This is a true story (well …). This one Friday, usually a normal day for everyone on Vulture.com, was totally different. You wanna know why? Because a bunch of people read this edition of Streamliner at 2:17 p.m. (rough estimate) and disappeared to go watch Weapons. Or maybe Freakier Friday; that movie also involves some weird switcheroos with children.
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Weapons
A wild twisty horror film with a small but memorable ensemble, Barbarian rocked audiences in 2022. It seems like Zach Cregger’s follow-up, Weapons, can keep that ball rolling. Little has been revealed about the plot other than what its tagline sets up: A whole class of children except for one just disappears one night. Julia Garner stars as the teacher of the class, while Josh Brolin is the father of one of the missing children.
In theaters now
Freakier Friday
It’s freaky that this sequel is even happening. Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan both return as the mother-daughter duo, though in this go-around, Lohan’s Anna Coleman is engaged to Eric (Manny Jacinto, finally in a rom-com role!) despite her daughter’s (Julia Butters) and his daughter’s (Sophia Hammons) vocal objections. And to make it freakier, the body-switching involves Lohan, Curtis, Butters, and Hammons.
In theaters now
Wednesday season 2
The first season of this Addams Family series, starring Jenna Ortega, got everyone so into it that they learned new dance choreography. We’ll see if season two invokes that level of obsession despite the years that have passed in the interim. — Kathryn VanArendonk
Streaming on Netflix
➽ Of course, Netflix is splitting this season into two parts, meaning you’ll have to wait a little longer until Lady Gaga’s cameo and new song. Sigh.
King of the Hill season 14
It’s been over a decade since King of the Hill aired its final episodes on Fox, and the new season on Hulu proves that they’ve still got it. Hank and Peggy return to Arlen, Texas, from Saudi Arabia and get acquainted with the changed landscape.
Streaming on Hulu
Platonic season 2
Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne star in this delightfully smooth, low-stakes comedy about two former best friends reconnecting amid midlife malaise in L.A. It’s back for a new season, in which Rogen’s fiancée questions how, well, platonic the duo really are, while Byrne faces another existential crisis fomenting at home. — Nicholas Quah
Streaming on Apple TV+
Las Culturistas Culture Awards
It’s so right that the Culture Awards have ended up on Bravo. Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang’s awards parody is known for having categories such as “Most Iconic Exchange of Words” and “Allison Williams Cool Girl Award,” with nominees who run the gamut from “Understanding Palm Springs Airbnb host” to “Conclave (2024).” The annual live show was filmed for 2025, so now all of the podcast’s dedicated readers can watch it.
Streaming on Peacock
➽ “LOW: No Goldblum nip.”
Animation Station
Proud Family: Louder and Prouder season 3
After so many seasons of The Proud Family, they’re going international. You have to keep it fresh somehow. The new season features voice cameos from Janelle James, Gabrielle Union, Chance the Rapper, Brenda Song, and so many others.
Streaming on Disney+
Grand Finale
The Gilded Age season 3
“Characters shuffle around, sometimes moving to adjacent roles that let them keep doing the same thing, but The Gilded Age is a remarkably stable system. The delight of it, the source of its generous dollops of camp melodrama, comes from its ability to convince you that maybe, just maybe, this will be the thing that finally overturns the apple cart. Fear not, though. It won’t be! It never is. Unless, maybe …”
Writer Kathryn VanArendonk on the delicious twists and turns of The Gilded Age’s third season, which is coming to a close this Sunday. Who knows what drama will befall these characters, who have been on a roller coaster. Read the rest of her review here, along with all the extensive coverage of the show here.
Streaming on HBO Max
Finally Streaming
The Monkey
Osgood Perkins’s first movie of 2025 — Keeper is out later this fall — is hitting streamers. An adaptation of a Stephen King short story, The Monkey is led by Theo James playing a pair of twins who are haunted by a toy that causes freak, almost comical, deaths.
Streaming on Hulu
Caught by the Tides
If you want a romance that blends fiction and nonfiction, Caught by the Tides is finally on streaming. Compiled largely from bits of footage shot between 2001 and 2022 by director Jia Zhangke, the film focuses on a Northern Chinese couple who get together in the early aughts, split, and eventually reconnect during the pandemic. As Vulture’s Madeline Leung Coleman wrote last year: “Out of this grab bag of vérité and offcuts, Jia builds an epic. Or is it more of a eulogy?” —Eric Vilas-Boas
Streaming on The Criterion Channel
➽ Plus, get even more Pedro Pascal this summer with Freaky Tales on Max.
Want more? Read our recommendations from the weekend of August 1.
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