Celebrate the last weekend of May by traveling around the world in style or even going to the moon.
Impossible? Not if you are subscribed to Netflix or Apple TV. Those streamers just dropped new seasons and shows that will allow you to travel thousands of miles without leaving the comfort of your own home.
Watch With Us highly recommends streaming the latest season of The Four Seasons, Netflix’s hit dramedy starring Tina Fey, Colman Domingo and some of the world’s most beautiful destinations.
In need of something more adventurous? Swing to Prime Video’s new Spider-Man series, Spider-Noir, with Nicolas Cage as the titular, fedora-wearing hero, or launch yourself toward Star City to see what it would be like if Russians had landed on the moon first.
It wouldn’t be a Watch With Us binge-watch list without a murder mystery series, and Netflix delivers yet another hit in the genre with A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder season 2.
‘The Four Seasons’ Season 2 — Netflix
When Steve Carell leaves a TV show, they usually go downhill in his absence. Just look at the later seasons of The Office or the last few seasons of The Morning Show if you don’t believe me. But season 2 of The Four Seasons not only bucks that trend, it also upends it as the hit Netflix series is even better without Carell’s sad-sack character, Nick.
In case you missed the season 1 finale, Nick died, and as season 2 opens, his six friends — including his ex-wife, Anne (Kerry Kenney-Silver), and very pregnant girlfriend, Ginny (Erika Henningsen) — are still dealing with processing their grief. Jack (Will Forte), Nick’s best friend, is taking it the hardest, and it’s causing a rift in his once-solid marriage to Kate (Fey).
Danny (Colman Domingo) and Claude (Marco Calvani) are having problems, too — they debate the merits of adopting a child and how it could change their lives. The Four Seasons sets all this drama amid gorgeous locations like Tuscany and Puerto Rico, so it serves as both easy escapism and a surprisingly resonant look at life in middle age.
‘Spider-Noir’ Season 1 — Prime Video
Sony’s Spider-Man spinoffs are more misses than hits, but the studio finally hit a home run with Spider-Noir, a better-than-expected series starring Nicolas Cage as Ben Reilly, a superhero who is not Spider-Man. He’s known as “The Spider,” but he has powers similar to the wallcrawler we all know and love.
Set during the Great Depression, The Spider was once New York City’s resident hero until he failed to save the woman he loved, Ruby, from a tragic death. Depressed, he spends his days acting as a low-rent private investigator when he’s not drowning his sorrows with some bootlegged alcohol. When his current case leads him to cross paths with the gangster Silvermane (Brendan Gleeson), Ben uncovers a vast conspiracy that only The Spider can tackle. But does Ben still have what it takes to save the day?
You betcha. Shot in luminous black and white, Spider-Noir is also available to watch in digitized color — take my advice and stick with the black and white. Color or no color, the show is hella fun, with an involving narrative, a great cast of kooky supporting characters and Cage at his wild, unhinged best. Peter Parker, who?
‘A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder’ Season 2 — Netflix
One of 2024’s pleasant surprises was A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, a charming, low-stakes murder mystery series that saw Wednesday’s Emma Myers play Pip, a British teen who tries to clear her friend Sal’s (Rahul Pattni) name after he’s falsely accused of his girlfriend’s murder. She succeeded, but another mystery causes her to once again play sleuth while sorting out her feelings for her boyfriend, Ravi (Zain Iqbal).
When Connor’s (Jude Morgan-Collie) brother Jamie (Eden H. Davies) goes missing, he knows of only one person who can help him — Pip. But even she’s perplexed as to why anyone would kidnap Jamie. Her only clue is that Jamie is a key witness in an ongoing criminal case involving Max (Henry Ashton), who is accused of assaulting several women. Is Max involved in Jamie’s disappearance? And even if he is, how can Pip prove it before time runs out for Jamie?
‘Star City’ Season 1 — Apple TV
Is there any streamer that’s killing it more than Apple TV? The streamer may not have a lot of content, but what it does have is simply superb. From Severance to Widow’s Bay, Apple TV is streaming some of the best shows right now, and it’ll likely add one more feather to its streaming cap with Star City.
A spinoff of the long-running sci-fi series For All Mankind, Star City explores a tantalizing “what if?” scenario — what if the Soviets were the first to put a man on the moon? Rhys Ifans stars as the Chief Designer of the Cosmonaut program, who not only has to find a way to actually launch a human into outer space without killing them, but also does it under the oppressive eye of Lyudmilla Raskova (Anna Maxwell Martin), the head of the KGB at Star City, who oversees everyone and demands total allegiance to Mother Russia.
