What To Watch This Week: Stream Our Top 7 TV and Movie Picks (Jan. 26–Feb. 1)

Silent Night, Deadly Night | VOD | Horror

Movie, Tuesday, Jan. 27: The original Silent Night, Deadly Night from 1984 is special. It caused a ruckus among Puritans for making a childhood icon of love and greed into an axe-wielding slasher. It’s also one of those movies that’s at once kinda awesome and so-bad-it’s-good. (Quote it with me, folks: “NAUGHTY! PUNISH!”) How good is this remake from Cineverse, purveyors of fine gorefests like Terrifier 2 and Terrifier 3 (another Santa slasher). How does SN,DN 2025 rate? I haven’t seen it yet, but the reviews are mostly positive. I dunno how to feel about that. I love a solid slasher movie, but can’t a guy get a slice of cheese with that? Well, I guess I won’t be disappointed either way. And if I really need it, I can get great, gooey mounds of cheese from 1987’s Silent Night, Deadly Night 2, which is even more special than the original in the best-worst sense.

The Wrecking Crew | Prime Video | Action, comedy

Series premiere, Wednesday, Jan. 28: Don’t confuse this ass-kickin’, Hawaii-set action comedy with the fascinating 2008 music documentary of the same name, which is about the legendary studio band (of the same name). Super-swole actors Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa play an odd couple, estranged half-brothers (one a loose-cannon cop, the other a retentive Navy SEAL—press materials don’t say who’s who) who must work together to solve their father’s murder, ostensibly at the hands of Yakuza. Ángel Manuel Soto (Blue Beetle) directs and Stephen Root plays a supporting role.

Wonder Man | Disney+ | Drama, comedy

Series premiere, Tuesday, Jan. 27: I was a Marvel fan as a kid, but I’ve lived with superhero fatigue for some time now, like long COVID. So my first thought when I saw this show was that it was a DC property, a gender-swapped Wonder Woman. I was way off. Instead, it’s an actual Marvel character—but not your typical MCU movie. Instead, it’s a self-aware, satirical comedy-drama that acknowledges superhero fatigue is real. The plot, btw: Actor Simon Williams (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) tries to land his dream role (the titular hero) and may or may not actually have superpowers. Marvel gone meta? With Ben Kingsley, too? I might actually watch this one. All episodes are available to stream starting today.

Shrinking | Apple TV+ | Comedy, drama

Season 3 premiere, Wednesday, Jan. 28: Are you one of those weirdos who like to laugh and cry? Me too, and this show is for us. If you haven’t already drilled down into this widely acclaimed series about a widowed therapist (Jason Segel, How I Met Your Mother, Freaks and Geeks) who adopts a radical honesty policy with his clients, causing funny-sad turbulence in their lives, maybe it’s time you book an appointment. Shrinking is co-created by Segel along with Brett Goldstein (Ted Lasso) and Bill Lawrence (Scrubs, Ted Lasso, Rooster). One episode streams tonight, with the remaining 10 eps coming weekly on Wednesdays.

Bridgerton | Netflix | Drama

Season 4 premiere, Thursday, Jan. 29: This is the fourth season of Netflix’s alt-history regency romance derived from Julia Quinn’s novels, so we’re officially the halfway point through the book series. That said, we’re only on novel #3, An Offer from a Gentleman (if you’re reading along). So the seasonal sibling spotlight focuses on Violet Bridgerton’s (Ruth Gemmell) second son, Benedict (Luke Thompson), in a Cinderella-style plot where he seeks his “Lady in Silver.” Netflix is releasing half the season today, and the other half on Feb. 26.

Vanished | MGM+ | Drama, thriller

Limited series premiere, Sunday, Feb. 1: Here’s a bite-sized thriller miniseries for ya to binge-watch in a night. Kaley Cuoco, Sam Claflin play Alice and Tom Monroe, whose Paris vacation flips upside-down when Tom vanishes from a southbound train. Left on her own, Alice is “plunged into a web of intrigue and danger, uncovering shocking secrets about the man she thought she knew.” Other cast members include Karin Viard, Matthias Schweighöfer, Simon Abkarian, and Dar Zuzovsky. All four episodes premiere today on MGM+.