Stuff To Watch This Week (June 5-11, 2023)

The Idol

R&B phenom The Weeknd (nee Abel Tesfaye) teams up with Euphoria creator Sam Levinson for this sordid showbiz cautionary tale that scandalised Cannes Film Festival (where it was the first TV show to launch there). Lily-Rose Depp plays Jocelyn, a pop star who loses her shit after a family tragedy. But her parasitic management needs her back in the studio recording ASAP. Enter The Weeknd’s cult leader to get Jocelyn back on her feet. Or does he? The five-part drama also stars Hank Azaria, Eli Roth, and Blackpink’s Jennie.

Blackpink's Jennie wants you to watch her in HBO's The Idol

Watch it on: HBO (Singtel TV Ch 420 & Starhub Ch 601), Mon, 10pm;  HBO Go

Photos: HBO

Arnold

Arnold Schwarzenegger looks back at the his hits and misses as an athlete, an actor and a politician— as well as a father — in this three-part documentary from the Emmy-nominated team behind The Defiant Ones.

Watch it on: Netflix, Wed

Photo: Netflix

Avatar: The Way of Water

James Cameron’s ultra-expensive Nat Geo alien wildlife docu-drama (but with lots of guns and explosions) finally lands on Disney+. Will it be just as impactful and immersive on the small screen as it was in the cinema? The magic 8-ball says: Outlook not so good. Then it’s just a glorified screensaver, right?  

Watch it on: Disney+, Wed

Flamin’ Hot

Eva Longoria directs this award-winning true-life story of Richard Montañez (Jesse Garcia), a janitor at snack company Frito-Lay who came up with the Flamin’ Hot Cheetos in the 1980s. Or did he?

Watch it on: Disney+, Fri 

Photo: Emily Aragones/20th Century Studios

The Crowded Room

Tom Holland stars in this buzzy (read: Emmy-baiting!) 10-part limited series as an unstable young man who’s arrested for a shocking crime in New York City, 1979. Did he or did he not commit it? That’s the job of Amanda Seyfried’s interrogator to find out. Based on the 1981 true-crime novel The Minds of Billy Milligan.

Watch it on: Apple TV+, Fri

Photo: Apple TV+

Post-Mortem with Mick Garris

British director Rob Savage shares how he made the leap from the indie shockers Host and Dashcam to the Hollywood major league with The Boogeyman, his adaptation of a Stephen King short story, starring Chris Messina (The Mindy Project).