What to Watch This Week: May 18-24, 2026
Jack Ryan returns!
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From YES to I DO (mewatch, Channel 8, May 19, 8pm)
Nothing says you’ve made it in showbiz like having your big day be the subject of a four-part reality show on national TV. Congrats! (Yes, there’sThe Couple’s Classroom …but that’s just a warm-up.) The series follows YES 933 DJ Hazelle Teo as she prepares to walk down the aisle with her influencer-pianist fiancé James Wong. The first episode takes viewers to the café where the courtship began — where she famously made the first move.
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War: Sienna Miller, Michael Kelly and John Krasinski (Photo: Jonny Cournoyer/Prime Video)
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War (Prime Video, May 20)
John Krasinski’s four-season run as Jack Ryan saw the superspy entangled in global intrigue — including storylines that (kinda) predicted the Ukraine-Russia conflict and the US invasion of Venezuela. So, what crystal ball-readings does this sequel movie have in store? (Give us some good news, please.) The plot is kept intentionally vague: “When an international covert mission unravels a deadly conspiracy, Ryan is forced back into the world of espionage to confront a rogue black-ops unit.” But this we do know with 100% certainty: Wendell Piecer is back as deputy CIA director James Geer, alongside Michael Kelly as ex-CIA station chief-turned-private contractor Mike November.
Kylie (Netfilx, May 20)
It’s about time Kylie Minogue gets her own Netflix documentary! This 3-parter charts the Aussie icon’s career over the past four decades — from a daytime soap actress to multi-generational pop star — and how she has navigated fame and family life, using archives of home videos, personal photographs, and new interviews with Minogue herself.
Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed (Apple TV, May 20)
Not a show about condoms (not that we’re aware of, well, maybe to some degree), but a crime series starring Tatiana (say that s-l-o-w-l-y and softly) Maslany as a newly divorced mum embroiled in a conspiracy involving online hookups, blackmail, murder and youth football — while trying to rebuild her life. Bummer. New Girl’s Jake Johnson co-star.
The Boroughs (Netflix, May 21)
Stranger Things for seniors! The Duffers serve as co-EPs on this new series about a group of residents — Alfred Molina, Denis O’Hare, and Alfre Woodard — in a New Mexico retirement community (did someone say Cocoon?) band together to stop an alien threat from stealing something they don’t have…time. The cast also includes Bill Pullman (he knows a thing or two about fighting aliens) and Geena Davis (look out for Thelma & Louise references!).
Ladies First (Netflix, May 22)
Did everyone get the memo about the Sacha Baron Cohen renaissance? First, he turned up in Balls Up (easily that movie’s MVP). And now, this. He plays Damien Sach — a douchey name — a ladies’ man whose life is upended when he wakes up in a parallel world dominated by women. Once the guy calling the shots in the boardroom, he now plays second banana to a lady boss (Rosamund Pike). The comedy feature also stars Charles Dance, Emily Mortimer, Fiona Shaw, and Richard E Grant.
The Bride! (HBO Max, May 22)
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s highly divisive spin on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein relocates her fable to 1930s Chicago, with Christian Bale as the Monster and newly-minted Oscar winner Jessie Buckley as his companion— a murdered young woman brought back to life by a scientist (Annette Bening). The couple go on the lam à la Bonnie and Clyde, raising hell and making merry. When the movie came out in March, audiences and critics alike weren’t sure what to make of it. Maybe it’ll find its second wind on streaming, where audiences tend to be more patient and receptive to out-of-the-box narratives.
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