Stuff to watch this week (Aug 21-27, 2023): The Flash, Ahsoka, And Just Like That season finale, and more

MasterChef Singapore, Season 4 

We’re now left with 10 contestants, with the Red Team down two members. And is it just me or is the new season off to a slow start? Need more cowbells. Catch last week's ep here:

Watch it on: meWATCH & Channel 5, Sun, 9.30pm; all episodes available on-demand, on the same night via meWATCH and the Mediacorp Entertainment YouTube Channel

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Nurul Aini (why so serious?) hosts this contest — the title means ‘to show on screen’ in English — where eight pairs of budding filmmakers compete to make the best shorts of different genres. With industry vets Faisal Ishak and Khairudin Samsudin as resident judges. Catch the first ep here:

Watch it on: meWATCH, Suria & Mediacorp Entertainment on YouTube

The Betrayal

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The British adultery drama Dr Foster: A Woman Scorned has spawned yet another Asian remake! (It’s already birthed do-overs in South Korea, the Philippines, Japan and Indonesia. Where’s our version?!) In the Thai spin, Anne Thongprasom plays a psychiatrist who finds out that her husband (Ananda Everingham) is cheating on her and their mutual friends are helping him to conceal the affair. Some friends...

Watch it on: Viu, Wed

Dirty Money

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Still can’t wrap your head around how a group of foreign nationals got caught in a billion-dollar money-laundering probe? Maybe you can get some ideas from this 2018 docu-series that looks at real-life cases of corporate malfeasance, including the 1MDB scandal and HSBC’s Mexican drug cartel-linked ties.

Watch it on: Netflix

Ahsoka

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Following cameos in The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, Rosario Dawson reprises her fan-favourite character in this series set after the Empire’s fall in Return of the Jedi. The eight-part series sees Anakin Skywalker’s one-time Padawan investigating an emerging threat to the galaxy. Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, David Tennant, Lars Mikkelsen, and the late Ray Stevenson co-star. 

Watch it on: Disney+, Wed

And Just Like That… Season 2

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Season finale. The episode we all have been waiting for is finally here: the return of Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall)! Hold all my calls! Cancel all appointments! 

Watch it on: HBO Go, Thur

You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah

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Adam Sandler robes in daughters Sadie and Sunny to star in this coming-of-age comedy about two BFFs (Sadie and Samantha Lorraine) whose friendship is put to the test when they vie for a guy’s attention at a bat mitzvah. Based on Fiona Rosenbloom’s 2005 YA novel of the same name.

Watch it on: Netflix, Fri

Vacation Friends 2

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John Cena and Lil Rel Howery are back as reluctant travel buddies in this sequel to the 2021 movie. This time, the mayhem unfolds in a Caribbean resort and it also involves Steve Buscemi and Ronny Chieng.

Wanted: The Escape of Carlos Ghosn

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How the disgraced Nissan CEO fled Japan in a box (after being charged for financial mismanagement) continues to fascinate. It was the subject of a Netflix docu last year, Fugitive: The Curious Case of Carlos Ghosn, and now a four-part series, which promises more in-depth interviews, including one with Mike Taylor, the ex-Green Beret who orchestrated Ghosn’s legendary escape.

Watch it on: Apple TV+, Fri

The Flash

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If you missed this in the cinemas, here’s your chance to watch the Ezra Miller-starring DC movie that bombed hard despite being hailed by Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav as “the best superhero movie I’ve ever seen”. (Rrrright.)  Maybe the crummy special effects are more forgivable on the small screen?