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Though the song is nearly 30 years old, Bruce Springsteen’s “57 Channels (And Nothin’ On)” encapsulates the struggle viewers face today. With hundreds of cable channels, dozens of streaming services, and countless on-demand titles, trying to decide what to watch can feel like an endless ordeal.
That’s where we come in. Each month, Boston.com recommends 10 must-watch movies and TV shows available on streaming platforms like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Disney+, HBO Max, and more.
Many recommendations are for new shows, while others are for under-the-radar releases you might have missed, or classics that are about to depart a streaming service at the end of the month.
First up, with
Army of the Dead hitting theaters and Netflix soon, Vanity Fair had director Zack Snyder sit down to take a look back at his career as a filmmaker. The director looks back his early days with the music video for Lizzy Borden’s song “Love is a Crime” and the zombie movie
Dawn of the Dead, but he also touches upon all of his comic book movies, from
300 to his long-demanded cut of Justice League.
Next, Netflix has a featurette revealing the making of an epic battle from the new comic book superhero series Jupiter’s Legacy. It took the cast and crew of the series almost three months of preparation to shoot the battle on the hilltop to life, and after watching this video, you’ll see what it had to be meticulously planned for so long.
Mean Girls, has added to his accomplishments with Peacock’s
Girls5eva. Richmond, who also produces the show with wife Tina Fey, composed the musicalcomedy’s funny, catchy original songs in collaboration with series creator and lyricist Meredith Scardino. In talking about their partnership, Richmond tells
The A.V. Club that it was a dream, and Scardino took charge of the lyrical content: “She knows how to find the joke within the style we are trying to emulate of this ’90s girl group.”
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The show centers on four women trying to revive their once famous band called Girls5eva. Richmond says the process of working on the songs was a collaborative give-and-take, and that they were inspired by Spice Girls, En Vogue, and Destiny’s Child, among others. The pair previously worked on Fey and Robert Carlock’s