‘The Bachelor,’ ‘Teen Wolf’ and a rom-com with JLo: Here’s what’s on Netflix, Prime and more this week

With so many different streaming platforms and cable offerings to navigate, choosing what to watch has never been harder. To make things easier, here are our best tune-in tips for the week ahead.

MONDAY

The Bachelor

The 27th season of “The Bachelor” premieres tonight and this year’s rose distributor is 26-year-old Zach Shallcross. The tech executive from Anaheim Hills, Calif., finished in third place in his attempts to woo Rachel Recchia last season. Do people still care about this show? I guess saying anything otherwise would be blasphemy to “Bachelor Nation,” but this show is in serious need of a retooling. Especially in light of Netflix entering the love wars with “The Perfect Match” next month.

8 p.m. Citytv & Citytv Plus

WEDNESDAY

Extraordinary

In a world where everyone over the age of 18 is blessed with a superpower, 25-year-old Jen has been left out. The protagonist, played by Irish actor Mairead Tyers (“Belfast”), is joined by a cast of some fairly new faces. Jen, stuck in a dead-end job in a party shop, finds some solace for her lack of abilities by venting to her best friend Carrie (who has been blessed with the power of being able to channel the dead).

Disney Plus

THURSDAY

Poker Face

This 10-episode mystery-of-the-week series follows Charlie (played by Natasha Lyonne from “Orange Is the New Black”), who has the amazing ability of immediately sensing when someone is lying. The show is the brainchild of “Knives Out” filmmaker Rian Johnson, his first TV series.

Citytv Plus

You People

Kenya Barris’s directorial debut (written with Jonah Hill, who also stars in the rom-com) is a new-age “Meet the Parents.” Hill plays Ezra Cohen, a lovable oaf who accidentally gets into Amira Mohammed’s (Lauren London) car. The pair instantly and unexpectedly bond over their love of sneakers and quickly realize that their awkward introduction was always meant to be. It’s then time for the parents to meet and that’s where the star power in this new Netflix movie really comes through. Ezra’s progressive and semi-woke parents (Julia Louis-Dreyfus and David Duchovny) and Amira’s unyielding yet concerned parents (Eddie Murphy and Nia Long), make this a must-see even if only for the cast.

Netflix

Teen Wolf: The Movie

For fans who still need some closure after MTV decided to end its popular supernatural teen series in 2017, the moment has finally arrived. Paramount Plus reunites most of the original cast in a revival movie that chronicles the rise of a new threat in Beacon Hills. While Scott McCall (Tyler Posey) is no longer a teenager, he is still the head Alpha on the block and it will be interesting to see how much he has changed.

Paramount Plus

FRIDAY

Shrinking

The pick of the week is this new comedy from Apple TV Plus starring Jason Segel and Harrison Ford. Segel plays a grieving therapist who decides to walk away from all of his formal training to instead tell all of his clients what he actually thinks. The unfiltered advice leads to his patients making wholesale changes to their lives with the hilarity that you would expect.

Apple TV Plus

Shotgun Wedding

Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel star as Darcy and Tom in this rom-com about a destination wedding at which the entire wedding party is taken hostage. The couple who were starting to have cold feet about getting married are consequently forced to work together to save their families.

Prime Video

Murtz Jaffer is a Toronto-based entertainment writer and a freelance contributor for the Star. Follow him on Twitter: @murtzjaffer

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