Club Benefits
Spring has officially hit its stride, and there are plenty of new movies and TV shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime Video and more of the best streaming services, whether you’re in the mood for thrills and chills, period romance or one emotionally devastating octopus.
TV swings from savage survivalism in “Lord of the Flies” to corsets and yearning in “The Other Bennet Sister. “The Citadel” season 2 is back with more globe-trotting espionage, while “The Terror” season 3 brings another round of creeping dread. On the movie front, “Remarkably Bright Creatures” serves up heart-tugging warmth, while “The Drama” pairs Zendaya and Robert Pattinson in a dysfunctional relationship.
New TV shows
‘The Other Bennet Sister’ (BritBox)
The vibes: Jane Austen gets a remix where the ignored middle sister is the star.
The plot: This “Pride and Prejudice” take finally gives Mary Bennet (Ella Bruccoleri) the spotlight after centuries of being treated like background scenery. The early episodes revisit the familiar story through the eyes of the perpetually overlooked Mary before sending her out into the wider world. Away from her prettier, louder sisters, she starts figuring out who she is beyond the marriage-mart circus — although, this being Austen, romance still bubbles up eventually.
Episodes 1-3 streaming now on BritBox
‘Lord of the Flies’ (Netflix)
The vibes: The creator of "Adolescence" puts his spin on the OG story of toxic young masculinity.
The plot: William Golding’s seminal novel gets the miniseries treatment. A group of British schoolboys is dropped onto a deserted island after a catastrophic plane crash, and civility disintegrates at an alarming speed. Ralph and his loyal right-hand nerd Piggy try to keep things orderly at first, but fear, power grabs and outright savagery quickly split the boys into warring camps. Pretty soon, the rules of society feel like a distant memory.
All 4 episodes streaming now on Netflix
‘Amadeus’ (Starz)
The vibes: A heated rivalry, classical music style.
The plot: When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Will Sharpe) arrives in Vienna at 25, he’s a musical genius and a bit of a brat. Then there’s Antonio Salieri (Paul Bettany), the straight-laced court composer who enjoyed adulation and privilege ... until now. As Mozart’s brilliance and self-destructive tendencies grow, Salieri’s jealousy curdles into a decades-long obsession.
Episode 1 streaming now on Starz
‘Legends’ (Netflix)
The vibes: What if some sleepy security guards became spies?
The plot: In 1990s Britain, a quietly radical anti-drug experiment turns a group of painfully ordinary customs officers into undercover operatives, known as “legends,” in agency jargon. At the center is a no-nonsense handler played by Steve Coogan, corralling this mismatched crew as they’re pushed deep into the criminal underground with zero real spy training. Just nerves, instincts and the constant threat that one wrong move could blow up everything.
All 6 episodes streaming now on Netflix
‘The Terror’ season 3 (AMC+)
The vibes: “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest," but make it horror.
The plot: Season 3 swaps frozen outposts and wartime camps for the fluorescent dread of a present-day psychiatric hospital. Blue-collar regular guy Pepper (Dan Stevens) absolutely insists he does not belong there and has been wrongfully committed. Inside the institution, patients plot, doctors dodge and the whole place feels close to collapse. As Pepper tries to claw his way back to reality, the real question is: What if the thing he’s running from has been inside him the entire time?
Episode 1 is streaming now on AMC+
‘Citadel’ season 2 (Prime Video)
The vibes: "Slow Horses," but attractive and capable.
The plot: Three years, a couple of abandoned spinoffs, and a first season that cost roughly the GDP of a small nation later, "Citadel" is back in the field. Mason (Richard Madden), Nadia (Priyanka Chopra Jonas), and Bernard (Stanley Tucci) are pulled into action again when Manticore inevitably implodes. The solution, as always: globe-trotting chases, some suspect new recruits, and another conspiracy big enough to justify multiple passport stamps.
All 7 episodes streaming now on Prime Video
‘M.I.A.’
The vibes: Miami vices lit up in neon.
The plot: Etta Tiger Jonze (Shannon Gisela) was always meant for more than the slow life of the Florida Keys. When a brutal loss tears apart her family’s drug operation, she heads for Miami with revenge on her mind and nothing left to lose. But Etta doesn’t just survive the city’s underworld; she starts becoming the kind of myth it both fears and feeds on.
All 9 episodes streaming now on Peacock
‘Unconditional’ (Apple TV)
The vibes: Never mess with a mama bear.
The plot: A routine trip unravels fast when 23-year-old Gali (Talia Lynne Ronn) is arrested in Moscow on drug-smuggling charges that feel like a setup. Her mother, Orna (Liraz Chamami), refuses to buy the official tale and launches an unrelenting fight to bring her daughter home. But every attempt to find the truth only drags her deeper into a web of corruption and bureaucracy, where nothing — and no one — is quite what it seems.
Episodes 1-2 streaming now on Apple TV
New movies
‘The Drama’ (digital)
The vibes: “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” for Gen Z
The plot: The less you know going into this movie, the better. Still, here’s a vague rundown: What seems to start as a rom-com about an absurdly attractive engaged couple devolves after one late-night confession detonates the entire relationship. Zendaya and Robert Pattinson weaponize awkward silences and mutual side-eye as they grapple with the question of whether you can ever know the person you’re about to marry.
Streaming now with purchase on Prime Video
‘Remarkably Bright Creatures’ (Netflix)
The vibes: A grieving grandma and an emotionally intelligent octopus? I’m not ugly crying, you are.
The plot: Sally Field stars as Tova, a widowed aquarium employee sleepwalking through life until she strikes up an unlikely connection with Marcellus, a sarcastic giant Pacific octopus with excellent observational skills. Enter Lewis Pullman’s drifter Cameron, who’s looking for his estranged father and accidentally stumbles into Tova’s orbit. Together, the trio untangles a long-buried mystery in an adaptation that’s not afraid to be earnest and sentimental.
Streaming now on Netflix
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