What To Watch Online This Month
13 Reasons Why - Series 4, Netflix
In the series' final season, Liberty High School's senior class prepares for graduation. But before they say goodbye, they'll have to keep a dangerous secret buried and face heart-breaking choices that might alter their lives forever.
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Athlete A – Series 1, Netflix
In the riveting Athlete A, filmmakers Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk delve into the unchecked abuse inside the world of elite competitive gymnastics. Equal parts devastating and inspiring, the film follows the IndyStar reporters as they reveal the extensive cover-up and culture of cruelty that was allowed to thrive within elite gymnastics, the attorney fighting the institutions, and most importantly, the brave whistle-blowers who refuse to be silenced.
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Da 5 Bloods, Netflix
From Academy Award winner Spike Lee (Do The Right Thing, BlackKklansman) comes this new Netflix-only film, which follows the story of four African-American veterans – Paul (Delroy Lindo), Otis (Clarke Peters), Eddie (Norm Lewis) and Melvin (Isiah Whitlock, Jr.) – as they return to Vietnam. Searching for the remains of their fallen squad leader (Chadwick Boseman) and the promise of buried treasure, our heroes, joined by Paul's concerned son (Jonathan Majors), battle forces of man and nature while confronted by the lasting ravages of the Vietnam war.
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Dear…, Apple TV
From Emmy-winning filmmaker R.J. Cutler, Dear... profiles game-changing icons and the people whose lives they’ve inspired. An inventive approach to biographies of the influential people who are shaping culture and society today using letters that fans have written to them, this ten-part docu-series focuses on key moments from subjects’ lives and their work that has profoundly impacted not only the individuals who have written letters, but the world at large. Look out for Lin Manuel Miranda, Spike Lee and Oprah Winfrey.
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Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, Netflix
When aspiring musicians Lars Erickssong (Will Ferrell) and Sigrit Ericksdottir (Rachel McAdams) are given the opportunity of a lifetime to represent their country at the world’s biggest song competition, they finally have a chance to prove that any dream worth having is a dream worth fighting for. As they chase their pop star dreams at the global music competition, scheming rivals, high stakes and onstage mishaps test their bond.
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Hillary – Series 1, Now TV
A remarkably intimate portrait of a public woman, Hillary interweaves revealing moments from never-before-seen 2016 campaign footage with biographical chapters of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s life. Featuring exclusive interviews with Clinton herself – plus Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, friends and journalists – the series examines how she became at once one of the most admired and vilified women in the world.
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Lenox Hill – Series 1, Netflix
Lenox Hill is an intimate look at the lives of four doctors – two brain surgeons, an emergency room physician and a chief resident OBGYN – as they navigate the highs and lows of working at the renowned Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. With extraordinary access and an unflinching eye, the series shows each doctor's struggle to balance their personal and professional lives, and delves into each patient's personal journey. From birth to brain surgery, each case offers a rare inside look at the complex, fascinating, and emotional world of medicine.
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The Disaster Artist, Netflix
With The Disaster Artist, James Franco transforms the tragicomic true-story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau – an artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable – into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression and dreams pursued against insurmountable odds. Based on Greg Sestero’s bestselling tell-all about the making of Tommy's cult-classic disasterpiece The Room (“The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made”), The Disaster Artist is a welcome reminder that there is more than one way to become a legend.
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The Last Days Of American Crime, Netflix
As a final response to terrorism and crime, the US government plans to broadcast a signal making it impossible for anyone to knowingly commit unlawful acts. Graham Bricke (Edgar Ramírez), a career criminal who was never able to hit the big score, teams up with famous gangster progeny Kevin Cash (Michael C. Pitt) and black market hacker Shelby Dupree (Anna Brewster) to commit the heist of the century and the last crime in American history before the signal goes off.
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The Politician – Series 2, Netflix
Payton Hobart (Ben Platt) fights to unseat Dede Standish (Judith Light) in the New York State Senate race. As a long-time incumbent and greatly admired Senate majority leader with no-nonsense chief of staff, Hadassah Gold (Bette Midler) at her side, Dede’s re-election was supposed to be easy, but Payton – who sees this as the next step on his path to the presidency – must decide what kind of politician he ultimately wants to be in order to succeed, even if that means exposing secrets, lies, and a throuple. Meanwhile, his mother Georgina (Gwyneth Paltrow) makes a momentous decision that threatens to upstage him and everything he's hoping to accomplish.
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The Woods – Series 1, Netflix
Set in two time frames – 1994 and 2019 – The Woods tells the story of a Warsaw prosecutor, Pawel Kopiński, who is still grieving the loss of his sister from 25 years ago, the night she walked into the woods at a summer camp and was never seen again. But now, the discovery of a homicide victim – a boy who vanished along with Pawel's sister – reveals evidence that links him to her disappearance. As hope rises that his sister could still be alive, dangerous secrets from his family's past threaten to tear apart everything that Pawel has been trying to hold together.
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This Is Us – Series 4, Prime Video
This Is Us chronicles the Pearson family across the decades: from Jack and Rebecca as young parents in the 1980s to their 37-year-old kids Kevin, Kate and Randall searching for love and fulfilment in the present day. Stars Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore, Sterling K. Brown, Chrissy Metz, Justin Hartley, Chris Sullivan and Susan Kelechi Watson.
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