Streaming in March: TV faves, Oscar-nominated films
Your guide to TV series streaming this month
MONDAY
Creed (2015). The Rocky spinoff that finds the retired boxer (Oscar nominee Sylvester Stallone) coaching the illegitimate son (Michael B. Jordan) of his old rival-turned-friend, Apollo Creed. (OnDemand)
The Danish Girl (2015). Both Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander received Oscar nominations for this story of Lili Elbe, one of the first people to receive gender reassignment surgery. (OnDemand)
Party of Five: The Complete
Series. Before he was Dr. Jack Shepard trying to keep the Lost island together, Matthew Fox was Charlie Salinger, trying to keep his suddenly orphaned siblings together. (Hulu) Dawson’s Creek: The Complete Series. If Katie Holmes’ spate of recent late-night appearances have made you want to journey back to Capeside, now you can. (Hulu)
THURSDAY
House of Cards:
Season 4. Frank and Claire Underwood have a whole new season’s worth of people to screw over, including each other. (Netflix)
Carol (2015). Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara each earned Oscar nominations in this same-sex romance between an aspiring photographer and an older woman on the verge of divorce. (iTunes; OnDemand, March 11)
MARCH 11
Flaked. Will Arnett plays a self-help guru who can barely help himself in this new series from Arrested Development’s Mitch Hurwitz. (Netflix)
The Characters. Come
dians from Orange Is the New Black, Broad City
and Wet Hot American
Summer each get a half-hour to do whatever they want. Think of it as a funny version of the MacArthur Genius Grant. (Netflix)
Bosch: Season 2. The bones case has been cleared up but Detective Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver) is back in hot water with his LAPD bosses for a whole new reason. (Amazon)
MARCH 15
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015). Chewie, we’re on home video. (iTunes)
The Hateful Eight (2015). PostCivil War bounty hunters and their quarry hole up in a stagecoach lodge during a blizzard in Quentin Tarantino’s latest. (iTunes; On Demand, March 29)
The Big Short (2015). Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell and Brad Pitt headline this Oscarnominated adaptation of Michael Lewis’ book on the 2007-08 housing market collapse. (OnDemand)
Brooklyn (2015). A young Irish immigrant (Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan) is torn between her old homeland and her adopted one. (OnDemand)
MARCH 18
Daredevil: Season 2. Blind lawyer/part-time superhero Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) is in for some punishment courtesy of Frank Castle ( Walking Dead alum Jon Bernthal). (Netflix)
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure. The man-child is back on screen for the first time in 30 years and he has a new friend: Joe Manganiello. (Netflix)
The Mr. Peabody and Sherman
Show: Season 2. Need to keep the kids entertained during spring break? Check out the canine, his human and their historical talk-show guests courtesy of the WABAC machine. (Netflix)
MARCH 30
The Path. Aaron Paul, a threetime Emmy winner for Breaking
Bad, returns to TV as a married man contemplating leaving cult life. Michelle Monaghan co-stars as his wife; Hugh Dancy plays the sect’s leader. (Hulu)