What to Stream This Weekend: ‘Wednesday,’ ‘The Pickup,’ ‘Platonic’ and More

Jenna Ortega returns for the highly anticipated second season of Wednesday, and you can catch the first four episodes now on Netflix. (Episodes 5-8 will arrive on Sept. 3.) This season, the always morbid Wednesday Addams returns to Nevermore Academy for new adventures and adversaries await. We’re just excited for the special appearances from Lady Gaga, Thandiwe Newton and Fred Armisen.

Stolen: Heist of the Century exposes the real story behind one of the biggest diamond heists of all time, when between $100 million and half a billion dollars’ worth of diamonds were stolen from a vault in Antwerp in 2003. The robbery was pulled off by master jewel thieves from Italy known as ‘The School of Turin,’ and the documentary, out this Friday, reveals how they did it. Though the thieves were caught, most of the diamonds have never been recovered.

Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang’s always-entertaining podcast Las Culturistas is a passionate commentary about all the things they love (and hate) in pop culture, while also often becoming a conversation piece itself, thanks to their great celebrity interviews and the industry stories they tell. This week marked the first televised broadcast of their Las Culturistas Culture Awards, which they’ve billed as “culture’s biggest night, depending on who you ask.” The tongue-in-cheek award show doled out awards for things like “Woman of a Certain Age” and “Grief of the Year” and featured dozens of cameos from some of Hollywood’s biggest names. The special aired earlier this week on Bravo and is streaming now on Peacock.

Eddie Murphy, Pete Davidson and Keke Palmer co-star in the new comedy heist The Pickup, which arrived on Prime Video this week. Murphy and Davidson star as two armored truck drivers whose truck is ambushed by a team of criminals led by Palmer’s character. The film also co-stars Eva Longoria, Marshawn Lynch, Roman Reigns, Andrew Dice Clay and Ismael Cruz Córdova.

After the success of Outlander, it makes sense that the show would spawn a spinoff. Outlander: Blood of My Blood is technically a prequel to the hit series that follows the parents of both protagonists from the original series, Jamie Fraser and Claire Beauchamp. Like Outlander, the series juggles multiple timelines; Jamie’s parents in 18th century Scotland are played by Harriet Slater and Jamie Roy, while the story of Claire’s parents, played by Hermione Corfield and Jeremy Irvine, takes place in England during the first World War.

If you feel like Pedro Pascal is in just about everything this year, you’re not totally wrong. In addition to The Fantastic Four, The Last of Us, Materialists and Eddington, Pascal has also recently starred in Freaky Tales, which makes its streaming debut on HBO Max this Friday. The anthology film weaves four interconnected stories together in Oakland in 1987. Pascal is joined by Ben Mendelsohn, Jay Ellis, Normani, Dominique Thorne, Jack Champion, Ji-young Yoo, Angus Cloud and Tom Hanks.

Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen are back as platonic (and often dysfunctional) best friends Sylvia and Will in Platonic season 2 on Apple TV Plus. The first two episodes of the 10-episode season premiered on Aug. 6, and a new episode will premiere weekly until Oct. 1. This season co-stars Luke Macfarlane and Carla Gallo and will also welcome the arrival of three SNL alums to the cast, Aidy Bryant, Kyle Mooney and Beck Bennett. 

If you like Welcome to Wrexham, chances are you’ll be a fan of Necaxa, the new football (in the soccer sense) series that’s essentially a spinoff of Wrexham. Now that Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds have made a huge impact in English football as the owners of the scrappy Welsh football club Wrexham, they’ve become co-investors, along with Eva Longoria, in Necaxa, the Mexican football club that has suffered similar setbacks in recent years. With an influx of money (and, one assumes, exposure thanks to the new show), the three Hollywood stars hope to turn it around. The show premieres on Hulu on Aug. 8.