The Peripheral to Chapelwaite: the seven best shows to stream this week - The Guardian

Pick of the week

A starry and stylish adaptation of William Gibson’s novel, this sci-fi bid posits a adjacent aboriginal successful which virtual improvement has outpaced societal development. In a Blue Ridge Mountains town, Flynne Fisher (Chloë Grace Moretz) and her subject seasoned member Burton (Jack Reynor) gain capable wealth to look aft their sick parent by playing incredibly realistic video games. But erstwhile they’re asked to beta-test a caller simulation, acceptable successful a bleak, decimated aboriginal London, things get wholly retired of hand. The show’s themes of disembodiment and the disinhibition inherent successful virtuality are timely and the aggregate dystopias astatine the story’s bosom are beautifully realised.
Prime Video, from Friday 21 October

Chapelwaite

From left: Sirena Gulamgaus, Jennifer Ens, Adrien Brody and Ian HoChapelwaite Chapelwaite. Photograph: Chris Reardon/Epix/Sony Pictures Television

Based connected Stephen King’s abbreviated communicative Jerusalem’s Lot, this 10-part fearfulness stars Adrien Brody arsenic Captain Charles Boone, a widower with a chequered household past who relocates with his 3 children to his past ancestral location of Chapelwaite successful the small, seemingly sleepy but somewhat sinister municipality of Preacher’s Corners, Maine. The location is custom-built for jump-scares and creepy creaking, and there’s unfinished concern present that the progressively agonised Boone indispensable confront. The play unfolds astatine what is astir kindly described arsenic a stately pace. The scares, though, are worthy waiting for.
Paramount+, from Wednesday 19 October

Step Up

No much play … Ne-Yo arsenic Sage Odom and Christina Milian arsenic Collette Jones successful Step Up. Photograph: Mark Hill/Starz Entertainment

“Choose your words carefully, Mr Odom, due to the fact that Georgia is simply a decease punishment state.” As we instrumentality to High Water, the Atlanta creation schoolhouse that specialises successful polishing the roughest of diamonds, laminitis Sage Odom (Ne-Yo) is successful trouble. He’s being pressed by a authoritative to explicate his portion successful the decease of Ernest Octavio and enemies are gathering. Meanwhile, his concern and beingness spouse Collette Jones (Christina Milian, replacing the tragically departed Naya Rivera) tries to support the amusement connected the road, portion dealing with a bid of progressively volatile artists.
Lionsgate+, from Sunday 16 October

Untold

Fast manner … Iman Amrani successful Untold: Inside the Shein Machine. Photograph: Zandland films

If thing seems excessively bully to beryllium true, it astir apt is. So it proves with the fast-fashion marque Shein which, connected the ground of Iman Imrani’s fascinating if relentlessly depressing documentary, is simply a wildly palmy menace connected astir each level. Imrani hears from the marque addicts who emotion its inexpensive and cheerful garments and the influencers who hawk the products online. She besides gets the goods connected the company’s terrifyingly addictive, astir coercive website, and the brutal conditions successful which the apparel are made. Capitalism astatine its rock-bottom worst.
All 4, from Monday 17 October

Acapulco

Everybody loves Maximo … Enrique Arrizon (left) successful Acapulco. Photograph: Cate Cameron/Apple

A 2nd bid of this cheerful bilingual (Spanish and English) drama pursuing the adventures of Maximo (Enrique Arrizon), a cabana lad astatine a swanky Acapulco resort. It’s not rather a rags-to-riches communicative – Maximo’s beingness was ne'er that unspeakable successful the archetypal spot – and neither is it a White Lotus-style satire connected the awfulness of the super-rich. Instead, expect good-natured scrapes and unambiguous motivation lessons, carried on by an engaging cast. This season, Maximo falls successful emotion – but there’s atrocious quality for his household that could alteration everything.
Apple TV+, from Friday 21 October

From Scratch

Oui cook … Eugenio Mastrandrea arsenic Lino Ortolano successful From Scratch. Photograph: Aaron Epstein/Netflix

An unapologetically escapist, broad-brush and button-pushing emotion communicative starring Zoe Saldana arsenic Amy Wheeler, an American pupil successful agrarian Italy who is swept disconnected her feet by art, the bucolic quality of the countryside and, astir of all, by Lino (Eugenio Mastrandrea), a talented and unfeasibly handsome chef. The brace look acceptable for a beingness of romanticist bliss, but earlier agelong an unforeseeable wellness situation leaves Lino stricken. Will Amy’s extended household measurement up to the plate? You bet. What emerges is an uplifting, if often syrupy play of love, sacrifice and resilience.
Netflix, from Friday 21 October

28 Days Haunted

paranormal enactment …(from left) Ray Causey, Amy Parks and Shane Pittman successful 28 Days Haunted. Photograph: Netflix

“Once we spell successful here, we’re ne'er going to beryllium the same.” We’re backmost successful the ever entertaining satellite of the TV paranormal investigator. This time, it’s a marathon of screeching, cowering and night-vision cameras arsenic 3 teams of alleged researchers effort to walk 28 days successful an seemingly haunted determination (a large aged house, inevitably). The cardinal to the show’s occurrence is the seriousness with which this absurd endeavor is undertaken – the participants are each intelligibly massively invested successful the thought of the paranormal, which adds to the fun.
Netflix, from Friday 21 October