Looking for something great to watch at home? Streaming subscribers are spoiled for choice between Hulu, Netflix, HBO Max, Disney+, Apple TV+, Prime Video, Shudder, Paramount+, Peacock, and more. And that’s before you even look at the vast libraries of movies and television programs within each one!
Don’t be overwhelmed or waste an hour scrolling through your services to determine what to watch. We’ve got your back, whatever your mood. Mashable offers watch guides for all of the above, broken down by genre: comedy, thriller, horror, documentary, and animation, among others. But if you’re seeking something brand-new (or just new-to-streaming), we’ve got you covered there, too.
Mashable’s entertainment team has scoured the streaming services to highlight the most buzzed-about releases of this week and ranked them from worst to best — or least worth your time to most-watchable. Whether you’re in the mood for spine-chilling horror movies to rapturous serial dramas, post-apocalyptic romance, real-life heroes, and the unhinged comedy of chicken jockey, we’ve got something just for you.
Here’s what’s new on streaming, from worst to best.
10. KPop Demon Hunters
The incredibly titled KPop Demon Hunters is what happens when you blend K-pop and fantasy animation under the direction of Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans. The film hinges around K-pop stars and secret demon hunters Rumi (Arden Cho), Mira (May Hong), and Zoey (Ji-young Yoo), who find themselves up against a demonic boy band between stadium shows.
Squid Game’s Lee Byung-hun, K-drama star Ahn Hyo-seop, Avatar: The Last Airbender’s Daniel Dae Kim, and Crazy Rich Asians‚ Ken Jeong also voice characters. Plus, TWICE members Jeongyeon, Jihyo, and Chaeyoung created a song for the film. I’m running out of names to drop here! — Shannon Connellan, UK Editor
Starring: Arden Cho, Ahn Hyo-seop, May Hong, Ji-young Yoo, Yunjin Kim, Daniel Dae Kim, Ken Jeong, and Lee Byung-hun
How to watch: KPop Demon Hunters debuts on Netflix on June 20.
9. We Were Liars
The highly anticipated TV adaptation of E. Lockhart’s We Were Liars hits Prime Video this week. Will it impress fans of the best-selling YA sensation?
Like its source material, We Were Liars centers on Cadence Sinclair Eastman (Emily Alyn Lind), a wealthy teenager who spends every summer with her family on her grandfather’s Martha’s Vineyard-esque island. Also on the island are her cousins Mirren (Esther McGregor) and Johnny (Joseph Zada), along with her best friend Gat (Shubham Maheshwari). Collectively these four are known as „the Liars.“ But when Candace suffers a mysterious head injury and loses her memories of one summer, the Liars grow distant. Will Cadence be able to remember what happened to her and the Liars that fateful summer?
Despite its beloved source material, We Were Liars is an unfortunately middle-of-the-road YA adaptation. The TV format does little favors to We Were Liars‚ climactic twist either, dragging out a reveal that becomes too obvious, too early on. — Belen Edwards, Entertainment Reporter
Starring: Emily Alyn Lind, Shubham Maheshwari, Esther McGregor, Joseph Zada, Caitlin FitzGerald, Mamie Gummer, Candice King, Rahul Kohli, and David Morse
How to watch: We Were Liars is now streaming on Prime Video.
8. The Waterfront, Season 1
Dawson’s Creek creator Kevin Williamson delivers a gritty crime thriller with his latest show The Waterfront, about a North Carolina family whose fishing empire is on a downward spiral. The family in question is the Buckleys, who have ruled the town of Havenport for decades. But when patriarch Harlan (The Iron Claw’s Holt McCallany) suffers two heart attacks, his wife Belle (Maria Bello) and son Cane (Jake Weary) take some creative — but dangerous — risks in order to keep the family business afloat.
With its family empire, rural setting, and web of criminal activity, The Waterfront feels like Netflix’s attempt to recreate the success of Ozark. Yet its paper-thin characters and clichéd family dynamics water down its potential. It does get bonus points for attempted shark murder though! — B.E.
Starring: Holt McCallany, Maria Bello, Melissa Benoist, Jake Weary, Rafael L. Silva, Humberly González, Danielle Campbell, and Brady Hepner
How to watch: The Waterfront is now streaming on Netflix.
7. A King Like Me
Following its premiere at last year’s SXSW, A King Like Me is making its way to Netflix. Directed by Matthew Henderson, the documentary examines the history and legacy of the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club, New Orleans‘ oldest Black Mardi Gras carnival organisation or krewe, founded in 1901. As historian, author, and NOIR ‚N NOLA founder Cierra Chenier wrote for Essence in 2024, „Black New Orleanians have created and preserved their own Carnival traditions for centuries despite attempts at exclusion throughout history.“ Using archival footage and new interviews filmed by Henderson, the documentary aims to delve into the 100-year history of this powerful community krewe right up until its crucial role today. — S.C.
How to watch: A King Like Me is now streaming on Netflix.
6. A Minecraft Movie
A Minecraft Movie comes to HBO Max this week, which means you can scream, shout, and throw your popcorn around to „chicken jockey“ from the comfort of your own home. Director Jared Hess brings Mojang’s massively popular sandbox game to the screen, transporting viewers to Minecraft’s cube-only Overworld alongside a group of four newbies (Jason Momoa, Danielle Brooks, Emma Myers, and Sebastian Hansen). These four encounter Piglins, Creepers, and of course, Minecraft mainstay Steve (Jack Black) over the course of their epic (and blocky) journey.
Despite its focus on the power of imagination, A Minecraft Movie is a fairly by-the-book adventure movie with an overstuffed plot and tons of Easter eggs from the game. For game fans, the latter will be the main appeal. As Mashable contributor Kimber Myers wrote in her review, „No one in the audience is here for the plot. They’re either watching A Minecraft Movie for their love of the Minecraft world or because they love someone who loves it and isn’t old enough to drive themselves to the movie theater. As far as video game adaptations and children’s films go, A Minecraft Movie is so much better than it needs to be.“ — B.E.
Starring: Jason Momoa, Jack Black, Danielle Brooks, Emma Myers, Sebastian Hansen, and Jennifer Coolidge
How to watch: A Minecraft Movie debuts on HBO Max on June 20.
5. The Buccaneers, Season 2
You might have ventured into The Buccaneers‚ first season to satiate your thirst between seasons of Bridgerton without expecting much. However, this Regency romantic drama created by Katherine Jakeways, based on Edith Wharton’s final novel, quickly found its own footing, offering diabolical narrative twists, long-simmering love stories, and a Taylor Swift-packed anachronistic soundtrack.
And now, it’s back for a second season on Apple TV+, with the show’s core American expats — Nan St. George (Kristine Froseth), Jinny St. George (Imogen Waterhouse), Lizzy Elmsworth (Aubri Ibrag), Mabel Elmsworth (Josie Totah), Conchita Closson (Alisha Boe), and Lady Brightlingsea (Fenella Woolgar) — all returning. But where these England newcomers felt like fish out of water last season, they’re now either in positions of immense power or on the run. Drama will ensue!* — S.C.
Starring: Kristine Froseth, Alisha Boe, Matthew Broome, Josh Dylan, Barney Fishwick, Aubri Ibrag, Guy Remmers, Mia Threapleton. Josie Totah, Imogen Waterhouse, and Christina Hendricks
How to watch: The Buccaneers Season 2 premiered June 18 on Apple TV+, with new episodes every Wednesday.
4. The Gilded Age, Season 3
The immaculately dressed upper echelons of American society return to the screen as Julian Fellowes‘ The Gilded Age embarks upon its third season. Season 2 of the Downton Abbey creator’s HBO show saw fortunes lost and gained, proposals made and rejected, and the simmering social tensions of late 1800s New York City hit boiling point. This season, the stakes are higher than ever, and the very idea of the American Dream is rapidly shifting. — S.C.
Starring: Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Louisa Jacobson, Denée Benton, Taissa Farmiga, Harry Richardson, Blake Ritson, Thomas Cocquerel, Simon Jones, Jack Gilpin, Cynthia Nixon, and Christine Baranski
How to watch: The Gilded Age Season 3 premieres June 22 on HBO Max.
3. Sally
Sally Ride made history as an American astronaut, not only as a woman in a field dominated by men, but also as a queer woman who became a national hero in a time when being openly gay was a harrowing prospect.
Written and directed by Cristina Costantini, Sally tackles all of this and more. Interviews with Ride’s friends and colleagues bring context to the late icon’s everyday life, childhood, sexuality, and journeys both personal and professional. Archival footage and interviews also give an insight into Ride’s experience, as well as how she was treated differently from her male counterparts.
If you need something inspiring right now, don’t miss Sally. — Kristy Puchko, Entertainment Editor
How to watch: Sally is now streaming on National Geographic, Hulu, and Disney+.
2. Love Me
Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun star as will-they-won’t-they lovers on a post-apocalyptic Earth in Love Me. But not like you might expect, considering these actors.
Written and directed by Sam Zuchero and Andy Zuchero, Love Me is a romance not between two impossibly beautiful humans, but between two AI robots who cross paths long after humanity’s left the chat. One is a buoy programmed to learn. The other is a satellite equipped with a deep vault of information about mankind — including the cached videos of a couple of influencers who relish silly onesies, date night, Friends, and Blue Apron.
Naturally, these long-dead lovers become the model upon which robots try to understand relationships. It may sound bonkers or even cynical. But, incredibly, Love Me is warm, funny, and occasionally shocking, finding not only the humanity in its AI bots, but also what’s real in the virtual.* — K.P.
Starring: Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun
How to watch: Love Me is now available for rental or purchase on Prime Video.
1. 28 Days Later
In 2002, director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland forever changed the landscape of zombie movies with 28 Days Later. In this post-apocalyptic horror-thriller, a Rage Virus has run rampant through London, turning average citizens into flesh-craving infected. And bike messenger Jim (Cillian Murphy) has a rude awakening from a month-long coma when he rises to this new, grim reality.
Boyle’s kinetic energy fuels 28 Days Later, while Garland’s script takes its motley crew of survivors (Naomie Harris, Megan Burns, and Brendan Gleeson) through some truly twisted turns. It’s as electrifying now as it was when it first hit theaters with the force of a zombie onslaught. And rewatching this box office hit is a great way to re-acquaint yourself with the world of the Rage Virus and the infected ahead of Boyle and Garland’s return to the franchise with 28 Years Later. — K.P.
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston, Megan Burns, and Brendan Gleeson
How to watch: 28 Days Later is now streaming on Pluto TV.
Honorable mention: 28 Weeks Later
For the 2007 sequel to 28 Days Later, Boyle and Garland stepped away, replaced at the helm by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, with a script by Fresnadillo, Rowan Joffe, E.L. Lavigne, and Jesus Olmo.
The characters from the first film don’t resurface. Instead, 28 Weeks Later follows Don Harris (Robert Carlyle) as he reunites with his children (Imogen Poots and Mackintosh Muggleton) in a NATO quarantine camp run by U.S. military. A deeply cynical movie, this sequel shows how one sentimental move can essentially bring down absolute mayhem. Full of wild slaughter, including a scene where a helicopter blade treats the infected like a lawnmower treats a blade of overgrown grass, this movie is definitely flashier and more ferocious than the first. But it lacks Boyle’s energy and Garland’s keen storytelling. —K.P.
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, Harold Perrineau, Catherine McCormack, Mackintosh Muggleton, Imogen Poots, and Idris Elba
How to watch: 28 Weeks Later is now streaming on Tubi.
* denotes that this blurb appeared in a previous Mashable list.