Stuff To Watch This Week (Jan 23-29, 2023)

Physical: 100

Mix Squid Game with Ninja Warrior and you get this s(pec)tacular Korean reality show where 100 contestants compete in a series of gruelling challenges. Need the motivation to lose those excess calories after the CNY bingeing? This is it.

Watch it on: Netflix, Tue

Saturday Night Live, Season 48

Aubrey Plaza, currently starring in Operation Fortune: Ruse De Guere, steps in as host, with Sam Smith as musical guest. Highlights include spoofs of Avatar: The Way of Water, The White Lotus and M3GAN (in case this doesn't survive broadcast standards, you can watch it here). You’ll never look at these movies the same way again. Check out Plaza’s monologue here:

The Menu

Produced by Adam McKay (Succession), this mesmerising fine-dining horror stars Ralph Fiennes as a celebrity chef who has prepared a surprise 10-course meal for a group of guests (including Anya Taylor-Joy, John Leguizamo and Nicholas Hoult) at his remote restaurant. Maybe Gordon Ramsay can turn this into a reality show? Have a think.

Watch it on: Disney+, Wed

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Big Bet

Season finale! Disappointed that you didn’t see more of Squid Game villain Heo Sung-Tae? Don’t worry he’ll return in Season 2 of the crime drama. Watch our interview with the director and cast when they were in Singapore last month to promote the show.

Shrinking

From Bill Lawrence, the mastermind behind Ted Lasso, comes this new series starring Jason Segel as a bereaved therapist on the verge of a breakdown (or breakthrough?). Enter his colleagues (Harrison Ford — in his first comedic TV series — and Jessica Williams) to help him get out of the funk.

Watch it on: Apple TV+, Fri

Photo: Apple TV+