This week’s list of recommendations features two very different series set in space and a passion project from a veteran director starring not one but two 2020 Oscar nominees.
Star Trek: PicardSir Patrick Stewart returns to the USS Enterprise as Admiral Jean-Luc Picard, in the aptly titled latest installment of the
Star Trek franchise
Star Trek: Picard. Retired and jaded from his time as Captain of the USS Stargazer, the series is a continuation of arguably the franchise's most popular iteration,
Star Trek: The Next Generation. Canada's own Alison Pill joins Stewart’s crew this time, while Brent Spiner, Jeri Ryan, Marina Sirtis and Jonathan Frakes all reprise their previous roles. Rumour has it the plot will also touch on the events of J.J. Abrams' 2009
Star Trek film as well. You can stream the first episode of
Star Trek: Picard now on Crave and new episodes are available every Thursday.[video_embed id='1881447']Sir Patrick Stewart reveals what brought him back to his iconic role[/video_embed]
Avenue 5From the creator of
Veep and starring Hugh Laurie, HBO’s new sci-fi comedy series
Avenue 5 centres on the staff and passengers of a cruise ship that gets stranded in the middle of space. With only a month of supplies and no rescue in sight, Captain Ryan Clark (Laurie) frantically scrambles to maintain morale aboard his ship as he and his crew look for solutions to their growing list of problems. Like
Veep, expect a clever satire with lighting-fast quips. The cast also includes Silicon Valley's Zach Woods, Josh Gad, Lenora Crichlow and Himesh Patel. You can stream the first episode of
Avenue 5 on Crave and new episodes drop weekly on Sundays at 10pET.
Hidden Gem:
The Man Who Killed Don QuixoteThe Man Who Killed Don Quixote is an adventure-comedy film starring
Oscar nominees Adam Driver (
Marriage Story) and Jonathan Pryce (
The Two Popes). In the film, Driver plays Toby Grisoni, a former indie film protégé turned advertising director shooting a commercial in rural Spain. Soon enough, he meets a mysterious cobbler who believes he is the fictional knight Don Quixote and him Sancho Panza, his trusty squire. Hungry for adventure, he is soon pulled into the delusion, eventually unable to discern make-believe from reality. The film is a passion project from veteran filmmaker Terry Gilliam (
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) that took him over
25 years to make, detailed in the 2002 doc
Lost in La Mancha with then-lead Johnny Depp. You can stream it on Crave today.
