Stuff To Watch This Week (Dec 20-26, 2021)

Grand finale! So it’s down to Gao Mei Gui, Ridhwan and Sherly Devonne Ng in the final round of the competition. Who among them has the best pipes? Place your bets!

Watch it on: meWATCH & Channel 8, Tue, 8pm

In this 10-part series (each ep only 15 minutes long), Dennis Chew plays a DJ (that’s a stretch!) who specialises in sharing spooky encounters at work. The cast includes Chen Tianwen, Herman Keh, Nick Teo and Ian Fang.

Watch it on: meWATCH

More supernatural stuff. Felica Chin plays a workaholic (is there any other kind?) TV host forced to take stock of life when she meets three ghosts (Shaun Chen, Brandon Wong and Chantelle Ng). Just like A Christmas Carol. This 20-part drama also stars Ayden Sng, Cynthia Koh and Gina Tan.

Watch it on: meWATCH, Mon; Channel 8, from Tue, 9pm

It’s the semi-finals! Singapore is up against Indonesia while Thailand takes on Vietnam.

Watch it on: meWATCH, Wed & Sat, 8.30pm (Singapore vs Indonesia), Thu & Sun, 8.30pm (Thailand vs Vietnam)

Paul Rudd, aka People’s Sexiest Man Alive, gets inducted into the Five-Timers Club! Due to the surge in the Omicon variant of COVID-19, the final show of 2021 was recorded without a live audience and featured pre-recorded sketches and holiday highlights from previous seasons. “It’s going to be a bit like that new Beatles documentary,” said Rudd. “Lot of old footage but enough new stuff that you’re, like, ‘Okay, I’ll watch that.’’

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl)

Photos: TPG News/Click Photos

Lily Collins is back in the City of Lights as marketing exec-turned-influencer Emily Cooper in another season which promises to focus more on “diversity and inclusion”.Watch it on: Netflix, Wed

Photo: Carole Bethuel/Netfilx

Season finale! After that bombshell dropped in last week’s ep and that cameo in Spider-Man: No Way Home, can we expect [spoiler] to turn up? Will Kevin Feige (how many baseball caps do you have at home, sir?) make a surprise announcement later this week?

Watch it on: Disney+, Wed

Photo: Disney+

Sci-fi dramedy from The Big Short director Adam McKay stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence as two astronomers trying to warn mankind of an approaching comet that will destroy Earth. Problem is, no one — including the POTUS (Meryl Streep) — doesn’t give a hoot.

Watch it on: Netflix, Fri

Photo: Niko Tavernise/Netflix

Netflix’s latest K-drama blockbuster is an eight-part sci-fi thriller about a team of astronauts — including Bae Doo-Na and Goo Yoo — tasked with recovering samples from an abandoned research facility on the moon. And guess what? The station isn’t totally abandoned. Think Event Horizon meets Alien by way of Contagion.Watch it on: Netflix, Fri

Photos: Han Sejun/Netflix

Wait, isn’t this still in cinemas? Why if you haven’t caught this Disney animated tale about a Colombian family with superpowers (all except the heroine), here’s your chance to catch it from the comfort of your home. Starring the voices of Stephanie Beatrix, John Leguizamo and Wilmer Valderrama, and featuring songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Watch it on: Disney+, Fri

Photo: TPG News/Click Photos