Stuff To Watch This Week (Mar 14-20, 2022)

You Can Be An Angel, Season 4

The Zoe Tay-Xiang Yun-led nursing drama returns! This time it looks at how the Ai De Hospital staff deals with the COVID-19 pandemic. The cast includes Guo Liang, Hong Ling, Desmond Ng, Zhang Zetong, Tyler Ten, Zhu Houren and Xiang Yun’s son, Chen Xi (formerly Chen Yixi).

Watch it on: meWATCH & Channel 8, Fri, 9pm

Inside Crime Scene

This five-part true-crime docu-series revisits Singapore’s most heinous crimes, beginning with the 1983 Andrew Road Triple Murders, a home invasion by committed Sek Kim Wah, aka Singapore’s first serial killer.

Watch it on: meWATCH & Channel 8, Wed, 8pm

A Superior Day

Eight-part Korean thriller starring Jin Goo as a firefighter who has 24 hours to save his kidnapped daughter. To free her, he has to put to the ground a serial killer. Okay, where does he start? Easy: his target lives next door.

Watch it on: Viu, Mon

Photo: Viu

Saturday Night Live, Season 47

The Batman’s Zoe Kravitz makes her host debut, with Rosalía as music guest. Watch Kravitz’s monologue here:

Watch it on: Paramount Network (Singtel TV Ch 418), Tue, 10pm; encores with musical performers on Sat, a week after the US premiere

Photos: Mary Ellen Matthews/NBC

Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives

From Chris Smith, the executive producer of Tiger King and director of Fyre: The Greatest Party that Never Happened, comes Netflix’s next true-crime obsession. This four-part docu looks at how Sarma Melngailis, a celeb restaurateur who married a scammer and then went on the lam with him after fleecing US$2 million from her own restaurant. What can I say? Love makes you do crazy things.

Watch it on: Netflix, Wed

Photo: Netflix

Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Punisher, The Defenders

With effect from Wednesday, all six Netflix-Marvel shows — produced between 2015 and 2019 — will be part of Disney+'s Marvel library. Unlike the MCU shows (WandaVision, Loki, Hawkeye, et al), the Netflix-produced shows were made for viewers aged 17 and over (i.e. they feature more sex, violence, and bad language).

Watch it on: Disney+, Wed Photo: Disney+

Photo: Disney+

King Richard

After his Screen Actors Guild Awards victory, Will Smith looks set to take home the Best Actor Oscar (unless the voters decide to go with Benedict Cumberbatch) for his portrayal as Richard Williams, the father and mentor of tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams.

Watch it on: HBO Go, Thur

Photo: HBO Go

DMZ

Based on Brian Wood’s acclaimed DC graphic novel of the same name and executive produced by Ava DuVernay (Selma), this four-part limited series stars an intrepid medic’s (Rosario Dawson) search for her son in a near-future America embroiled in a bitter civil war. The series also stars Benjamin Bratt, Hoon Lee (Warrior), Rutina Wesley (True Blood), and Mamie Gummer (The Good Fight).

Watch it on: HBO Go, Thur

Photo: HBO Go

WeCrashed

The WeWork scandal is given The Social Network treatment in this eight-part limited series. A mesmerising Jared Leto stars as Adam Neumann, the ambitious and flamboyant entrepreneur trying to convince the world that he could run a multi-billion office-space-sharing business. Anne Hathaway plays Rebekah, Adam’s wife and WeWork co-founder, who’s in over her head as well.

Watch it on: Apple TV+, Fri

Photo: Apple TV+

Life & Beth

Soon-to-be Oscar host Amy Schumer returns to TVLand with his half-hour dramedy as a pushing-40 Manhattan-based wine saleswoman looking for love in the all the wrong places. Michael Cera co-stars as one of her potential suitors.

Watch it on: Disney+, Fri

Photo: Disney+

Professor T

This British remake of the Belgian TV series stars Ben Miller (Bridgerton) as Professor Jasper Tempest, a genius Cambridge University criminologist with OCD who helps the police to crack their most difficult cases.

Watch it on: BBC First (Singtel TV Ch 308, StarHub Ch 502) & BBC Player, Fri

Photo: BBC Studios