What to watch this weekend: Marvel’s What If…?, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and 11 more movies and shows

What to lookout man this weekend: Marvel's What If…?, Brooklyn 9-Nine and xi more movies and shows

What to watch this weekend: What If on Disney Plus

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If only this was a 3-24-hour interval weekend, because in that location is so much to spotter. Seriously, we need more hours to take in all the new movies and Television receiver shows on Netflix, Disney Plus, Hulu, Apple TV Plus and other streaming services.

This weekend's lineup is led by the latest Marvel Disney Plus series, the animated What If…? It puts a twist on the familiar stories nosotros've already seen play out in the movies. Fans will also cheer for the render of ii long-running comedies, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Grace and Frankie, which begin their concluding seasons.

For a different flavor, Netflix's new documentary series Untold starts with a retrospective on the infamous 2004 NBA brawl known as Malice at the Palace. The streamer also has two very unlike movies — the thriller Beckett and the teen rom-com The Kissing Booth 3.

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Here are our picks for the new movies and Telly shows to picket this weekend.

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What If...? (Disney Plus)

Series premiere | Episode 1 (TV-fourteen) | Picket at present
Marvel'due south multiverse of madness was introduced in Loki, merely is put on total display in this animated anthology serial. Each episode asks the titular question to probe alternating versions of the stories nosotros've already seen. The premiere ponders, "What if Peggy Carter became Captain America?" She takes the super soldier serum and becomes the Hydra-defeating hero instead of Steve Rogers who isn't voiced by Chris Evans. The second episode, which drops next Wednesday, will be an emotional one for fans, since it features the vocalisation of the late Chadwick Boseman. In this "what if" scenario, T'Challa doesn't become the Black Panther, but heads to space to become Star-Lord. This kind of fun, slightly zany storytelling is exactly what Marvel should be doing with its Disney Plus shows.

Brooklyn Nine-9 (NBC)

Season 8 premiere | Episode 1-2 (TV-14) | How to watch Brooklyn 9-Nine online
After concluding yr'southward protests against police force brutality, Brooklyn 9-Ix had to rethink how to approach its last season. A feel-good comedy about cops? Yikes. Non a good look. The bandage and crew acknowledged the problem and trashed the 4 episodes that had already been written. No, the writers did not make all the characters quit the NYPD and join the post office. Merely the first two episodes manage to highlight the systemic injustice present in policing, while yet maintaining the goofy workplace jokes and esprit that fabricated Brooklyn 9-Nine one of the best comedies of all time.

CODA (Apple TV Plus)

Movie | 1 hr 51 min (PG-thirteen) | Watch now
The acronym in the championship stands for "kid of deaf adults," and in this case, it's 17-yr-old Ruby (Emilia Jones). Living in Gloucester, Mass., Red interprets for her deafened parents (Marlee Matlin and Troy Kotsur) and deafened older brother (Daniel Durant), plus helps out with the family'southward fishing business. But Ruby develops a passion for singing, which is encouraged by a music teacher. It'southward something that mystifies her family and hurts them a fleck — her mother asks if she like painting if they were bullheaded. With a big choir audience coming up, Ruby feels torn between her dreams and the needs of her family unit. The heartwarming story, fine performances and excellent sound production made this indie a Sundance darling and are sure to carry it to more accolades during awards flavour.

Reservation Dogs (FX on Hulu)

Series premiere | Episodes 1-2 (Goggle box-MA) | Watch now
Co-creator Taika Waititi leads the all-Indigenous squad of writers, directors and primary cast members for this half-hour comedy, which follows 4 Native teens in rural Oklahoma. After the death of a friend, they embark on a picayune crime spree to fund an escape from their dreary home and head to sunny California. The teens apparel in suits, only similar the characters in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs (which besides inspires the testify's title). And only like the film, the offset episode begins with a heist — they steal a nutrient truck, fifty-fifty though they can barely bulldoze. These aren't bad kids; they just dream of a better life. And they're in it together, like indigenous Goonies.

Grace and Frankie (Netflix)

Season 7 premiere | Episodes 1-four (Goggle box-MA) | Lookout now
Well, this is a surprise! Netflix dropped the showtime iv episodes of the final flavour of Grace and Frankie out of the blue. They were filmed before the pandemic shut downwards production, and then they've been sitting in storage for over a year. The cast even did a virtual tabular array read of an episode to raise money for seniors. Flavor 7 picks up where the 6th installment left off, every bit Grace and Frankie frantically search for the coin they hid at the beach business firm. They have to evade their exes, who've moved in, likewise equally the FBI agents who arrested Grace'southward ex, Nick.

Modern Love (Amazon Prime Video)

Flavour 2 premiere | Episodes 1-eight (Tv set-MA) | Watch now
The slice-of-life romance album is back with eight more episodes based on the New York Times column of the same name. Like the start season, the new installments are stacked with big names: Kit Harrington, Anna Paquin, Minnie Driver are amidst the cast members. The seventh episode is based on an essay by histrion Andrew Rannells (Girls, The Prom), who as well wrote the script and directed. The stories range from a widowed medico trying to move on with her life to a middle-school daughter grappling with her sexuality.

Untold: Malice at the Palace (Netflix)

Serial premiere | Episode ane (TV-MA) | Lookout now
Each episode of the five-part docu-series focuses on a different fascinating sports story, and the showtime one chronicles 1 of the most infamous events of all time: the 2004 brawl involving players and fans during a Detroit Pistons and Indiana Pacers game. It started with a difficult foul by Pacers star Ron Artest on Detroit'southward Ben Wallace, which led to a scuffle between the ii. Then, things escalated when a fan threw a drink at Artest. He went into the stands, other fans went on court and an all-out melee ensued. The incident resulted in some of the harshest penalties in the history of the NBA. Creators Maclain and Chapman Way had admission to footage from 17 different cameras and interviewed players, executives and even a notable fan who took a punch.

Brand New Cherry Flavor (Netflix)

Series premiere | Episodes 1-8 (TV-MA) | Watch now
This extremely weird, trippy gross-out serial stars Rosa Salazar as a woman who vomits up kittens. Aye, you read that correct. Young filmmaker Lisa Nova arrives in Hollywood with big ambitions. She meets a producer (Eric Lange) who promises to help but ends up betraying her. And so, she enlists a witch (Catherine Keener) to put a curse on him. Simply Lisa gets much more than she bargained for — like vomiting kittens — and she's plunged into an atrocious hell of her own making.

Beckett (Netflix)

Picture show | 1 hr 50 min (TV-MA) | Lookout man at present
John David Washington is in the wrong place at the wrong time —basically, the complete contrary of Tenet. He's an American tourist on holiday with his girlfriend (Alicia Vikander) in Greece. When he sees something shouldn't, he suddenly finds himself alone and chased by guys with guns. He goes on the run, desperate to reach the U.South. embassy, and winds upwardly getting help from an activist (Vicky Krieps). But his escape is complicated by roiling protests in Athens triggered past the country's financial crunch.

The Kissing Booth iii (Netflix)

Pic | 1 hr 53 min (Television-fourteen) | Lookout man now
Teen romance has enjoyed a revival thanks to hits like To All the Boys I've Loved Before and The Kissing Booth movies. This trilogy comes to a close with Elle (Joey King) facing the biggest conclusion of her young life: where to go to college. Should she go along her promise to all-time friend Lee (Joel Courtney) to become to Berkeley? Or should she venture across the state to exist with boyfriend Noah (Jacob Elordi)? Perhaps Elle should pull a Kelly Taylor from Beverly Hills, 90210 and choose herself.

Star Trek: Lower Decks (Paramount Plus)

Flavor ii premiere | Episode ane (TV-MA) | Scout now
The animated series returns with the farther adventures of four USS Cerritos coiffure members Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome), D'Vana Tendi (Noël Wells) and Sam Rutherford (Eugene Cordero) and Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid). With Boimler'due south promotion to lieutenant on the USS Titan, the remaining 3 are navigating their inverse relationships with each other. Rutherford is likewise getting used to his new cyborg implant, while Mariner is still at odds with her mother, Helm Freeman.

Coming presently this weekend:

The Walking Dead (AMC Plus)

Flavor 11 premiere | Episode i (Goggle box-MA) | Dominicus, Baronial fifteen at three a.chiliad. ET
The Walking Dead feels a flake like a zombie itself — the evidence that would never dice, no affair how many main characters left. Only no, this is the terminal season. It'south split into iii parts, though, which AMC volition dribble out over the side by side year or so. All of the episodes will debut a calendar week early on AMC Plus, before ambulation on its home network. The premiere kicks off with Maggie leading a group, including nemesis Negan, on a expedition to Washington, D.C. Just their hostility may be the greater threat than any zombies they run across. Meanwhile, other Alexandrians encounter a new strength — setting up season xi's big antagonist, the Commonwealth.

Heels (Starz)

Series premiere | Episode ane (TV-MA) | Sunday, August 15 at 9 p.1000. ET
Arrow alum Stephen Amell has quite a bit of experience in the world of wrestling. He puts it to skilful utilise in this family drama from creator Michael Waldron (Loki). Think Friday Night Lights, but with wrestling instead of football. Amell plays Jack Spade, a hubby and father who inherits the Duffy Wrestling League from his father. He clashes — in and out of the band — with his resentful younger brother, Ace (Alexander Ludwig), who dreams of making it to the big leagues.

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Kelly is a senior author covering streaming media for Tom's Guide, so basically, she watches TV for a living. Previously, she was a freelance entertainment author for Yahoo, Vulture, TV Guide and other outlets. When she'due south non watching Tv and movies for work, she's watching them for fun, seeing live music, writing songs, knitting and gardening.