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The best of what’s new streaming on Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, Disney Plus, and more.
Welcome to Boston.com’s weekly streaming guide. Each week, we recommend five must-watch movies and TV shows available on streaming platforms like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Disney+, HBO Max, Peacock, Paramount+, and more.
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New Movies Streaming
‘Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain’ (2023)
For almost his entire career, Brookline native Conan O’Brien has only appeared in movies and shows as himself. If you want to see O’Brien really test out his acting chops, go watch him play a therapist opposite Rose Byrne in the harrowing drama “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” (full review here).
But if you want to see him in a safer role, playing the dad of fellow gangly redhead Ben Marshall (“Saturday Night Live”), check out this oddball comedy from the sketch trio Please Don’t Destroy. Similar to their “SNL” videos, the boys (Marshall, John Higgins, Martin Herlihy) play good-hearted losers, but venture far beyond the confines of Studio 8H in search of a mythical treasure.
How to watch: “Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain” is streaming on Peacock.
‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem‘ (2023)
Unfortunately, Ayo Edebiri’s new movie opposite Julia Roberts, “After the Hunt,” isn’t worth seeing in theaters (You can read my review here). Because of that, I decided to whip up a watchlist of the Dorchester native’s best projects once you’re done watching “The Bear” in the latest edition of my streaming newsletter, The Queue.
One of the titles is this under-watched take on a Ninja Turtles origin story from 2023, featuring Edebiri as a slightly reimagined April O’Neil. She’s a bit more tuned into conspiracies than the April of old. But you probably would be too if you lived in a city with a vast underground lair of mutant villains, voiced by the likes of Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, John Cena, and Ice Cube.
How to watch: “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” is streaming on Netflix.
New TV Shows Streaming
‘The Chair Company’ (2025)
Tim Robinson, the former “SNL” cast member behind the generationally funny Netflix series “I Think You Should Leave,” is playing to his strengths in this new HBO show.
As is the case in most “ITYSL” sketches (and Robinson’s movie “Friendship”), the comedian plays a man who experiences an embarrassing situation and, rather than processing it normally, has an outsized emotional reaction. This time, Robinson’s project manager experiences an embarrassing workplace incident, then spends the series searching for a wide-ranging global conspiracy that could be to blame — or could also be absolutely nothing at all.
How to watch: “The Chair Company” is streaming on HBO Max.
‘The Diplomat‘ Season 3
Things have taken a dramatic turn in the third season of this political series about the U.S. Ambassador to the U.K., Kate Wyler (Kerri Russell, “The Americans”), and her scheming husband, Hal (Rufus Sewell, “Dark City”).
Without spoiling too much, fans of “The West Wing” will appreciate that showrunner Debora Cahn (who got her start on the NBC drama) has written prominent roles for both Allison Janney and Bradley Whitford in this new season.
How to watch: “The Diplomat” Season 3 is streaming on Netflix.
‘Mr. Scorsese’ (2025)
In an era where documentaries are more like hagiographies, offering little more than a nostalgic clip show that lacks any real insight into a subject’s life, “Mr. Scorsese” stands tall. The legendary director has always been eager to talk about his films and his many inspirations, but rarely has he gone into such depth about the dark and tortured chapters of his life.
In unflinching detail, this five-part Apple TV series digs into Scorsese’s failed marriages, his near-fatal cocaine overdose in the ’70s, and the years of depression and anguish that fueled some of his greatest works. It’s nothing flashy, just pure, unvarnished truth.
How to watch: “Mr. Scorsese” is streaming on Apple TV.
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