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The theme of this week, it seems, is women trying to rediscover themselves. There’s Rachel Weisz playing a professor looking to get sexually reinvigorated. There’s Padma Lakshimi trying to reinvigorate the cooking-competition show. And then there’s Jessie Buckley as a woman possessed and trying to get literally reinvigorated. Here, everything this weekend, including a Harry Styles concert.
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Maggie Gyllenhaal’s take on James Whale’s The Bride of Frankenstein is manic, strange, and … something to, maybe, behold. Buckley stars as the Bride, revived by scientist Dr. Euphronious (Annette Bening) at the desperate behest of Frank (Christian Bale) in 1930s America. The pair embark on a Bonnie and Clyde–esque adventure as they run from a couple New York detectives and a shadowy mafia gang from the Bride’s past.
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Weisz plays an English professor at a small college who becomes ever more obsessed with a younger colleague (Leo Woodall). In the TV version of Julia May Jonas’s novel, the wry first-person narration takes the form of Weisz’s direct-to-camera address. Also featuring John Slattery as Weisz’s husband, a fellow professor who has been accused of sexual misconduct. —Kathryn VanArendonk
The latest in Bill Lawrence’s middle-aged-man-considers-his-life oeuvre, after Ted Lasso and Shrinking, this show has its 60-something author protagonist (Steve Carell) move to a college campus to help support his adult daughter (Charly Clive), a professor at the school —K.V.A.
On Sunday afternoon, Netflix is livestreaming Styles performing his new album, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally., in Manchester — no overseas flight or overpriced concert ticket required. Styles will perform the entire album for the first time and hopefully have a better routine than whatever was going on at the BRIT Awards.
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Padma Lakshmi couldn’t stay away from food TV for long, which is all the better for us. She’s bringing her culinary knowledge and singular hosting presence to this show in which 16 highly decorated chefs — including two-time Top Chef winner Buddha Lo — battle it out for a $1 million prize. —Roxana Hadadi
Adapted from Maggie O’Farrell’s novel of the same name, Paul Mescal plays the Bard in Hamnet, while his co-star Buckley gives a stirring performance as Shakespeare’s wife, Agnes, a strong-willed mother contending with unpredictable grief as they deal with the loss of their son, Hamnet. It’s a performance that’ll most likely grab her an Oscar next week. The film is now available on Peacock alongside other Best Picture nominee Bugonia.
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