her coastal hometown to unravel the mystery of her father’s death. Generational wounds, painfully guarded secrets, and the tensions between urban and rural family members thre  …
August 13, 2026

  Season 1

My Brilliant Career

Available on: Netflix More Netflix

A rebellious young woman in 1901 Australia is sent to her wealthy grandmother’s estate to be polished and married off, but instead barrels through high society with wit and defiance — fighting to become a writer and protect her independence. Adapted from a classic period drama but with a contempora  …
August 12, 2026

  Season 4

Reacher S4

Available on: Prime Video More Prime

Topping Prime Video’s global charts, the new Reacher delivers a timely conspiracy plot that will get your pulse going, and you can jump into the latest season without any catch-up needed. Based on Lee Child’s Gone Tomorrow, this installment involves the Pentagon, Al‑Qaeda terrorists, and a missing f  …
August 7, 2026
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

Available in Theatres

Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder star in this queer, chaotic comedy-thriller about a director making a slasher sequel who becomes obsessed with casting the original film’s ‘final girl.’  A neon‑soaked fever dream of summer‑camp nostalgia gone sour, Vogue called it “Mind-melting. Thrillingly sur  …
August 5, 2026

  Season 4

Ted Lasso S4

Available on: AppleTV+ More AppleTV+

Just in time for the World Cup wake, Ted Lasso rises from the dead with an (unexpected) new chapter that finds him pulled back to England to coach a women’s soccer team. They’re fighting hard for respect, and they challenge Ted’s optimism in ways the Richmond men never did. Rebecca, Keeley, Roy, and  …
August 5, 2026

  Season 1

Sterling Point

Available on: Prime Video More Prime

Amazon Prime Video’s answer to The Summer I Turned Pretty follows a Type-A 17-year-old New Yorker who inherits a secluded lake island in Ontario from her estranged grandfather. Chasing clues about her mother’s past, she spends an impulsive summer confronting long-buried family secrets against a back  …
July 17, 2026
The Odyssey

Available in Theatres

It’s the original psychological survival thriller: a harrowing look at trauma, hubris, and what happens to a person’s sanity when every force in the universe works to dismantle it. And while Odysseus faces deadly mythological creatures, his fiercest battles in Christopher Nolan’s adaptation are inte  …
July 12, 2026

  Season 1

The Westies

Available on: MGM+ More MGM+

Set in the early 80s, The Westies is the story of the brutal, bizarre, and strangely magnetic world of Hell’s Kitchen’s most infamous Irish mob, a crew that operated like a neighborhood secret everyone knew but no one dared to say out loud. Instead of glamorizing the violence, the series leans into  …
July 9, 2026

  Season 1

The Five Star Weekend

Available on: Peacock

A vicarious summer vacation to sun‑drenched Nantucket, Five Star Weekend adapts the bestselling Elin Hildebrand novel into a warm, coastal dramedy. Jennifer Garner stars as Hollis Shaw, a once‑effortless lifestyle guru who is suddenly adrift after a personal loss. She gathers four people who shaped  …

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