Stuff To Watch This Week (Dec 26, 2022-Jan 1, 2023)

Let’s Celebrate 2023

Usher in New Year at your favourite annual countdown party at The Promontory at Marina Bay. Performers include Desmond Ng, Richie Koh, rappers Yung Raja and Fariz Jabba, TikTok sensation ALYPH, and Malaysian singer-songwriter Shila Amzah. With 987’s Germaine Tan and Maya Davidov, digital content creators Kishan J and Zhin Sadali as hosts. For more info on activities lined up that night, click here.

Watch it on: meWATCH & Mediacorp Entertainment on YouTube, Sat, from 10pm; Channel 5 from 11pm to 12.15am; available on demand on meWATCH

Treason

Done with The Recruit? Here's another espionage thriller. This five-parter stars Charlie Cox as an MI6 agent caught up in an assassination plot as well as a triangle love affair involving his wife (Oona Chaplin) and a Russian spy (Olga Kurylenko). And you thought Daredevil’s relationships with Elektra and She-Hulk were complicated.

Watch it on: Netflix, Mon

Photo: Netflix

Unchained Love

Can’t enough of Dylang Wang in a period drama? Here’s another: He plays a eunuch embroiled in palace intrigue — and a forbidden relationship with the emperor’s tribute lady. Naughty, naughty. The 36-part serial also stars Peter Ho and Zeng Li.

Watch it on: iQiYi, Tue

Photo: iQiYi

Gannibal

Japanese supernatural series starring Yuya Yagira as a city cop who moves to a remote town where everyone is off their rockers. Based on the manga of the same name by Masaaki Ninomiya and produced by the Oscar-winning Drive My Car’s Teruhisa Yamamoto.

Watch it on: Disney+, Wed

Photo: Disney+

Island

Amazon Prime Video’s latest K-drama addition is this fantasy series — based on a popular comic/webtoon — starring Kim Nam-Gil, Lee Da-Hee, Chan Eun-Woo and Sung Jun as demon slayers saving the world on Jeju Island. The 12-ep series will air in two parts, with the second batch of six episodes due in March. Watch our exclusive interview with the cast, direct from Seoul: 

The Glory

Song Hye-Kyo plays a teacher plotting revenge against the bullies who ruined her childhood, starting with the tormentor who’s now the parent of one of her students. This is why you always do background checks. The eight-part series also stars Lee Do Hyun and Lim Ji-Yeon.

Watch it on: Netflix, Fri

Photo: Graphyoda/Netflix

Ambulance

This is one of Michael Bay’s best movies in years and no one (well, not enough of them) came to see it in the cinemas. What gives? Jake Gyllenhaal and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II play adoptive siblings-turned-bank robbers fleeing Johnny Law in the titular vehicle all over LA. Bay blows up a lot of shit as usual, with most of the immersive insanity shot with drones. Watch our interviews with Bay and the Ambulance cast here:

Watch it on: HBO (Singtel TV Ch 420 & StarHub Ch 601) & HBO GO, 9pm Sat

Photo: TPG News/Click Photos

The Witch Part 2: The Other One

Sequel to The Witch: Subversion starring Extraordinary Attorney Woo’s Park Eun-Bin as a woman whose life is turned inside out after she encounters a mysterious girl with super powers.

Watch it on: Viu, Sat

The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse

Viewers apparently were bawling after watching this adaptation of Charlie Mackesy’s 2019 illustrated book about a group of animals (voiced by Idris Elba, Tom Hollander, Gabriel Bryne and Jude Coward Nicoll) who become unlikely friends.

Watch it on: Apple TV+

Photo: Apple TV+