Keep the first page! We’ve upped our usual seven streaming recommendations to eight this week, such is the frequency with which Netflix, Prime Video, HBO Max and the rest release new movies and TV shows for viewers to enjoy.
A fruitful few days on Netflix, notably Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, The Good Nurse, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself and Wendell and Wilde all arrive within days of each other. And that’s before we mention Tales of the Jedi on Disney Plus and the return of The White Lotus on HBO Max.
Below, we’ve rounded up eight of the biggest new movies and TV shows to watch on streaming services this weekend.
The White Lotus Season 2 (HBO Max)
HBO’s Hawaii-set drama series, White Lotus, won a year-record 10 trophies at the 2022 Emmy Awards, and now the series is returning for its highly anticipated second season.
This time, events move from the titular resort at the heart of the series’ first season and head to a shiny new hotel in Sicily. The excellent Jennifer Coolidge reprises her role as Tanya McQuaid-Hunt, but the Season 2 cast – which includes Aubrey Plaza, F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hollander and Theo James – is otherwise all-new.
The first episode of The White Lotus Season 2 will be available to stream on HBO Max in the US (and on Sky and Now in the UK) from Sunday. The remaining six installments should arrive every week until December 11th.
Available to stream on HBO Max, Sky and Now from Sunday.
Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities (Netflix)
Guillermo del Toro has had a busy few years. Just 10 months after the release of Nightmare Alley – and two months before he releases his next film, Pinocchio – the Oscar-winning director brings his talents to the small screen with Cabinet of Curiosities.
Originally titled 10 After Midnight, this eight-episode horror anthology series tells a variety of tangled fairy tales, each with its own distinct cast and style. Andrew Lincoln, Peter Weller, Eric Andre, Rupert Grint and Tim Blake Nelson star, while Jennifer Kent (The Babadook) and Anna Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night) are among the series’ many directors.
Two new episodes of Cabinet of Curiosities have been released every day since Tuesday — bucking Netflix’s usual trend of shows arriving in their entirety — but all eight installments are now available to stream.
It’s now available to stream on Netflix.
The Good Nurse (Netflix)
Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain go Oscar hunting in The Good Nurse – which, despite its title, is not a prequel to The Good Doctor.
Based on events documented in Charles Graeber’s book of the same name, this new Netflix film follows the murderous exploits of real-life serial killer Charles Cullen (Redmayne). Chastain plays Cullen’s colleague, Amy Loughren, the nurse who would go on to uncover his habitual poisoning of dozens of patients over a sixteen-year period.
In Netflix’s wide range of films, The Good Nurse is a more low-key affair than, say, Don’t Look Up — but its shocking story of gross criminal negligence is far more impactful than the big-budget drama of the streamer’s more star-studded blockbusters .
It’s now available to stream on Netflix.
Tales of the Jedi (Disney Plus)
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it’s that time again: another new Star Wars TV show is here.
Like Star Wars: Visions before it, Tales of the Jedi is an animated anthology series that jumps between different characters in the Star Wars universe. But in this Dave Filoni-created show, the visual style—which is similar to that of The Clone Wars—remains the same throughout, and each story focuses on a different notable Jedi.
Ahsoka (Ashley Eckstein) and Count Dooku (Corey Burton) are among Season 1’s Jedi, and all six of the series’ 15-minute episodes are available to stream on Disney Plus now.
It’s now available to stream on Disney Plus.
All Quiet on the Western Front (Netflix)
It’s been quite a few years since Dunkirk and 1917 reminded audiences of the horrors of war, and Netflix will be hoping its new film, All Quiet on the Western Front, has the same impact as those Oscar-winning productions.
Based on Erich Maria Remarque’s landmark World War I novel of the same name (which was first adapted as a feature film in 1930), this German-language film tells the story of a young German soldier (Felix Kammerer) whose naive expectations of fighting for their country is broken by the painful reality of war.
All Quiet on the Western Front was hailed by critics as brutal, stark and poignant – but don’t expect to leave this one with a particularly happy feeling.
It’s now available to stream on Netflix.
The Devil’s Hour (Premium Video)
Jessica Raine (Call the Midwife) and former Doctor Who actor Peter Capaldi lead the cast of Prime Video’s new psychological horror series, The Devil’s Hour.
This six-episode show follows Lucy (Rain), a young woman who wakes up at the same time every night in the middle of the so-called Devil’s Hour. Why? No one knows – except perhaps Gideon (Capaldi), a Hannibal Lecter-esque serial killer with a lot on his mind.
Critics have praised The Devil’s Hour for being a smart and sinister update to the tried-and-true police procedural formula, so we suggest you give it a try if you’re into twisted crime dramas.
Now available to stream on Prime Video.
The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself (Netflix)
Giri/Haji and Encounter writer Joe Barton returns to the small screen with the new Netflix series The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself.
Adapted from Sally Greene’s Half Bad series of novels, this eight-episode series centers on Nathan (Jay Lycurgo), a teenager who happens to be the illegitimate son of the world’s most dangerous witch. Unwilling to follow in his murderous father’s footsteps, he tries (but mostly fails) to stay out of trouble.
The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself may be based on young adult fiction, but the horrific visual effects suggest otherwise. Netflix itself has described the show as a “truly insane ride,” so we think it could be the perfect pre-Halloween viewing.
It’s now available to stream on Netflix.
Wendell & Wild (Netflix)
This week’s fourth (fourth!) Netflix recommendation is the appropriately spooky animated stop-motion adventure Wendell & Wild.
From the minds of Henry Selick (Coraline) and Jordan Peele (No), this new Netflix film follows two scheming demon brothers, Wendell and Wilde (Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele), who enlist the help of a teenage girl (Lyric Ross) to to call them to the Land of the Living. Angela Bassett, James Hong and Ving Rhames also star.
Wendell & Wild has been called by critics a “confused yet imaginative journey,” and existing fans of the Laika film will likely find plenty of supernatural wizardry to enjoy here.
It’s now available to stream on Netflix.
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