The Weekend Binge: 'Anyone But You', 'Dead Boy Detectives', Streaming on a Prayer with Bon Jovi, 'The Big Door Prize', A Zin for Earth Day + A 80s Boy Band Doc

It's the weekend, let's binge!

Apr 27, 2024

It’s the last weekend in April and in a few days you’ll have a new streaming guide for May delivered to your inbox! Make sure to share with friends and family so they are always in the know. “There’s nothing to watch on TV” is so 1992.

It’s a light streaming weekend which means you can catch up on shows like The Gentleman in Moscow (Paramount+), Fallout (Prime Video), and Baby Reindeer (Netflix) before fresh streams arrive.

More to catch up on are all the new nature docs that arrived on April 22 for Earth Day. Most every streaming platform has something inspired by Mother Nature for bingeing, but you can’t go wrong with the award-winning docs on Disney+/Hulu from National Geographic. Streaming new this week include Tiger and Secrets of the Octopus.

Keep scrolling for my sip & stream of the weekend which includes a biodynamic wine from Sonoma. You can’t go wrong with this label. Everything this winemaker puts out is top notch. I’m also adding this 80s boy band (ya know the cool boy bands of eighties) documentary to my watchlist.

Here’s Everything Streaming This Weekend:

Anyone But You

This romantic comedy swept theater-goers away and is now available for streaming. Anyone But You stars Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria) and Glen Powell (Top Gun: Maverick) as two mismatched people reunited for a wedding in Australia where they have to pretend they’re a couple — classic enemies to lovers trope. Streaming Time: 1 hour, 43 minutes. Forecast: ⛅️

Also New On Netflix: Fern Brady: Autistic Bikini Queen, Brigands: The Quest For Gold, Fight for Paradise: Who Can You Trust?, Deliver Me, Don’t Hate The Player, TLC Forever, City Hunter, Dead Boy Detectives, The Asunta Case, Goodbye Earth, Duran Duran: There’s Something You Should Know, Freud’s Last Session

Netflix’s Top 5 Weekend Streams: TV | Movies

Baby Reindeer | Anyone But You
The Circle | King Richard
Unlocked: A Jail Experiment | Rebel Moon: Part Two
Dead Boy Detectives | Smurfs: The Lost Village
The Upshaws | Rust Creek

Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story

This docuseries follows the history of hair band extraordinaire Bon Jovi through personal videos, photos and a look back on the music that defined a generation (and mostly drunk people singing Living on a Prayer in dive bars). It chronicles their rise from New Jersey clubs to worldwide fame. Streaming Time: 4 episodes. Forecast: ☀️

Also New On Hulu: Hip Hop & The White House, Secrets of the Octopus, Wonderful World: Season 1, Talking Sabor: Season 1, Booked: First Day In - Season 1, Mountain Men: Season 11, Wahlburgers: Season 7, Barber, Boy in the Walls, FX’s The New York Times Presents: Broken Horses, Lights Out

Hulu’s Top 5 Weekend Streams

Under the Bridge
Shogun
We Were The Lucky Ones
American Horror Story
The Masked Singer

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Them: The Scare (Prime Video, Freevee)

The second installment of this spooky anthology series. LAPD Homicide Detective Dawn Reeve is called on to investigate a gruesome murder in a foster home and in more ways than one she is bringing her case home with her. Streaming Time: 8 episodes. Forecast: ☀️

Knuckles

Idris Elba (Luther) voices the part of Knuckles in this new supernatural fantasy animated series from the universe of Sonic the Hedgehog. Other voices include Ben Schwartz, Stockard Channing, Kid Cudi, and Cary Elwes. Streaming Time: 6 episodes. Forecast: ☀️

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Action: Season 1

A docuseries that follows filmmaker David Leitch and Kelly McCormick’s stunt team as they film “Violent Night”. Streaming Time: 6 episodes.

The Big Door Prize: Season 2

The second season of the dramedy The Big Door Prize has arrived. The residents of a small town called Deerfield discover a magical machine in their local grocery store that predicts your destiny. Streaming Time: First two episodes now streaming, new episodes every Wednesday. Forecast: ⛅️

Vegas: The Story Of Sin City

A docuseries that lays out the history sharing celebrity stories, hoteliers, mafia bosses, and politicians over a 70-year span. Streaming Time: 4 episodes. Forecast: ☀️

Also New On Max: 90-Day Fiance: Love in Paradise - Season 4, The Green Planet, Justice League: Crisis on the Infinite Earth, Restoration Road with Clint Harp: Season 5, Ugliest House in America: Season 5, Farmhouse Fixer: Season 3, The Losers, Roadkill Garage: Season 9, Caught, The United States of Scandal with Jake Tapper, We’re Here: Season 4, Love and Marriage D.C., Velma 2, Call Me Country: Beyoncé & Nashville’s Renaissance

Max’s Top 5 Weekend Streams: TV | Movies

The Jinx: Part Two | Justice League: Crisis of Infinite Earth
Conan O’Brien Must Go | War of the Planet of the Apes
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver | The Spongebob Squarepants Movie
Quiet on the Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV | An American Bombing: The Road To April 19th
The Sympathizer | Deepwater Horizon

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Tiger + Tigers on the Rise

From Disney Nature comes a gorgeous documentary about the planet’s most revered and charismatic animal, inviting viewers to journey alongside Ambar, a young tigress raising her cubs in the forests of India. Narrated by Priyanka Chopra. Streaming Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes.

Tigers on the Rise, narrated by Blair Underwood, celebrates the population comeback of the Tiger as they venture from India’s forest reserves to farms and villages. This can create challenge, but a team of vets, scientist and community patrols are dedicated to ensuring that tigers and people can co-exist. Streaming Time: 1 hour, 18 minutes.

The Beekeeper 🐝

Jason Statham stars in this action comedy about one man’s brutal campaign for vengeance who was a former operative for a powerful organization known as “Beekeepers”. Streaming Time: 1 hour, 45 minutes. Forecast: ⛅️

Sister Bonaface Mysteries: Season 3

A moped-riding nun who is also a winemaker and forensic scientist, solving crimes from St. Vincent’s Convent. A cozy mystery now in its third season. Streaming Time: Total binge 29 episodes. Forecast: ☀️

The Brits are simply the best at doing cozy mysteries. Check it out for yourself with a free trial to BritBox!

Kid Streams

Cocomelon Lane: Season 2 (Netflix)
Knuckles (Paramount+)
Smurfs: The Lost Village (Netflix)

Sip & Stream: 2022 Seghesio Vineyards Zinfandel, Sonoma + Duran Duran: There’s Something You Should Know

In honor of Earth Day this week (April 22 was the official day), let’s focus on drinking some good biodynamic/sustainable wines. Seghesio Family Vineyards out of Sonoma, CA is one of those wines. They specialize in Zinfandel, but their library of wines are all a must-drink. They practice sustainability on their vineyards. Here’s just a blip about their practices:

“Seghesio Family Vineyards has always thrived to protect the environment and their communities. It has become clear to us that the emission of Green House Gases (GHG) not only is the biggest environmental threat, but also that the majority of environmental advances are tied to their ability to emit less GHG. They have embarked on a fundamental transformation of how they grow grapes and make wines and have joined international organizations such as the Porto Protocol and the International Wineries for Climate Action (IWCA). They have committed to reduce their GHG emissions by 50% by 2030 and 100% by 2050.”

I got to visit their winery a couple of summers ago, and it was a lovely tasting experience. Highly recommend. If you can’t find their wines at your local wine shop, then head over to Wine.Com - they have an entire section of biodynamic wines for purchase including this label.

Tasting Notes: lots of personality. Notes of blackberry, licorice and orange peel. 93 Points Wine Spectator.

Duran Duran: There’s Something You Should Know

I love a good rockumentary and after seeing the Wham! doc from Netflix which took me back to my childhood, I’m hungry like a wolf for the new Duran Duran one premiering this weekend. Yes, I love a bad pun. I only got a chance to see Duran Duran live in my twenties when I won tickets off a local radio station to see them film a music video at the Santa Monica Airport Hangar. They ended up playing a full concert for the crowd.

Here’s one of their classic music videos: RIO

Interesting Fact: Frontman Simon Le Bon is an avid sailor. His yacht, DRUM, capsized during the FastNet Race in 1985. Le Bon and five of his crew members were trapped underwater, but survived because luckily there was an air pocket under the overturned vessel. All were rescued by the Royal Navy.

Happy Streaming! 🍷 📺

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