What to Watch the Week of October 6: Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth Star in Netflix’s Romantic Drama ‘Lonely Planet’

Disclaimer (Apple TV+): Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline lead this seven-part psychological thriller created and directed by five-time Oscar winner Alfonso Cuarón and primarily based on the best-selling novel of the identical identify by Renée Knight. Blanchett performs acclaimed journalist Catherine Ravenscroft, who constructed her repute revealing the misdeeds and transgressions of others. When she receives a novel from an unknown writer, she’s horrified to appreciate she is now the primary character in a narrative that exposes her darkest secrets and techniques. As Catherine races to uncover the author’s true identification, she is compelled to confront her previous earlier than it destroys each her personal life and her relationships together with her husband, Robert (Sacha Baron Cohen), and their son, Nicholas (Kodi Smit-McPhee). Lesley Manville, Louis Partridge, Leila George, and Hoyeon additionally star. Two episodes streaming at launch, adopted by new episodes each Friday by way of November 15

Saturday Night time (Sony): Primarily based on the true story of what occurred behind the scenes within the 90 minutes main as much as the primary broadcast of Saturday Night time Stay on October 11, 1975, the film stars Gabriel LaBelle, Rachel Sennott, Cory Michael Smith, Ella Hunt, Dylan O’Brien, Emily Fairn, Matt Wooden, Lamorne Morris, Kim Matula, Finn Wolfhard, Nicholas Braun, Cooper Hoffman, Andrew Barth Feldman, Kaia Gerber, Tommy Dewey, Willem Dafoe, Matthew Rhys, and J.Ok. Simmons. Jason Reitman directs. In theaters

We Stay in Time (A24): Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh play Tobias and Almut, respectively, who’re introduced collectively in a shock encounter that adjustments their lives. By means of snapshots of their life collectively—falling for one another, constructing a house, changing into a household—a tough reality is revealed that rocks its basis. In theaters

The Final of the Sea Ladies (Apple TV+): Right here’s the official description: A rare band of feisty grandmother warriors wage a spirited battle towards huge oceanic threats. Usually referred to as real-life mermaids, the haenyeo of South Korea’s Jeju Island are famend for hundreds of years of diving to the ocean ground—with out oxygen—to reap seafood for his or her livelihood. At this time, with most haenyeo now of their 60s, 70s, and 80s, their traditions and lifestyle are in imminent hazard. However these fierce, humorous, hardworking girls refuse to provide an inch, aided by a youthful technology’s struggle to revive their ancestral way of life by way of social media. Streaming

Saturday, October 12

No one Dumps My Daughter (Lifetime): On this new Lifetime unique film, Mary (Ana Ortiz) turns into obsessive about mending the connection between her daughter, Theresa (Jasmine Vega), and Theresa’s ex, Jimmy, after studying Jimmy took the lady”s virginity after which broke up together with her. However when Mary’s ways (together with bribery) fail, she turns into determined and her meddling methods flip murderous when she enlists the companies of a fortune teller named Anna (Sheila E.) and a hitman to homicide Jimmy in makes an attempt to reclaim her daughter’s purity. Spicy! 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT