What to Watch This Weekend? Here Are 3 Recommendations

It’s the perennial question: With streaming platforms constantly offering new content, what exciting thing will be on (and actually worth turning in for) in the coming days? Well, we’re here to help you sort through the chaff. Here are three things to watch over the weekend.

The second season of I Think You Should Leave: now streaming on Netflix

This week marked the return of I Think You Should Leave, Tim Robinson’s absurdly funny sketch comedy for Netflix. Featuring the likes of Patti Harrison and Veep favorite Sam Richardson in key supporting roles, the series has only expanded its reach since its premiere in 2019, when The Ringer called it the “TV show of the year.” As Vogue’s Emma Specter writes of the second season—and I Think You Should Leave’s off-kilter sense of humor at large—“one of the show’s gifts is making you feel as though you’ve been let in on an inside joke (and not the weird, cliquey comedy-bro kind, but one you’d actually want to be let in on).”—Marley Marius

Black Widow: now in theaters and on Disney+ 

One of the many major releases delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Black Widow has finally arrived in theaters, led by Scarlett Johansson (as the Avenger Natasha Romanoff) and Florence Pugh (as Yelena Belova, a fellow Soviet assassin). In her February 2020 Vogue cover story, Pugh discussed the emotional complexity of the film, which serves as an origin story for the eponymous, slickly dangerous Black Widow. “It’s rough and painful and emotional and funny, and not in any way. . . girly,” Pugh reveals. “It’s about broken women picking up the pieces.” Cate Shortland, Black Widow’s director, added that she, Johannsson, Pugh, and Rachel Weisz—who plays the scientist-spy Melina Vostokoff—set out to “make something intimate within the massive Marvel universe. We created female relationships with flesh and blood. They didn’t have to play nice.”—M.M.

The White Lotus: on HBO Max July 11 

Mike White is an auteur of self-improvement, a film- and TV-maker who a decade ago discerned that the path to transcendence is often paved with materialistic diversions. In his brilliant 2011 series Enlightened, that queasy-making tension was concentrated in one woman, her drive to become a better person regularly manifesting as petty competition with her coworkers. In his new series, The White Lotus, a literal boatload of drifting souls are seeking a more grounded tether to their very glossy lives as they sail toward a luxury resort. Even in paradise these guests—played by a fantastic cast including Connie Britton as a hard-driving corporate executive, Sydney Sweeney as her disaffected college-age daughter, and Jennifer Coolidge as a teary solo traveler—keep stumbling over their own intentions. There to pick them up are the staff of this tiki-torch-lit retreat, whose own foibles and weaknesses, even as they provide the “treatments” and accommodations designed to smooth over the harsh edges of existence, underline that the road to a higher purpose is a rough and winding one, no matter where you’re starting.—Chloe Schama

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Originally Appeared on Vogue