It’s time to enter the TV glow. After a limited roll-out, a new A24 flick is hitting theaters (the big screen glow?) nationwide, and it’s insanely worth the watch. I can’t shut up about I Saw the TV Glow, as you’ll soon see. But there’s more things beaming through the glow of a screen this week from a thrilling season of our favorite steamy Regency romance (thank God), to a new Illana Glazer comedy and the return of a horror franchise that literally makes my skin crawl. Now, here’s the rest of the picks! —Savannah Salazar

Jane Schoenbrun’s second feature, after their lo-fi We All Went to the World’s Fair, is larger in vision and scale, partly because they have A24’s money (good for them!). I Saw the TV Glow tells the story of Owen (a fantastic performance from Justice Smith), a kid in the suburbs just wanting to watch The Pink Opaque, a Buffy-inspired show about two psychic teens (Helena Howard and Snail Mail’s Lindsey Jordan) fighting monsters on a different plane of existence. He bonds over the show with another queer high schooler Maddy (Bridgette Lundy-Paine, who is also turning out a force of a performance), but as the years go by, reality and fantasy begin to blur in a way Owen has trouble understanding. It’s a unique drama on the exploration of gender identity, loneliness, and how certain media can create a painfully personal language to interpret that dizzying journey. I Saw the TV Glow is sure to stick with you. —S.S.

➽ It doesn’t hurt that I Saw the TV Glow has such a banger soundtrack with tracks from Florist, Bartees Strange, Sloppy Jane (featuring Phoebe Bridgers!), and Caroline Polachek. What’s a coming-of-age movie without good music?

It’s been way too long since Bridgerton has graced our screens, and season 3 is proving to be well worth the wait. Next up for love is third Bridgerton brother and world traveler Colin (a freshly spray tanned Luke Newton), as he arrives back in London, wooing members of the ton with his newfound charm and confidence. Then there’s his childhood friend, Lady Whistledown herself, Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) looking to find a husband of her own. He decides to help her, which naturally, kicks off this wonderful friends-to-lovers story. —S.S.

➽ Netflix split this season into two parts (the second installment arrives June 13) because waiting two years for Bridgerton apparently wasn’t enough.

Illana Glazer is back with another pregnancy story (this time a comedy) and another co-dependent friendship (this time with Michelle Buteau). In Babes, Glazer is Eden, a single woman who, after a one-night stand finds out she’s pregnant, and leans on her best friend, and mother of two, Dawn (Buteau) for support. —S.S.

A movie franchise you can absolutely not convince me to watch in a million years, but I will recount it for you anyways. (Brave, I know.) The Strangers: Chapter 1 is the first of a new trilogy, based on the 2008 movie, with another film coming out later this year and the final one out next year as of now. Directed by Renny Harlin, this film stars Riverdale’s Madelaine Petsch and Froy Gutierrez as a road tripping couple who have to make an emergency pitstop and stay in an eerie, isolated Airbnb for the night. Because sure, that sounds like a good idea. —S.S.

➽ Okay, but where’s the Barbarian Mother vs. Dollface and Man in Mask spin-off?

IF (In Theaters)

Director John Krasinski is ditching the terrifying monsters of Quiet Place for imaginary friends in IF. Starring Ryan Reynolds as a grown man who can see imaginary friends, IF pairs him with a young girl (Cailey Fleming) who can also see them, and the two go on to help them find the kids that imagined them up. Expect voice performances from Steve Carrell, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Maya Rudolph, and so many others. —S.S.

It can be hard for a biopic to re-create the outsize presence of a major performing artist, but Back to Black sets out to do the opposite — not to shrink its subject down to human scale, but to leave her diminished. —Alison Willmore (Read more here.)

Answer: no. But now you can come to your own conclusions on the Hunger Games prequel as it finally hits a streaming service this week! Oh and if you have questions about that ending between Snow (Tom Blyth) and Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), we’ve got you covered.

➽ Plus, writer-director Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction is finally streaming on Prime Video.

Remember writer-director Cord Jefferson’s passionate speech about mid-budget movies at last March’s Oscars? This is the film he won that award for! Adapted from the Percival Everett novel Erasure, American Fiction (starring Jeffery Wright, Sterling K. Brown, and Issa Rae) was one of the buzzier titles of awards season last fall. Now it’s free on Amazon Prime Video, so this is your chance to watch it if you happened to miss it during all the Oscars hoopla.

S.S.: What is it about Outer Range that is appealing to you?

Nicholas Quah: It’s a bizarro, elliptical show about the American West that’s almost completely made for weirdos. Very little about the first season feels like it was made by committee, let alone an algorithm… The first season ends in a way that flies straight off the deep end! There’s absolutely nothing like it! I should also say that, as a result of that ending, the second season has veered deeper into incomprehensibility. I guess I’m having fun still. I don’t know! Sons hang out with younger versions of their fathers! Whatever! My brain is melting.

S.S.: Do you think more people than just you and Ray should watch?

N.Q.: Yes! Who needs Yellowstone!

S.S.: Brolin over Costner.

N.Q.: 1000%

I Saw the TV Glow director Schoenbrun talked to Vulture about the many ‘90s television shows that inspired their new feature from Are You Afraid of the Dark? to Twin Peaks, but Buffy the Vampire Slayer is the absolute starting point. So why not take the chance to (re)watch?

After watching the Wicked trailer, I have been spoiled for good. Well, I’m kidding, I’ve seen this show plenty, but it is so odd to have so many story beats revealed here. But at least we get a preview of Ariana Grande’s “Popular” and many questions.

The only bad thing about Bridgerton season 3 premiering is that this means this utterly delightful press tour is coming to an end. Truly every video of the Bridgerton cast has been too good, but here’s a start.

But as one press tour ends, another rises. House of the Dragon stars Emma D’Arcy and Olivia Cooke are back doing press together and it’s just so pleasing to see people with great chemistry do their thing.

Which do you like better, the Apple ad that everyone hated or the cringe Samsung ad that no one really likes either?

➽ Netflix gets some NFL games.

➽ Forget a Red Wedding, here’s some Grey’s weddings.

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