What to watch this weekend: best new streaming picks
If you are deciding what to watch this weekend (July 10–12), start with Netflix's Little House on the Prairie reboot, Peacock's The Five-Star Weekend and Reminders of Him, HBO Max's The Long Walk, and MGM+'s crime drama The Westies—plus returning reality staples like Project Runway Season 22. Summer streaming is lighter on tentpoles but packed with book adaptations, prestige docs, and guilty-pleasure TV.
Key Takeaways
- Netflix dropped all eight episodes of Little House on the Prairie Season 1, making it an easy full-weekend binge.
- HBO Max adds The Long Walk on Friday and hosts the four-part Burning Man docuseries The Man Will Burn.
- Peacock serves two major premieres: Jennifer Garner's The Five-Star Weekend and Colleen Hoover's Reminders of Him.
- MGM+ debuts The Westies on Sunday with a two-episode premiere starring J.K. Simmons and Titus Welliver.
- Netflix also still has recent arrivals like Dark Winds Season 4 for crime-drama fans who missed earlier July drops.
What's new on Netflix this weekend?
Netflix's headline arrival is Little House on the Prairie, a new adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder's semi-autobiographical books. All eight Season 1 episodes are available now, with Alice Halsey playing Laura in this frontier family story. TheWrap notes showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine brings a self-professed obsession with the source material to the revival.
MakeUseOf also flags Dark Winds Season 4 as a must-binge Netflix pick. The Navajo Tribal Police drama stars Zahn McClarnon as Joe Leaphorn and follows a missing-teen case tied to a mob conspiracy. Each season tells a discrete story, so newcomers can jump in without catching up first.
Which HBO Max titles are worth watching?
Stephen King fans get a major win Friday when The Long Walk hits HBO Max. The dystopian thriller follows young men in a brutal marathon where stragglers are killed, with Mark Hamill as the sinister Major. The Boston Globe's Odie Henderson awarded the film three stars, and TheWrap calls it an all-time-great King adaptation.
Documentary viewers should queue The Man Will Burn, a four-part HBO series about Burning Man. Directors Jehane Noujaim and Vikram Gandhi received years-long access to the festival and the team behind the annual Nevada desert gathering. New episodes roll out weekly after the series debuted Thursday.
What should you stream on Peacock and beyond?
Peacock delivers a double feature of literary adaptations. The Five-Star Weekend, based on Elin Hilderbrand's novel, stars Jennifer Garner as celebrity chef Hollis Shaw alongside Regina Hall, Chloë Sevigny, D'Arcy Carden, and Gemma Chan. Reminders of Him, another Colleen Hoover adaptation, arrives Friday with Maika Monroe as a mother rebuilding her life after prison.
Reality fans have options across services. Project Runway Season 22 streams on Disney+ and Hulu with Heidi Klum, Law Roach, Nina Garcia, Christian Siriano, and recurring judge Tyra Banks. TheWrap also highlights Big Brother and the action title The Furious among this week's digital releases.
For crime drama, The Westies premieres Sunday on MGM+ with its first two episodes. Set in 1980s Hell's Kitchen, the series tracks an Irish gang facing FBI pressure and generational conflict, led by J.K. Simmons and Titus Welliver. For more weekly guides, browse our Streaming & TV Alerts hub—or see the full weekend lists at The Boston Globe and TheWrap.