What To Watch This Week (Feb 3-9, 2025)

Chingay Parade 2025: Joy (mewatch, Feb 7, 8pm, live)

The theme for this year’s street parade is ‘Joy’ and will feature 4,000 performers, 23 food-inspired floats, and 60 lion dancers on a four-level stage. Live from the F1 Pit Building. Encore on Feb 16 on mewatch, Channel 5 (7.30pm) and Channel 8 (8.30pm).

Photo: chingay.gov.sg

Every Body Knows (mewatch, Channel 5 & Mediacorp Entertainment on YouTube, Feb 4, 9.30pm)

Hosts Mike Kasem and Catherine Robert and guests Das DD and Natasha Faisal look at the truths and myths about gallstones. (Listen to the actual experts, not your aunt’s best friend's Facebook group.)

Bogotá: City of the Lost (Netflix, Feb 3)

Like last year’s My Name is Loh Kiwan, Song Joong-ki plays yet another Korean exile. This time, his character uproots his family to Bogota amid the 1997 financial crisis. There, he gets mixed up with shady folks (Kwon Hae-hyo and Lee Hee-jun) dabbling in clothing smuggling. If it puts food on the table, the ends justify the means, right? And how far would he go to stay on top of the game?

Kinda Pregnant (Netflix, Feb 5)

This is just what my doctor prescribed (besides Xanax and Dayvigo): some raunchy comedy relief in troubled times. Amy Schumer plays a(nother) trainwreck whose social life undergoes a 180-degree (give or take) turn when she fakes a pregnancy (fraud!). The cast also includes Jillian Bell, Will Forte, Damon Wayans Jr, Brianne Howey, and — judging from the trailer, the movie’s secret weapon — Kiwi comedian Urzila Carlson.

Photos: Scott Yamano, Spencer Pazer/Netflix

Love You to Death (Apple TV+, Feb 5)

This seven-part Spanish dramedy is about a man (Joan Amargos) diagnosed with cancer who hooks up with a childhood friend (Veronica Echegui). Problem is, she’s pregnant with someone else’s child. Expect complications. What would you do? Two-ep premiere, followed by a new episode every Wednesday through March 12.

Photo: Apple TV+

Apple Cider Vinegar (Netflix, Feb 6)

The Dropout. Inventing Anna. Bitconned… And now, here’s another true-crime saga about bullshit artists and seductive scammers. This six-part limited series stars Ticket to Paradise’s Kaitlyn Dever as Belle Gibson, an Australian wellness influencer who tricked the world into believing that she beat a malignant brain tumour with a homemade remedy. The press notes say the series is not a biopic and is a work of fiction. But its DNA is rooted in truth: it drew inspiration from the book The Woman Who Fooled the World by journos Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano.

Photo: Netflix

Newtopia (Prime Video, Feb 7)

Blackpink’s Jisoo aka The Most Beautiful Woman in the World, according to Nubia Magazine, stars in this eight-part horror-rom-com as a woman who picked the worst time to break up with her boyfriend (Park Jeong-min) — during a zombie outbreak.

Photo: Prime Video