What to Watch This Week: Mar 24-30, 2025

We Are Number 1 (mewatch & Channel 8, Mar 28, 11.30am)

Mediacorp’s latest dialect drama follows the shenanigans of a family (with Richard Low as the patriarch) trying to keep their traditional soup business afloat. The 16-part drama also stars Jeremy Chan, Shane Pow, Mindee Ong, Ann Kok, Gini Chang and Desmond Ng.

The Studio (Apple TV+, Mar 26)

Miss Entourage? OrThe Franchise (gone too soon!)? Here’s another inside look at how the savage Hollywood sausage factory works, this time from a newly-promoted studio boss (Seth Rogen), who starts his tenure by greenlighting an “auteur-driven, Oscar-winning” — wait for it — “Kool-Aid film”. A US$200 million movie based on a f***ing drink? Can he pull this off by reconciling the demands of art and commerce? Will he still have his job (or sanity) by the end of the 10-part series? Good luck, buddy. Double-ep premiere, with new eps dropping Wednesdays.

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Million Dollar Secret (Netflix, Mar 26)

Netflix’s latest game show sees 12 strangers hunkered down in a lakeside estate and one of them is secretly awarded US$1 million (S$1.34 mil) and it's a secret that person must guard at all cost. Meanwhile, the players must figure out who among them is the millionaire and eliminate him/here for a chance to secure the bounty for themselves. With Peter Serafinowicz (Guardians of the Galaxy) as the host. The show will drop in three batches: ep 1-3 (Mar 26), 4-6 (Apr 2), and 7-8 (Apr 9).

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Mufasa: The Lion King (Disney+, Mar 26)

Can’t get enough of Seth Rogen? He, or rather his voice, is back as warthog Pumbaa in The Lion King prequel from director Barry Jenkins (Moonlight). It follows the story of how lost cub Mufasa (Aaron Pierre) — aka Simba’s father in the original — becomes the leader of the Pride Lands. He befriends the lion Taka (Kelvin Harrison Jr) after being separated from his parents, and the two embark on a journey that eventually threatens their familial bond.

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Holland (Prime Video, Mar 27)

Nicole Kidman returns to creepy Stepford Wives turf with this twisty thriller set in a quaint hamlet in Michigan called — you guessed it — Holland. But things start coming apart at the seams when her suburbia homemaker character suspects her optometrist and model train-loving husband (Matthew Macfadyen) is up to no good. Gael Garcia Bernal co-stars as her colleague who helps her to dig around for the truth.

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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad, Road Trip (Disney+, Mar 28)

The second adaptation of Judith Viorst’s beloved children’s book — the first came out in 2014 and starred Steve Carell and Jennifer Garner — follows the eponymous character (Thom Nemer) and his family (Eva Longoria as mum, Jesse Garcia as dad, Cheech Marin as grandpa) on a fancy vacation to Mexico aboard a luxury RV. What can possibly go wrong? The answer is in the title.

MaXXXine (Max, Mar 29)

Set in 1985, the third and final entry of Ti West’s X series — which started with X and followed by Pearl — revolves around porn star Maxine Minx (Mia Goth) and her transition into mainstream work. But getting in the way of her career reinvention is her own sinister past as well as a serial killer. Kevin Bacon is a scene-stealer as a sleazy private eye. 

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