The content pile is vast, and you've got the whole weekend to decide how you want to slice it. We're in the midst of 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, 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.
Of all the characters Stan Lee created, the greatest one was Stan Lee himself. This documentary sticks to the script Lee wrote about himself and is even narrated by him. Like the Marvel franchise that features his cameos, it's slick and fun. But for the real story, you can read the carefully reported biography True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee by Abraham Josephine Riesman.
Robots are taking jobs, lots of people have only seen their co-workers on a screen, and we can't even trust an image of the pope. So of course the thing we need most is a new season of Black Mirror to imagine fresh horrors we'll likely have to live through.
This is not The Full Monty of 25 years ago. Except that it sort of is. This Hulu series has the original cast revisit their roles. While they are no longer stripping because they lost their steelworking jobs, they are still affected by the economics and politics of England in unfavorable ways, which they try to overcome together.
In this faux rock doc/stand-up special, John Early does what he does best: absurdist comedy. It's made even better by the direction of Emily Allan and Leah Hennessey, who created the zany, addictive web series Zhe Zhe about two fame-seeking millennials who never met a stereotype they couldn't cling to.
Like so much in fashion, Project Runway has had to reinvent itself many times over. This latest design is one of the best. For its 20th season, it's brought back some of its best contestants. Rami from season 4! Fabio from season 10! And even the much-beloved Kara Saun from season 1! Everything old is new again (including the show being back on Bravo while also streaming on Peacock).
It's hard to know just how popular a Netflix movie really is since the streamer offers no real statistics. But Extraction, an action thriller starring Chris Hemsworth as a black-market mercenary, did well enough to warrant an Extraction 2. Enough so that they have brought the character back from being "clinically dead nine months ago" as we learn in the first line of this trailer. Now that he's back on his feet, he has to rescue his ex-wife's sister and children from the world's deadliest prison.
This erotic thriller ramps up the paranoia as a woman in a new and seemingly happy relationship realizes with growing horror the reality of her situation as she experiences blackouts over and over again. This movie is one of Hulu's new offerings for Pride month; if you need more to watch, we have lots of suggestions.
