From a show that probes the edges of human behaviour to one that reimagines history on a grand scale, there's variety in escapism with this week's streaming options.
Here are the titles worth your time.
Shows to stream
My Strange Addiction season seven (OSN+)
In its seventh season, My Strange Addiction continues to spotlight individuals whose compulsions have taken over their daily lives. Each episode follows people grappling with extreme habits, often blurring the line between curiosity and concern.
This season includes people addicted to eating cardboard, cat food, raw meat, live bugs and even furniture foam.
Bait (Prime Video)
Riz Ahmed leans into long-circulating speculation about his potential casting as the next James Bond in a series that is as sharp as it is affecting. In Bait, he plays Shah Latif, a struggling British-Pakistani actor whose life begins to unravel after a seemingly golden opportunity to audition for the role of the famous secret agent.
Autobiographical and satirical in equal measure, the show uses humour to disarm before delving into questions of identity, racism and the complexities of the South Asian diaspora.
Co-written by Ahmed, the show's excellent cast also includes Guz Khan, Sheeba Chaddha, Soni Razdan and the voice of Patrick Stewart.
For All Mankind season five (Apple TV+)
Apple TV’s ambitious alternate-history drama continues its vision of a world where the Soviet Union won the race to the Moon – and the space race never ended.
The new season is set in the 2010s, and explores tensions between a fully established colony on Mars and those on Earth. The ensemble cast returns, including Joel Kinnaman, Toby Kebbell, Cynthy Wu, Coral Pena, Edi Gathegi alongside several fresh faces such as Sean Kaufman.
Love Story: John F Kennedy Jr and Carolyn Bessette (Disney+)
Ryan Murphy's glossy anthology series begins with a dramatisation of the relationship between John F Kennedy Jr, the son of former US President John F Kennedy, and fashion publicist Carolyn Bessette – a romance that unfolded under intense public scrutiny.
Starring Sarah Pidgeon as Bessette and Paul Anthony Kelly as JFK Jr, the series traces their courtship, marriage and eventual tragedy – the famous couple died in a plane crash in 1999.
The show had its premiere in February, with weekly episode drops, and has led to increased interest in the couple. FX recently said the show is now the most streamed limited series on its platform.
Other cast members include Naomi Watts as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Grace Gummer as Caroline Kennedy, John Jr's older sister.
Movies to stream
All That's Left of You (OSN+)
Shortlisted for the Oscar's Best International Feature, director Cherien Dabis's intergenerational drama spans Palestinian history from 1948 to the late 1980s.
Tying personal lives to historical events, it begins in the 1980s in the Occupied West Bank. A Palestinian teenager is caught up in a protest that turns violent. In the aftermath, his mother begins recounting the story of their family, taking the narrative back to 1948 and the Nakba, when his grandparents were displaced from their home. From there, the story moves across generations, from life in exile and refugee camps to the tensions of the First Intifada, showing how loss, displacement and occupation shape each generation differently.
Javier Bardem and Mark Ruffalo are executive producers for this acclaimed film.
In the Blink of an Eye (Disney+)
This high-concept drama is built around a single moment that changes everything. The plot unfolds through three storylines spanning thousands of years and follows a prehistoric Neanderthal family, a modern-day researcher and a space voyager, and explores how time, memory and consequence intersect.
The cast includes Kate McKinnon, Rashida Jones and Daveed Diggs and is directed by Andrew Stanton, best known for films such as Finding Nemo, Wall-E and John Carter.
Pretty Lethal (Prime Video)
An action thriller, this film follows five ballerinas who are stranded in a remote forest in Hungary while on their way to a dance competition. They take shelter at an unsettling roadside inn run by Devora Kasimer (Uma Thurman) and soon find out that they must weaponise their elite training to survive.
The cast includes Iris Apatow, Lana Condor and Maddie Ziegler, alongside Millicent Simmonds and Avantika.
Humint (Netflix)
Directed by Ryoo Seung-wan, dubbed South Korea’s “action kid”, Humint follows a South Korean intelligence officer who, while on a mission in Russia, finds himself going head-to-head with a North Korean operative. As the two men navigate deep distrust and shifting alliances, what begins as a straightforward assignment evolves into a tense game of strategy and survival.
Blending espionage with character-driven drama, the film explores the blurred lines between loyalty and pragmatism, as well as the human cost of intelligence work carried out in the shadows.
