What to Stream This Weekend
The content pile is vast and infinite, and you’ve got the whole weekend to decide how you want to slice it. We’re in the midst of the ever-intensifying streaming wars, and there are too many shows and movies to choose from, spread across too many video-streaming services. So we’re making it easier for you. Each week, the PCMag features team takes turns highlighting the streaming content they’re excited to watch or think you should binge. Fire up your media-streaming device of choice, and get watching.
Shrill: Season 3 (Hulu)
Season 3 — the last season, unfortunately — of this Aidy Bryant sitcom, based on the book by Lindy West, is now streaming. If Bryant wasn’t already a star from being on Saturday Night Live, this would have made her one. She stands out even when the show doesn’t.
Mythic Quest (Apple TV+)
The second season of Apple’s workplace sitcom about a dysfunctional gaming company, starring Rob McElhenney (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) and, amazingly, F. Murray Abraham, among many others, is here. They rewrote the whole season, even though all the scripts were done, to work the COVID pandemic into the story. Get ready to laugh about some Zoom meetings.
The Boy From Medellín (Amazon Prime Video)
J Balvin, the “Prince of Reggaeton,” a mostly Spanish-language mix of singing and rapping, gets the documentary treatment in this film, which was shot in November 2019 in Colombia as he prepared for the biggest concert of his career thus far.
Bad Mothers (Sundance Now)
In the US, the Bad Moms movies are comedies, but the similarly titled Bad Mothers from Australia is a little nastier. There’s cheating and at least one murder, mixed with some more standard domestic drama. Naturally, it has been compared with Desperate Housewives. Eight episodes from season one are now streaming.
Jupiter’s Legacy (Netflix)
Need another dark, messy superhero drama? Mark Millar — the creator of Kick-Ass and Kingsman: The Secret Service, among other things — wrote the comic book on which this series is based. It features elder statesmen super-beings dealing with their children. It’s the first fruit borne of Netflix having bought his Millarworld creator-owned line of comics in 2017.
Tenet (HBO Max)
Tenet is the latest mind-bending (and somewhat confusing) film from Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight). It was meant to be a massive film for 2020, but was screwed over by COVID. Nolan called HBO Max the worst of the streaming services since owner Warner Bros. is doing same-day releases of movies in theaters. But that’s exactly where Tenet has landed, not even a year after it barely opened during the pandemic.
CPO Sharkey: The Complete Series, plus Don Rickles Comedy Specials (ShoutFactory)
The most legendary insult comic of all time, Don Rickles, was so big in the 1970s from frequenting The Tonight Show (see above), that NBC gave Mr. Warmth a sitcom…his third try at headlining a show. In CPO Sharkey, he played a naval Chief Petty Officer in charge of a bunch of misfit recruits. It lasted only two seasons, but that’s 37 episodes, which is more than many shows make today in an entire multi-year run. Shout!Factory has them all, plus some Rickles specials, and it’s doing a 24-hour marathon on his birthday, May 8, on the live Shout!Factory TV.
Citizen Penn (Discovery+ )
After the 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti in 2010, actor/director Sean Penn took a team there. They have been working to assist ever since. The organization that came from it is now CORE, and has gone on to help with other things like COVID testing sites. This is their story.
Framing John DeLorean (Netflix)
This IFC film takes on the life of the legendary car maker (and con-man). It covers so much more than the famous gull-wing-door car — like the scandals, the jailing, and the cocaine — and does so with some historical reenactments that include Alec Baldwin playing the main subject.
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