What To Watch This Week: Sep 29-Oct 5, 2025

Fixing Fate (Sep 29, mewatch; Oct 2, Channel 8, 9pm)

Our Hillside Moments ( mewatch & Channel 8, 8pm, Sep 29)

The Emerald Hill cast — featuring Hsiu Chieh-kai, Jesseca Liu, Jojo Goh, Romeo Tan, Tasha Low, Chantalle Ng, Zhang Zetong, and Tyler Ten — take their act on the road in this eight-part travelogue. (They got paid to go on vacay… what a life!)  The adventure kicks off in Taiwan, starting in Yilan.

Pedal on For Love (mewatch & Channel 8, 9pm, Oct 2)

Mediacorp’s first-ever celebrity cycling relay puts 11 artists — Shane Pow, Darren Lim, Andie Chen, Jeffrey Xu, Felicia Chin, Chen Hanwei, Elvin Ng, Das DD, Naomi Yeo, Alberto Gei Fan, and Tay Ping Hui — on a 70-day, 5,000km journey across six countries, from China, to Singapore. The goal: raise S$60,000 for the Cerebral Palsy Alliance Singapore. Tay Ping Hui, you’re up first…

FORMULA 1 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix 2025 (mewatch & Channel 5, Oct 3-5)

McLaren’s Oscar Piastri leads the season with seven wins, trailed by teammate Lando Norris (five) and Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen (four). Verstappen won the last three races. Will he conquer the Marina Bay Street Circuit and catch up to Norris? Showtime: Oct 3 — Practice 1, 5.25pm-6.30pm; Oct 4 — Practice 2, 5.25pm-6.30pm, and Qualifying, 8.55pm-10.10pm; Oct 5 — Main Race, 7.40pm-10.10pm.

Photos: Singapore GP

Chad Powers (Disney+, Sep 30)

Before Glen Powell blasts onto the big screen with Edgar Wright’s The Running Man (in cinemas Nov 13 — what isn’t there more buzz, or is the distributor snoozing?), catch him in this six-part comedy series. He plays a fallen star quarterback who stages a bizarre comeback by going undercover (cue prosthetics!) to join a struggling football team. Double-episode premiere.

Photo: Disney+

Ne Zha 2 (HBO Max, Oct 1)

The sequel to 2019 Chinese mythology-inspired animated hit — about a rebellious demi-god boy who must step up to save the world from a cataclysmic force — is the world’s highest-grossing animated film and the first non-English title to crossUS$2 billion (S$2.58 bil) globally, powered largely by its phenomenal China box-office run. No word on whether this version includes the English dub, which features Michelle Yeoh as the hero’s mother.

Photos: Encore Films

Play Dirty (Prime Video, Oct 1)

After a sci-fi detour with The Predator (still waiting for that Director’s Cut), Shane Black slides back to his sweet spot: neo-noir. Play Dirty, based on Donald E Westlake’s Parker novels (written under the pseudonym Richard Stark) stars Mark Wahlberg as Parker, a professional thief betrayed and left for dead, who plots revenge via an elaborate heist. Wahlberg’s been stuck in action-flick purgatory lately lately (The Union, The Family Plan, Infinite), but maybe this one finally breaks the streak.

Photo: Jasin Boland/Prime Video

Monster: The Ed Gein Story (Netflix, Oct 3)

Charlie Hunnam fans still disappointed he never got to play Christian Grey are in for a treat: he’s a ladykiller… of a far darker kind. In Ryan Murphy’s latest true-crime biopic — following revisiting the legacies of Jeffrey Dahmer, and Lye and Erik Menendez — Hunnam takes on Ed Gein, the mother-obsessed 1950s killer notorious for crafting masks out of human skin. His grisly crimes went on to inspire Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs. Expect backlash.  

Photos: Netflix