What to Watch This Week: Chill Out With Top 9 TV & Movie Picks (August 19–25)

New on TV this week

As of today, two ’90s TV classics are finally streaming after years in media limbo: The Drew Carey Show (1995–2004) and Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1999). You can find The Drew Carey Show on Plex, as well as other FAST streaming services on the WB TV Hit Sitcoms channel; all 122 Homicide: Life on the Street episodes are available on Peacock. Cool—now do Millennium and Ed.

This week’s What to Watch recs include new seasons of Reasonable Doubt and Avoidance, Netflix high school comedy Incoming, John Woo’s remake of The Killer, horror thriller Hell Hole, and college football season kickoff action. Stream away!

New on Hulu this week

Reasonable Doubt | Hulu | Drama

Season 2 premiere, Thursday, August 22: When it debuted in 2022, the Onyx Collective’s Reasonable Doubt generated buzz for Emayatzy Corinealdi’s feisty performance as an L.A. attorney with fluid legal ethics and a proclivity for bad men. Season 2 ratchets up the soapy drama with Jax (Corinealdi) defending a close friend who killed her husband in self-defense—but is she telling the truth? If you’re still missing Scandal, Reasonable Doubt is here for you. Two episodes stream on August 22.  Watch trailer

New on BritBox this week

Avoidance | BritBox | Comedy, drama

Season 2 premiere, Thursday, August 22: Jonathan (Romesh Ranganathan) is passive to the point of mortal inertia, which finally led his girlfriend Claire (Jessica Knappett) to throw him out of their house in the first season of BBC One’s Avoidance. In season 2, Jonathan is still working to overcome his crippling beta mindset, if only for the sake of his and Claire’s young son Spencer (Kieren Logedra). Believe it or not, Avoidance is a comedy—a sad, low-key comedy. Mumblecore fans (you know who you are), take note.  Watch trailer

New on Prime Video this week

Classified | Prime Video, Freevee | Drama

Series premiere, Thursday, August 22: When she’s arrested at a protest and faces jail time, Oakland teen Ella (Imani Pullum) is shipped off to live with her estranged father in Johannesburg, South Africa. Culture shock sets in quickly once she realizes that she’ll be attending school with the high-society children of pop stars, politicians, and diplomats. So, why’s it called Classified? Because this coming-of-age drama also has a CIA espionage subplot that you won’t see coming (even though I just told you about it).  Watch trailer

New on Netflix this weekend

Incoming | Netflix | Comedy

Movie premiere, Friday, August 23: Every generation needs its own Superbad or Can’t Hardly Wait, a raunchy movie about high schoolers crashing their first house party rager. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia writers Dave and John Chernin think their feature debut Incoming might fit the bill. “It was just something silly that prized laughter above all else that I think we really wanted to see, more than anything,” Dave told Netflix’s Tudum. Among the many faces you’ll recognize: TikTok star Loren Gray.  Watch trailer

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New on Peacock this weekend

The Killer | Peacock | Action, drama

Movie premiere, Friday, August 23: Director John Woo wasn’t interested in remaking his 1989 Hong Kong action classic The Killer until screenwriters pitched him on a new angle: a female assassin. In this reimagined version, Parisian hitwoman Zee (Nathalie Emmanuel, Game of Thrones) refuses to murder a young girl, placing herself in the sights of every other hired gun in the city. To survive, Zee teams up with a detective (Omar Sy, Jurassic World); Woo staples gunplay, explosions, and slow-motion doves ensue.  Watch trailer

New on Shudder this weekend

Hell Hole | Shudder | Drama, horror

Movie premiere, Friday, August 23: In their followup to 2021’s Hellbender, Toby Poser and John Adams’ Hell Hole manages to make the dangers of oil fracking even scarier (and gorier). Americans Emily (Poser) and John (Adams) travel to Serbia to open a fracking site, but they end up drilling into more than they bargained for. Hell Hole is a blood-splattering creature feature with nods to The Thing and Alien, filtered through the frighteningly unique storytelling lens of Poser and Adams. Don’t drill, baby, don’t drill.  Watch trailer

Live on ESPN this weekend

College Football | Various channels| Sports, football

Coverage begins Saturday, August 24, 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT: Games slated for Week Zero of the 2024 college football season: Florida State vs. Georgia Tech (live from Ireland on ESPN), McNeese vs. Tarleton State (ESPN2), Montana State vs. New Mexico (FS1), North Alabama vs. Southeast Missouri State (ESPN), Norfolk State vs. Florida A&M (ABC), and SMU vs. Nevada (CBS Sports Network). The season gets underway in a big way next week, so you’ll want to consult our How To Watch College Football guide.

New on Lifetime this weekend

Deadly DILF | Lifetime | Drama

Movie premiere, Sunday, August 25: The Lifetime Movie Title Generator has outdone itself again with Deadly DILF (which stands for Dad I’d Like to … Flirt with?). When young Elysium’s (Sofia Bryant) obsession with her married neighbor Rio (Curtis Hamilton) leads to a drunken hookup, he tells her it can never happen again. Undeterred, Elysium begins stalking him while becoming even more delusional and dangerous. So, it’s not the DILF who’s Deadly, it’s Elysium. I’m not mad, Lifetime, just disappointed.  Watch trailer

New movie releases available to rent/buy on VOD this week

Inside Out 2 (2024)

Riley (voiced by Kensington Tallman) is now 13 and some new emotions are joining Joy (Amy Poehler), Fear (Tony Hale), Anger (Lewis Black), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), and Disgust (Liza Lapira) for Inside Out 2: Anxiety (Maya Hawke), Envy (Ayo Edebiri), Embarrassment (Paul Walter Hauser), and Ennui (Adele Exarchopoulos). Fear and Disgust may sound a little different since Bill Hader and Mindy Kaling aren’t back voicing their characters of 2015’s Inside Out, but who’s going to argue with IO2’s $1.6 billion box office haul?  Watch trailer

• Art of a Hit (August 20)
• The Clean Up Crew (August 20)
• Don’t Fall in Love With Yourself (August 20)
• Green Border (August 20)
• Inside Out 2 (August 20)
• The Mountain Within Me (August 20)
• Oddity (August 20)
• The Private Eye (August 20)
• Tomorrow Before After (August 20)
• Torched: The Story of Austin Torch (August 20)
• Catching Dust (August 23)
• Hostile Dimensions (August 23)
• Place of Bones (August 23)
• The Secret Art of Human Flight (August 23)