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You’ll learn plenty of them in The Five-Star Weekend, a female-bonding drama that stars Jennifer Garner as a grieving widow who just wants to hang out with her best friends. Same, sister.
If you’re craving some creative reboots of beloved past shows and movies, we suggest you stream Netflix’s Little House on the Prairie reimaging as well as Prime Video’s The Ghost in the Shell remake.
Finally, HBO Max just dropped The Man Will Burn, an intriguing new docuseries about the annual Burning Man festival in Nevada.
‘The Five-Star Weekend’ Season 1 (2026) – Peacock
Hollis Shaw (Jennifer Garner) is a woman with a five-star life: a beautiful home in Nantucket, a loving husband and a thriving career as a popular food blogger. But her picture-perfect life is soon shattered when her husband dies in a car accident, which triggers a very emotional breakdown on live television.
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Needing some time away from the spotlight, she decides to host a weekend with just her and her four best friends from various stages of her life: sassy Tatum (Chloë Sevigny), her childhood bestie with a secret; Dru-Ann (Regina Hall), her college friend whose career is spiralling out of control; fellow mom friend Brooke (D’Arcy Carden), whose husband was just accused of workplace misconduct; her college-age daughter Caroline (Harlow Jane), who is flunking out of school; and Gigi (Gemma Chan), who connected with Hollis online after her husband died. These women have almost nothing in common except Hollis, who wants to grow closer to the important women in her life to avoid processing her grief.
Based on Elin Hilderbrand’s best-selling novel of the same name, The Five-Star Weekend is the perfect summer beach read watch. Garner leads a talented female cast that offers enough sugar spice to keep you engaged throughout its eight episodes. If you’re looking for a breezy seasonal getaway filled with pajama dance parties and shocking revelations, book some time with The Five-Star Weekend.
‘The Ghost in the Shell’ (2026) – Prime Video
The Ghost in the Shell by Shirow Masamune is one of the most influential manga ever made. Its 1995 feature-length anime adaptation is almost equally famous, and, along with Akira, popularized the cyberpunk genre for Western audiences. The latest iteration, also titled Ghost in the Shell, is an episodic streaming series on Prime Video, but the story is largely the same. In near-future Japan, cyborg Motoko Kusangai (Maaya Sakamoto) and her elite combat unit are recruited by government official Daisuke Aramaki (Kazuhiro Yamaji) to lead Public Security Section 9, a “Shell Squad” designed to combat cyber crime. They’re soon tested by the arrival of the Puppet Master, a mysterious hacker who wants to take down the entire country. Can Moto and her team stop him?
Featuring breathtakingly beautiful animation and some killer action scenes, The Ghost in the Shell is a fun anime that honors the original movie but carves out its own identity. Each episode premieres weekly until the season finale in late August.
‘Little House on the Prairie’ Season 1 – Netflix
One of the biggest TV hits of the 1970s was Little House on the Prairie, a nostalgic look at American frontier life that was based on Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved book series. Over 40 years after it left the airwaves, Little House is back to charm a whole new generation of viewers, this time on Netflix.
In this reimagining, the Ingalls family, led by the stern but loving patriarch Charles (Luke Bracey), has just found their forever home in the small town of Independence. But American life in the 1800s is a little wild and a whole lot dangerous, and the family of four will have to endure an often unforgiving nature. They also meet the Mitchells, a Native American family who justifiably view their new neighbors with suspicion. Both retro and modern, this new version of Little House on the Prairie is a refreshingly wholesome series that isn’t afraid to tackle serious issues while serving up a comforting look at America’s past.
‘The Man Will Burn’ Season 1 – HBO Max
Burning Man just celebrated its 40th anniversary, which is probably why we’re getting a four-episode docuseries about its surprising history and cultural impact. The Man Will Burn begins in 2021, when the festival’s organizers, among them Elon’s brother, Kimbal, debated bringing it back so soon after the COVID-19 pandemic. It then looks back at how the festival started and grew over the years to be a destination for people around the world to lose themselves – including their minds – in the Nevada desert.
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Filming over five years, directors Jehane Noujaim and Vikram Gandhi have complete access to Burning Man’s organization, resulting in a documentary that’s both authoritative and slightly hagiographic. If you’re a fan of the event, you‘ll love The Man Will Burn, but even if you aren’t, you get a taste of what it’s like walking among thousands of scantily-clad attendees doing drugs and watching bonfires light up the night sky.
