Tom Hiddleston thriller streaming leads this week's picks
Looking for tom hiddleston thriller streaming this week? The Guardian's pick is Pompeii: Out of Time With Tom Hiddleston, a documentary drama on Vesuvius landing on Disney+ from 23 July, while crime thriller The Crow Girl season two arrives on Paramount+ from 20 July.
Key Takeaways
- Pompeii: Out of Time With Tom Hiddleston is The Guardian's pick of the week, streaming on Disney+ from Thursday 23 July.
- The Crow Girl season two, adapted from Erik Axl Sund's novels and starring Eve Myles, hits Paramount+ from Monday 20 July.
- Also recommended: Young Farts Trailer Parts (Prime Video), King of the Hill season 15 (Disney+), A Toxic Love Story and Kaulitz & Kaulitz (Netflix), and Sea Shadows (Channel 4).
- Dates cluster between 20 and 24 July 2026 across major streamers.
According to The Guardian's weekly streaming guide, Hiddleston tops the slate with a Vesuvius-focused documentary drama, while The Crow Girl keeps grim crime fans hooked. For more BlasterPost desk alerts, see our Fintech & Crypto Alerts category.
What is the Tom Hiddleston thriller streaming pick this week?
Phil Harrison names Pompeii: Out of Time With Tom Hiddleston as pick of the week. Hiddleston is billed as an "amateur classicist" in a slightly cheesy but engaging documentary drama about the Mount Vesuvius eruption in AD79.
He visited Pompeii as a teenager and has been fascinated ever since. The series enlists historians, geoscientists and psychologists to explore the disaster as it unfolded.
Using reconstructions, it follows three citizens of Pompeii as the ground shudders and volcanic ash closes in. It streams on Disney+ from Thursday 23 July.
Which crime thriller should you stream alongside it?
The Crow Girl season two opens with a horrific farm scene that unsettles a forensic pathologist. Eve Myles's DCI Jeanette Kilburn and team realise how many clues they missed in the original murder case.
Adapted from Erik Axl Sund's novels, the series toys with sympathies—especially the main suspect's expanding backstory—and delights in taking everything slightly too far. It arrives on Paramount+ from Monday 20 July.
What else makes the seven best shows list?
Young Farts Trailer Parts follows bickering brothers Jagger and Dawson Glowatsky at a Canadian RV spare-parts yard. Harrison likens the mood to Top Gear meets Scrapheap Challenge. It is on Prime Video now.
King of the Hill season 15 continues Hank and Peggy's restless retirement and Bobby's romance with Connie. It lands on Disney+ from Monday 20 July.
Netflix adds A Toxic Love Story on Wednesday 22 July, a true-crime documentary about the feud involving Ian and Angela Diaz and Michelle Hadley over a co-owned California property. The same day brings Kaulitz & Kaulitz season three, following Tokio Hotel brothers Tom and Bill from clean-living routines to a major pool party and unresolved childhood trauma.
Sea Shadows (originally Rivages) is a French thriller in which oceanographer Abigail returns home to examine a mysterious shipwreck amid clashes between authorities, fishers and activists. It airs on Channel 4 from Friday 24 July.
Why does this streaming slate matter now?
The guide concentrates new and returning titles into a five-day window, making it easy to plan a weekend watchlist. Hiddleston's Pompeii series personalises a famous disaster, while The Crow Girl and Sea Shadows feed demand for tense, twisty storytelling.
Together, the seven picks span docudrama, crime, reality, animation and true crime—enough variety that tom hiddleston thriller streaming searches lead into a broader week of appointments across Disney+, Paramount+, Prime Video, Netflix and Channel 4.