Streaming Wednesday, Aug. 5:
1670 — Jan Pawel wants to send a peasant to the moon in Season 3 of the Polish period comedy, but can this visionary nobleman get everybody else on board? If he can’t, he’ll have to settle for Plan B: editing all the Black people out of The Odyssey. (Netflix)
Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy — British comedian Mo Gilligan’s inquiry into the enduring popularity of fried chicken includes making like Morgan Spurlock by eating nothing but the stuff for a month. Or as we locals used to call it, “living within three blocks of 17-92 and Fairbanks.” (Netflix)
The Challenge — Thailand is the setting for Season 42 of the reality competition show, now departed from its birthplace of MTV for a new home on Paramount+. Yeah, ’cuz that worked out gangbusters for Spencer Pratt. (Paramount+)
Inside the Trustor Scandal — Documentary filmmaker Karin af Klintberg may well be hailed as a Swedish national hero for tracking down Joachim Posener, the perpetrator of a 1997 financial fraud that country is still up in arms about. Oh sure, but they buy half of Iron Maiden and nobody bats an eye! (Netflix)
Let’s Marry Harry — He failed to get a lasting relationship out of his participation in Heartbreak Island, Too Hot to Handle and Perfect Match, so now Australia’s Harry Jowsey is relying on those closest to him to help him land a wife. The problem is, by this point, everybody on the Australian continent qualifies as “someone close to him.” (Netflix)
One Hundred Years of Solitude — Part 2 of the Márquez adaptation finds the conservatives plotting an assassination and Macondo still awaiting peace following the signing of the armistice. Oh, that Gabriel; wherever did he get his crazy ideas? (Netflix)
Star Wars: Visions Presents The Ninth Jedi — Two of the more popular entries in the Star Wars: Visions anthology get broken out into their own dedicated limited series, using the anime medium to tell the story of apprentice Jedi Juro’s mission to rescue her father. And if you thought midichlorians were a lousy retcon, now we all have to believe the Force gives you pink hair and a perpetual expression of shock. (Disney+)
Sterling Point — It’s YA mystery up the yinyang when a 17-year-old New Yorker inherits an entire Canadian island from her grandfather. On the minus side, she’ll now have to worry about the constant threat of invasion by the New Hampshire National Guard; on the other hand, had she been from New Jersey or Pennsylvania, the inheritance taxes would have eaten her ass alive. (Prime Video)
Ted Lasso — A lot has changed in Season 4, chiefly because Ted is now coaching the AFC Richmond women’s team instead of the men’s. And Phil Dunster’s Jamie Tartt will be nowhere to be seen, due to Dunster’s scheduling conflicts. But don’t worry, because plenty of what you loved remains intact. Like for one thing, Hannah Waddingham is still so hot you could melt a stick of butter on her ankle. (Apple TV)
Streaming Thursday, Aug. 6:
My Life With the Walter Boys — Season 3 begins exactly where Season 2 left off: with brothers Cole and Alex vying for the affections of Jackie while their dad was being carted off to the hospital. From the way things have played out so far, those two dudes better hope they don’t get mogged by the EMT. (Netflix)
Streaming Friday, Aug. 7:
Alley Cats — The comedy of Ricky Gervais fuels an adult cartoon about a pack of feral felines whose fight for survival still leaves time for them to mull the meaning of life. Ultimately, they decide it’s about keeping the Muslim cats out of the neighborhood and the fixed cats out of sports. (Netflix)
Death Inc. — The Spanish Six Feet Under enters its fourth and final season, with control of the Torregrosa Funeral Home still an unsettled issue. Chemi wants to act as interim director, leading to conflict with Dámaso, who would prefer to ascend to that chair immediately. Patience, boys. Everybody’s still going to be dead when you’ve figured it out. (Netflix)
The Last House — Louis Leterrier directs a thriller about a family of four who discover that: a) they’ve become trapped in their house; and b) there’s a mysterious, malevolent force lurking outside. Sounds to me like they’re not happy whether they’re in or out. Are we sure they aren’t cats? (Netflix)
Operation Safed Sagar — Fly with the Golden Arrows squadron of the Indian Air Force in a series dramatization of one of the most dangerous missions in the 1999 Kargil War. All we’d need would be for the Blue Angels to show up and this thing would look like a Cub Scout banquet with MiGs. (Netflix)
Our Sticky Love — A Korean lawyer with amnesia is taken in by a boxing coach who claims to be her boyfriend. But is he shielding her from something her tormented mind would rather forget? If so, I guess life really holds experiences that are worse than “dating a Korean boxing coach.” (Netflix)
Streaming Saturday, Aug. 8:
The Ribbon Hero — This full-length anime is a riff on Tezuka’s classic manga Princess Knight, in which the fate of an embattled kingdom lies in the hands of a cross-dressing princess. This new version adds a tragic coda in which the previously grateful kingdom turns on her after somebody puts her face on a can of Sapporo. (Netflix)
Streaming Sunday, Aug. 9:
The Chosen in the Wild With Bear Grylls — The renowned survivalist takes the cast of the crowdfunded biblical epic The Chosen into the wilderness for a test of both their wits and their faith. Good luck to all of them. Strand me more than four blocks from a Wawa, and you’re going to hear some serious bargaining with Satan. (Prime Video)
Streaming Monday, Aug. 10:
Dr. Seuss’s Red Fish, Blue Fish — Season 3 finds the mismatched finny friends exploring yet more conceptual opposites — like near/far, open/shut and alive/whatever’s up with Mitch McConnell. (Netflix)
Streaming Tuesday, Aug. 11:
Mourinho — Documentary cameras followed coach José Mourinho for two years to capture an intimate portrait of one of the most legendary careers in soccer. (I mean, we can call it soccer again, right? That nonsense is all over now, right?) (Netflix)
Rory Scovel: Show Must Go On — Seattle’s Neptune Theatre plays host to comic Scovel as he imagines a home invasion and relates his dying father’s last wish. If we learn it was “Promise me you won’t go into stand-up comedy,” we’ll know the lines of communication in that family really blew. (Netflix)
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This article appears in Aug. 5-11, 2026.