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In season 2, episode 7 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, titled “Those Old Scientists,” Jack Quaid and Tawny Newsome reprised their roles from the animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks, appearing in live-action. The episode featured Ensign Bradward Boimler (Jack Quaid) unexpectedly traveling through time to the 23rd century, where he encountered Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) and Lt. Spock (Ethan Peck) aboard the USS Enterprise.

Many excellent TV shows don’t hit their stride immediately, needing time to find their footing. Some start strong but lose quality over time, drifting away from what initially made them good. We’re highlighting a different kind of Netflix show, though – the truly exceptional ones that remain consistently excellent throughout their entire run, with no weak seasons.

With the conclusion of “Rick and Chelsea,” viewers were left wanting more. Fortunately, Netflix delivers with “The Perfect Couple,” a new mystery miniseries featuring a stellar cast including Nicole Kidman, Dakota Fanning, Meghann Fahy (known from Season 2 of “The White Lotus”), Eve Hewson, Liev Schreiber, and Sam Nivola (who appeared in Season 3 of “The White Lotus”). While reviews for the series, based on the Elin Hilderbrand novel, were mixed, it’s a surprisingly compelling murder mystery from 2024 that deserves another look.

Ridley Scott, known for both historical epics and science fiction classics like Alien, directed The Last Duel. It’s a retelling of a true story, structured similarly to the film Rashomon, focusing on differing accounts of the same event – in this case, a dispute between knights. Despite not doing well in theaters, it’s still a movie worth checking out.

Viewers have noticed that the episodes of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms are much shorter than those in the original Game of Thrones series. The first episode was only 41 minutes long, and the second was even shorter at 34 minutes. According to Winter Is Coming, the rest of the season’s episodes will also fall between 30 and 40 minutes, a significant decrease from the hour-long episodes fans are used to seeing in Game of Thrones.

During the week of January 19th to 25th, Sandokan was the seventh most popular TV show on Netflix globally, with 3.5 million views and a total of 27 million hours watched. It came in after His & Hers, Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials, Skyscraper Live, Finding Her Edge, and the fifth season of Stranger Things, as well as Run Away, but before Free Bert, Raw: 2026, and the fourth season of Stranger Things, which ranked tenth.

The upcoming film, The Odyssey, has already generated excitement with a preview trailer and a special IMAX presentation, showcasing director Christopher Nolan’s signature use of powerful music and impressive practical effects. However, the film has also drawn criticism for how Nolan has chosen to adapt the classic story. Now, that discussion is continuing, as musician Travis Scott has been added to the cast.

As reported by Deadline, Berry is set to lead the Apple TV+ series The President is Missing. Nicole Perlman and David Chasteen are writing the screenplay.

As a huge fan of the Duffer Brothers, I’m so excited about their next project! It’s called Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen, and it’s landing on Netflix in 2026 – seriously, just two months away! It’s an eight-episode series created by Haley Z. Boston, who’s done some cool work before – she wrote for Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities and was a story editor on Hunters. Apparently, the idea behind it is like a horror take on getting married, which sounds amazing and totally up my alley.

Paul Feig’s film, The Housemaid, has been a huge success, earning almost $295 million globally with a production budget of under $50 million (according to The Numbers). The movie is a psychological thriller starring Sydney Sweeney as a young woman with a difficult history who becomes a live-in housekeeper for a rich couple. Her relationship with the wife of the house, played by Amanda Seyfried, quickly becomes risky and unsettling.