My watchlist goes up and down, relying on the week and month. This week, I’ve some absolute corkers to get caught into on Disney+—none of which you may wish to miss.
Amanda Knox’s half within the homicide of Meredith Kercher enraptured international information retailers in 2007; it did not finish when she was (wrongfully) convicted alongside her then boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, in 2009. And even after Knox and Sollecito had been acquitted as soon as, retried, convicted once more, after which pardoned, the story nonetheless did not finish.
That is what this eight-part true-crime miniseries explores: a dramatized set of occasions surrounding Knox, Sollecito, her trial, and eventual wrongful conviction. The collection is co-produced by Knox and Monica Lewinsky (sure, that Monica Lewinsky), and it dives into coercive interrogations, media sensationalism, and judicial missteps.
Critics have praised the efficiency of Grace Van Patten (who performs Knox), and I am to see how this collection handles an emotionally charged story that was swamped by media on the time.
The Novice slipped me by earlier in 2025, however it’s my form of good background noise, Saturday night movie when taking part in board video games or comparable.
It options Rami Malek as a CIA operative who goes rogue in an try to avenge the dying of his spouse. Thus far, so regular. By way of some coercion, he manages to turn into a highly-trained murderer with the assistance of Laurence Fishburn, who performs Colonel Henderson.
The Novice has all of the hallmarks of a basic action-thriller, full of murders, private grief, and the lust for retribution.
This three-part docuseries recounts the 2017 murders of two teenage women in Delphi, Indiana. Utilizing archival footage, interviews with victims’ households, and native officers, it paints an intimate portrait of a criminal offense that haunted a group and the lengthy street to justice.
I would not heard about this horrific crime till this collection appeared on Disney+, however the story’s central pillar—the haunting cellphone footage captured by one of many younger victims—is a extremely sobering but intriguing a part of the story.
I do know; we’re on a little bit of a darkish bent this week, however I promise it will get higher subsequent.
The Simpsons Season 37 is simply across the nook, launching in September 2025. So, what higher time for me to get again on top of things with what is going on on down in Springfield and meet up with certainly one of America’s favourite households?
Like many people, I began watching The Simpsons once I was very younger. I additionally carried on for a very long time, even after the standard of the present started its sluggish demise after Season 15, popping up with the odd 8.x score right here and there.
The primary episode of Season 36 I watched, Bart’s Birthday, is among the finest in recent times, and one which was well-received by long-time followers of The Simpsons. However I have to admit, I have never watched greater than that but, so I am desperate to get caught into the remainder of the collection.
Hopefully, it has greater than this one spotlight and the standard Treehouse of Horror spectacular.
See—I instructed you that we might be ending the weekend with a barely calmer focus. Ryan Reynolds narrates Underdogs, a collection specializing in the “bizarre and unsung heroes of the animal kingdom.”
It is packed full of fantastic cinematography with Reynolds’ trademark sarcasm, although it provides in a substantial quantity of bathroom humor (with some veering into actually impolite) that makes it unsuitable for actually younger youngsters. In that, Underdogs has a really combined set of age evaluations on Widespread Sense Media, starting from 18+ down to eight+ (it is rated 16+ on UK Disney+).
So, sure, whereas Underdogs positively convey some comedy to the character documentary style, it isn’t one you may be sitting down to look at together with your smallest children—until you wish to subject some quite attention-grabbing questions based mostly on Reynolds’ commentary. Do not say you have not been warned!
