From new supernatural dramas to subversive rom-coms, there’s plenty to watch this weekend.
Despite last week’s decidedly lukewarm crop of new movies and TV shows to enjoy, January has seen fit to bow out with a much more promising mix of headline-grabbing arrivals.
In fact, there are so many great new things to watch this weekend that it’s hard for us to reasonably summarize the selection here. Instead, we’ll simply say that Netflix, Prime Video, Disney Plus and Apple TV Plus subscribers have plenty to look forward to over the next few days, with only HBO Max lacking in the ‘just added’ department.
Below, we’ve rounded up seven of the biggest new movies and TV shows to watch on streaming services this weekend. Happy binging, folks!
Apple will be hoping to continue its recent run of prestige TV successes with Shrinking, which begins streaming on Apple TV Plus this weekend.
Not to be confused with fellow Apple TV Plus psychiatry drama The Shrink Next Door, this 10-episode series – from Jason Segel and Ted Lasso creators Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein – stars Segel as Jimmy, a therapist who begins to deflect his own personal struggles onto those of his patients. Fresh from his TV debut in 1923 on Paramount Plus, Harrison Ford also features here as Jimmy’s partner in practice, Paul.
The first two episodes of Shrinking are available to stream now, with the remaining eight set to arrive weekly every Friday through March 24. Here’s hoping it earns a spot on our list of the best Apple TV Plus shows.
Now available to stream on Apple TV Plus.
As our entertainment reporter, Tom Power, noted in his reaction to its first trailer, new Netflix series Lockwood & Co. looks like it could be a winning mash-up of Sherlock Holmes, Ghostbusters and Doctor Who.
Directed by Attack the Block filmmaker Joe Cornish (and produced by his longtime friend Edgar Wright), this eight-episode supernatural adventure – based on Jonathan Stroud’s novel series of the same name – follows a group of gifted teenagers who do battle with London’s myriad ghosts and ghouls.
