Stuff To Watch This Week (Sept 20-26, 2021)
Catch-up on this year's Emmys on meWATCH; the Doom Patrol returns for more mayhem.
Relive the highlights of this year’s show — hosted by Cedric the Entertainer — where The Crown, Ted Lasso and The Queen’s Gambit were the big winners. The best bit: Seth Rogen (jokingly?) calling out the event for its lack of COVID-19 safety protocols.
Watch it on: meWATCH, from Tue
Photo: Phil McCarten/Invision for the Television
Finale! It’s Chinese New Year, but will everyone in the Chiang family make it to the reunion dinner? Cue suspenseful music!
Watch it on: meWATCH
It’s no secret that George Lucas borrowed ideas from the works of Akira Kurosawa for his intergalactic soap opera. So this is a homecoming of sorts: Seven renowned anime studios — including Kamikaze Douga, Geno Studio and TRIGGER — giving their unique East-meets-West spin on the Star Wars universe in this short film anthology. (This anime collab isn’t a new thing: remember Animatrix and Batman: Gotham Knight?)
Photo: Disney+
If the names Madam Rouge, the Brotherhood of Evil and the Sisterhood of Dada mean anything to you, then you’re in for a treat. They’ll turn up to rub shoulders with the titular wacky superhero team.Patrol.
Watch it on: HBO Go, Fri
Photo: HBO Go
Thailand’s second Netflix original series — after The Stranded — follows a young man (Sukollawat “Weir” Kanarot) embroiled in a citywide conspiracy while working for an emergency rescue service that specialises in cleaning up bodies. Netflix, any plans to launch a Singapore original production? Asking for a friend.
Photo: Rinrada Pornsombutsatien/Netflix
From Mike Flanagan, the creator of The Haunting of Hill House, comes this seven-ep terror fable set in an island hamlet where the local priest (Legion’s Hamish Linklater) with a knack for performing miracles. Are these really miracles or something else? Do they come with a price? Cue ominous music. Also stars Henry Thomas, Rahul Kohli and Kate Siegel.
Photo: Eike Schroter/Netflix
Four-ep half-hour local English-language thriller about an intelligence officer (from the fictional city-state of Isle of Matre) teaming up with his estranged scientist niece to stop a viral attack. Crank up the theme song!
Watch it on: meWATCH
