📺 What to watch this week, plus 'You' and 'Outer Banks'
Happy Thursday. It was a good week in TV land with Ted Lasso’s return and the finale of The Last of Us. If you haven’t yet, make sure to check out the podcast for our thoughts on the dramatic ending. And if you’ve been keeping up-to-date on Daisy Jones & The Six, stay tuned for our reactions to the second batch of episodes, dropping tomorrow on the pod.
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In today’s edition:
Weekly watchlist
You - Season 4
Outer Banks - Season 3
— Jess Spoll and Jenni Cullen
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We keep an eye on all of the new streaming content that is set to premiere. Here’s a list of new shows and movies to watch this week.
Ted Lasso (Season 3) — Better ‘believe’ that our favorite Emmy-winning series is back for its newest (and reportedly final) season. The formerly half-hour comedy expands to almost 50 minutes per episode for its 3rd season.
Watch on Apple TV+: 1 of 12 episodes out now, new episode each WednesdayShadow and Bone (Season 2) — Almost two years after the first season, it’s finally time to return to the Grishaverse. This season is expected to follow the events of Storm and Siege, the second book in Bardugo’s trilogy, along with some additions from her Six of Crows series.
Watch on Netflix: March 16 (all 8 episodes)Swarm (Season 1) — From the mind of Donald Glover comes this new horror-satire series about a young woman whose obsession with a pop star takes a dark turn.
Watch on Prime Video: March 17 (all 7 episodes)Extrapolations (Miniseries) — This dystopian anthology series with an A-list cast (Meryl Streep, Edward Norton, Forest Whitaker, and more) explores the devastating effects of climate change.
Watch on Apple TV+: March 17 (3 of 8 episodes, then weekly)Class of ‘07 (Season 1) — In this Australian dark comedy series, a group of women at their 10-year high school reunion fight for survival after a tidal wave strikes.
Watch on Prime Video: March 17 (all 8 episodes)Lucky Hank (Season 1) — Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul) is back in this workplace drama-comedy as a curmudgeonly English department chairman at a low-tier university in the Pennsylvania rust belt.
Watch on AMC/AMC+: March 19 (1 of 8 episodes, then weekly)
These popular shows came back with new episodes. Here’s what we thought and where you can watch them.
You - Season 4
Keywords: psychological thriller, suspense, murder
Watch if you like: How to Get Away With Murder, Killing Eve, Dexter
Jenni’s Rating: C+
You follows Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley), a dangerously obsessive “nice guy” who goes through extremes to insert himself into the lives of his romantic interests. The final episodes of Season 4 came out last week, and they were actually a little better than I expected.
What I enjoyed most about this season is that it served as a welcome reminder that the narrator we’re dealing with is extremely unreliable. Seasons 1 through 3 toed a weird and uncomfortable line that had a lot of viewers sympathizing with Joe and looking for ways to forgive his hideous actions. It feels as though these last few episodes served as a course correction of sorts.
What I didn’t love: You takes its “tell don’t show” approach to the extreme in this season. What can you expect from a series that spends so much time in its main character’s inner monologue? I admit, naive or not, I expected more. The showrunners really don’t trust the viewer to connect any dots themselves, which I suppose sort of makes sense given the many liberties they take with logic, human behavior, and plot structure. It seems truly wild that no one has noticed a tall white dude skulking at every crime scene with nothing but a baseball cap as a disguise.
This series on the whole is soapy, unhinged, and addictive. Is it good? Eh, what is ‘good’? It’s certainly bingeable. I do think it would be hard to sustain another hot mess of a season and should probably end here, but let’s be real, we likely haven’t seen the last of Joe Goldberg.
— Jenni
Length: 45-min runtime, 4 seasons / 40 episodes
Watch on: Netflix
Outer Banks - Season 3
Keywords: drama, soapy, teens
Watch if you like: Pretty Little Liars, The O.C., The Society
Jess’s Rating: F
(🚨 Spoiler Warning for Season 2 🚨) At the end of Season 2 of Outer Banks, John B and his Pogue friends had lost the treasure to the Camerons once again, and were left stranded on a deserted island in the Caribbean. Season 3 picks up with the group’s rescue, and they soon embark on another treasure hunting journey.
Outer Banks has never been prestige TV, and that’s ok! I liked the first season for what it was — a ridiculous, action-packed, soapy melodrama that you could binge watch on a rainy day. It was the kind of show that was fun to watch when you wanted to mostly turn off your brain. Season 2 was more of the same, even if it was a bit predictable. But this third season is borderline unwatchable. Actually, just truly unwatchable. I forced myself through the first 6 episodes and gave up in the middle of the 7th.
Of the many issues with this season, the most egregious is that John B’s dad might be the most annoying character I’ve ever witnessed on television. And I had been excited about his resurrection! Silly me. Beyond that, the plot holes are so plentiful that it’s hard to overlook them. And the plot armor is unreasonable at this point — the teens get into so many skirmishes, often without a weapon of their own while up against villains with guns, and they’re always absolutely fine. Maybe the show gets more interesting in the last 3 episodes, but I won’t continue to torture myself to find out.
— Jess
Length: ~50-min runtime, 3 seasons / 30 episodes
Watch on: Netflix
Your shows, returned:
Shadow and Bone, Season 2: Premieres March 16 on Netflix
Good Trouble, Season 5: Premieres March 16 on Freeform (the following day on Hulu)
Power Book II: Ghost, Season 3: Premieres March 17 on Starz
The Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip, Season 3: Premieres March 23 on Peacock
Upcoming new releases:
Extrapolations: Premieres March 17 on Apple TV+
Swarm: Premieres March 17 on Prime Video
Class of ‘07: Premieres March 17 on Prime Video
Lucky Hank: Premieres March 19 on AMC/AMC+
The Night Agent: Premieres March 23 on Netflix
I could not BEE more excited for swarm
John B’s dad is infact the worst but you gotta push through the final three episodes! How are you gunna watch season four without those! 😂