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What To Watch This Week (Jan 27-Feb 2, 2025)

Welcome to the Year of the Snake! 

What To Watch This Week (Jan 27-Feb 2, 2025)

Lunar New Year Eve 2025 Special (Channel 8, mewatch & Mediacorp on YouTube Entertainment, Jan 28, 10.30pm)

Usher in the Year of the Snake at Chinatown Festive Market with your favourite Mediacorp talents, including Hong Huifang, Xiang Yun, Richie Koh, and Elvin Ng). Highlights include an ‘Old Generation’-vs-‘Young Generation’ showdown (Zoe Tay leads the former, Romeo Tan the latter), mass karaoke sessions and interactive games. With Guo Liang, Dennis Chew and Hazelle Teo as hosts.

Your Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man (Disney+, Jan 29)

Marvel Animation’s latest follows high-schooler Peter Parker (Hudson Thames) on his way to becoming the web-slinger we come to know and love so well. Except in this universe, his mentor is Norman Osborn (Colman Domingo), aka Green Goblin, and not Tony Stark in the MCU. Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio are expected to reprise their respective roles of Matt Murdock and Kingpin from the Daredevil Netflix series (as well as the upcoming reboot, premiering March 4).

Photo: Marvel Animation

Mythic Quest, Season 4 (Apple TV+, Jan 29)

Is it just me (very likely) or is this one of the best workplace comedies (next to Silicon Valley) that no one is watching? The Mythic Quest gang (including Rob McElhenney, Charlotte Nicdao, Danny Pudi and David Hornsby)  are back and among the new challenges confronting them, a Senate hearing over kids safety in the company’s Playpen project, and the AI onslaught. Season 4 will launch with two eps, followed by one new weekly through March 26, which also marks the premiere of Side Quest, a four-part spin-off that “explores the lives of employees, players, and fans who are impacted by the game in an anthology format”.

Photo: Apple TV+

Paradise  (Disney+, Jan 29)

Sterling K Brown reunites with his This is Us creator Dan Fogelman on this series about a Secret Service agent (Brown) is embroiled in a murder case in the titular community, home to some of the world’s most prominent individuals”, including the former POTUS (James Marsden, a long way from Sonic the Hedgehog). Seriously, can any make-believe White House drama top what’s going on in real life now that Donald Trump’s back in office? The magic 8-ball says, “Don’t count on it”.  

Photo: Disney+

Didi (Max, Jan 29)

Sean Wang’s directorial debut, his follow-up to his Oscar-nominated short Nai Nai & Wai Po, is a coming-of-age dramedy following a 13-year-Taiwanese American boy (Isaac Wang) who lives in a predominantly white Californian neighbourhood in 2008. The film, which earned Wang an Outstanding Directorial Achievement in First-Time Feature Film nomination at the next month’s Directors Guild Awards, also stars Joan Chen as the teen’s mother.

Photo: Focus Features

The Recruit, Season 2 (Netflix, Jan 30)

Noah Centineo is back as Owen Hendricks, CIA brightest new lawyer. This season sees him travelling to South Korea (yes, the show actually spent a month filming in Seoul)  where he teams up with a local operative (Past Lives’ Teo Yoo) to save the world. Is it just me or should Netflix seriously consider doing a crossover between The Night Agent and The Recruit? Just thinking aloud.

Photos: Netflix 

Monkey Man (Max, Feb 1)

Dev Patel goes from Slumdog Millionaire to John Wick in this ambitious, blistering, if a bit rough around the edges thriller (which he also directed) where his street fighter character infiltrates a night club run folks who murdered his mother. Fun fact: this movie was shot in Batam. Tanglin actor Mathi Alagan has a role of an arms dealer; watch our interview with him:

Photo: Max/Universal Pictures

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