Stuff To Watch This Week (Jan 9-15, 2023)
Who's in the mood to kill some Nazis? Hunters returns for Season 2 on Friday.
The 80th Golden Globe Awards
After a one-year hiatus, the Globes returns! The Banshees of Inisherin, a dark comedy about two estranged friends during the Irish Civil War, leads the movies race with eight nods, while Abbott Elementary, a sitcom about the teachers and students in a public school, has the most nominations with five. Elsewhere, Eddie Murphy will receive Cecil B DeMille Award while Ryan Murphy will be given the Carol Burnett Award. With Jerrod Carmichael as the host. Presenters include Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Natasha Lyonne, Quentin Tarantino, and Tracy Morgan.
Watch it on: meWATCH & Channel 5, Wed, 9am (live); same-day encore at 10.30pm
The trip down memory continues In the second part of the Tofu Street cast get-together. Watch Part here:
The Reunion
The trip down memory continues in the second part of the Tofu Street cast get-together. Watch Part 1 here:
Forbidding No More, Season 2
Host Ge Fan makes his way from Buenos Aires to the northwest where he checks out the Inca culture and makes a few new friends… like this llama.
Chasing Waves
Eight-part docu-series about Japan’s surfing culture, as seen through the eyes of pro surfers Mahina Maeda, Yuma Takanuki, Sara Kohrogi, Kanoa Igarashi and Connor O’Leary.
Watch it on: Disney+, Wed
The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House
Cannes-feted filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda (Broker, Shoplifters) is behind this nine-part series about a cook working at a geisha boarding house in Kyoto. Based on Aiko Koyama’s manga Maiko in Kyoto: From the Maiko House. Stars Nana Mori and Natsuki Deguchi.
Watch it on: Netflix, Thur
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Hunters, Season 2
Final season! The Jordan Peele-produced thrillers see the Hunters setting their sights on the ultimate Nazi: Adolf Hitler. Turns out the most evil man of the 20th century been hiding in South America all this time. Meanwhile, the Hunters’ leader Meyer (Al Pacino) has been hiding a deep dark secret.
Watch it on: Amazon Prime Video, Fri
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Servant, Season 4
Final season! How will the war between the Turners and the Church of Lesser Saints end in M Night Shyamalan’s psychological thriller?
Watch it on: Apple TV+, Fri
Photo: Apple TV+
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