The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
Clusterf**k: Woodstock ’99
If the original Woodstock music festival in 1969 was all about peace and love, the attempted revival 30 years later was its antithesis. A new three-part series stage-dives into the poorly planned four-day event, which was held at a Superfund site during a torturous heat wave. Add to that a lineup loaded with nu metal bands that celebrated toxic masculinity, and it became a violent fiasco. Available Wednesday, Aug. 3, Netflix
Luck
The debut feature from Skydance Animation is a charmer of a tale about a clumsy young woman named Sam who considers herself the unluckiest person in the world. The discovery of a lucky penny briefly turns Sam’s life around, but when she loses it, she winds up following a black cat down a hole to a realm of leprechauns and other magical figures where Sam’s presence could throw everyone’s fortunes out of whack. Available Friday, Aug. 5, Apple TV+
Prey
The 1987 sci-fi action-horror classic Predator introduced the world to a particular breed of sophisticated extraterrestrials that hunt humans for sport. In this impressive prequel, set in a North American forest in the early 1700s, a young female Comanche hunter-warrior must call on all her skills to defeat the seemingly implacable foe. Amber Midthunder stars in the attempted franchise reboot, which includes both Comanche and English dialogue but will be available in an all-Comanche version—a first. Available Friday, Aug. 5, Hulu
The Sandman
Neil Gaiman’s influential comic book series has finally been adapted for the screen. In this ambitious 10-episode production, British screen and stage actor Tom Sturridge stars as Morpheus, the otherworldly keeper of the dream realm, who after being summoned and imprisoned by occultists, escapes a century later to discover that he must restore his fallen kingdom. With Kirby Howell-Baptiste as Morpheus’ big sister, Death. Available Friday, Aug. 5, Netflix
They/Them
It’s the return of the summer-camp slasher flick, with a knife twist: Camp Whistler, run by a cheerful Kevin Bacon, is a conversion camp for LGBTQ teens. Bacon’s Owen Whistler and his team employ extreme psychological methods to push the kids toward cisgender conformity. And as if that weren’t bad enough, a masked killer begins stalking the wooded grounds. Available Friday, Aug. 5, Peacock
Other highlights
Thirteen Lives
Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell, and Joel Edgerton co-star in Ron Howard’s dramatization of the 2018 rescue of a youth soccer team trapped in an underwater Thailand cave. Available Friday, Aug. 5, Amazon Prime
The Outlaws
Christopher Walken and Stephen Merchant return for Season 2 of Merchant’s ensemble comedy series about a group of petty criminals who, having been thrown together for community service duty, now must outsmart a criminal kingpin. Available Friday, Aug. 5, Amazon Prime
My Life as a Rolling Stone
A four-part series celebrates the four pillars of the Rolling Stones’ 60-year run as one of the world’s greatest rock bands: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, and the late Charlie Watts. Begins Sunday, Aug. 7, at 8 p.m., Epix