Without a lot of time to spare for reading and relaxing, I tend to spend fall enjoying more and more TV. I can dedicate a half hour or an hour at night to something mindless after I’ve been reading Howard Zinn and conjugating compound sentences and organizing online grade scheduling all day. Over the past month, my TV time has really made me very happy: it’s cerebral and creepy with Sharp Objects and Castle Rock and it’s been hilarious and uplifting with Schitt’s Creek.
But new movies and shows are coming to my favorite streaming services this month, and I can’t wait to not have time to enjoy them. Because we all know there is no way I will be able to binge watch a damn thing. Oh well. Here is what I’m looking forward to in this busiest of months.
Watch This: New Stuff This Month
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
These books are so incredibly cute. My teen daughter read all three of them this summer SO fast, and doesn’t even want to let her friends borrow them. We’ve been telling you how excited we all are since the movie was announced. And it’s almost here!
Oh my goodness. The YA goodness in that one trailer is making me swoon already. (And tell me that you aren’t swooning over Aiden – John Corbett – being a hot, thoughtful dad type). And it’s coming out THIS FRIDAY!
Forever
A thing about me: I will watch anything that Maya Rudolph is in. Maybe it was that I never missed an episode of Saturday Night Live in the aughts or that I loved Away We Go, but I super relate to Maya’s brand of dry humor. And her new show with Fred Armisen looks just quirky and weird enough to keep me very entertained.
I’m preparing to be unimpressed with marriage on September 14.
The Dragon Prince
*whispers pleasebegoodpleasebegoodpleasebegood into her crystal cauldron* I really, really, REALLY want this show to be as good as the premise made me believe it would be. If this were a series of middle grade or YA novels, I would have devoured them already and made you all read them. If this were an anime, I would have re-upped my subscription to Crunchyroll that I let lapse after Yuri on Ice ended. Two warring princes who join forces with an assassin elf to bring peace to their kingdoms? I AM SUPER INTO ALL OF THIS.
It’s also coming on September 14th, but I won’t be able to watch it all at once, and that’s making me sad.
The Innocents: Little Secrets
What do you get when you combine the creepier aspects of Sense8 with the paranormal romance tropes of every young adult novel I loved in 2011? I think you get The Innocents, but after watching this super plot-heavy trailer, I’m not sure you get much more than genre-soup.
But, guys, it has a bespectacled Guy Pearce in it, so we were all going to watch it anyway. It’s on Netflix on August 24th.
Safe Harbour
The trailer for this reminds me of a Liane Moriarty novel. In fact, after typing that, I took to googling to make sure it WASN’T one of hers. Psychological thriller set in Australia: I know a person who does that!
I’m not sure that the political climate is ready for whatever realizations come to the fore in this show, but I want to find out. It’s on Hulu on August 24th.
What I’m Not Watching
Yes, conspicuously missing is John Krasinski in Suits and Sometimes Fatigues, aka Jack Ryan. But after not showing up at SDCC, I’m a little bitter. Also I watched a featurette on the show about how authentic they are being with all the guns and the weaponry and the blowing shit up, and I am just not in an emotional place where I can care about something like that. Not even for my #1 Ride or Die. I’m sorry, JKras. But I need more Schitt’s Creek.
