Stuff To Watch This Week (Feb 14-20, 2022)

Finance Minister Lawrence Wong will deliver this year’s Budget Statement, which is expected to include the highly-anticipated GST hike — when will it take place and what impact it will have on Singapore households and businesses?

Watch it on: meWATCH & Channel 5, Fri, 3.30pm

Photo: Ministry of Finance/Instagram

Tasha Low stars as an online shopping addict who stumbles upon a smart juice cup that houses the spirit of a recently departed e-commerce magnate (Chen Hanwei). (Wait, is this vessel this inspired by PM Lee’s ‘magic’ cup?) The 20-part drama also stars Xu Bin as the dead tycoon’s son.Watch it on: meWATCH & Channel 8, Fri, 9pm

Latest seniors-targeted dialect drama — a collab between Mediacorp and the Ministry of Communications and Information — about four retirees (Chen Chucheng, Li Nanxing, Aileen Tan, Hong Huifang) starting a café business. The 20-part drama also stars Romeo Tan, Denise Camillia Tan and Herman Keh.

Watch it on: meWATCH & Channel 8, Fri, 11.30am

Season 2 of the Indian sketch show sees Kumar teaming up with resident host Vadi PVSS to bring down the house with parodies of Tamil movie scenes. The duo will also hit the streets to engage folks in assorted challenges.

Watch it on: meWATCH & Vasantham, Sat, 9pm; Vasantham's Instagram & Facebook; YouTube Entertainment Channel

Catch highlights from the stage shows — featuring Mediacorp artists and getai veterans — held recently at the Chinese New Year festival at Gardens by the Bay.

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

Gender flip reboot of the 1970s David Carradine-starring TV series, with Olivia Liang as a Chinese-American college dropout who becomes a badass martial artist after a life-changing trip to a monastery in China. Tzi Ma and Tan Kheng Hua play her parents.
Watch it on: WarnerTV (Singtel TV Ch 306, StarHub Ch 515), 10.40pm, Mon-Thu

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To be streamed over three weeks, this seven-hour “intimating and revealing” tracks the career of Kanye West (now known as Ye) over the last two decades. Ye apparently clashed with the directors over final cut last month but has since kept quiet about it. For now, at least.Watch it on: Netflix, Wed

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Season finale! Can Peacemaker and the rest of the ARGUS squad stop Goff aka The Queen Butterfly and her army from invading Earth? But first, they have to destroy the Cow, the beasts that the alien bugs have been feeding on for nourishment. Will Eagly get his own spin-off? Watch it on: HBO Go, Thur

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The Steve Carell-led workplace comedy returns! Season 2 picks up four months after Season 1, with General Naird (Carell) and his team facing an inquiry for ignoring an order to attack the Chinese on the moon.Watch it on: Netflix, Fri

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The award-winning investigative journalist returns to shed light on more black market operations around the world, starting with underground plastic surgeons.Watch it on: National Geographic Channel (Singtel TV Ch 201, StarHub Ch 411), Fri, 9pm

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Feature-length follow-up to the 2019 martial arts fantasy series Wu Assassins, with Iko Uwais and pals (including Lewis Tan) battling demonic forces in Bangkok.Watch it on: Netfilx, Fri

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Ben Stiller tackles horror in this series set in a company where employees’ work and personal lives are surgically divided. Stars Adam Scott, Patricia Arquette, John Turturro and Christopher Walken. Double ep premiere, followed by new instalments every FridayWatch it on: Apple TV+, Fri

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Jung Woo-Yun stars in this 120-ep drama about a twentysomething cooking prodigy and the people — including Jae Hee — touched by her cuisines.

Watch it on: oh!K (Singtel TV Ch 525, StarHub Ch 816), 9pm, double episodes on Tue-Fri

Jeffrey Wright narrates this four-part docu-series where journalists, educators and Abraham Lincoln scholars examine the 16^th POTUS’s journey to end slavery.Watch it on: Apple TV+, Fri

Photo: Apple TV+