WE’RE heading into indoor cosy season folks, so it’s time to get up to speed on what to watch while all snug in your homes.
As always, The Celeb Report’s TV Mag has the latest news on all the shows you should be streaming this week.
Here’s what to check out over the next seven days.
WHAT’S NEW?
You – Netflix
On the face of it, there’s no way a show about a serial-killing stalker should be so enjoyable, but the first two series of You were a total guilty pleasure.
The focus is on obsessive former bookstore manager Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley), a man prepared to go to any lengths to get close to the object of his attention. When we were last with him, the tables had been turned on Joe by his latest obsession, intense chef Love (Victoria Pedretti), who was revealed – and this will be a spoiler if you’ve not seen season two – to be a manipulative murderer herself.
Season three opens with Joe, Love and their new baby son Henry settling into a bland but snobby Californian suburb, filled with smug mummy bloggers and their rich hubbies. Joe hates it – and is more than a little scared of Love – but is determined to make it work, for Henry’s sake.
“We have everything, so he has everything,” Joe says, early in the season opener. “The perfect family: me, a boy and his mum, who is usually great but occasionally murders people with her bare hands. What could go wrong?”
Quite a lot, as it turns out. Before too long, Joe’s back to his old weird ways, developing an unhealthy interest in their flirtatious neighbour, Natalie. Love, meanwhile, can’t quite shake her terrifying violent impulses.
Inevitably, at times it feels very over-the-top and trashy, and there’s not one character you can really warm to, but the show’s self-knowing black humour helps ensure that You is still worth getting obsessed about.
Available from Friday.
I Know What You Did Last Summer – Amazon Prime
Say the words I Know What You Did Last Summer and an entire generation instantly see Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr and Ryan Phillippe being tormented by a terrible shared secret – and a violent killer with a rather nasty looking meat hook.
Twenty-four years – and some rather dodgy sequels – later, I Know What You Did Last Summer is back once again. But this is no Nineties nostalgia fest, instead it’s a bang-up-to-date TV reboot of the slasher horror classic, which moves the action into the present day and tells its horrifying story over eight episodes.
In this version, we meet Lennon (Madison Iseman), who returns to her family home in Hawaii, one year after she and her friends hit and killed someone in a road accident the night of their drug-fuelled high-school graduation bash – and then decided to cover it up.
Unfortunately for them, however, it seems someone very unpleasant has learned their awful secret, and is intent on bloody revenge.
Whether this show can have the same impact as the classic 1997 movie remains to be seen but judged on its own merits, the first episode is tense, exciting and packed with enough scares to keep you hooked.
Available Friday.
Reservation Dogs – Disney+
Co-created by irreverent director Taika Waititi , it comes as little surprise that this smart new series about four indigenous teenagers in Oklahoma is hilarious, groundbreaking stuff.
From their homes on a Native American reservation, the teens – Elora (Devery Jacobs), Bear (D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai), Cheese (Lane Factor) and Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis) – try to raise money so they can to escape to California, getting up to all sorts of unlikely yet still oddly relatable adventures in the process. In the opening episode, that includes stealing a delivery truck filled with crisps and being attacked by a carful of teens brandishing paintball guns.
It is, of course, a scandal that this is the very first American series to boast an all-indigenous writing and directing team, but that shouldn’t distract from the fact that it’s also a fantastic and original comedy series.
Episodes available every Wednesday
Karma’s World – Netflix
Little Karma has a big dream: to be a rapper and to change the world with her music. Smart, talented and kind, she’s certainly not going to let the fact that she’s just 10 years old get in her way, or that pesky boys keep telling her girls can’t be rappers.
Fun, funny and filled with important messages and ideas, this vibrant new animated series – produced by American rap artist Ludacris and featuring the voices of Tiffany Haddish and Orange is the New Black’s Danielle Brooks, amongst others – is guaranteed to keep your pre-teens dancing, laughing and thinking about the world. Empowering and joyous.
Available from Friday.
Just Beyond – Disney+
Parallel universes, ghost actors, alien parents, reluctant witches… Prepare for some mind-bending, hair-raising pre-Halloween fun with this spectacular new eight-part anthology series set in a supernatural world where nothing is quite what it seems.
Inspired by the cult stories of horror writer R.L. Stine, each episode is its own self-contained story and comes armed with a fresh cast – including, in episode two, and star Henry Thomas.
Tackling issues that include bullying, peer pressure and anxiety along the way, it’s aimed squarely at teen and young adult audiences – but anyone with a love of , and the recent will find plenty to enjoy.
Available from Wednesday.
Finding Andrea – Discovery+
Two years ago, 37-year-old mother of two Andrea Knabel went missing from near her home in Louisville, Kentucky, and hasn’t been seen since.
The case quickly made headlines, not least because Andrea, with tragic irony, was a volunteer member of a group that helps find missing people, called Missing In America.
This four-part docuseries examines Andrea’s disappearance, digging deep into the investigation to find her and debunking some of the wilder theories along the way. It’s a powerful watch, not least because it highlights the terrible toll her disappearance has taken on her heartbroken family.
Available from Friday.
