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- “Pulse” and “The Bondsman” are among the new shows premiering on streamers this week.
- The slow-burn third season of “The White Lotus” ends this weekend.
- “One of Them Days,” a buddy cop movie starring Keke Palmer and SZA, is now on Netflix.
Coming-of-age tales and love stories are plentiful on streamers this weekend.
The iconic teen movie “The Breakfast Club” is new to Netflix, while the 2022 film “Aftersun,” which examines the complexities of fatherhood, hits Max this week.
For heart-racing entertainment, watch the new medical procedural “Pulse” or the limited series “Dying for Sex.” For heart-pounding antics, watch the finale of the Thailand-set third season of “The White Lotus.”
Here’s a complete rundown of all the best movies, shows, and documentaries to stream this weekend, broken down by what kind of entertainment you’re looking for.
See Paul Mescal’s Oscar-nominated performance as a father struggling with parenthood in “Aftersun.”
Paul Mescal followed up his Emmy-nominated role as Connell Waldron in Hulu’s “Normal People” with another emotionally raw performance that put him in Oscars contention in writer-director Charlotte Wells’ 2022 movie “Aftersun.”
The indie film stars Mescal as Calum Patterson, a father trying to mask his own insecurities and anxieties about fatherhood while on holiday in Turkey with his 11-year-old daughter, Sophie (Frankie Corio).
Streaming on: Max
John Hughes captures the highs and lows of adolescence in the 1985 coming-of-age classic “The Breakfast Club”
The quintessential high school movie stars Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Molly Ringwald, and Anthony Michael Hall as a ragtag group of students who are stuck together during Saturday detention and forced to write a thousand-word essay on who they think they are.
As the group learns more about each other over the course of the day, they’re revealed to be more complex than the high school stereotypes they represent.
Streaming on: Netflix
For a different kind of nostalgia, check out “Y2K.”
The 2024 movie, written and directed by “Saturday Night Live” alum Kyle Mooney, centers on best friends Eli (Jaeden Martell) and Danny (Julian Dennison) who crash a New Year’s Eve party in 1999 in the hopes that Eli can secure a midnight kiss with his crush, Laura (Rachel Zegler).
It almost seems like the premise of a teen rom-com or coming-of-age flick — until the clock strikes midnight and a Y2K glitch occurs, setting off an apocalypse in which technology turns against the teens and they’re forced to fight for their lives.
Streaming on: Max
Keke Palmer and SZA make a dynamic duo in the movie “One of Them Days.”
After releasing in theaters in January and becoming a surprise box office win, “One of Them Days” is now available to watch on streaming.
The R-rated buddy comedy stars Keke Palmer and Grammy-winning singer SZA in her acting debut as broke best friends and roommates struggling to make $1,500 by any means necessary so they can pay their rent and avoid eviction.
Streaming on: Netflix
“Love on the Spectrum” is back for season three.
The heartwarming docuseries “Love on the Spectrum” returns for a third season, following the love lives of newcomers and returning stars on the autism spectrum.
Streaming on: Netflix
Netflix’s new medical procedural “Pulse” is the streamer’s answer to “Grey’s Anatomy.”
The steamy and stress-inducing series stars Willa Fitzgerald as Danny Simms, an ER doctor who gets promoted to chief resident at a Miami emergency room amid an illicit romance with a colleague, an increasingly dangerous hurricane, and a lockdown at the hospital.
Streaming on: Netflix
In “Dying for Sex,” Michelle Williams plays a woman whose perspective on her love life changes after a cancer diagnosis.
The eight-episode FX series is based on the real-life story of Molly Kochan, a woman who was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, left her husband of 15 years, and documented her quest to explore her sexual desires in a podcast called “Dying for Sex.”
Michelle Williams portrays Molly and Jenny Slate costars as Nikki Boyer, her best friend.
Streaming on: Hulu
“The White Lotus” fans will finally learn who’s in the body bag when the season three finale airs this weekend.
The slow-burn third season of Mike White’s HBO anthology series “The White Lotus” wraps up on Sunday.
Who fires the gun that sends the resort staff and guests into chaos? Who drinks a smoothie that may or may not be made from a deadly island fruit? And, perhaps most importantly, whose body ends up in the water? Fans will have to tune in on Sunday night for all these answers.
Streaming on: Max
Kevin Bacon stars as a resurrected bounty hunter in “The Bondsman.”
Kevin Bacon adds another credit to his lengthy acting career with “The Bondsman,” a gory series set in motion by bounty hunter Hub Halloran (Bacon) being brought back to life by the devil and tasked with hunting demons.
Streaming on: Prime Video
For a true crime fix, watch “Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer.”
The three-part documentary re-examines the lengthy search for the Long Island Serial Killer who targeted women, primarily sex workers, and unpacks the key evidence that led law enforcement to arrest Rex Heuermann in connection to the Gilgo Beach killings in 2023.
Heuermann was charged with the murders of seven women and pleaded not guilty to all charges. The case is ongoing.
Streaming on: Netflix
