What to Stream This Weekend
This weekend is all about ladies with superpowers. Throw in a robbery, Yakuza, and Dolly Parton, and there’s plenty of crime to fight.
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.
Thunder Force (Netflix)
Women with superpowers is the theme of the weekend. This one is the comedy take on the topic, featuring Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer as ladies who gain some abilities (super-strength and invisibility, respectively) and (what else?) go fight crime.
The Nevers (HBO Max)
This show was created by Joss Whedon who — post-scandals on Justice League — now has nothing to do with it. It’s about ladies in late 19th century England who gain superpowers and are, in turn, hunted down for it. But they’re not called Nevers, they’re called “The Touched,” which will probably make sense when we watch it. Unless it doesn’t. (The season premiere is on Sunday.)
Them (Amazon Prime Video)
A new horror anthology show, this one looks at terror from the African-American perspective. The first season is about a family moving to L.A. in the 1950s to a home with multiple threats, both outside and in.
This is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist (Netflix)
On St. Patrick’s Day in 1990, two men dressed as cops robbed the Isabella Gardner Stewart Museum in Boston of half-a-billion dollars worth of artwork. Today, the reward for its return is worth $10 million. Did the mob do it so they could have a potential stay-out-of-jail-free card? This four-part documentary tries to explain.
The Way of the Househusband (Netflix)
This anime adaptation follows a yakuza gangster going underground to become a housebound husband trying to perfect the domestic life. Over-the-top violence and robot vacuum jokes are just the beginning of what you can expect.
Dolly Parton: A MusiCares Tribute (Netflix)
American treasure Dolly Parton isn’t in concert here — this is a tribute by many other stars singing her songs to her as a tribute. That includes Willy Nelson, Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, Vince Gill, and others. But if you’d rather hear Dolly herself, she does chime in, and you can find other specials featuring her on Netflix.
The Story of the Faithful Wookiee (Disney+)
This is the one fans of Star Wars — and particularly of Boba Fett — have been waiting for. Back in 1978, as part of the long-hidden-by-George-Lucas Star Wars Holiday Special, there was an animated sequence that misspelled Wookie. It’s a weird bit of business, created by Toronto-based Nelvana (later famed for making Care Bears and more). This short is particularly historical for featuring the first on-screen appearance of the bounty hunter Fett, long before his live-action debut in The Empire Strikes Back in 1980. It’s on YouTube but Disney+ has it in high-quality glory.
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