What Should You Stream This Week? Watch These Releases on Max, Netflix and More

The world just wouldn’t be the same without a Zack Snyder director’s cut of something or other coming out every few years. This week, we’re getting two. Both Rebel Moon – Part One: Director’s Cut and Rebel Moon – Part Two: Director’s Cut arrive on Netflix this week, promising to deliver Snyder’s “true vision” for the films he directed and co-wrote, and over an hour of additional footage. The new, extended cuts will be out Aug. 2.

It’s been a big summer for new SpongeBob content on streaming. Paramount Plus already released it’s new series, Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years, on July 10, and this week on Netflix, a new moving taking place in the SpongeBob Universe arrives. Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie will take Sandy and SpongeBob to Texas to rescue their friends when Bikini Bottom is snatched from the ocean. Settle in to meet Sandy’s family when the film arrives on Aug. 2.

The last few episodes of the latest season of Too Hot To Handle arrive on Netflix this week, and with them comes the thrilling conclusion of who was able to abstain from any sort of kissing, touching or sex the longest. Yes, the show about “naughty nymphos” (Netflix’s term, not mine) trying to hold out in order to win a cold, hard cash prize (and maybe form an actual relationship with someone) will air the final three episodes of the season this Friday, Aug. 2.

The new Apple TV Plus docuseries Cowboy Cartel (so close and yet so far from Beyoncé’s recent master work Cowboy Carter!) tells the story of a real-life FBI investigation into a money laundering scheme associated with horse racing which turned deadly after the criminals behind it are revealed to be a Mexican drug cartel, Los Zetas. The four-episode series drops in its entirety on Aug. 2.

The dragon wars and the battle between former BFFs Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke) and Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) are about to end (jk, they’re really just beginning) on House of the Dragon. The HBO series concludes season two on Sunday, Aug. 4 with a fiery episode that will most definitely leave us scratching our blonde wigs and wondering who’s in charge of the Seven Kingdoms. Not to worry, we’ll find out eventually now that season three has been greenlit. You can catch the season finale on HBO and Max at 9 p.m. ET.

In 1964, Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor was interviewed by journalist Richard Meryman, and those tapes have been turned into a new documentary that provides an intimate look at the actress’s career, personal life, and personality. Elizabeth: The Lost Tapes premieres on Saturday, Aug. 3 on HBO and Max.

Fry, Bender, Leela, and the rest of the characters from Futurama are back for another season of Hulu’s revival of the beloved series that was originally created for Fox by Matt Groening. The new season, which consists of ten new episodes and stars most of the same voice actors (including Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Billy West and Tress MacNeille) who starred in the original show, premieres on July 29.

After it’s success at the box office earlier this spring, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, the fourth film in the latest series reboot, heads to Hulu on Aug. 2. For the completists out there, all nine of the previous Planet of the Apes films are also on Hulu, from 1968’s Planet of the Apes to 2017’s War for the Planet of the Apes.

The season finale of the Starz travel and culture series Down In The Valley airs on Friday, Aug. 2, concluding the first season of a show that has exposed some of the lesser-known sides of the Deep South. P-Valley star Nicco Annan hosts the series which looks at the “fascinating duality of the Deep South from a kaleidoscopic marginalized lens,” per Starz. After Friday’s season finale, Starz will also run an end-of-season marathon on their broadcast network on Aug. 9, and all episodes will be available to stream.