This Week in Streaming (July 8th)
Our recommendations to counteract the endless scrolling.
Drop (Peacock) Meghann Fahy from The White Lotus stars as a single mom newly back on the market who receives a cryptic text: kill your date or a masked killer will murder your toddler son. A smart, lean, and impeccably crafted thriller with plenty to say about corrupt big city politics.
The Sandman (Netflix) Thanks to New York magazine’s winter hit job on Neil Gaiman, the second season of his classic comic about a formerly imprisoned cosmic being undoing the wrongs his absence caused will be its last. That’s a pity because it’s the best fantasy show to grace the streamers in years.
Mr. Majestyk (Prime) Charles Bronson is a Vietnam vet turned Colorado watermelon farmer just trying to get his harvest in on time. But when a hitman and a good ole boy team up to give him hell, he reverts back to his soldier days. A lesser-known mid-70s vigilante outing that does for melons what Point Blank did for revenge.