Weekend Watchlist: What’s new on streaming

August 23, 2024

Ready, set, binge! Here’s a look at some of the new movies and TV shows streaming this weekend:

Netflix
That ‘90s Show: Summer isn’t over yet. Brand new episodes of the sitcom are available to watch now.

Incoming: Four freshmen survive their first-ever high school party in the new comedy film.

Hulu
Reasonable Doubt: Fearless defense attorney Jax Stewart is back for season 2 of the drama series.

The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat: Watch lifelong best friends weather life’s storms together in the new film.

Peacock
The Killer: A mysterious assassin spares a young girl’s life in the new action series.

Apple TV+
Pachinko: Continue to follow four generations of a Korean immigrant family in season 2 of the drama series.

That’s all for this week’s Weekend Watchlist – happy streaming!

Bath & Body Works collabs with ‘Emily In Paris’ for a themed collection

Bath & Body Works

Viewers of Netflix’s Emily In Paris will have a new way to celebrate their fandom: a new collaboration with Bath & Body Works.

The limited-edition Bath & Body Works x Emily In Paris collection kicks off in November, with “50 très chic products designed to captivate fans’ senses and transport them directly into the vibrant and stylish world of Emily Cooper,” according to the ad copy.

The collection, which includes everything from lipstick to body spray to candles to hand sanitizer, “embodies Parisian charm, and marries fragrance with fashion.”

Four scents drive home the collab: Champagne in Paris, “featuring notes of champagne spritz, elderberry fizz and lily of the valley”; Lavender Luxe, “inspired by the iconic lavender fields from season three … with notes of Lavande de Provence, flirtatious jasmine and vanilla crush”; Macaron Cloud, which “features notes of macaron delight, Parisian spun sugar and pink berries and brings to life the essence of a French patisserie”; and Paris Amour, a 2011 favorite, which is being brought back and rebranded to tie into the series.

In brief: ‘The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ scores record debut and more

The Wrap reports The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives has become its most-watched unscripted season premiere of the year so far, based on three days of streaming on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+, according to Disney internal data. The series follows the “scandalous world of a group of Mormon mom influencers,” led by self-acclaimed MomTok founder Taylor Frankie Paul, which “implodes when they get caught in the midst of a swinging sex scandal that makes international headlines,” per the streaming service …

The soap opera All My Children, which aired on ABC from 1970 to 2011, then briefly ran as a web series in 2013, may get a revival via a series of Lifetime TV movies, sources tell TV Line. The proposed series would feature legacy characters from the classic daytime drama project, which is in the very early stages, with one insider warning the talks are just “exploratory” at this point …

Judd Apatow and Steven Spielberg are attached as the respective director and producer of Cola Wars, a film in development at Sony Pictures, according to Deadline. The project follows the true story of Pepsi’s attempt to end Coca-Cola’s centurylong reign as the world’s top cola, dubbed the “Cola Wars” of the mid-1980s, highlighted by Michael Jackson’s fiery hair mishap and the New Coke debacle. The film is still in early development, per the outlet …

Spooky season returns: Shudder releases new Season of Screams lineup

Shudder

Shudder, the streaming service for fans of horror movies, has released its lineup for this year’s Season of Screams, a “three-month celebration of the best in horror.”

This year will bring back its popular Yule log take — the hourlong lit pumpkin known as the Ghoul Log — as well as the Halloween Hotline, for those in need of horror movie recommendations, manned by the network’s head of programming, Samuel Zimmerman.

Each weekend also boasts exclusive horror movie premieres. The action kicks off Friday the 13th — naturally — with the flicks In A Violent Nature and Lake Bodom.

Sept. 20 starts “zombie weekend,” with the movies The Sadness and Undead. Director Damian McCarthy is celebrated as a “modern master” with his offerings Oddity and Caveat on the weekend of Sept. 27.

Oct. 4 celebrates the “found footage” subgenre with V/H/S/Beyond and Hell House LLC; Oct. 11 is dedicated to “horrifying households” with Daddy’s Head and Metamorphisis; the weekend of Oct. 18 is dubbed “shocking scourges” with the movies MadS and Virus: 32; Oct. 30 — or Devil’s Night, as it’s known, will screen Late Night with the Devil.

Of course, Halloween will screen on Halloween night, and the Day of the Dead — Nov. 1 — will see Shudder celebrate with the Day of the Dead collection.