After last week’s relative quiet, we have a bumper list of new streaming releases this week including the Darth Maul animated series Shadow Lord, the VOD debut of Wuthering Heights, the final season of The Boys, Chris Hemsworth/Mark Ruffalo thriller Crime 101, The Handmaid’s Tale spinoff The Testaments, and much more!
SERIES
Your Friends & Neighbors S2
3 April 2026 – Apple TV+
If you’ve seen all the memes of a dancing Jon Hamm and wondered where it was from, then may I introduce you Your Friends & Neighbors. The first season of the black comedy-drama followed Hamm’s Coop, a New York hedge fund manager who suddenly loses both his marriage and his job. Desperate to maintain the pretense of his upmarket lifestyle, he resorts to stealing from his neighbours’ homes in the exceedingly affluent Westmont Village, only to find that his larceny unintentionally exposes him to the juicy secrets and affairs hidden behind their wealthy facades. Already picked up for a third season, Your Friends and Neighbours season two brings more complications, most notably in the form of a new neighbour played by James Marsden.
Bloodhounds S2
3 April 2026 – Netflix
Korean action-drama Bloodhounds slipped by me when it released in 2023, but I recently became aware of it during a discussion about its great boxing action (which often looks like a live-action anime). Well, I guess it’s time to rapidly play catch-up, because the second season of the hit show is coming out swinging today! The show follows Kim Gun-woo and Hong Woo-jin, two former marines turned boxing rivals who put their differences aside to help bring down the loan shark syndicate exploiting people in their neighbourhood, most notably Gun-woo’s mother. After going blow for blow with the criminals and eventually coming out on top, the duo will find themselves facing even higher stakes as they find themselves embroiled in the brutal world of an underground international boxing league.
Nippon Sangoku S1
5 April 2026 – Prime Video
If there was ever an advertisement for why you should watch non-English media in their original language with subtitles instead of English dubbing, this trailer above for Nippon Sangoku would be it. Unlike the painful voiceover of this trailer, this new anime series looks really interesting as it blends together politics, drama, and cool sword action. Set in the wake of a nuclear way that has led to the collapse of Japanese society, it follows the three nations that arise from the ashes of the broken country and how they fight and try to outmaneuver each other for power. In the face of this conflict, Aoteru Misumi, a former agricultural officer from one of these nations who is actually a genius strategist gifted with knowledge and eloquence, vows to reunify Japan again. This is his legend.
Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord S1
6 April 2026 – Disney+
It’s both baffling and impressive just how lasting an impression some Star Wars characters have had despite their brief screen time. While the top spot in that conversation is still held by Boba Fett, its hard to deny the popularity of Darth Maul who never let a tiny thing like being sliced in half in Episode I stop him from going on to become one of the franchise’s favourite villains. We’ve already seen how Maul’s resurgence began, and we also know how his story ends – in the epic “Twin Suns” episode of Star Wars Rebels – but there’s a huge chapter of his life that’s been shrouded until now. And that’s where Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord comes in. From Rebels’ creator and recently appointed Lucasfilm boss Dave Filoni, this new ten-episode animated series picks up about a year after the events of Star Wars: Clone Wars, as the former Sith Lord Maul rebuilds his criminal syndicate during the reign of the Galactic Empire. While on the planet Janix though, Maul encounters Devon Izara, a Twi’lek Jedi who escaped Order 66 and is now on the run. Recognizing Devon’s potential, Maul sets out to make her his new apprentice and turn into a weapon against his enemies. Sam Witwer will reprise his role as the voice of Maul, while Gideon Adlon voices Devon. Look out for Wagner Moura and Richard Ayoade also lending their voice talents.
The Testaments S1
8 April 2026 – Disney+
The Handmaid’s Tale wrapped up its six-season run last year, but that’s not the end of this dystopian tale. Set 15 years after the events of the original series, The Testaments expands on the world first introduced to us in Margaret Atwood’s seminal 1985 novel – a world in which plummeting fertility rates kicked off a series of events that allowed a totalitarian, theonomic government to seize control of the United States. Now called Gilead and cut off from the rest of the world, this new society is strictly hierarchical and patriarchal, where those women still capable of bearing children are subjugated as slaves. How do you get half of your society to go along with such an extreme outlook though? Well, that’s where schools of indoctrination come in, and that’s also the setting for The Testaments. Adapted from Atwood’s 2019 sequel novel and narrated by The Handmaid’s Tale’s Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd), it follows devout and pious teenager Agnes (One Battle After Another breakout Chase Infiniti) and ex-Canadian newcomer Daisy (Lucy Halliday) who are both enrolled in Aunt Lydia’s elite preparatory school for future wives. As they get instructed in brutal lessons of obedience though, Agnes and Daisy’s friendship becomes a bond that will upend their respective worlds.
The Boys S5
8 April 2026 – Prime Video
This is it. The final hurrah. After four vicious, shocking, and oftentimes absurdly funny seasons, The Boys is wrapping up its story with one big bang. Following the events of season four – as well as the goings-on in two seasons of spinoff Gen V – the near-godly Homelander (Antony Starr) has attained absolute power with total fascist control of the world, but a resistance led by Starlight (Erin Moriarty) and Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) is not going to just roll over as they have a few tricks up their sleeves. Namely, there’s Butcher’s one burgeoning powers, the final dose of a supes-killing mega virus, and Starlight’s newly recruited young heroes. But Homelander’s not alone either, having taken the ultra powerful and dangerous Soldier Boy aka his dad (Jensen Ackles) out of suspended animation to fight by his side. It’s a no-holds-barred knockdown drag out brawl for the fate of the world!
Big Mistakes S1
9 April 2026 – Netflix
With the recent passing of actress Catherine O’Hara, it once again brought the brilliant Schitt’s Creek into the public eye. And for those of you, like me, who immediately felt like they needed more of the comedic genius of Emmy Award-winning creator/star Dan Levy, well I’ve got some good news! Big Mistakes is very much not like Schitt’s Creek at all, but it sure does look like a good time. The upcoming eight-episode series is billed as “a bold, new comedic family saga within a high-stakes crime thriller” and follows deeply dysfunctional siblings Nicky (Levy) and Morgan (Taylor Ortega) who finds themselves way over their heads after the pull off a misguided theft for their dying grandmother. Their amateur criminal actions bring them into the respective orbits of several gangsters, who blackmail them into pulling off increasingly more dangerous assignments, none of which they are remotely equipped to handle!
MOVIES
Crime 101
1 April 2026 – Prime Video
No, this is not a late April Fool’s Day joke. Unfortunately, this one just slipped under the radar last week, but it’s worth mentioning today. Adapted from best-selling author Don Winslow book of the same name by writer-director Bart Layton (American Animals), Crime 101 is a noir crime thriller with a hell of a cast in Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Barry Keoghan, Halle Berry, Monica Barbaro, Corey Hawkins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Nick Nolte. It released in theatres earlier this year to much critical acclaim, only for it to bomb at the box office. However, now you can check it out in the comfort of your home thanks Prime Video. Crime 101 follows a very successful jewel thief (Hemsworth) whose heists have left the authorities baffled. Well, most of them, as one relentless detective (Ruffalo) is convinced he’s discovered a pattern to the crimes that will allow him to nab his quarry. Meanwhile, right as the thief prepares for the score of a lifetime, he has a chance encounter with a disillusioned insurance broker (Berry) who finds herself at something of a personal crossroads, setting all three on a collision course from which there’s no turning back.
Pizza Movie
3 April 2026 – Disney+
It’s quite surprising that in the ten years since Stranger Things first exploded into the world, perennial fan favourite Gaten Matarazzo (aka “Dustin Henderson) has only starred in a single live-action film with 2022’s little-seen Honor Society, given how so many of his costars had several projects in that time. Now though, with Stranger Things having finally wrapped up its saga at the end of last year, the young actor is seemingly getting cracking properly on his own solo career starting with Pizza Movie. A stoner comedy written and directed by Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher – better known collectively as the internet sketch comedy duo BriTANicK – Pizza Movie follows Matarazzo’s Jack and his best friend Monty (Sean Giambrone), a pair of losers at the bottom of the college social ladder. Looking to break out and have some fun, Jack and Monty take experimental drugs “M.I.N.T.S.”, leading to a crazy high full of endless nightmarish hallucinations that could end in a mental meltdown. But as they soon discover, there is one way to counteract the drugs’ insane effects: Eat pizza. All they have to do is make sure the drone delivering the pizza gets to them safely!
RENTALS/PURCHASES
The following movies have recently become available for digital purchase/rental:
Wuthering Heights
Purchase: Apple TV – R200
Rental: Apple TV – R170
Emily Bronte’s 1847 romantic-drama novel Wuthering Heights, a sprawling 18th-century tale about the years-long, tumultuous relationship between the wealthy Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, the orphan boy her father brings home, has been adapted to stage, radio, and screen dozens of times since its original publication. So, when it was announced that yet another feature film version was on the way, many took some solace in the fact that it was coming from Emerald Fennell. Given the young British actress-turned-filmmaker’s past work in Promising Young Woman and Saltburn, you knew that at the very least this new version of Wuthering Heights was going to be something different. The film’s first trailer seemed to confirm this as we got shots of stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi (and a… fish?) in various steamy situations with hyper stylized editing and music. Taking inspiration from Bronte’s work, Fennell intended this reinterpretation to “recreate the feeling of a teenage girl reading this book for the first time”. Critics were very mixed on whether she achieved that goal, but all agreed that it looked incredible and Robbie and Elordi are great in it. And that was enough to see the film become a box office success earlier this year. If you missed it on the big screen though, well now’s your chance to watch it at home.