What To Watch This Week (Jan 20-26, 2025)
Assume the position: Ju Ji-hoon has a trauma unit to run!

V Supreme (mewatch & Vasantham, Sundays, 9pm)
Mediacorp’s Tamil Indian talent contest sees 12 contestants battling for the champion title through a series of challenges. There can only be one, but which one? Place your bets. With Vishnu M Anandh as host and a panel of judges including Jabur Deen Faruk, JK Saravana and Annetha Ayyavoo. The episodes also available on demand on Mediacorp Entertainment on YouTube.
Prime Target (Apple TV+, Jan 22)
Ridley Scott had this TV show in the noughties called Numb3rs, which is basically The Big Bang Theory but with fewer geeks, and more guns. Now, he returns to that arithmetic world with this eight-episode thriller created by Sherlock scribe Steve Thompson. Leo Woodall (One Day) plays a mathematician embroiled in a global conspiracy when he discovers a pattern in prime numbers. Quintessa Swindell co-stars as an NSA agent assigned to watch over the algebra chaser only to be sucked into vortex as well (suay!). Double-ep premiere, followed by one ep weekly.
Photo: Apple TV+
High Potential (Disney+, Jan 23)
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s Kaitlin Olson stars as a single mum with three children who works as a cleaning lady at the LAPD. But she’s no ordinary hygiene specialist: she’s kooky and has an IQ of 160 (that’s f***ing Einstein-level genius!). Of course, she’s going to be exploited: as a consultant for the Major Crimes division — it’s Good Will Hunting with a body count! (Does this mean she is getting extra pay? Asking for a friend.) Created by Drew Goddard (Bad Times at El Royale) and based on the French show Haut Potentiel Intellectuel.
Photo: ABC/Disney+
The Night Agent, Season 2 (Netflix, Jan 23)
FBI agent Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) is now officially part of Night Action, the clandestine group under the POTSA that investigates cases that other agencies can’t handle (taxpayers’ money well spent, then?). In Season 2, per official synopsis, Sutherland is on “the hunt for a CIA agent accused of leaking secret" and the pursuit "puts [him] in the crosshairs of a ruthless intelligence broker and a deadly war criminal.” Luciane Buchanan, Brittany Snow and Amanda Warren co-star.
Photo: Christopher Saunders/Netflix
The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call (Netflix, Jan 24)
Ju Ji-hoon (Kingdom, Light Shop) plays Dr Baek, a former war zone surgeon draws from his frontline experience to start a top-tier trauma centre back in the civilian world. The eight-part medical drama also stars Choo Young-woo, Ha-young, Yoon Gyung-ho and Jeong Jae-kwang as the other members of his kick-ass team. As a primer, consider the Japanese drama Shinjuku Field Hospital (also on Netflix), starring Eiko Koike as an ex-military doctor plying her trade in a back-alley clinic in the entertainment district of Kabukicho.(Hey, Mediacorp, can we do something similar? Let’s get Pierre Png into those surgical scrubs!)
Photos: Han Se-jun/Netflix