What To Watch This Week: Nov 3-9, 2025

Makan on Wheels 2 (mewatch & Channel 8, Nov 5)

Bryan Wong, Herman Keh and Jaspers Lai hit Temerloh, Pahang — alongside guest Jojo Goh (Emerald Hill) — to sample some seriously sinful nasi lemak.

Kopitiam Days (Netflix, Nov 5)

To mark SG60, Eric Khoo produced this six-part anthology featuring six local directors — including Golden Horse Award winner  Yeo Siew Hua (A Land Imagined) and Ong Kuo Sin (A Good Child) — all  centred on a kopitiam that weaves through the decades. The cast includes Hong Huifang, Richie Koh, Chen Tianwen, Siti Khalijah Zainal, Xenia Tan, and Jasmine Sim. Order up: nostalgia, kopi, and a dash of national pride.

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Nice to Not Meet You (Prime Video, Nov 3)

Prime Video’s latest K-drama stars Squid Game’s Lee Jung-jae as a typecast actor, desperate to shed his tough-guy person and reinvent himself in melodramas — until he crosses paths with The Glory’s Lim Ji-yeon), a decorated political journalist demoted to the entertainment desk. Per the synopsis: “What begins as a clash of personalities unfolds into a story full of charm, laughter, and unexpected chemistry.”

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The Manipulated (Disney+, Nov 5)

From romance, we move on to revenge. Ji Chang-wook (The Worst of Evil) stars as an ordinary man sentenced to prison for heinous crime he didn’t commit.  When he finds out the real culprit (Bad Prosecutor’s Doh Kyung-soo), he embarks on a relentless journey for vengeance. For the rest of us, it’s best to steer clear of him.

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The Fantastic Four: First Steps (Disney+, Nov 5)

Marvel’s First Family finally joins the MCU! But this isn’t the standalone adventure fans were hoping for — like recent releases, it feels more like a placeholder for The Avengers: Doomsday. It's colourful, though. No offence, but the Marvel magic seems to have fizzled — at least for this writer.

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Dear X (HBO Max, Nov 6)

HBO Max is now the streaming home for Tving, the CJ ENM-affiliated Korean platform! Its inaugural offering: a 12-part series tracing the rise and fall of an actress ( (20th Century Girl’s Kim Yoo-jung), who leverages her beauty and fame to climb the industry ladder through pure manipulation. Aspiring Star Search hopefuls — in show business, punching below the belt isn’t just allowed, it’s rewarded. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

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Frankenstein (Netflix, Nov 7)

Oscar Isaac is no stranger to playing God: he did before in Ex Machina. And now in Guillermo del Toro’s highly anticipated reimagining of Mary Shelley’s classic tale, he returns as the brilliant scientist who defies nature by bringing a creature (Jacob Elordi) to life in a monstrous experiment. The gothic thriller also stars Mia Goth, David Bradley, Charles Dance, Lars Mikkelsen and Christoph Waltz.

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Fire and Water: Making the Avatar Films (Disney+, Nov 7)

With Avatar: Fire and Ash hitting screens next month (Dec 18), here’s a littler refresher — not that you need one. This two-part documentary dives deep into how James Cameron and his army of digital wizards brought Pandora’s oceans to life and perfected the art of underwater performance capture.

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Pluribus (Apple TV, Nov 7)

Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul mastermind Vince Gilligan returns to his sci-fi roots — he did start out with The X-Files, remember? — with the genre-bending series starring Better Call Saul alum Rhea Seehorn as “the most miserable person on Earth” who “must save the world from happiness.” Good luck with that.

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