(Credit: Gareth Thomas/ Netflix)
When it comes to streaming video, the content pile is vast, and you've got the whole weekend to decide how you want to slice it. There are now too many shows and movies to choose from, spread across too many video-streaming services. We make it easy for you. Each week, we highlight the streaming content we're excited to watch or think you should binge. Fire up your media-streaming device of choice and start watching.
Andor: Season 2 (Disney+)
It’s finally here, the best thing in Star Wars since, well, season one of Andor. (If you don’t believe me, check out the 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes—even Grogu can’t match it). This decidedly more adult look at the galaxy far, far away features Diego Luna as the title character, in a limited, two-season prequel to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which was itself a pretty adult look at war in the stars. Three new episodes drop each week, so the season is like getting a full quadrilogy of “films.” And soon, we’ll get to see just how Cassian met the best droid in history, K-2SO.
You: Season 5 (Netflix)
The final season of You will bring serial-killing romantic Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) back to the Big Apple, where he first started on his bloody path. The past threatens to catch up to him as he enters his happily ever after.
Babygirl (Max)
Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson turn in some truly sexy performances in this May/December “romance” from 2024 about a CEO who falls under the sway of an intern.
Havoc (Netflix)
Tom Hardy likes an over-the-top character doing over-the-top things (cough, Venom, cough) so expect his tale of a detective fighting the underworld to deliver something...over the top. It helps that the director (Gareth Evans) helmed the crazy action film The Raid and its sequels.
Pangolin: Kulu's Journey (Netflix)
The pangolin—the scaly anteater—is, according to the NY Times, the most trafficked animal on the globe, with their scales used for “medicine.” In this documentary, you can watch as one man rescues a baby named Kulu and tries to rehabilitate it to live in the wild.
The Return (Paramount+)
Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche star in this 2024 retelling of the end of Homer’s Odyssey, as warrior-king Odysseus returns to Ithaca. Good thing they got it out there before next summer’s The Odyssey—directed by Christopher (Oppenheimer) Nolan hits with Matt Damon in the same role. Because that covers the time after the Trojan War as old Ody is trying to get home—you know, the exciting bit.
Étoile (Prime Video)
From the pens of the creators of Gilmore Girls, Bunheads, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, comes Étoile. It's a ballet comedy—there are laughs to be had in this show about New York and Paris ballet companies exchanging stars to fill seats in the theater. Emmy-winning Maisel star Luke Kirby—who expertly played Lenny Bruce in that show—is also in this one.
Conclave (Prime Video)
Could a film about the picking of a new pope be more timely? The Oscar-nominated flick, also starring Ralph Fiennes (who was also Oscar-nominated) jumped from Peacock to Prime this week. Catch it while the late pontiff lies in state and the real-life conclave gathers. Just don’t look to this film for documentary-esque realism to explain it all.