Worth The Watch
Welcome to Worth The Watch — your signal in the streaming noise. We're tracking 5 shows this week. Get the buzz, skip the noise.
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Set in the flamboyant 1930s, “This is not a murder mystery” reunites world renowned Surrealist artists, including young Salvador Dalí and René Magritte, who find themselves trapped in a lavish mansion with a mysterious serial killer on the loose.
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A surrealist period murder-mystery series in which artists including Salvador Dalí and René Magritte become entangled in a killing at a lavish 1930s estate, distinguished by its stylized visual world and art-meets-detective premise.
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Treasure Island
When Jim Hawkins gets his hands on a legendary treasure map, his mother Bess's clever and decisive actions leave him holding valuable knowledge that puts both of their lives in danger. Sailing aboard The Hispaniola, Jim and Bess are caught between the charming, terrifying pirate Long John Silver, and the debonair, duplicitous British agent Aaron Graham. Jim has to grow up fast as he and his mother fight for survival on a voyage where alliances shift, secrets multiply and peril closes in from all sides.
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A gritty historical pirate adventure miniseries that distinguishes itself by giving Jim Hawkins’s mother Bess a central role in a dangerous, shifting battle of alliances aboard the Hispaniola.
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The re-opening of a mysterious 1985 cold case murder in Louisiana unearths a haunting history of bloodshed and long-buried trauma.
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A three-part true-crime documentary with Southern Gothic and paranormal elements, distinct for turning a reopened 1985 Louisiana murder case into a wider investigation of local violence, folklore, and haunting history.
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The Trap
Follow famous author Lisa Konrad, who has not left her house for a decade after witnessing the murder of her sister. One night she sees who she believes was the murdered on television, and decides to use herself as bait to catch them.
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A psychological thriller series about a reclusive author using herself as bait to catch the person she believes murdered her sister, with very little pre-premiere conversation beyond a user review and reactions to the source novel.
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Crystal Lake
Single mother Pam Voorhees has been unable to shake her grief after her young, sickly son Jason tragically drowned in the town lake almost a year before. When two strangers arrive at Pam's door digging into her past, a disturbing chain of events is set into motion, leaving the townspeople of Crystal Lake wondering: just who is Pam Voorhees?
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A psychological horror-thriller prequel that reworks Friday the 13th around Pam Voorhees’s grief and the disturbing origins of the Crystal Lake legend.