Stuff To Watch This Week (Apr 25-May 1, 2022)
What are your long weekend plans? How about kicking it off with Season 3 of ‘MasterChef Singapore’?
MasterChef Singapore, Season 3
Chefs Bjorn Shen, Audra Morrice and Damian D’ Silva are back to decide the culinary futures of 18 home cooks (okay, 12 by the end of the first ep). The last chef stewing wins S$100,000 worth of cash and merchandise. (Meanwhile, F&B owners everywhere are going: "Great, more future rivals…")
Watch it on: meWATCH, Mediacorp Entertainment YouTube Channel, Sun, 9.30pm
Photos: Alvin Teo
Inside Maximum Security
The four-part CNA docu-series — following five inmates at Changi Prison — has been added to Netflix, home of Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons, Jailbirds, Jailbirds: New Orleans, First and Last, and Happy Jail. Let’s binge-watch and compare notes!
Watch it on: Netflix, Thur
Going To You At A Speed Of 493km
Sixteen-part K-drama about the relationship between two badminton players (Extracurricular’s Park Ju-Hyun and Sisyphus: The Myth’s Chae Jong-Hyeop), on and off the court. The title refers to the record-setting speed of the shuttlecock hit by Malaysia’s Tan Boon Hoeng in 2013 — it’s roughly how fast Gurmit Singh was going last year (kidding…he was doing 131km/h).
Watch it on: Disney+, Wed
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Barry, Season 3
The Emmy-winning hitman comedy returns with assassin-turned-accidental actor Barry (Bill Hader) struggling with the fallout of killing his acting coach Gene Cousineau’s (Henry Winkler) girlfriend. Meanwhile, Barry gets knee-deep in the Chechens-vs-Bolivians feud.
Watch it on: HBO (Singtel TV Ch 420, StarHub Ch 601) & HBO Go, Mon, 10am
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The Baby
This eight-ep horror-comedy limited series stars Michelle de Swarte (The Duchess) as a thirtysomething singleton who takes in an abandoned infant with a knack in making her life a living hell — one packed with dead bodies.
Watch it on: HBO (Singtel TV Ch 420, StarHub Ch 601) & HBO Go, Mon, 11.30pm
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We Own This City
The Wire creator David Simon is behind this mini-series starring Jon Bernthal (The Punisher) as the leader of the Baltimore Police Department’s corruption-ridden Gun Trace Force.
Watch it on: HBO (Singtel TV Ch 420, StarHub Ch 601) & HBO Go, Tue, 9am
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365 Days: This Day
The sequel to the Razzie-winning Polish Fifty Shades of Grey sees a third party getting in the way of Laura (Anna Maria Sieklucka) and Massimo (Michele Morrone). Pretty sure there’ll be a lot of R21-certified coital revelry.
Watch it on: Netflix, Fri
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Shining Girls
The Handmaid’s Tale. The Top of the Lake. Elisabeth Moss sure knows how to pick gloomy TV projects. Her latest is no ray of sunshine either. In the eight-part thriller, she plays an assault victim who believes her attacker (Jamie Bell) may be responsible for a recent murder. She teams with a crime reporter (Narco’s Wagner Moura) to track down the perp. But first, there’s the issue of her fragmented psyche…
Watch it on: Apple TV+, Fri
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JAPANOrama Rumble
Remember BJ Fox? The Tokyo-based British comedian who has his own sitcom on NHK World? Well, he’s now got another gig — a comedy panel show about Japan’s amazing landscapes and ‘panoramas’.
Watch it on: Japan International Broadcasting Inc.