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It’s been a long and exciting week, full of Kamala Harris press-tour outfits, Beyoncé red-carpet appearances, and J.Lo single-dom gossip (good for you, queen!). Now that it’s finally Friday, though, it’s time to turn your attention to the singularly important question of what to watch this weekend. Of course, your Friday through Sunday may be stacked with apple picking, cider tasting, and other autumnal activities, but for those on the West Coast, it’s still reaching 85 degrees every day—prime stay-in-AC-and-watch-stuff weather. To that end, below we’ve rounded up five of the best TV shows and movies streaming this weekend.
Disclaimer
This new show is prestige TV at its peak, almost as though its creators were ticking boxes. Fancy, artsy director: Check (Alfonso Cuarón). A-list stars: Check (Cate Blanchett, Kevin Kline, Sacha Baron Cohen—playing it straight—and an excellent Kodi Smit McPhee). Literary origins—you guessed it. (It’s based on a novel of the same name by Renée Knight.) The show even made its debut at the Venice Film Festival, further underlining the increasingly amorphous delineation between the small and silver screen. Disclaimer tells the story of a successful documentarian, Catherine (Blanchett), whose elegant life is upended by the arrival of a novel on her doorstep that seems to be telling the story of an unsavory chapter from her past. Catherine quickly does away with the book, but it has the intended effect of ruffling the smooth exterior of her life, perhaps beyond repair. There is a somewhat pulpy element to the series despite its slick production values (and gorgeous interiors—this is London real estate at its most astounding), but the show is nonetheless extremely compelling. —Chloe Schama
How to watch: Stream on Apple TV+.
Saturday Night Live with guest host Ariana Grande
It’s always fun when the celebrity host of Saturday Night Live is also the musical guest, but perhaps better still when a deeply talented singer can hold her own as a comedic actor. That’s precisely what we’ve got in this weekend’s host, Ariana Grande, who will be joined at 8H by the legendary Stevie Nicks. While the show’s writers have already hung a lampshade on the Wicked mania surrounding Grande this year, personally, I hope we get an Elphaba-Galinda joke anyway. —Emma Specter
How to watch: Catch the show live on NBC at 11:30 p.m. ET or stream it hungover the next morning on Peacock.
Patrice: The Movie
Do yourself a favor and spend an utterly delightful two-ish hours in the company of one of the most irresistible spirits you will ever encounter. Patrice Jetter faced various hardships over the course of her life: As a kid, she never really fit in and often found herself subject to bullying and worse. Her mother, rather than attempt to figure out if there was a way to improve things, forced her to hide her differences and abused her when she acted out. Eventually, Patrice was committed. Flash forward several decades, and Patrice is joyfully working as a school crossing guard, living in stable housing, and in love with a fellow disabled person, Gary. The two have built a life for themselves that is limited and challenging (a gripping 15 or so minutes of the film are dedicated to the gargantuan challenge of overcoming the breakdown of a wheelchair-accessible van) but also full of joy and love and hope. The one glaring inequity that Patrice and Gary still face, however, is that—because of the inanity of US law—they cannot get married without losing their disability benefits. As the film explains, they cannot even live together without jeopardizing their entire means of subsistence. Patrice is a documentary, but it is also a love story and one that will enrage you while affirming its characters’ fundamental humanity. Told with both realistic, fly-on-the-wall narration and colorful flashbacks with school-age children embodying the adults in Patrice’s past (it somehow works), Patrice is also tonally unlike almost anything I’ve seen—an invigorating, inspiring, and deeply moving film. —CS
How to watch: Stream on Hulu.
Ali Wong: Single Lady
If you thought Ali Wong was funny talking about motherhood, wait till you hear her do an entire stand-up special devoted to divorced motherhood, or, as she refers to it, the “divorced mom energy” that has seemingly every guy in Hollywood barking up her tree. The special is an hour of quite literal nonstop laughs, capped off by (no spoilers, but…) a surprisingly sweet rom-com twist? —ES
How to watch: Stream on Netflix.
Lonely Planet
Laura Dern as a reclusive novelist who takes a trip to a writer’s retreat in Morocco and ends up falling for a handsome younger man played by Liam Hemsworth? Say less; I’m already watching this latest addition to the May-December canon. (Plus, Erin Brockovich screenwriter Susannah Grant is behind this film, so even my rom-com cynic heart is prepared to love it.) —ES
How to watch: Stream on Netflix.
