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No more having to remember an entire month’s worth of streaming platform lineups.
I’ll be here every Monday.
Offering up the best new streaming options for the week ahead.
This week’s highlights: The Handmaid’s Tale: S5 (Hulu), Morbius (Netflix) and Dog (Prime Video).
Hulu
Hulu hitting this week hard with an original plus some broadcast TV options.
Monarch: S1 (9/12)
The Romans have created a country music dynasty but when their reign as country royalty is put in jeopardy, Nicolette will stop at nothing to protect her family’s legacy.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNhWcY9BEco
The Handmaid’s Tale: S5 (9/14)
Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHcHn5P252c
Atlanta: S4 (9/16)
Earn and his cousin Alfred, based in Atlanta, try to make their way in the world through the rap scene. Along the way they come face-to-face with social and economic issues touching on race, relationships, poverty, status, and parenthood.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB-jmFA1NMk
Netflix
Netflix with a new-ish Marvel movie release plus a fun looking original.
Do Revenge (9/16)
Drea and Eleanor agree to go after one another’s bullies.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK-JQU_bShc
Morbius (9/16)
Biochemist Michael Morbius tries to cure himself of a rare blood disease, but he inadvertently infects himself with a form of vampirism instead.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ6iiRrz1SY
Peacock
A Peacock original! Just in time for spooky season to kickoff.