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Looking for something to watch? 5 best shows to stream this week
25th September, 2026 01:33 PM
Looking for something to watch this weekend? Here are five shows to add to your streaming list for a relaxing and entertaining break.
Kill Jackie
This thriller starring Catherine Zeta-Jones ought to be the kind of cartoonish nonsense that, as long as you are willing to leave plausibility concerns at the door, is a source of endless fun. But the writing isn’t quite funny or smart enough for it to attain the brutally hilarious Killing Eve vibe it is clearly aiming for.
If you manage your expectations, though, there’s still a good time to be had. Jackie is a dealer who has pivoted from cocaine into art. But assassins, the Seven Demons didn’t get the memo: cue an ultraviolent, international game of hide and seek with Jackie as both hunter and quarry.
Outside
A sequel of sorts to Netflix’s challenge show Inside (see what they did there?) devised by YouTube wags Sidemen. This show plunges various shrieking content creators (including the likes of Dani Babes, Chloe Veitch and Lacy) into a forest where they will be tested by a series of daft, gross, infuriating games.
There’s £1m up for grabs, but the prize fund drains away if contenders can’t resist a few creature comforts. It aims for Squid Game: The Challenge with laughs and ends up more like I’m a Celebrity … with mud.
The Widower: Till Death Do Us Part
The story of Thomas Randolph is as bizarre as it is disturbing. Over several decades, Randolph married six times. Four of his wives wound up dead. Was he cursed? Or was he a serial killer?
This startling documentary tracks the police and press investigation into a man variously described here as “jovial, smart and funny” and “very charming and witty” as he manipulates everyone around him, up to and including police officers. The storytelling is basic and unvarnished, but the case itself is wild enough to make that essentially beside the point.
Somebody Knows Something
About 600,000 people are reported missing in the US every year. Many are found, but thousands are not. This series follows law enforcement officer turned true-crime influencer Kara Chamberlain as she reopens some cold cases.
They range from babies taken from cots to adults who went on holiday and never came back, but Chamberlain is an indefatigable sleuth – and if the mining of these stories for content feels a little queasy, it’s salient to note that Chamberlain herself was kidnapped as a teenager, so, for her, the missions feel personal.
Schumacher 94
The 1994 Formula One season saw the first world title for a startlingly self-assured young German called Michael Schumacher. His win in the first Grand Prix of the season in Brazil was the beginning of an era of domination. This documentary gets the inside track on his ascent and also examines the death of Ayrton Senna, the tragedy that clouded the season and which, as many contributors here suggest, transformed Formula One forever.
The race clips are hair-raising and confirm the suggestion that danger levels had peaked and something needed to change.
