00:00Here's your breakdown of what to watch this weekend in THR's now screening.
00:04First, THR's chief TV critic Daniel Feinberg has his picks of what you should check out.
00:08It's Emmy weekend. That means your first priority, if you love good TV, should be to catch up on Sunday night's presumptive big winners, including Watchmen, Succession, and Schitt's Creek.
00:21Of course, if you love good TV, you're probably ahead on that homework.
00:24The weekend's best premiering show, one that should be an awards contender a year from now, is the second season of Hulu's Pen15, a quirky, awkward, hilarious, and heartfelt comedy featuring 30-something co-creators Anna Conkle and Maya Erskine as 13-year-old junior high students in 2000 acting opposite actual teenage actors.
00:47It sounds strange, but if you settle in, it's a recipe for surprising and relatable moments of truth.
00:54My God, Brendan is staring at you. Literally staring.
01:00I feel smothered by him. Move on.
01:03Or maybe that doesn't sound strange to you at all.
01:05In that case, maybe you're the target demo for Netflix's Ratchet from Ryan Murphy and Evan Romansky.
01:11It's a prequel to the Oscar-winning One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, except it has nothing really to do with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
01:19It's Hitchcock plus Douglas Sirk in a blender with a monkey.
01:23I don't think it's good, but it's definitely not boring, and it's definitely not what you're expecting.
01:29Unless you're expecting another version of American Horror Story Asylum, in which case, enjoy!
01:35We had a saying in the core, save one life and you're a hero.
01:41Save a hundred lives, well then, you're a nurse.
01:45Thanks, Daniel. I spoke to Ratchet star Sarah Paulson about why Ryan Murphy keeps her coming back.
01:49A lot of people ask me, like, why don't you go work with someone else?
01:53And it's like, if someone else were calling with as many interesting opportunities as Ryan continues to present to me, I would.
02:00But I keep coming back because the material is just unquestionably rich and a real opportunity to sink my teeth into something.
02:11And he tends to write stories for women who are at the center of the story.
02:15And all of these women are so really, really defined and multidimensional.
02:22And you don't always get that, where every character has a real shape and a real life.
02:28And, you know, that's really, how can I walk away from that?
02:31And if you haven't watched it yet, Julie and the Phantoms is now streaming on Netflix.
02:35The music-infused series from high school musical director Kenny Ortega will make you laugh, cry, and want to get up and dance.
02:41Keep it up for Julie and the Phantoms!
02:47Why have you been keeping those cute boys a secret?
02:49They're ghosts.
02:50When we play together, people can see them.
02:52Star Cheyenne Jackson, who plays evil phantom Caleb in the series, told THR what gives Ortega the magic touch and makes his musical project so special.
03:00He has the heart of a child.
03:04And I mean that in the best, truest sense.
03:06He is not cynical.
03:08And usually people that have a story about every decade, you know, from Madonna to Michael Jackson to, you know, everything in between, have a sense of, you know, like, let me tell you how it was.
03:23And he's not like that.
03:24He has, he still has that wonder.
03:26Plus, if you want to watch a movie in, the film Antebellum, starring Janelle Monae, is now available on VOD.
03:32Wherever you were before, that's over.
03:35That's over.
03:36Until the next Now Screening, I'm Tiffany Taylor for The Hollywood Reporter News.
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