‘The Bachelor’, ‘Teen Wolf’ and a romantic comedy starring JLo: Here’s what’s on Netflix, Prime and more this week

With so many different streaming platforms and cable deals to browse through, choosing what to watch has never been harder. To make it easier for you, here are our top tune-up tips for the week ahead.

MONDAY

The single person

The 27th season of “The Bachelor” kicks off tonight and this year’s rose distributor is 26-year-old Zach Shallcross. The technical manager from Anaheim Hills, Calif., finished third in his attempts to woo Rachel Recchia last season. Do people still care about this show? I guess saying anything else would be blasphemy for “Bachelor Nation,” but this show is in serious need of a retool. Especially in light of Netflix entering the love wars with “The Perfect Match” next month.

8 p.m. Citytv & Citytv Plus

WEDNESDAY

Extraordinary

In a world where everyone over the age of 18 has a superpower, 25-year-old Jen has been left out. The protagonist, played by Irish actor Mairead Tyers (“Belfast”), is joined by a cast of fairly new faces. Jen, stuck in a dead-end job at a party store, finds some solace for her lack of abilities by reaching out to her best friend Carrie (who is lucky enough to be able to channel the dead).

Disney+

THURSDAY

Poker face

This 10-episode mystery series of the week follows Charlie (played by Natasha Lyonne from “Orange Is the New Black”), who has the incredible ability to immediately detect when someone is lying. The show is the brainchild of the filmmaker of “Knives Out” Rian Johnson, his first television series.

Citytv Plus

you people

Kenya Barris’ (written with Jonah Hill, who also stars in the romantic comedy) film debut is a new age “Meet the Parents.” Hill plays Ezra Cohen, a lovable idiot who accidentally gets into Amira Mohammed’s (Lauren London) car. The pair instantly and unexpectedly bond over their love of sneakers and quickly realize their awkward introduction was always meant to be. Then it’s time for the parents to meet and that’s where the star power in this new Netflix movie really shines. Ezra’s progressive, semi-awakened parents (Julia Louis-Dreyfus and David Duchovny) and Amira’s inflexible but concerned parents (Eddie Murphy and Nia Long), make it a must-have, even if only for the cast.

netflix

Teen Wolf: The Movie

For fans who still need closure after MTV decided to end its popular teen supernatural series in 2017, the time has finally come. Paramount Plus reunites most of the original cast in a revival film that chronicles the rise of a new threat in Beacon Hills. Although Scott McCall (Tyler Posey) is no longer a teenager, he is still the neighborhood’s Alpha leader and it will be interesting to see how much he has changed.

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FRIDAY

Contraction

Pick of the week is this new Apple TV Plus comedy starring Jason Segel and Harrison Ford. Segel plays a grief therapist who decides to step away from all his formal training to tell all of his clients what he really thinks. The unfiltered advice drives his patients to make sweeping changes to their lives with the hilarity you’d expect.

Apple TV Plus

shotgun wedding

Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel star as Darcy and Tom in this romantic comedy about a destination wedding in which the entire wedding party is held hostage. The couple who were starting to get cold feet at the idea of ​​getting married are therefore forced to work together to save their family.

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Murtz Jaffer is a Toronto-based entertainment writer and freelance contributor for The Star. Follow him on Twitter: @murtzjaffer

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