Today's episode counts down GIno's top 5 shows for the week on all video streaming platforms.
Netflix:
- Nowhere - A young pregnant woman named Mia escapes from a country at war by hiding in a maritime container aboard a cargo ship. After a violent storm, Mia gives birth to the child while lost at sea, where she must fight to survive.
- Beckham - With never-before-seen footage, this docuseries follows David Beckham's meteoric rise from humble beginnings to global football stardom.
- Fair Play - An unexpected promotion at a cutthroat hedge fund pushes a young couple's relationship to the brink, threatening to unravel far more than their recent engagement.
- Sex Education - Season 4 of this hit comedy drama.
- Big Vape - The Rise and Fall of Juul - In this docuseries, a scrappy electronic cigarette startup becomes a multibillion-dollar company until an epidemic causes its success to go up in smoke.
Apple TV+:
- Calls - Told through a series of interconnected phone conversations, it chronicles the mysterious story of a group of strangers whose lives are thrown into disarray in the lead-up to an apocalyptic event.
- The Afterparty - When a high school reunion's afterparty ends in a death, everyone is a suspect. A detective grills the former classmates one by one, uncovering potential motives as each tells their version of the story - culminating in the shocking truth.
- Platonic - Former childhood best friends reconnect as adults and try to get past the rift that led to their falling out.
- Stephen Curry: Underrated - The coming-of-age story of Stephen Curry, from an undersized basketball player at a small college, to becoming a larger-than-life NBA superstar.
- Messi Meets America - The career of Lionel Messi in Major League Soccer (MLS) and at Inter Miami CF.
Showmax:
- Outlaws - Set in the lush but lawless land on the border between Lesotho and KwaZulu-Natal, Outlaws is the story of two families at war with each other.
- Blessers - As a powerful CEO, with a big house, a successful spouse, a family and expensive recreational habits, Jacob feels like life will always be this easy.
- 3. Poppie Nongena - Based on Elsa Joubert's novel "The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena," regarded as one of the best African novels of the 20th century.
- Sew The Winter To My Skin - In a racially-charged and violent 1950's rural South Africa, a liberal journalist recounts the epic chase, edge-of-your-seat capture and intriguing trial of a flamboyant, native "Robin Hood".
- Mapimpi - Makazole Mapimpi stole the hearts and minds of South Africans after the country won the Rugby World Cup in 2019 because of the challenges he overcame to be the best in the game.
Prime Video:
- John Wick Chapter 4
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