Worth Watching — September 3, 2026

Glen Powell dons his Chad Powers mask for a second season, and Netflix‘s series spinoff of Guy Ritchie‘s The Gentlemen enters its sophomore year. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds takes on a bizarre soap opera vibe. Raven-Symoné guest-stars on the cult comedy Adults, which then goes on an acid trip.

Chad Powers

“This is more stupid than usual,” the quarterback coach (Rectify‘s Clayne Crawford) of the fictional South Georgia Catfish declares early on, regarding the team’s eccentric star player, Chad Powers (Glen Powell, smothered by prosthetics). That’s really saying something. We know Chad is actually the disgraced college star Russ Holliday in a goofy and unconvincing disguise. He affects a Gomer-like hick accent as he achieves a seemingly idiot-savant comeback while harboring a secret that could destroy him, the team, and the few people in on the ruse: Danny (Frankie A. Rodriguez), the gay Catfish mascot, and more reluctantly, Ricky (the terrific Perry Mattfeld), the assistant coach and daughter to the ailing Catfish head coach Jake Hudson (Steve Zahn). Season 2 of the sports comedy begs the question of how long Russ/Chad can keep this masquerade going, what happens if and after they achieve their playoff goal, and whether he can fend off the suspicions of Gerry (Colton Ryan), the unhinged backup QB. All six episodes are available for a quick and silly binge.

The Gentlemen

Guy Ritchie’s series spinoff of his 2019 movie enters its second hectic and often bloody season, with aristocrat Eddie (Theo James) and his crime-family partner, Susie (Kaya Scodelario), expanding their covert cannabis empire into Italy. New opportunities bring new enemies (including Mafia types), while Eddie focuses on gaining a peerage in the House of Lords, which could help pass a marijuana legalization bill that could further line their pockets. One problem: his boss and Susie’s father, Bobby (Ray Winstone), opposes the bill, and going behind his back could be their most treacherous chess move yet. All eight episodes are available, as is the Netflix norm.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

When a soundtrack more suitable to a daytime soap becomes audible on the Enterprise, Captain Pike (Anson Mount) worriedly wonders, “Are we back in a musical?” No such luck. In another change of pace for the sci-fi space opera, which feels like a parody until it strikes an emotional nerve, Strange New Worlds adopts the visual rhythms, contrived subplots, emotive acting, and pregnant pauses of a classic soap opera, complete with a guest appearance by Days of Our Lives icon Deidre Hall as a sympathetic therapist. What’s behind this latest meta detour? We can’t say — but stay tuned for the evil twin.

Adults

The entire second season is available for streaming on Hulu, but if you’re choosing to watch the weekly linear rollout of back-to-back episodes, you’re in for a treat. In the first, Raven-Symoné guests as Anton’s (Owen Thiele) estranged sister, Talia, who he expects to make a big ask. Subplots include Billie’s (Lucy Freyer) overly enthusiastic stint on jury duty and Issa’s (Amita Rao) irrational slapstick fear of needles. The second episode is even funnier, with a raccoon and other suburban wildlife intruding on the gang’s acid night, where Avatar: The Last Airbender is on the screening agenda. (In my day, back in the VCR era, it was Altered States.) Chaos naturally ensues.

Killer’s Kiss

The peerless movie channel explores the career of legendary film director Stanley Kubrick each Thursday in September, starting with his earlier efforts. The first night’s lineup includes several rare short films buffering features including 1955’s boxing melodrama Killer’s Kiss (8/7c), and more notably, his 1956 film noir breakthrough The Killing (9:45 pm/8:45c) and the 1957 anti-war classic Paths of Glory (11:30/10:30c), starring Kirk Douglas.