Clockwise from top: Cuckoo, It Ends With Us, Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Industry.
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I’m recovering from a post–House of the Dragon hangover. Say what you will about that finale, but I’ll miss our emotional-support dragons. HBO Sundays marches on with a new season of Industry, the series that’s like if Succession focused on the Roy siblings as 20-somethings. Elsewhere, the Olympics come to a close this weekend, and hopefully the chocolate-muffin-obsessed Norwegian swimmer had enough room in his bag. Then there’s Hunter Schafer’s first leading film role, Stephen Curry’s first scripted TV gig, and the fourth and final time Elliot Page and company save the world. Here’s everything worth a watch this weekend. —Savannah Salazar
From Immaculate, to Longlegs, to now, Cuckoo, Neon has been on a horror streak. Written and directed by Tilman Singer, Cuckoo seems to live up to its name. Even its trailer is hard to describe, but Hunter Schafer leads the film as a teen named Gretchen sent to live with her father (Marton Csokas) and his new wife (Jessica Henwick) in a Bavarian Alps resort owned by an unnerving man (Dan Stevens). —S.S.
Sure, there was House of the Dragon, and maybe you’re a Slow Horses person, but if you’re honest with yourself, you know there’s room for improvement in your calendar of weekly TV dramas. Industry, the tense, high-partying, high-stakes financial drama, is what you’re looking for. Get caught up on prior seasons so you’re ready to yell with the rest of us. —Kathryn VanArendonk
➼ Yeah, House of the Dragon ended last week, but now you can watch Jon Snow surrounded by a different kind of snow, if you catch our drift.
One of author Colleen Hoover’s most popular novels comes to the big screen. Blake Lively plays a young woman who falls in love with her friend’s brother (played by director Justin Baldoni) but soon finds out he reminds her of her past trauma, just as another man (Brandon Sklenar) from her past emerges. If you’re looking for a happy-go-lucky rom-com, this definitely isn’t it, but if you’re one of Hoover’s many BookTok fans, you’re probably excited to see how they (or Ryan Reynolds) adapted this. —S.S.
➼ Hoping the “it” in It Ends With Us means the Deadpool & Wolverine promo cycle.
It’s the final season of a show that can once again fill all your “I put it on in the background and could pretty much follow it” TV needs. Odds are good the world will require saving once again. Odds are even better that it’ll get saved in a violent fight scene set to an ironic needle drop. —S.S.
Stephen Curry stars (as himself) alongside Adam Pally in this mockumentary-style series tracking two basketball players’ relationship from sixth grade to the present day. The pair play two former middle-school teammates who reconnect when Pally’s character, Danny, a struggling memorabilia dealer, asks Curry to participate in a charity event. The cast also includes Ego Nwodim and Ayden Mayeri. —S.S.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem was an adorable, weird, playfully animated reboot of the TMNT story, and like all kids’ movies these days, it now has its own TV spinoff. Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles follows the four shelled adolescents as they fight crime, eat pizza, crush on April O’Neil: all the classics. Every generation gets its own version of the Turtles; that’s just a fact of life. —Roxana Hadadi
Not enough Mike Faist, I say. He may be playing the documentarian of this story, but The Bikeriders is locked in on Tom Hardy, Austin Butler, and Jodie Comer as Comer’s Kathy recounts how her husband’s (Butler) local bike club, led by Johnny Davis (Hardy), devolved. —S.S.
The indie-rocking kid’s show gets a makeover and a new host following DJ Lance Rock: a young girl named Kammy Kam (Kamryn Smith). The basic template is the same: fun songs, guests (Diplo, Anderson .Paak), and a bunch of toys with funny names (Muno, Foofa, etc.) having trippy adventures that appeal to young children and, potentially, grown-ups who took half an edible. —Jen Chaney
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