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\n Want more TV and movie picks? Subscribe to our weekly Streamliner newsletter\u00a0here<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n \n Clockwise from top: Alien: Earth, And Just Like That \u2026, Nobody 2, and Highest 2 Lowest. It was only a matter of time before streaming would coax the Alien franchise onto the small screen, making Alien: Earth the flashies<\/a>t and most accessible entertainment out this week. You would think it would be a brand-new Spike Lee and Denzel Washington movie, but Apple has made seeing their new collaboration in theaters near impossible if you don\u2019t live in New York or Los Angeles. But if you are near a theater that has it, it ends on a high<\/a>. Here\u2019s the rest of our picks for this weekend in the meantime \u2014 like the end of And Just Like That<\/a> \u2026 RIP.<\/p>\n Sign up for Streamliner<\/p>\n A weekly newsletter with the latest TV and movie recommendations, curated by Vulture writers.<\/p>\n Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/p>\n By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms<\/a> and Privacy Notice<\/a> and to receive email correspondence from us.<\/p>\n Noah Hawley, who created Fargo and Legion, is behind this TV prequel to the original Alien<\/a> set on our little planet. The plot is familiar enough \u2014 a spaceship crash-lands on Earth, a crew of soldiers find it and quickly realize the danger they\u2019re facing \u2014 but Hawley has pulled a lot of inspiration from, strangely, Peter Pan. Most important, Timothy Olyphant is here as an android, and his bleach-blond hair really works. \u2014Roxana Hadadi<\/p>\n Denzel Washington and Spike Lee reunite for Lee\u2019s adaptation of Akira Kurosawa\u2019s 1963 thriller, High and Low. In this version, Washington stars as the head of Stackin\u2019 Records, who gets entrapped in a ransom plot. Jeffrey Wright, Ice Spice, and A$AP Rocky co-star.<\/p>\n \u201cBut the most fascinating thing about Nobody 2, as with the previous entry, remains Bob Odenkirk\u2019s face. With his sharp eyebrows, perpetually quizzical grimace, and quivering voice, he locates a certain lostness in Hutch that actually runs counter to the character\u2019s expertise at killing people.\u201d<\/p>\n (Read Bilge Ebiri\u2019s full review here<\/a>. In theaters now.<\/a>)<\/p>\n Paul Walter Hauser summer continues. Joining The Naked Gun and Fantastic Four actor is Sydney Sweeney and Halsey as they star as a trio fighting to grab ahold of a valuable Native American ghost shirt, in this crime thriller from Tony Tost. Americana also features appearances from Zahn McClarnon, Eric Dane, and Simon Rex.<\/p>\n If it weren\u2019t for Love Is Blind: UK season one, Ollie may have never found Love Is Blind season six\u2019s AD<\/a>. Who knows if the second season of the U.K. spinoff will provide another major Netflix crossover like that, but the first season was good enough to satiate fans of the LIB community.<\/p>\n Photo: Craig Blankenhorn\/HBO\n <\/p>\n \u201cAnd Just Like That \u2026 was a state of mind, and that mind was in a coma. It was a place to go for 44 minutes a week, a windowless white room filled with nitrous oxide. It was a safe and necessary container for our wild and dangerous national id, which will now roam unchecked and destroy us all.\u201d <\/p>\n Writer Rachel Handler on the bittersweet end of And Just Like That \u2026, a show we all loved to hate. But with it ending, we have to confront the idea that Carrie, Charlotte, and Miranda are actually going to be gone, which is really sad! We weren\u2019t prepared that season three would be its last. At least Handler eulogizes the show perfectly here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Action-animation god Genndy Tartakovsky may be celebrated nowadays for the heart-pumping combat of Samurai Jack and Primal, but he made his bones with comedies like Dexter\u2019s Laboratory and Powerpuff Girls. His newest feature is a 2-D-animated, raunchy, hard-R adult comedy about a dog\u2019s last hurrah before he\u2019s due to be neutered.<\/p>\n
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