What To Watch This Week, August 25 – 31, 2025: ‘Love Island’ Reunion + ‘Fame and Fentanyl’

I’m not exaggerating when I tell you this is a very exciting week for TV. We have crime galore, both true and fictional, along with reality TV specials, a fantasy football league turned fatal and much, much more.

To find out everything happening in streaming this week, check out our guide below!

Streaming Monday August 25, 2025

Love Island: Season 7 Reunion Special

There’s nothing like a reunion special to rehash all of the drama from a reality TV series. Andy Cohen and Ariana Madix will host the Love Island Season 7 reunion, bringing contestants together for the first time on camera since their time together on a Fiji island. Bonus scenes, and interviews with cast members, including winners Amaya Espinal and Bryan Arenales. An alleged cheating scandal between Chris and Bryan is teased in the trailer, and third-place couple Chris and Huda are experiencing tension in the media. Tune in for the full details!

Fame and Fentanyl

The fentanyl epidemic has impacted all segments of society, from the most vulnerable to Hollywood’s most famous celebrities. Ice T hosts this deep dive into stories including Prince, Angus Cloud, Tom Petty, Michael K. Williams, and others, including families opening up about loss and heartbreak, hoping to inform others, shed light on the crisis, and prevent future avoidable tragedies.

Streaming Tuesday August 26, 2025

Ruby Red Handed: Stealing America’s Most Famous Pair of Shoes

Judy Garland’s world famous ruby red slippers from The Wizard of Oz were stolen back in 2005, from her namesake museum in the actresses’ hometown of Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Local police and the FBI teamed up to solve a case that drew global attention, with little more than a single sequin found at the crime scene to go off of. If you love cinematic history and true crime cases that have a solution waiting at the end, you have to tune in for this one.

Streaming Wednesday August 27, 2025

Fantasy Football Ruined Our Lives

It’s not just Americans that are obsessed with fantasy sports leagues—in this comedy film, a group of Italians form the “Mai una gioia” (Never A Joy) Fantasy Football League, only to discover their friend and reigning champion Gianni has gone missing on the day of his wedding (and without submitting his line up). The members are then subjected to an investigation that leaves no group chat unturned. The trailer is giving Always Sunny meets The Hangover, and looks perfect to satisfy your mid-week movie cravings.

The Terminal List: Dark Wolf

This prequel series to 2022’s The Terminal List follows Ben Edwards (Taylor Kitsch) on his journey from Navy SEAL to CIA operative, exploring the dark underbelly of warfare and the human costs associated. Chris Pratt stars as James Reeces, a fellow SEAL and BUD/S classmate of Ben’s. The events of this series are meant to tie into the first season of the original series, while a second season is still in development. If you like action and intrigue, this one is for you.

Coming to theaters this week

The Roses

Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch star in this satirical black comedy based on the 1981 novel The War of the Roses and it’s 1989 film adaptation about a divorcing couple devoted to making each other’s lives miserable in a tug-of-war over assets. On paper it seemed they had everything, but the plot shows just how quickly the facade of a happy marriage can unravel. If you love a deep drama with well-placed laughs, this is your must-see of the week.

Caught Steeling

Austin Butler is rocking a Brad Pitt 90s inspired hair-cut, and joined by Zoë Kravitz, Matt Smith, Bad Bunny, and Regina King in this New York action crime thriller. It’s director Darren Aronofsky’s (known for Requiem for a Dream and Black Swan) latest film since 2022’s The Whale and 2017 flop Mother! Adapted from a book by Charlie Huston, a movie adaptation was originally conceived in 2013, with Patrick Wilson set to star, but we’re hoping this star-studded line up makes it worth the wait.

Streaming Thursday August 28, 2025

The Thursday Murder Club

This adaptation of Richard Osman’s bestselling novel starring Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, and Celia Imrie, and directed by Chris Columbus has the makings to be this week’s hottest premiere in streaming. If you’ve ever wished the cozy mystery vibes and mature cast of Only Murders also had a little British charm and wit, then this movie about a group of retirees turned detectives is worth blocking off your calendar for.

My Life With The Walter Boys, Season 2

Nikki Rodriguez, Noah LaLonde, and Ashby Gentry are back in this story about a city girl with dreams of getting into Princeton who is transplanted in Silver Falls, Colorado and torn between two very different brothers, Cole and Alex. Season 1 left off with Jackie not being able to tell Alex she loved him back, and kissing Cole once she realized he had repaired her late sister’s teapot. Of course, she ghosts them both, heading back to New York with her uncle, and leaving nothing more than an “I’m sorry” note behind. Whether Jackie returns to deal with the unfinished business she left behind is yet to be seen, but we’re definitely going to tune in to find out!

Streaming Friday August 29, 2025

Two Graves

When two teens go missing from their small Spanish town, grandmother Isabel will team up with a dangerous man named Rafael to uncover the truth of what happened the night they disappeared. A psychological thriller that explores the lengths humans will go to in search of answers and revenge, this is the second title premiering on Netflix this week with a complex role for an older female lead, and we love to see it!

Streaming Saturday August 30, 2025

Real American Freestyle

Founded by Chad Bronstein, Terri Francis, and the late Hulk Hogan, this freestyle wrestling promotion debuts with it’s inaugural event this weekend, and will feature a tribute to it’s legendary co-founder, with a video produced by WWE. Competitors will included current NCAA athletes, past collegiate wrestlers, and Olympic wrestling stars. Prize money will allow these athletes who are usually prohibited from being compensated to collect earnings for their participation, and a weekly television series will begin airing in 2026.

Streaming Sunday August 31, 2025

Let the Devil In

This new four-part docuseries explores the 1988 murder of a Catholic mother in Jefferson, NJ, a crime that invited speculation of demonic possession of a teenaged boy. The show will combine testimony from witnesses, friends, and community members to unpack the paranoia and fear surrounding a case that destroyed a family and left an entire town traumatized. If you love a supernatural thriller, but prefer endings with satisfying psychological explanations, this series will check all of your boxes.

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Happy Streaming!