Weekend Watch — 5/12/23

Feel-good stand-up comedy + the rise and fall of the first must-have gadget that sparked the smartphone age...

May 12, 2023

Hey there, TueNighters! As you know, the TueNight team publishes an amazing list of movie releases, series drops, and tv shows in our weekly TueDo List newsletter.

Here in the Weekend Watch, we’re able to take a deeper dive into our recommendations and chat a little more about what we’re watching — LET’S GO!

Here are this week’s picks:

Blackberry (Theaters): The "true story" of the meteoric rise & catastrophic demise of Blackberry, the world’s first smartphone. A corporate biopic through the eyes of its founder and creator Mike Lazaridis (Jay Baruchel) and co-CEO Jim Balsillie (Glenn Howerton) as they go from being upstarts to dominating the smartphone market, and eventually, getting rendered obsolete by the rise of iPhone.

Hannah Gadsby: Something Special (Netflix): Filmed at the Sydney Opera House, Emmy and Peabody Award-winning comedian and Honorary TueNighter Hannah Gadsby is back for their third Netflix comedy special and it's a feel-good show. Seriously. In this smart and dare we say... feel-good set, the comedian talks about a wedding (theirs!), more than one traumatic encounter with a bunny, and much more.

City on Fire | Season 1 (Apple TV+): Based on the 2015 novel by Garth Risk Hallberg & crafted by the writers of The O.C. and Gossip Girl — an NYU student is shot in Central Park on the Fourth of July, 2003. Samantha (Chase Sui Wonders) is alone; there are no witnesses and very little physical evidence. Her friends’ band is playing at her favorite downtown club but she leaves to meet someone, promising to return. She never does.

As the crime against Samantha is investigated, she’s revealed to be the crucial connection between a series of mysterious citywide fires, the downtown music scene, and a wealthy uptown real estate family fraying under the strain of the many secrets they keep.