Stuff To Watch This Week (Aug 17-23, 2020)

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Fresh Takes, Season 2

Pierre Png directs this week’s short film, The Right Time. In 2060, an elderly couple recalls how they met in their college days. Joel Choo and Hong Ling play the couple's younger versions. James Seah co-stars.
Watch it on: Channel U, Mon, 9pm; meWATCH
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7 Letters

‘Lights. Camera. Singapore’ presents this 2015 anthology featuring seven short stories by seven homegrown filmmakers — Eric Khoo, Jack Neo, Royston Tan, K Rajogopal, Tan Pin Pin, Kelvin Tong and Boo Junfeng — to celebrate Singapore’s 50th anniversary.
Watch it on: Channel 5, Tue, 10pm; meWATCH
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Lovecraft Country

Jordan Peele and JJ Abrams are the executive producers behind this highly-anticipated genre-bending/blending series based on Matt Ruff’s novel of the same name. Jonathan Majors stars as Atticus Freeman, a Korean War veteran who returns to 1950s Chicago to search for his father (Michael K Williams) who vanishes after writing him a mysterious letter. Joined by his uncle (Courtney B Vance) and a childhood friend (Jurnee Smollett), Atticus hits the road where they encounter nasty monsters (inspired by horror novelist HP Lovercraft) and the racial terrors of Jim Crow America.

Watch it on: HBO (Singtel TV Ch 420 & StarHub Ch 601), 9am; HBO Go; from Mon
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Lucifer, Season 5

Tom Ellis is back as Lucifer Morningstar. He’s also pulling a double shift as Michael, Luci’s twin brother, who pretends to be his brother on Earth while the Real McCoy remains in Hell. Season highlights include the musical episode 'Bloody Celestial Karaoke Jam'.
Watch it on: Netflix; from Fri
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Hoops

Raunchy animated comedy series starring New Girl’s Jake Johnson as a down-and-out high school basketball coach trying to turn around his loser team so that he can get promoted up to the “big leagues”. Good luck, bud.
Watch it on: Netflix; from Fri
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We Hunt Together

Six-part crime series about a pair of mismatched cops (Eve Myles and Babou Ceesay) on the hunt for two lovers — a prostitute (Hermione Corfield) and an immigrant (Dipo Ola) — on a murder spree in London.
Watch it on: BBC First (StarHub Ch 502) & BBC Player; from Fri
Photos: BBC, Netflix, HBO Asia