Stuff To Watch This Week (Feb 1-7, 2021)
This week’s must-stream shows include the return of ‘Anugerah’, a Song Joong-Ki-led space adventure, and a docu-series about community kitchens starring Michelle Chia.
Anugerah, Season 11
Mediacorp’s flagship talent show returns, with a total of 18 soloists and groups vying for the grand prize of $25,000. But first, they have to impress resident judges Najip Ali and Ann Hussein. Good luck! Click here to learn more about the contestants.
Watch it on: meWATCH, Tue; Suria, 8.30pm
Tuesday Report: Through The Nights
881 filmmaker Royston Tan makes his narrator debut in Part 2 of the four-part docu-series following a group of night-shift workers. Do you know what some folks are doing while you are sleeping?
Watch it on: meWATCH, Tue; Channel 8, 8.30pm
Meals on Mission
Michelle Chia finds out what a day is like in a community kitchen by preparing meals for the underprivileged.
Watch it on: meWATCH
Space Sweepers
Blast off into space with this spirited Elysium-meets-Guardians of the Galaxy caper, starring Song Joong-Ki and Kim Rae-Ki as scavengers who stumble upon a special cargo that might save — or destroy — Earth.
Watch it on: Netflix, Fri
Firefly Lane
Bag wig alert! Series — based on Kristin Hannah’s best-selling book — about the decades-spanning friendship of two young girls, Tully (Katherine Heigl) and Kate (Sarah Chalke), who become inseparable after meeting on the first day of school. Sounds like… Beaches. Cue ‘Wind Beneath My Wings’!
Watch it on: Netflix, Wed
Resident Alien
Doom Patrol’s Alan Tudyk stars as an alien who crashes on Earth and assumes the identity of a small-town Colorado doctor. Think Starman meets Northern Exposure.
Watch it on: Fox (Singtel TV Ch 330 & StarHub Ch 505), Thur, 10.55pm
Malcolm & Marie
Euphoria creator Sam Levinson spent lockdown quietly making this buzzy drama about a celebrated filmmaker (Tenet’s John David Washington Zendaya) whose relationship with his girlfriend (Zendaya) comes apart at the seams over the course of one night.
Watch it on: Netflix, Fri
UnPregnant
Greg Berlanti (Love, Simon) produced this dramedy starring Haley Lu Richardson as a pregnant 17-year-old teen who embarks on a three-day road trip to Mexico with her ex-best pal (Barbie Ferrerira) to, you know, figure things out.
Watch it on: HBO Go, Sat; HBO (Singtel TV Ch & StarHub Ch 601), 9pm
SAS: Who Dares Win, Seasons 1-4
Need some motivation to get fit? Then check out this reality show where ex-Special Forces soldiers recreate the gruelling SAS selection process and put 30 men through the wringer in a series of physical and psychological challenges.
Watch it on: Fox (Singtel TV Ch 330 & StarHub Ch 505), Mon-Fri, 10.40pm
