What to watch on Neon, Netflix and other streaming services right now
Add to your watchlist with these new streaming releases.
Ready for a chill weekend of bingeing? We’ve collated the top new titles from each platform, giving the lowdown on what everyone will be talking about come Monday morning.
Bad Sisters: Season 1
The pilot episode of Sharon Horgan’s black comedy series is titled “The Prick”, presumably setting up the despicable brother-in-law character who we’ll soon beg the main characters to slay. Starring Horgan, Eve Hewson and Sarah Greene as some of the siblings struggling to cover up their very justifiable crime, Bad Sisters should be both witty and addictively tense.
Echoes: Limited Series
Michelle Monaghan doubles down on mystery in this twisty thriller series in which she portrays identical twin sisters. Leni and Gina have been mischievously leading double lives as long as they can remember, but everything becomes twice as complicated when one of the women goes missing. Very generically handsome man Matt Bomer co-stars in a cowboy hat.
Belfast
Kenneth Branagh won this year’s Best Original Screenplay Oscar for his semi-autobiographical period piece, and it’s arriving on Neon and Prime Video this Saturday. Open up your heart to some black-and-white everlasting love, where grandparents Judi Dench and Ciarán Hinds and parents Jamie Dornan and Caitriona Balfe must pilot our young protagonist through the Troubles of 1960s Belfast.
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: Season 1
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law - Season 1
Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany gets added to the MCU (or televisual universe, rather) in the form of green, mean law machine Jennifer Walters, better known as Bruce Banner’s cousin She-Hulk. There’s only one episode out yet, and it looks like it’ll satisfy and amuse those of us waiting for Marvel’s heroes and baddies to get their day in court—Walters is a lawyer representing the world’s most destructive powered-up clients.
Clifford The Big Red Dog
Speaking of characters turning big and Christmas-coloured, this live-action romp reintroduces us to the ungainly pup of Norman Bridwell’s classic childrens’ literature. The film has UK comic Jack Whitehall doing a very questionable accent, and should keep your kids laughing over the weekend. They might even stop asking for a pet, after seeing how much work it is to keep Clifford entertained with larger-than-life frisbee and fetch.
Kleo: Season 1
Netflix has a great streak of German drama hits so far, and this post-Berlin Wall spy thriller could be the next Teutonic sensation. It’s about a former spy-killer set free, now seeking revenge on those who betrayed her—and wearing some stylish micro-bangs and retro fashion while she does it.
