Stuff To Watch This Week (Aug 29-Sept 4, 2022)
Hear U Out, Season 3
Mediacorp’s Dr Phil returns! Quan Yifeng is back to grill another bevy of celebs about their professional and private lives. (We can't wait for Tasha Low to open up about her K-pop days!) Will QYF hit her guests with hard questions or handle them with baby mittens? First on the call sheet: Mark Lee.
Watch it on: meWATCH & Channel 8, Thur, 9pm
Invisible Design
Explore the architectural secrets behind some of Singapore’s most well-known and least-known buildings in this eight-part docu-series with hosts You Yi and Danny Yeo. Ep 1 looks at what went into designing an MRT station.
Watch it on: meWATCH & Channel U, Tue, 9pm
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Welcome back to Middle-earth! Based on JRR Tolkien’s appendices in Return of the King, this prequel is set thousands of years before the events The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and looks at the rise of Sauron and how the 19 rings were forged to battle him (we all know how they worked out). Among the familiar characters returning is Galadriel, aka The Lady of the Golden Wood, played by Cate Blanchett in Peter Jackson’s Oscar-winning trilogy, and now by Morfydd Clark. Amazon reportedly coughed up US$1 billion (S$1.4 bil) to produce the epic saga — US$250 million for the rights, and US$750 million to film five seasons.
Watch it on: Amazon Prime Video, Fri
Photos: Ben Rothstein, Matt Grace/Amazon Prime Video
Elvis
Elvis is back in the building! Baz Luhrmann’s electrifying Elvis Presley biopic stars Austin Butler as the King of Rock N’ Roll and Tom Hanks as his controlling manager Colonel Tom Parker. (Okay, Baz, can you please get cracking on that four-hour cut?)
Watch it on: HBO Go, Fri
Photo: HBO Go
Little Women
Contemporary Korean adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 novel starring Kim Go-Eeun, Nam Ji-Hyun and Park Ji-Hu as sisters whose lives are changed when they come across a pile of money. Should they keep it or spend it? Decisions, decisions. Parts of the 12-ep series were filmed in Singapore (hello, Marina Bay Sands!) back in July.
Watch it on: Netflix, Sat; new episodes on Saturdays and Sundays
The Patient
The creators of The Americans are behind this 10-part limited series starring Steve Carell as a psychotherapist who is held captive by his patient (Domhnall Gleeson), who also happens to be a serial killer. Well, no one is perfect.
Watch it on: Disney+, Tue
Dated & Related
Do you know what we need right now? World peace, more realtors like Alex Hall…and more hot-bod dating shows! Netflix’s latest flesh parade rounds up a group of sexy singles in a villa in the south of France. Their goal: find true love (or something close to that). But wait, the participants are joined by their siblings (and one cousin in one case) to help them out with the search.
Watch it on: Netflix, Fri
Photo: Ana Blumenkron/Netflix
Life by Ella
Family drama about the eponymous teenager (Lily Brooks O’Brant) who returns to school with a brand new perspective following her bout with cancer. Life is too short for BS.
Watch it on: Apple TV+, Fri
Photo: Apple TV+
DC’s Stargirl, Season 3
Courtney (Brec Bassinger) and Co. meet The Gambler (guest star Eric Goins), a stranger who arrives in Blue Valley looking to make his own amends, but can he be trusted?
Watch it on: WarnerTV (StarHub Ch 515, Singtel TV Ch 306), Fri, 9pm
Photo: WarnerTV
