New To Streaming: What to watch on Netflix NZ, Neon and more this week

We round up everything coming to streaming services this week, including Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV, ThreeNow, Neon and TVNZ+.

Alice and Steve (Disney+, June 8)

In the uproarious “wrong-com” series Nicola Walker (The Split) and New Zealand’s own Jemaine Clement play best friends Alice and Steve, whose time-tested relationship is turned on its head when Steve starts dating the much-younger Izzy (Yali Topol Margalith) – who also happens to be Alice’s daughter. The ensuing fallout between the two fuels a “cycle of escalation so pointless and petty it could have powered an entire season of Beef”. Let the games begin.

Celebrity Escape (ThreeNow, June 9)

Rove McManus returns to New Zealand screens as the mischievous host of Celebrity Escape, a new high-stakes, high-pressure escape room TV show. Local comedians Josh Thomson, Abby Howells, Chris Parker and Hayley Sproull join Australia’s Celia Pacquola, Luke McGregor and Frank Woodley to tackle a series of themed escape rooms where puzzles, panic and peer voting decide who survives. These comedians are no Sherlock Holmes, but you can be sure that they’ll deliver a barrel of laughs.

Number One Fan (ThreeNow, June 9)

In this “silly but oh-so-watchable” thriller, Jill Halfpenny plays Lucy Logan, a beloved British daytime TV show presenter. When Logan is mugged in a supermarket car park and rescued by adoring superfan Donna (Sally Lindsay), her life begins to unravel as her obsessive saviour quietly infiltrates the star’s career, family and friendships. If you enjoy soaps with a side of suspense, Number One Fan is “four hours of guaranteed, preposterous fun.”

Devs (Neon, June 8)

Created, written and directed by Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Annihilation), this American sci-fi thriller series stars Sonoya Mizuno as Lily Chan, a software engineer working at a fictitious Silicon Valley tech giant led by Forest (Nick Offerman). Chan soon finds herself investigating Forest, after her partner is promoted to a secretive internal division and then vanishes under suspicious circumstances. Labelled as a “daring and new deconstruction of one of the basic tenets of human existence,” the mind-bending Devs will stick with you “whether you want it to or not”.

Over Your Dead Body (Prime Video, June 10)

An English-language remake of the Norwegian film The Trip, the action comedy thriller film Over Your Dead Body is led by Jason Segel and Samara Weaving as Dan and Lisa, a miserable couple. The two retreat to a remote cabin in the hopes of repairing their flagging relationship, but unbeknownst to either of them, they both arrive at their getaway with a secret plan to kill the other. Dubbed as one of the “funniest films of the year” that also “happens to be one of the bloodiest”, Over Your Dead Body is a must-see if you like your humour pitch black.

Pick of the Flicks: Exit 8 (AroVision, June 10)

Based on the viral Japanese video game of the same name, Genki Kawamura’s eerie Exit 8 follows an unnamed man (Kazunari Ninomiya) who is trapped in an endlessly looping subway passageway. To reach Exit 8 and escape the sterile, subterranean purgatory, the commuter must detect the anomalies in each passageway or he’ll be returned to Exit 0, his progress reset. If you’ve ever wandered the liminal labyrinth that is Queen Street’s Sky World, this “elegant, chilly dream of despair” is one to watch.

The rest Netflix

Sesame Street V3 (June 8)

Norway: The Dark Horse (June 9)

My Family: Season 2 (June 10)

Colours Of Evil: Black (June 10)

Viral Hit (June 11)

The Evil Lawyer (June 11)

Sweet Magnolias: Season 5 (June 11)

The Polygamist (June 12)

I Am Frankelda (June 12)

Maternal Instinct (June 12)

Love in Bloom (June 12)

TVNZ+

Watson S2 (June 8)

Zookeeper (June 8)

Dirty Dancing (June 9)

The Honest Thief (June 9)

Jimmy Carr’s Am I the A******? (June 10)

Scamanda (June 10)

Duck Dynasty: The Revival (June 10)

Miss Congeniality (June 11)

Beauty and the Beast (June 12)

MĀORI+

Barbie Uncovered (June 8)

Spark: A Space Tail (June 12)

The Young Victoria (June 12)

Dreambuilders (June 13)

Rambo: First Blood (June 13)

ThreeNow

Number One Fan (June 9)

Neon

For All Mankind S1-3 (June 8)

Devs (June 8)

Life On Mars S1-S2 (June 8)

Lost S1-S6 (June 8)

Infiniti (June 8)

War of the Worlds S1-S3 (June 8)

The Other Guys (June 8)

Wildlifers! (June 10)

G20 (June 10)

Kangaroo (June 10)

The Order (June 10)

Fizzy and Suds (June 11)

The Loud House S6 (June 11)

Shelter (June 12)

Twinless (June 14)

Prime Video

Every Year After (June 10)

Over Your Dead Body (June 10)

Shelter (June 11)

Disney+

Alice and Steve (June 8)

Best of the World with Antoni Porowski (June 8)

Dragon Striker (June 10)

The Magic Behind Island Tower at Disney’s Polynesian Villas & Bungalows (June 10)

The X-Files: I Want to Believe – Director’s Cut (June 11)

Marvel’s Iron Man and his Awesome Friends (June 12)

DocPlay

No Tears on the Field (June 8)

Terror at the Embassy (June 11)

AroVision

Exit 8 (June 10)

Obsession (June 10)

Hayu

Below Deck Mediterranean S11 (June 11)