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Welcome to Boston.com’s weekly streaming guide. Each week, we recommend five must-watch movies and TV shows available on streaming platforms like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Disney+, HBO Max, Peacock, Paramount+, and more.
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New Movies Streaming
“G20”
Playing President Danielle Sutton, the most physically formidable president since Harrison Ford in “Air Force One,” Viola Davis is a war hero who still makes time for MMA sparring in between running the free world. When a cadre of terrorists invades the G20 summit and captures every world leader attending except for Sutton, you know things are gonna get ugly for them.
“G20” gives Davis a chance to go full Rambo, mowing down baddies and choking henchmen with the butt of her submachine gun. It’s ridiculous(ly fun).
How to watch: “G20” is streaming on Prime Video.
New TV Shows Streaming
“Black Mirror”
As has always been the case with Charlie Brooker’s dystopian anthology series, there are highs and lows to its seventh season. But the hits outnumber the misses, as Brooker’s technology-focused cautionary tales skew closer to reality than you’d care to admit.
Season 7 has once again assembled a killer cast, including Paul Giamatti, Rashida Jones, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Cristin Milioti, who reprises her role from the award-winning Season 4 episode “USS Callister.”
How to watch: “Black Mirror” Season 7 is streaming on Netflix.
“Hacks”
The Best Comedy Emmy winner is back, providing remarkably consistent laughs and uncomfortable confrontations in its fourth season. Deborah (Jean Smart) has ascended to the pinnacle of the comedy world, becoming the first permanent female host on late-night television. But she remains as prickly and insecure as ever, thanks largely to the fact that her protege-turned-nemesis Ava (Hannah Einbinder) has blackmailed her way into the head writer job.
Ava is the ostensible victim of this battle of wills, but both Einbinder and Smart excel at shading their neurotic, narcissistic characters with gray, so you’ll be rooting for them to stay in this toxic relationship forever.
How to watch: “Hacks” Season 4 is streaming on Max.
“The Handmaid’s Tale”
When “The Handmaid’s Tale” debuted back in April 2017, President Donald Trump had just stepped into office. Critics delighted in making real-world parallels, and women donned the show’s signature red handmaid costumes at protests across the nation. As the show based on Margaret Atwood’s novel begins its sixth and final season, President Donald Trump has once again just stepped into office, and though the show is no longer central to the cultural zeitgeist, its characters face many of the same challenges.
Despite their political differences, June (Elisabeth Moss) and Serena (Yvonne Strahovski) both end up as refugees on the run from Gilead. Given Serena’s past betrayals, June doesn’t offer much warmth. But eventually, the women’s shared common enemy unites them — to a degree, anyway.
How to watch: “The Handmaid’s Tale” is streaming on Hulu.
“The Last of Us”
Ahead of the new season of “The Last of Us,” which premieres Sunday at 9 p.m. on HBO, it’s worth catching up (or rewatching) the first season of the HBO drama based on the video game series of the same name.
Early indications are that “The Last of Us” Season 2 is darker than the first — a tall order, considering the 2023 series premiere showed how a deadly global pandemic turned billions of people into mindless zombies (or “Infected,” to use the show’s parlance). Season 1 focuses almost entirely on Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie’s (Bella Ramsey) lonely journey from Boston (or “10 miles West of Boston”) through the Great Plains, attempting to avoid the Infected that dot the landscape. It all comes to a head in a gruesome finale, in which Joel is forced to make a choice no dad (or surrogate dad) should have to make.
How to watch: “The Last of Us” Season 2 is streaming on Max.
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