There are two Netflix originals about which I’m legitimately psyched this week, which is a nice change of scenery. Two promising streaming options, and that’s not even counting the reboot of She-Ra (Friday)!
You know how the exact moment Thanksgiving is over you find yourself wandering the aisles of CVS while “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” blasts over the PA and you’re filled with overwhelming dread, another year come and gone and what have you done with your life? Of course you do. Well, this year is different. This…
Let’s cut the crap and stop pretending there’s anything you want to watch this week besides The Great British Baking Show: Collection 6 (better known as Series 9 in the UK). It’s the most soothing show that ever there was and we all know it.
Don’t let Halloween on Wednesday stop your scary movie stream-a-thon—Netflix is dropping Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Cape Fear, Scary Movies 2 & 3, and the truly terrifying Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo all on Thursday, November 1.
We’re heading into the tail end of October, that swampy backwater where Netflix unloads the remainder of its least distinguished “originals” and hopes for the best. The big debut this week is part 2 of Making a Murderer, which I’m having a hard time getting excited about. Will Wanderlust, a new show in which Tori…
Are you full of strong opinions on the right way to do things that you’re dying to share with the world? Do you geek out over everything from how best to pack a suitcase to the finer points of cell phone etiquette? Do you give incredible advice, if you do say so yourself? Are you also a smart, curious, witty,…
When I first heard about electric bikes, they struck me as the ultimate life hack. They allow you to commute relatively speedily without the hassle of public transportation, to get exercise without getting overly sweaty, to get from point A to point B without spending money on gas. As a longtime urban cyclist who’d…
We’re a Schitt’s Creek family here at Lifehacker, so the arrival of season 4 on Thursday makes for very good news. If you’ve been resistant to this delightful show because the title is so terrible, I urge you to work through your understandable issues and just dive in. The ongoing saga of the once-wealthy Rose family,…
Netflix is coming in hot with the nostalgia flicks this week—we’ve got Blazing Saddles, Empire Records, Once Upon a Time in America, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure and Rumble in the Bronx all landing on Monday. They’re also tossing us a bunch of dramas of recent vintage that no one is excited to see but which will…
Jeffrey Wright and Alexander Skarsgård in a “harrowing mystery” set in a remote Alaskan village? Let’s do this! Hold the Dark is directed by Jeremy Saulnier (Blue Ruin) and premieres on Friday. I haven’t seen A Wrinkle in Time (Tuesday) and probably won’t watch because it will ruin my precious memories of the book…
I’m most excited this week about a weird limited series called Maniac from Cary Joji Fukunaga (Beasts of No Nation, True Detective, It). Emma Stone and Jonah Hill star as patients in a “mindbending pharmaceutical trial gone awry.” It looks like they hallucinate themselves into a lot of wacky situations, allowing for…
NPR’s Morning Edition recently revised their clock, the second-by-second schedule of newscasts, longer segments, promos, music beds and funding messages for each hour of the show. The new clock, effective August 13, 2018, represents the first change in Morning Edition’s scheduling since 2014. Most notably, it features…
Friends, Netflix is doing us right this week. Not only are we blessed with new seasons of both American Vandal and BoJack Horseman, but we’ve got a Netflix original with a promising pedigree: Ted Thompson’s highly praised 2014 novel The Land of Steady Habits has been turned into a feature film by Nicole Holofcener (…
This is your friendly weekend entertainment concierge reminding you that Black Panther was released on Netflix on Tuesday. If you’ve already seen Crazy Rich Asians and Eighth Grade and BlacKkKlansman, you should stay home, invite a couple pals over, make some spicy prosciutto spread, and watch it. It’s so infrequent…
Black Panther. Tuesday. If you need anything else to watch, Next Gen (Friday, Sept. 7), an animated kid-and-robot-vs.-the-bullies feature starring John Krasinski, Jason Sudeikis and Charlyne Yi looks kind of fun. Its tagline is “Friendship is the ultimate upgrade” which, having just gotten AirPods, I take issue…
On yesterday’s rumor that we won’t be seeing second-gen AirPods until the fourth quarter of 2019, I hied to the Apple store and bought myself a pair. I quickly discovered that I am one of those people who is not going to be raving about how the AirPods seem magically cemented to my ears. I will not be able to cycle in…
If you haven’t watched season 1 of Ozark, the Southern Gothic thriller starring Jason Bateman as a crooked-but-well-intentioned dad who moves his family to Missouri to launder cash for a Mexican cartel, then you have a few days to mainline it before season 2 drops on Friday, Aug. 31. It’s good! The entire show looks…
A moody teen love story with a supernatural twist featuring Guy Pearce uttering lines like, “You’re a young woman in a frightening new world. I think you just need somebody to walk through it with you”? Could it be this summer’s answer to Stranger Things? Let us hope that The Innocents (Friday, Aug. 24) is even half…
Updated Aug. 14, 2018, 4:41 ET: A representative from Netflix reached out to us after publication to say that Pinky Malinky “will no longer be arriving on 8/17...Currently, I do not have a new date for the title.” So, there goes our recommendation for this week. Guess you’ll have to watch Evan Almighty. Our…
