The 9 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend
Time for a horror-movie double feature.
Mama, kudos for reading this, for clicking. We may not be spilling our hearts out to you like the queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race, but we will be serving our community by telling you what to watch. In addition to Friday night’s Drag Race finale, you can choose from a little-girl vampire on a rampage, some new Conan O’Brien antics, and a couple of good recent flicks that are newly available to stream.
Featured Presentations
Abigail
Abigail has the makings of another hit for the production studio Radio Silence (remember Ready or Not?). It has a goofy premise (a young vampire ballerina who turns the tables on her kidnappers), a stellar cast (Dan Stevens, Melissa Barrera, Kathryn Newton, Giancarlo Esposito, and Angus Cloud), and seemingly plenty of scares.
In theaters now
Conan O’Brien Must Go
Most travel-show hosts try to make their interview subjects comfortable, but that is not O’Brien’s goal. After getting a Norwegian to admit his people do not like having their space invaded, he slowly licks the entirety of the man’s left cheek. After being fitted for a formal suit in Bangkok, O’Brien pontificates about nonsense in English at great length, while the owner of the shop assumes an expression similar to the one Chris Pine made while trying to beam himself onto some other celestial plane during the Don’t Worry Darling press tour. —Jen Chaney
Streaming on Max
➽ Ryan Gosling will not be tuning in, maybe.
Under the Bridge
This true-crime miniseries is adapted from Rebecca Godfrey’s same-named book, which meticulously researched what happened to 14-year-old Reena Virk in 1997. The show follows Godfrey (Riley Keough) and a local cop (Lily Gladstone) as they try to figure out Reena’s relationships with her parents and her bullies. —Roxana Hadadi
Streaming on Hulu
Big Mood
Nicola Coughlan is going to have a great few months. You may know her best for Derry Girls or Bridgerton, where she’ll lead her own season this May, but in Big Mood, she’s louder, raunchier, and doesn’t have to wear ill-fitting Regency garb. Good for her, truly. Coughlan co-stars with Lydia West as the two play a pair of best friends who, after ten years, reach a rough patch in their friendship as their careers, mental illness, and the impending doom of their 30s hit all at once.
Streaming on Tubi
➽ If there was a Pokémon evolution for coming-of-age shows about women through their twenties and thirties it would go as such: Sex Lives of College Girls > Girls > Big Mood > Insecure > Sex and the City.
Reality Bites
The Bravo Vault
Something called “the Bravo Vault” — a sweeping collection of the network’s old reality shows — has arrived on Peacock. Where to start? Let my colleague Jason P. Frank help:
Grand Finale
RuPaul’s Drag Race season 16
Okay, cover girls, after weeks of competition, the final three (Nymphia Wind, Plane Jane, and Sapphira Cristál) are ready to lip sync for their lives as they work for the coveted crown and $200,000. The finale is usually one of the less interesting episodes because the winner becomes quite obvious pretty quickly, but to be honest, I could easily see Nymphia or Sapphira getting that crown. (Sorry, Jane, I’m sure you’ll turn it out though.)
Airing on MTV, April 19 at 8:00 p.m. ET
Finally Streaming
Late Night With the Devil
Here is David Dastmalchian talking about his preparation for this movie:
And now you, before bed, can watch him as an on-edge talk-show host who unleashes a supernatural force onto his viewers.
Streaming on Shudder
➽ May thy remote chip and shatter because Dune: Part Two is now on digital platforms.
Want more? Read our recommendations from the weekend of April 12.
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