What to Look Forward to On Streaming This Week (September 4 -September 10, 2022)
After the busy first few days of September, the first full week of the month is a bit slower, but still has a handful of shows and movies to look forward to:
Wedding Season (September 8, Hulu) – Season 1 Premiere
An action-packed series about Katie (Rosa Salazar), who despite having a fiancé, begins to have an affair with Stefan (Gavin Drea). Despite their illicit relationship, she gets married to her fiancé a few months later, only for her now-husband and in-laws to be poisoned at the wedding reception. The police think Gavin did it, Gavin thinks Katie did it. The two try to prove their respective innocence.
Pinnocchio (September 8, Disney+) – Season 1 Premiere
This well-known story comes to us in live-action in the same vein of other recent live-action remakes from Disney. When lonely woodcarver and toymaker Geppetto wishes on a star, the blue fairy (Cynthia Erivo) decides to make his wish come true – bringing his beloved puppet Pinnocchio to life. The Blue Fairy promises Pinnocchio the opportunity to become a real boy. As he tries to prove himself worthy, Pinnocchio makes many missteps along the way.
The Imperfects (September 8, Netflix) – Season 1 Premiere
Twenty-somethings Abbi, Tilda, and Juan are experimented on without the consent – to disastrous effect. The experimental gene therapy turns them into monsters with terrifying abilities. The three band together to track down the scientists who experimented on them and force him to cure them.
Cobra Kai (September 9, Netflix) – Season 5 Premiere
Somehow there is still more to say about the redemption story of Johnny Lawrence from Karate Kid and I’m here for it. Cobra Kai has been one wild, illogical ride about how karate can both help build you up but also turn you into a bully if you let it go to your head. (Uncle Ben said it best: “With great power comes great responsibility.”) No one seems to know how to control these unruly teens, least of all their senseis, leading to one disaster after another. The only thing we know for sure is that we are in for another wild ride.
Cobra Kai has managed to be consistently entertaining for its first four seasons (as long as you can suspend disbelief about how schools are run) and I’m ready to see how the third Karate Kid movie is incorporated into the franchise.
Photo: Miyagi-Do on Cobra Kai. Credits: Curtis Bonds Baker/Netflix. Courtesy of Netflix
