Cross, Cobra Kai, Landman & more

Every week, our TV and film experts list the top ten streaming options for you to add to your queues. We don’t focus solely on reviews or accumulated streaming clicks (although we have scoured the streaming site charts), but rather on the choices that are actually worth paying attention to in the turbulent sea of ​​content. After all, there is a lot out there and your time is valuable.

10. Emilia Perez – Netflix film

This might be the best received musical film in years, especially after Joker 2 Debacle. Author Jacques Audiard created this intense, electrifying and captivating production about a cartel leader who fakes his own death and turns out to be a woman: Emilia Pérez (Karla Sofia Gascón). Gomez portrays Emilia’s wife Jessi, and this film will have long legs. So if you want to know what the ongoing chatter is about, you can read it on Netflix. Plus, my goodness, Zoe Saldaña could rest easy on her franchise film career, but she’s clearly yearning for more, including this daring project for the ages.

9. Out of – MGM+ series

MGM+’s most popular streaming TV show has been renewed for a fourth season, and although the theme brings Halloween spooks, the third season is still going strong. The show revolves around a nightmare city with a “Hotel California” vibe. Once you arrive, you can’t leave the settlement, and to make matters worse, forest dwellers also try to invade the settlement at sunset. The series has been compared to Damon Lindelof’s, for better or worse Lostthat is, the series finale could be tough, but for now, audiences are fully immersed in the series’ ongoing mystery.

8. Cobra Kai – Netflix series

The countdown to the release of the final five episodes in February is on Legends The film takes back the franchise baton. In the meantime, it’s worth asking whether a Miyagi-do curse is being telegraphed and whether good can prevail over Terry Silver. This hot tub-loving cartoon villain can’t even be stopped by law enforcement, but hopefully the crane kick’s power isn’t completely exhausted yet, because it sounds like Silver could still use a punch in the face. In addition to the personal squabbles clearly visible, the global Sekai Taikai tournament still needs to be resolved, and perhaps Robby and Tory can stop “defining the relationship” during the battle as well.

7. flash – Apple TV+ Movie

Saoirse Ronan portrays a mother who evacuates from London with her nine-year-old son George (Elliott Heffernan) during World War II. Unfortunately, George becomes defiant and decides to return home on his own, leading to a frantic search from his mother. Directed by Steve McQueen, the film also stars Paul Weller and Harris Dickinson and is currently showing everywhere. Of course, this isn’t a breezy type of holiday watch, but chances are it is could will still be less stressful this year than some holiday table conversations. I’m just saying it.

6. Hot frosty – Netflix film

Well, it wouldn’t be the holiday season without romantic comedies on streaming services, and this year Lacey Chabert dropped by the Hallmark Channel as a young widow with a magical scarf from her stomping grounds. Somehow this article of clothing awakens a “dashing snowman” (Dustin Milligan), who also happens to be hot, so hot he could melt. First, though, he could help her frozen heart find love again. Hmmm.

5. Dune: Prophecy – HBO series streaming on Max

Denis Villeneuve will bring a third dune film into the franchise series, but initially this series serves as a kind of break between sandworm rides by Paul Atreides. The story takes place about 10,000 years before blockbuster movies came along and before Duncan Idaho was far too handsome to walk around Arrakis. This recently launched series details how the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood will show audiences a new side of Frank Herbert’s epic idea. Dune: Prophecy follows that Sisterhood of Dune Book written by Brian Herbert (son of Frank) and Kevin J. Anderson that details how a war destroyed technology as this civilization knew it, allowing world building to begin anew.

4. silo – Apple TV+ series

This season started off with a slower burn than the first silo And to complicate matters further, the action now takes place in two different silos, with occasional jumps back to the past. Luckily, Steve Zahn has joined Rebecca Ferguson so she isn’t talking to herself while she tries to plan her trip home. Showrunner Graham Yost has a four-season plan for this Hugh Howey-penned saga, and now clues are emerging as to how humanity ended up in these massive bunkers in the first place.

3. The Day of the Jackal – Peacock series

Eddie Redmayne has conquered the cinema and hit Broadway, so it was probably time for him to turn to streaming television too. Officially, the venture is considered a success as a second season renewal is already in the works and audiences these days simply can’t get enough of spy series permutations. This show is a remake of the 1970s film of the same name by Fred Zinnemann, in which Redmayne takes on the role of the lone assassin “The Jackal”, whose unprecedented series of lucrative hits is unparalleled when Latasha Lynch’s British intelligence officer is on his trail . Mouse, meet cat.

2. Cross – Prime Video/Amazon series

Dads love their TV, and this series goes beyond that label, bringing the world an updated version of James Patterson’s DC forensic psychologist Alex Cross. Aldis Hodge has taken his rightful place (alongside Alan Ritchson) as another Prime Video/Amazon leading man in thriller series adaptations. How Reacher Plus, we have several more seasons to look forward to, and seriously, don’t even be surprised if spin-off news from this series comes to light at some point.

1. Countryman – Paramount+ series

Taylor Sheridan is known to complete scripts for TV episodes in 8 to 10 hours, and that is displayed here (compared to, say, Sicario), but he knows damn well how to write a Billy Bob Thornton role. The lead actor’s world-weariness shines through in his Tommy Norton character, and it’s a damn pleasure to see Emilio Rivera and Michael Pena talking trash together. This show will probably Get a second season because that’s what the Sheridanverse is like.