Must Watch Shows and Movies Streaming Right Now
We talk about shows and movies we're watching pretty often, and we've been asked to put them all together in a list so everybody can be on the same page.
Untold: Crimes & Penalties
A rich guy with mob ties buys his 17-year-old son a minor league hockey team. They immediately hire a guy who just got out of prison that notably was known for beating up multiple prison guards at once. Of course, the FBI makes an appearance by the end.
Platform: Netflix
Clickbait
A video is shared showing a battered guy with a sign that says "At 5 million views I die." It's up to the police, his family, and his friends to figure out who took him, where he is, and why they did it. Ends with a totally unexpected twist.
Platform: Netflix
The Social Dilemma
Even if you hate documentaries, you have to watch this one. It shows the amo5unt of social engineering that goes into our social media, our phones, our computers, everything. These things were specially engineered to get us addicted, and the whole documentary is explained by people who helped design the products we can't put down.
Platform: Netflix
Shelby American: The Carroll Shelby Story
The story of the automotive icon who went from chicken farmer to the winningest racing driver in American motorsports.
Platform: Netflix
Schitt's Creek
If you haven't jumped on the Schitt's Creek train yet, you need to. It's a refreshing show with comedy the likes of which we haven't seen in a very long time. The show also has its emotional highs and lows, and you're bound to laugh and cry throughout this show. Plus, it features Eugene Levy and his son Dan, as well as Catherine O'Hara.
Yellowstone
This show has taken the nation by storm, and everyone is eagerly awaiting the new season this fall.
"A ranching family in Montana faces off against others encroaching on their land," is the simple yet perfect description for this show. It's cowboy Kevin Costner, what more info do you need?
Platform: Peacock
The Sopranos
The Sopranos is regarded as one of the greatest TV shows ever written. If you don't know what it's about by now, you just need to watch it.
Platform: HBO Max, Prime (HBO Add-On), Hulu (Premium Subscription)
The Cabin with Bert Kreischer
Comedian Bert Kreischer decides he needs some time off from touring, so he goes to a cabin in the woods to decompress. While he's there, he invites his friends, who are all immediately recognizable, over to try things they've never done before. The first episode features Joey Diaz walking in on Bert and Tom Segura butchering an emu that they're going to eat for dinner.
Platform: Netflix
Long Shot
After being arrested for a murder he didn't commit, Juan Catalan builds his entire case around an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Platform: Netflix
Stop at Nothing
"This documentary is an intimate but explosive story about the man behind the greatest fraud in sporting history. Lance Armstrong enriched himself by cheating his fans, his sport and the truth."
Platform: Amazon Prime
Heist
Heist is a documentary series following some of the wildest heists of all time. Millions of dollars in cash stolen from money trucks, stolen high-end bourbon, and more.
Platform: Netflix
He Lied About Everything
A special that follows and investigates an internationally acclaimed surgeon's knack for lying about, well, everything, and the engagement that blew up in his face because of it.
Platform: Discovery+
The Clown and The Candyman
This documentary examines the cases of Dean Corll and John Wayne Gacy, revealing the network of pedophilia that connect the two.
Platform: Discovery+
Mystery, Alaska
A comedy about a small town that gets a little too excited when their hockey team gets chosen to host a televised event.
Platform: Amazon Prime, Apple TV
The Morning Show
Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, and Billy Crudup star in this show about America's number 1 morning news show, and follows their lives on and off the set.
Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened
The party that was supposed to be bigger than Woodstock ended up unraveling to be a massive fraud. Features one of the co-founders
Platform: Netflix
If you somehow made it through all of 2020 without watching all of Tiger King in one sitting, you're in the minority. Follows "tiger king" Joe Schriebvogel (who travelled through our area frequently) and his band of misfits who take care of big cats, ending with Joe's imprisonment for attempting to hire a hitman to take out a rival big cat figurehead.
The Inventor: Out For Blood in Silicon Valley
See the wild story of Elizabeth Holmes, the woman who owned a multi-billion dollar tech company that was built on fake products.
Platform: HBO Max
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Hired Gun
You've probably seen or heard most of the people featured in this documentary that follows the musicians hired to fill in for music's biggest names on tour and in studio. Features interviews from Alice Cooper, Rob Zombie, Steve Vai, David Foster and Ray Parker Jr.
Platform: Amazon Prime
American Murder: The Family Next Door
You probably remember the story of Chris Watts killing his wife and kids back in 2018, which made national headlines because of how "normal" of a family they appeared to be.
Platform: Netflix
History's Greatest Mysteries
Investigating a bunch historical mysteries surrounding the Titanic, D.B. Cooper, John Wilkes Booth, and more.
Platform: Hulu
Sour Grapes
A guy with cheap, bad wine somehow manages to fool the rich and powerful through fraudulent action and passing through auction house to auction house, selling millions of dollars worth of fake wine.
Platform: Amazon Prime
Wild Wild Country
A controversial guru builds a Utopia in Oregon, but a clash with local officials becomes national controversy.
Platform: Netflix
The Great Brady Heist
A guy posing as a journalist makes off with Tom Brady's Super Bowl LI jersey. This doc follows the whole story from when it was stolen, to when the jersey was located in Mexico.
Platform: YouTube. For free. The whole thing. It's right up above.
Candyman: The David Klein Story
This is another one that's free to watch on YouTube. Normally you hear "Documentary about Jelly Beans" and you'd be turned off to it. David Klein is one of the weirdest guys out there, but as far as candy goes, he's an absolute genius. You won't be able to peel your eyes away from this guy and his weird habits.
Platform: YouTube