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Every single week, our TV and film experts will list the most important ten streaming selections for you to pop into your queues. We’re not strictly operating upon reviews or accrued streaming clicks (although yes, we’ve scoured the streaming site charts) but, instead, upon those selections that are really worth noticing amid the churning sea of content. There’s a lot out there, after all, and your time is valuable.

10. Terminator Zero – Netflix series

Did the world need an anime series from this franchise? Arguably not, but this franchise has injected unexpected life into what would otherwise be a crushed crop of cyborgs. The film follows a Japanese developer’s work on a SkyNet competitor back in 1997, and as it turns out, these rivals are not content to let the market settle their rivalry. Cue a warrior from the future heading back in time to attempt life-saving intervention. The voice cast includes André Holland, Rosario Dawson, Sonoya Mizuno, and yes, that is Timothy Olyphant’s unmistakeable voice and swagger coming from the T-800.

9. Fight Night: The Million-Dollar Heist – Peacock limited series

This heist story is based upon iHeartRadio’s Fight Night podcast, which heads back to October 1970 when Muhammad Ali returned to boxing in what turned out to be the same evening that “Chicken Man” (Kevin Hart) pulled off a historical heist during a party full of ultra-wealthy post-fight patrons. By the end of the evening, multi-million-dollars of thievery went down, and this shockingly brazen crime spree became a longwinded headache for detective J.D. Hudson, one of Atlanta’s first Black detectives.

8. A Quiet Place: Day One – Paramount movie streaming on Paramount+

Lupita Nyong’o, Joseph Quinn, and Frodo the Cat star in this rendition of what happened when John Krasinski’s sound-hunting aliens landed in Manhattan. This franchise hasn’t missed yet, and whispers of a fourth movie are circulating as the threequel arrives as part of a streaming package. Enjoy the chaos in your own living room, and root for that damn cat, will you?

7. Dark Winds – AMC series streaming on Netflix

This George R.R. Martin-produced crime drama (anything to avoid writing Winds of Winter, but in this case, GRRM’s procrastination is well worth the diversion) qualifies as a sleeper series that I highly recommend binging at some point. (Mostly) Native American writers are doing the thing here with Tony Hillerman’s Leaphorn & Chee book series and the two 1970s Navajo cops (at a remote area near Monument Valley) confronted by a series of violent crimes, and these investigations present sights that make them second guess their spiritual beliefs. A third season is on the way, and the show’s recent Netflix arrival has opened up a whole new audience for what’s next.

6. Bad Monkey – Apple TV+ series

Vince Vaughn returns to leading-man mode while embracing those comedic roots in this series adaptation of Carl Hiaasen’s cult-favorite and bestseller novel of the same name. Likewise, producer Bill Lawrence follows up his Ted Lasso feel-good vibes with less wholesome subject matter to follow Vaughn’s Andrew Yancy, a former cop-turned-health-inspector, becomes involved in a mystery investigation. Co-stars include Rob Delaney, Jodie Turner-Smith, Michelle Monaghan, Alex Moffat, and a dash of Zach Braff. If this doesn’t redeem Vaughn for that second True Detective season, then nothing else will.

5. The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power – Amazon series

This past week was Tom Bombadil Week, which brings some much needed controversy to Middle-earth and Jeff Bezos’ dream of really achieving his own Game of Thrones. Heck, this show might even be the reason for Amazon launching original content in the first place, and fortunately, we got Reacher and Mr. and Mrs. Smith out of the deal, too.

4. Industry – HBO series

Harry Lawtey will soon surface as an early Harvey Dent in the Joker sequel, and he’s still kicking around in all the wrong places as Robert in this show that is getting its due with a growing audience. This series, which also stars Myha’la, Marisa Abela, Ken Leung, and the newly installed Kit Harington, has received plentiful comparisons to Euphoria due to the off-hours debauchery on display, but the third season is leveling up with more intricate and complex arcs for its impressively disastrous characters

3. Joker – Warner Bros. Pictures movie streaming on Max

The reviews for the Lady Gaga-starring musical followup are not kind overall, but the film could still hit a billion dollars at the box office. In the meantime, people are revisiting Joaquin Phoenix’s first performance as the Clown Prince of Crime. Director Todd Phillips did the thing here, and it remains to be seen how theatergoers respond to Arthur Fleck’s second outing. Will he still be considered a complex early version of the chaotic figure who slipped through the cracks with homicidal results, or will the dancing shows have worn thin?

2. The Perfect Couple – Netflix series

Nicole Kidman has not-so-quietly been amassing TV series on HBO, Hulu, and Amazon, so it only makes sense that she would follow up her A Family Affair Netflix movie with a TV series on the same streaming service. This (presumably limited) series looks like a cross between The White Lotus and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery with Kidman portraying the matriarch of a wealthy Nantucket family. In this adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s book, the fam is about to welcome a daughter-in-law, yet unfortunately, the wedding weekend turns into a murder scene, and the whodunit begins.

1. Slow Horses – Apple TV+ series

Fart City, ahoy! That would be London when Jackson Lamb is walking around. Meanwhile, are you ready to see his living space? Because that’s coming this season, along with other messy thrills for these f*cked up MI5 agents who find themselves handling matters of utmost national importance. This season follows Mick Herron’s fourth Slough House novel, Spook Street, and Jackson’s cadre of misfits will find themselves embroiled within a terror attack in a shopping district. Come for the action and intrigue, and stick around for a grumpy, farting Gary Oldman in the role of his life.

Author Hugh Howey began his Silo saga by self-publishing the WOOL short story, which he expanded with additional chapters until he completed the full-fledged Silo omnibus. Over a decade after that journey began, showrunner Graham Yost (Justified, Band of Brothers, the upcoming Slow Horses season) began adapting Howey’s brainchild for Apple TV+. The first season took Rebecca Ferguson thousands of feet underground as Jules, who began her onscreen journey as a singularly focused and brilliant mechanic who keeps her civilization’s lights on. She’s pulled out of the Earth’s depths for a different calling, which leads her to uncover truths that eventually make her a target.

Silo quickly landed on our list of best Apple TV+ shows since the service launched. And as viewers know, the first season ended with Jules being condemned to walk outside, where she became the first silo inhabitant to ascend over the hill and disappear from view. She then discovered an array of other silos, whereas everybody at her “home” believes that only one silo exists. Let’s get down to business on what thrills that viewers can expect next:

Plot

An ominous teaser shows Juliette — outside her silo after having refused to perform the ritualistic “cleaning” — with the following message from the Order: “In the case of a failed cleaning, prepare for war.”

Of course, the show has yet to reveal what “war” means, but the first season finale did show Bernard (Tim Robbins) losing his sh*t over Juliette’s form of rebellion. It’s also no secret, as confirmed through a Variety panel with Yost, Howey, Rebecca Ferguson, and Common, that Juliette makes her way to another silo, where she will meet a “scary and weird” dude, Solo, who is portrayed by Steve Zahn.

This puts Silo‘s main characters into two locations, so how will the series juggle those different settings? TVLine’s Matt Webb Mitovich received clarification from Yost during a recent conversation:

When I spoke to showrunner Graham Yost this week, he confirmed my suspicion — given the amount of retuning cast members — that whereas the second half of the Wool novel that Season 2 covers is quite Juliette-centric and spends comparatively less time in her old silo, the TV series will be “a little more 50-50.” Case in point, the first new episode is all Juliette, he said, and the second is all Silo 18 action.

Ferguson has previously teased that the second season “gets incredibly intense… wet,” and if she’s stressing that detail, we can probably expect something even more intense than Juliette nearly drowning while attempting to cool the generator with a hose.

From there, we can expect the story to jump back and forth between two silos, as Graham Yost has stressed that “there are two storylines in Season 2. One that follows Juliette and one that happens in her home Silo.” This makes me suspect that a third story from the Shift novel will be pushed to a third season or done away with altogether. There’s simply not enough space in a single season to deal with every monumental book event in an adequate matter, so we’ll have to see how Yost and Apple TV+ decide to roll in the future.

Cast

Returning cast members not only include Rebecca Ferguson but several members of her home silo including Common as Leather Jacket Sims, Harriet Walter as Martha, and Tim Robbins as Barnard.

Steve Zahn feels like a pitch-perfect selection to portray Solo, and other second-season cast members will include Chinaza Uche, Avi Nash, Billy Postlethwaite, Alexandria Riley, Shane McRae, Rick Gomez, Remmie Milner, Clare Perkins, and Caitlin Zoz.

Release Date

Weekly episodes will drop for the second season starting on November 15.

Trailer

Since Apple TV+ hasn’t released a trailer yet, this behind-the-scenes look at Juliette’s tattoos can be an appetizer.

Angel Reese, the standout rookie forward for the Chicago Sky who has started every game for the team this year, announced on Saturday evening that her first season in the WNBA is coming to an end. In a statement posted onto social media, Reese revealed that she will be shut down due to an injury.

Here’s the entirety of Reese’s statement:

What a year. I never would have imagined the last bucket of my rookie season would be a 3 but maybe that was God saying give them a taste of what they will be seeing more of in Year 2 lolThrough it all, I have showed that I belong in this league even when no one else believed. All I have ever wanted was to come into the W and make an impact. I can confidently say I have done that and will strive to keep doing so. I’m filled with emotions right now that I have a season ending injury, but also filled with so much gratitude for what is next. Although this is God’s timing and not mine, I am finally able to give myself a physical and mental break. “God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers.”

You’ll still see me being the biggest cheerleader on the sideline! And Unrivaled league, see you soon!

While Reese did not specify what the injury is, she was listed as questionable in the lead-up to Sunday’s game between the Sky and the Dallas Wings due to a wrist injury. The injury comes at an especially unfortunate time for Chicago, which are currently 12-22 and are holding onto the eighth and final seed in the WNBA playoffs — they have the same record as the Atlanta Dream, but hold the tiebreaker between the two teams.

Reese, No. 7 overall pick in the 2024 WNBA Draft and a former standout at LSU, has established herself as one of the W’s premier rebounders and earned an All-Star nod as a rookie. She averaged 13.6 points and 13.1 rebounds in 32.5 minutes per game for the Sky this season.

There’s a fun counter-action that comes from being a fan of a team, and that is really hating another team. Kevin Durant, as it turns out, is a terrific example of this, as the Phoenix Suns star and well-documented fan of the Washington Commanders absolutely cannot stand the Dallas Cowboys.

Durant sat down with Kay Adams and got asked about relegating an NFL team — recently, Durant purchased a minority stake in French soccer team Paris Saint-Germain.

“If you could get rid of one NFL team, the biggest pain in your ass, which team would you pick?” Adams asked.

“Cowboys,” Durant replied before Adams even completely finished her question. “Cowboys easily.”

Durant gave a very simple reason for this: He just does not like the Dallas Cowboys one bit, and then, he tried to get to the heart of why he hates the Cowboys so much in a pretty spectacular soundbite.

“I had to ask myself why don’t I like the Cowboys,” Durant said. “Cause I don’t hate any teams, or any players, I’m a huge fan of a lot of teams. But the Cowboys are that one team I just don’t like, and I think it’s because a lot of people where I’m from in D.C. have become Cowboys fans. It’s probably, like, 75 percent of people in Washington, D.C., in my group of people, that are Cowboys fans. And I just hate that they don’t stay loyal to the crib.”

Adams asked Durant about whether he’d let these people become Commanders fans if their recent first-round pick, LSU quarterback and reigning Heisman Trophy winner Jayden Daniels, pops off, but Durant stressed “we’re not letting them on the bus.” It is unclear if he views the Philadelphia Eagles and the New York Giants with the same amount of vitriol, but I just assume that every fan of an NFC East teams hates every other NFC East team.

Megan Thee Stallion is on a quest to collect as many collaborations as possible. The “Down Stairs DJ” rapper has already joined forces with several women in hip-hop including Nicki Minaj, Cardi B, GloRilla, and Latto.

But on the pop end, her resume is predominately men like BTS and its member RM. However, Megan Thee Stallion wants to change that. In an exclusive chat with People, Megan Thee Stallion revealed that she hopes to collaborate with global pop star Taylor Swift.

“I love Taylor Swift, and I would like to collab with her one day,” she said.

Although the revelation comes on the heels of Megan Thee Stallion’s Pepsi commercial cameo, which co-stars Swift’s beau, Travis Kelce, and other NFL players, she cited another reason as to why the hopeful track makes sense.

“She’s a stallion too, she’s a tall girl,” she said. “I love that. We would be so cute next to each other.”

Swift has worked with rappers in the past including most recently Ice Spice for “Karma Remix” and Kendrick Lamar on “Bad Blood,” so it isn’t impossible.

Still, users online aren’t sold on the idea. But Megan Thee Stallion has proven to deliver on her featured track and to pull the best out of those who jump on a song with her.

Use of Snoop Dogg’s infamous catchphrase once got a news anchor fired. On the other hand, the coy incorporation of Sabrina Carpenter’s lyrics just gained one sports broadcaster some massive brownie points online.

In a video shared by announcer Dallas Braden’s wife, Meg Braden, revealed that a household dare pushed Braden to sneakily use Carpenter’s “Please Please Please” lyrics during the Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics game on September 5.

“Day two of daring my husband, who is a broadcaster of a baseball team to say something on air,” she said. “This one’s fun.”

The video (viewable here) quickly cuts to a clip of Darren’s commentary during the matchup.

“I tell you heartbreak is one thing,” he said. “My ego’s another.”

But Braden wasn’t alone. His announcing partner quickly caught onto Braden’s game and showed off his pop culture knowledge, saying: “So the A’s are saying please don’t embarrass me, brother.”

At the time, most listeners might not have caught onto the insider challenger. But users at home, certainly did. Now, TikTok users have flooded Meg’s comment section to suggest other artists for her husband’s next broadcast.

As Adele so graciously pointed out Sabrina Carpenter’s lyrics are undeniably addictive. So, it is only right that it makes its way into other entertainment sectors.

College football being back can only mean one thing: The insane touchdowns that seem to only happen in college football are back, baby. For whatever reason, the NFL just doesn’t have the completely ridiculous things that seem to happen on a weekly basis in this level of the sport, and on Saturday, we got a terrific example of this during an FCS game between Valparaiso and Youngstown State.

Despite the fact that the Penguins raced out to an early, 21-0 lead, Valpo got the ball and drove down the field for a touchdown early in the second quarter. After a three-and-out by YSU, the Beacons once again managed to score to make it a 1-score game, although that undersells how wild the touchdown was, as Caron Taylor punched it in from seven yards out by jumping over two opposing players, and then bulldozing his way through two more.

Want to watch this from another angle? Good news! You can do that here.

Unfortunately for Valpo, while this was sick, the result of the game might make them sick, as Youngstown State was able to settle in and take care of business en route to a 59-25 win on their home field.

The question surrounding whether The Weeknd would release a new album has been answered. After weeks of cryptic posts and videos online, the “Blinding Lights” singer confirmed that a new project was in the works.

Last week, he released the forthcoming body of work’s title, Hurry Tomorrow. Today (September 7), The Weeknd unveiled Hurry Tomorrow‘s official album cover.

Hurry Tomorrow follows in line with The Weeknd’s past portrait style cover art (2015’s Beauty Behind The Madness, 2016’s Starboy, 2020’s After Hours, and 2022’s Dawn FM). The hauntingly vulnerable graphic features The Weeknd makes piercing eye contact with the lens. Without the designer buds or special effects makeup, viewers are drawn into The Weeknd’s emotional facial expression and glossed over eyes.

Users online seemed to enjoy the image’s rawness.

“I like. It’s very Weeknd,” wrote one user.

“Exciting times ahead! The Weeknd’s album cover always sets the tone for the music. Can’t wait to see what “Hurry Up Tomorrow” brings,” chimed one user.

Others found themselves aroused by the cover art.

“Is this a safe place,” asked one user.

“He is so fine,” added another.

The release date for Hurry Up Tomorrow hasn’t been shared yet. However, The Weeknd did post the pre-save link. Find more information here.

Snoop Dogg might not be impressed with DSPs payout. But that hasn’t stopped Eminem, or rather his publishing company, from going after what he’s owed.

Back in 2019’s the “Somebody Save Me” rapper’s co-publisher, Eight Mile Style, launched a lawsuit against streaming giant. Now according to Music Business Worldwide, the five-year-long $40 million case is partially over in favor of the stream.

In the decision, Judge Aleta A. Trauger shut down Eight Mile Style’s claim that Spotify “deceptively” asserted that it had the “proper licenses” for several Eminem tracks.

“While Spotify’s handling of composer copyrights appears to have been seriously flawed, any right to recover damages based on those flaws belongs to those innocent rights holders who were genuinely harmed,” she said. “Not ones who, like Eight Mile Style, had every opportunity to set things right and simply chose not to do so for no apparent reason, other than that being the victim of infringement pays better than being an ordinary licensor.”

Instead, Trauger ruled that Kobalt Music Publishing, another royalty collection agency, was seemingly at fault, a declaration Spotify’s legal team previously made.”

However, in a statement provided to the outlet (viewable here), Kobalt Music Publishing denied the accusation. “Spotify mischaracterizes the substance both of the services Kobalt provides to Eight Mile Style and Martin Affiliated in the United States, as well as the content of Spotify’s direct US licensing agreement with Kobalt,” said the rep.

Eminem has not issued a public response to the court’s decision.

Barry Keoghan has a lot going on. Outside of keeping up with the Instagram account for Bratz, the Oscar-nominated actor is in a new movie, Bird, that just screened at the Toronto International Film Festival; he’s also reportedly dating pop sensation Sabrina Carpenter and starring in director Trey Edward Shults’ new movie and The Batman 2. But first, before he gets tWiStEd as The Joker, Keoghan has to share something important: how to pronounce his last name.

During an interview with Variety at TIFF, Keoghan was asked to “settle once and for all” how to say his last name. It’s Kee-oh-gan, not Keegan. But don’t feel too bad if you were pronouncing it wrong all this time, like Homer Simpson with Mrs. Crandall, I mean, Krabappel. “Some people get it wrong, I mean, even Irish people get it wrong,” he said. Ayo Edebiri would never!

You can watch the last name lesson here.

As for Bird, the Andrea Arnold film is described as a drama about “a distracted father (Barry Keoghan) and his lonely and imaginative 12-year-old daughter, Bailey (Nykiya Adams), who must seek attention (and adventure) elsewhere.” The film, which was acquired by Mubi, comes out in theaters on November 8.