Stuff To Watch This Week (Sept 5-11, 2022)
It’s Disney+ Day on Thursday…
Hear U Out, Season 3
It’s Brandon Wong’s turn to pour out his feelings. Kleenex police, standby!
Watch it on: meWATCH, Thur, 9pm
Cool Hotel
Allan Wu, Alberto Gei and Charlyn Lin host this 10-part series about the most amazing lodgings in the world which they’ll check out (or check in?) as both guests and staff. First stop: Lake House in Melbourne.
Watch it on: meWATCH & Channel U, Wed, 9pm
Thor: Love and Thunder
Celebrate Disney+ Day with the premiere of the fourth solo Thor adventure which sees him (Chris Hemsworth) ganging up with ex-GF (Natalie Portman) against Christian Bale’s Gorr the God Butcher. Mark Disney+ Day with an introductory offer of one month of Disney+ for S$1.98. Available for new and eligible returning subscribers from Sept 8 to Sept 20, 2022, 3pm SGT. Click here for more info.
Watch it on: Disney+, Thurs
Photo: TPG News/Click Photos
Pinocchio
Another Disney+ Day highlight: Disney’s latest live-action remake of its animated classic stars Tom Hanks as Geppetto, a childless woodcarver who wishes on a star for the titular puppet to become a real boy (voiced by Benjamin Evan Ainsworth). The Robert Zemeckis-helmed movie also stars Cynthia Erivo as the Blue Fairy as well as Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the voice of Pinocchio’s companion and self-appointed “conscience” Jimmy Cricket.
Watch it on: Disney+, Thur
Photo: Disney+
The Zone: Survival Mission
Another Disney+ Day highlight: this eight-part reality game show has Yoo Jae-Seok, Lee Kwang-Soo and Kwon Yu-Ri navigating apocalyptic landscapes filled with zombies, puzzles and, er, sticky glue.
Watch it on: Disney+, Thur
Narco-Saints
This big-budget South America-set Netflix series stars Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds’ Ha Jung-Woo as a businessman recruited by a Korean intelligence agent (Squid Game’s Park Hae-Soo) to infiltrate a drug cartel run by a priest (Deliver Us from Evil’s Hwang Jung-Min). This six-part series also stars Golden Horse Award-winning Chang Chen.
Watch it on: Netflix, Fri
Photos: Cho Wonjin/Netflix
Rick and Morty, Season 6
The award-winning animated series picks up where Season 5 left off, with Rick and Morty attempting to escape the Citadel. Even if they do, what repercussions will that cause?
Watch it on: HBO Go, Mon
Photo: HBO Go
The Anthrax Attack: In The Shadow Of 9/11
Mixing interviews and scripted reenactments, this documentary follows the FBI’s investigations into the anthrax threats of 2001 in the US, a week after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Clark Gregg stars as army biologist Dr Bruce Ivins, one of the suspects.
Watch it on: Netflix, Thur
Photo: Netflix