Always Be Streaming... It's a choose your own adventure week
Your weekly streaming TV & movie listings to give you something to watch this weekend.
This is one of those weeks where none of us will be short new things to watch. But there’s nothing especially compelling - just a bunch of stuff to keep us entertained enough.
The fourth and final season of Jack Ryan will be a big drawcard for some viewers. Same with The Witcher on Netflix which returns for its third season. That show continues on, but this will be the final season with series star Henry Cavill.
With season 3 starting this week, fans of action shows should probably go back and give the previous two seasons of Warrior (which you likely haven’t watched) a chance. This is the show based on a treatment by Bruce Lee which was dusted off and brought to TV by Banshee creator Jonathan Topper.
Real talk: I have watched nothing new that has launched this past week. Instead I have been backtracking and just catching up on some shows and movies.
Apple TV+’s The Big Door Prize has been the focus of the week with my wife and I watching 2 episodes of that each night. I had seen the first 3 episodes for review and kept meaning to get back to it. I’m glad that I did as it is continued to charm me. This is the show with Chris O’Dowd living in a US small-ish town which has the lives of its residents interrupted when an arcade machine appears that purports to tell everyone what their ‘potential’ is. The result is a township of people who are upending their lives to live the life they suspect they should be leading - or are thoroughly depressed because they have had it confirmed that they will never be more than they are.
It’s good TV and far more engaging than the increasingly flat Apple TV+ show Silo, which I was also watching with my wife and we both officially tapped out by episode 7. But truthfully, I was just reading my phone from episode 5. That show concludes its first season today.
I also saw a sneaky copy of the low-ish budget Maggie Moore(s), which had a cinema release in the US a few weeks ago and is available there to buy or rent digitally. It stars Jon Hamm as a single cop who develops an interest in the next door neighbour (Tina Fey) of a murder victim he’s investigating. Great main and supporting cast (among them: Nick Mohammed from Ted Lasso) with an interesting enough murder investigation driving the plot forward. A debut film from Hamm’s Mad Men co-star John Slattery, the movie offers just enough to have you raising your eyebrow at times with some unique and clever plot/character elements. But mostly it just chugs along.