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The 42 Best Movies on Netflix This Week

From Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga to Zombieland, here are our picks for the best streaming titles to feast your eyes on.

Matt Kamen and WIRED Staff

Culture Guides

The 46 Best Shows on Netflix Right Now

Matt Kamen and WIRED Staff

The Monitor

HBO Continues to Have the Worst Timing

Angela Watercutter

Why We Hate Streaming

Primal Stream

Streaming Is Too Big for Its Own Good

Jason Parham

Viewers are overloaded with content. And as Netflix and other major services are now learning, blind excess comes at a cost.

Primal Stream

Reality TV Has Become a Parody of Itself

Primal Stream

Nobody Knows How to Watch Movies Anymore

Primal Stream

The Franchise Frenzy Leaves Nothing to the Imagination

Primal Stream

The Star Wars Universe’s Exhausting, Underwhelming Expansion

Movies and TV

Fast X Is the Fanfic We All Deserve

Dominic Toretto and company have made millions at the box office by doing something no one else has pulled off: Making movies that are truly for the fans.

Angela Watercutter

The 15 Best Shows on Max (aka HBO Max) Right Now

From Barry to Succession, Max is a streaming paradise of “it’s not TV” television.

Jennifer M. Wood and WIRED Staff

The Fanfic Sex Trope That Caught a Plundering AI Red-Handed

Sudowrite, a tool that uses OpenAI’s GPT-3, was found to have understood a sexual act known only to a specific online community of Omegaverse writers.

Rose Eveleth

BlackBerry Is a Movie That Portrays Tech Dreams Honestly—Finally

The thing people used before they used the iPhone gets the Social Network treatment in Jay Baruchel and Glen Howerton’s new movie.

John Semley

Video Games

Tears of the Kingdom’s Creators Answer Your Most Urgent Questions

Director Hidemaro Fujibayashi and producer Eiji Aonuma weigh in on Link’s stink, Ultrahand, and getting lost in the world they created.

Megan Farokhmanesh

The Most Useful PlayStation and Xbox Accessibility Options

It's easier to use your gaming console than you might think.

David Nield

The Best Nintendo Switch Games for Every Kind of Player

From Hyrule to Hallownest, these are our absolute favorite escapes for the best portable console.

WIRED Staff

The Latest Legend of Zelda Embraces Mad Scientist Discovery

The new Ultrahand feature builds on Breath of the Wild’s open world and lets you build almost anything—once you get the hang of it. Even the game’s creators made “terrible things.”

Megan Farokhmanesh

Digital Culture

The Ted Lasso Fandom’s Push for Polyamory Just Makes Sense

Admit it: There’s something satisfying and titillating about the idea of Roy, Keeley, and Jamie getting together.

Marah Eakin

Death of an Author Prophesies the Future of AI Novels

Stephen Marche composed this novella with extensive input from large language models. It’s required reading for anyone who's thinking about doing the same.

Tom Comitta