Neon’s Secret Lives of College Girls, Prime Videos The English and great shows to stream this weekend

1899 (NETFLIX)

DarkJantje Friese and Baran bo Odar are the creators of this German epic historical horror mystery about a group of European migrants who travel from London on a steamship to start a new life in New York City.

However, when they encounter another migrant ship that appears to be floating on the open sea, their exciting journey soon begins to turn into a nightmare. The Pursuit of Love and Little Joe’s Emily Beecham are headlines.

“It’s not for people who get bored easily or for someone who likes to chill in front of the TV,” wrote Ed Power of The Telegraph. “But for those who love drama that both challenges and dazzles, 1899 is a date worth preserving.”

THE ENGLISH (FIRST VIDEO)

Emily Blunt’s first foray into television series since 2005’s overripe Roman drama Empire, this is a blistering, scorching, six-part revenge tale that will have you gripped from the opening scenes.

The 39-year-old former Mary Poppins and Young Victoria still looks as elegant as Lady Cornelia Locke – our first sight of her emerging from her carriage should go down as THE entry of the year so far – but behind the lace-trimmed coat and high-necked dresses, it’s almost immediately apparent that she’s arrived in the newly created territory of Oklahoma in 1890, determined to find the man who killed her son.

With its short, sharp bouts of visceral violence, ravishing dialogue, gorgeous costume and production design, and memorable characters, writer-director Hugo Blick’s (The Shadow Line, The Honorable Woman) potentially meaty story feels like a cross between a Quentin Tarantino movie and a classic John Ford western. You can almost taste the dust and feel the relentless sun burning on the mostly scorched earth.

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HIGH SCHOOL (FIRST VIDEO)

Based on the 2019 bestselling memoir by Canadian musicians and siblings Tegan and Sara Quin, this eight-part comedy is billed as a story about finding your own identity – a journey made even more complicated when you have twins whose own struggles and self-discovery so closely mimics yours.

Told against a backdrop of ’90s grunge and rave culture, the series weaves between parallel and conflicting memories of sisters growing up in the hallway of each other. Directed by Happiest season‘s Clea DuVall.

“The show can feel like a slow burn, but it also has the same sociability and gentle angst that made My So-Called Life a cult hit. It wears like a baggy wool vest,” wrote Rachel Syme from the New Yorker.

INSIDE (NETFLIX)

Former Sherlock and Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffatt is behind this four-part BBC thriller that brings together crowd-pleasing duo Stanley Tucci and David Tennant.

The former plays an American prisoner on death row seeking penance, while the latter is a vicar in a quiet little English village with a terrible secret.

Moffat is a masterful audience manipulator, adept at playing with our emotions, cleverly tricking our attention and drawing us into his moral conundrums, weaving thought-provoking and exciting stories in a surprisingly concise time frame.

Of course, it helps enormously that he has his semi-regular Sherlock collaborator Paul McGuigan pulling the strings, keeping the narrative strands taut from the director’s chair and, in his two male leads, a duo well-versed in fleshing out complicated, nuanced characters who inhabit a very gray area on the traditionally monochromatic spectrum of morality.

THE SEX LIFE OF SCHOOLGIRLS (NEON)

As the second 10-part season of Justin Noble and Mindy Kaling’s hilarious comedy about a quartet of disparate students at Essex College in Vermont begins, the young women grapple with their newfound status as “campus narcs.”

Bela (Amrit Kaur) starts an all-female comedy magazine, Whitney (Alyah Chanelle Scott) starts the football off-season, and Kimberly (Pauline Chalamet) explores ways to make up for her lost scholarship – with unexpected help from Leighton (Renee Rapp) . ).

“What we loved about the first… continues in the second season. In fact, the four protagonists are amazingly attractive, their characters are well drawn and the chemistry between them leads the audience to believe that all four of them could be friends in real life. wrote Joel Keller of Decider.

WARRIOR NON (NETFLIX)

Second, eight-episode season of this cult fantasy drama based on Ben Dunn’s comic book character Warrior Nun Areala.

Starring Mrs. Harris is going to Paris’ breakout star Alba Baptista, it’s the story of a young woman who wakes up in a morgue with unexplained powers and then finds herself caught up in a battle between good and evil.

“Baptista continues to be a compelling and poignant actress who delivers a dynamic performance as Ava. Warrior Nun takes Season 2 to the next level as it skillfully balances action, romance, sacrifice, and faith in humanity. wrote Pop Culture Planet’s Kristen Maldonado.

WELCOME TO CHIPPENDALES (DISNEY+)

The big sickKumail Nanjiani stars in this eight-part true crime drama inspired by the 2014 book Deadly Dance: The Chippendales Murders by K. Scot Macdonald and Patrick MontesDeOca.

It tells the “outrageous” story of Somen “Steve” Banerjee, an Indian immigrant who became the unlikely founder of a men’s stripping empire – refusing to let anything stand in the way of his success.

The impressive cast also includes Murray Bartlett, Juliette Lewis and Dan Stevens.

“Come for the dirty dancing, stay for the lurid drama,” wrote TV Guide’s Matt Roush.

YELLOWSTONE (NEON)

In the fifth season of this crowd-pleasing Kevin Costner-headlined country drama, the Duttons face the prospect of a growing threat from outsiders (particularly Australian actor Jacki Weaver’s nefarious Caroline Warner) and “a great blackmail situation” between two of the siblings .

A two-hour premiere is followed by six regular episodes and then a hiatus, before the series returns for a second half of the season of similar length.

“The show remains compulsive to watch despite the intensely varying stakes — as much weight is given to the battle for Montana real estate or the contamination of company property as it does to the unexpected death of a horse,” wrote Collider’s Carly Lane. “The central cast itself is as strong as they’ve ever been.”