Flipping the script: Penn Badgley and Ed Speleers star in ‘You’ Season 4
WHAT’S NEW ON NETFLIX
You - Season 4, Part 1
The skin-crawling story that took the digital world by storm returns to Netflix with its fourth season Thursday, Feb. 9, when the first five episodes of “You” drop with a bloody bang. Keep an eye out for Part 2, set to drop in March. Based on “What would you do for love?” Caroline Kepnes’ bestselling novel, the series so far has followed dangerously obsessive and brilliant book store manager Joe (Penn Badgley, “Gossip Girl”) as he becomes transfixed by women, doing everything in his power to become central to their lives before the story comes to a bloody conclusion. This season, however, is set to turn the story on its head, as Joe may have finally met his match. While adjusting to his new life as a professor, Joe tries to make amends with a woman he stalked from halfway around the world and avoids becoming the target of another killer. Meanwhile, he appears to have found a kindred spirit in Rhys (Ed Speleers, “Outlander”), one of his students, whom he calls a “good man in a cruel world” (per the show’s official Instagram). But fans will have to wait to see how exactly their relationship unfolds. Created for Netflix by Greg Berlanti (“The Flash”) and Sera Gamble (“Supernatural”), the new season also stars Tati Gabrielle (“The 100”), Charlotte Ritchie (“Ghosts”), Lukas Gage (“The White Lotus”),
WHAT’S NEW ON CBC GEM
Documentary: Dear Jackie
Take a look at the life of a barrier-breaking baseball legend when the documentary “Dear Jackie” makes its CBC Gem premiere Sunday, Feb. 5. Legendary baseball player Jackie Robinson, a key contributor to the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, broke the colour barrier in professional baseball in 1946, making the impossible seem possible in a segregated North America. After a stint playing with the minorleague Montreal Royals, Robinson had the whole of Montreal behind him when he make his Major League break. In an ode to Jackie Robinson, all his accomplishments and what he meant to Montreal’s Little Burgundy (the “Harlem of the North”), the film examines “racism and racial inequality in Montreal and Quebec and is a tribute to the perseverance of one of Canada’s most important Black communities,” while it “tells the personal stories of the residents of Little Burgundy through interviews and testimonies, using a vérité style” (per CBC). Brought to the screen by director and writer Henri Pardo (“Afro Canada”), “Dear Jackie” is produced by Katarina Soukup (“Lost Rivers,” 2012).
WHAT’S NEW ON CRAVE
Documentay: Black Ice
Available now to stream on Crave, the documentary “Black Ice” from director Hubert Davis (“Hardwood,” 2005) and Pulitzer-nominated journalist Darril Fosty (who released the book “Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League, 1895-1925” in 2004), examines the role of Black players in hockey as it takes a sobering survey of systemic marginalization within one of the world’s most beloved team sports. Featuring eye-opening and often painful stories from a roster of incredible men’s and women’s major and minor league hockey players — including Akim Aliu, Sarah Nurse, Saroya Tinker, Mark Connors, Wayne Simmonds, and P.K. Subban — “Black Ice” offers a look at the experiences of Black hockey players, while capturing their excitement for the sport and their hope for its brighter future. A TSN and Crave Original documentary, “Black Ice” comes from UNINTERRUPTED Canada, with Canadian music icon Drake (“Nice For What”), Maverick Carter (“Hustle,” 2022) and NBA Legend LeBron James (“Space Jam: A New Legacy,” 2021) acting as executive producers, with producer Vinay Virmani (“WICK: The Hayley Wickenheiser Story,” 2022).
WHAT’S NEW ON PRIME
Clarkson’s Farm - Season 2
British journalist and TV personality Jeremy Clarkson (famous for “Top Gear” and Amazon’s “The Grand Tour”) pulls his boots back on and gets down and dirty in the second season of the Amazon reality series “Clarkson’s Farm,” premiering Friday, Feb. 10, on Prime Video. The first season saw Clarkson, who is definitely not a farmer, take on a new venture when he buys and learns how to tend to a British farm, following him through his first year in an informative, intense, back-breaking and sometimes heartbreaking journey, as he grappled with the worst farming weather in decades, disobedient animals, unresponsive crops and an unexpected pandemic. Heading into its second season, “Clarkson’s Farm” catches up with the hapless new farmer as he introduces some new crops and animals, tries to diversify his operation with a restaurant, and relies heavily on his farmhand, Kaleb, and a host of local experts to get them through the year. Directed by Will Yapp (“The Circus,” 2012), the series is executive produced by Clarkson, Peter Fincham (“The Chelsea Detective”) and Andy Wilman (“The Grand Tour”).