Here Are 3 Must-Watch TV Shows And Movies For This Weekend, Including "The Devil Wears Prada 2"

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This week in Screen Time, I am happy to report The Devil Wears Prada 2 is worth a trip to the movies because, let’s be honest, nostalgia bait does work sometimes. I also explain why one of the best shows on TV right now is on Hallmark, and why The Handmaid’s Tale spinoff is worth watching. Then, we have what’s going on over on BuzzFeed Celeb’s YouTube channel, and I share the two TV shows whose endings I would change if I could. Here we go!

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The Devil Wears Prada 2 — watch for: Meryl, Anne, Emily, and Stanley. That’s all.

In theaters now

The highly anticipated sequel hits theaters this weekend, and you better believe I am super excited. Twenty years after the original movie, Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci return in The Devil Wears Prada 2. Aline Brosh McKenna returns to pen the script for this sequel that follows Andy (Hathaway) as she returns to Runway. Miranda Priestly (Streep) is trying to navigate a very different and new media landscape, and Andy hopes to help her position Runway for success. As they reconnect with old friends, the main goal is to ensure the iconic magazine survives. 

The nostalgia bait for this sequel actually works because the cast is so great at slipping into their iconic roles. If you adore the first movie, there’s a high chance you’ll love this one. Listen, was a sequel necessary? No. Is it still the best thing ever to watch Anne, Emily, and Meryl trade one-liners back and forth for two hours? YOU BET.

Watch the trailer below:

The Way Home — watch for: A highly bingeable series with great plot twists and a lot of heart

New episodes every Sunday on Hallmark and Hallmark+; Seasons 1–3 streaming on Netflix

No exaggeration: One of the best shows on TV right now is this time-travel show on Hallmark, and I’m already so sad this is the final season. I watched The Way Home for the first time when the first three seasons were put on Netflix. Now, I am very much tuning in week to week, on the edge of my seat, to see how everything is going to wrap up in the final season. The Way Home has some of the best surprises and plot twists. The series follows three generations of Landry women, who live together in the small town of Port Haven. Following life-changing events 20 years earlier, Kat (Chyler Leigh) and her daughter, Alice (Sadie Laflamme-Snow), move back to town, with Kat trying to reconnect with her estranged mother, Del (Andie MacDowell). 

While everything might seem ordinary, the Landry family is far from it, and soon Alice and Kat find themselves able to travel back in time through their family’s past. If there’s one thing you should know about me, it’s that I worship at the altar of Chyler Leigh, having fallen in love with her as Lexie in Grey’s Anatomy and Alex in Supergirl, and even watching her in deeper cuts like Reunion. Once again, she’s so great in this, and Sadie Laflamme-Snow is a star in the making. Please, watch this show.

Watch the trailer below:

The Testaments — watch for: A rare occasion where the spinoff is just as good as the OG

Streaming on Hulu and Disney+; episodes air every Wednesday

The Testaments is probably one of my favorite new shows right now. As a devoted watcher of The Handmaid’s Tale, I am happy to report that this spinoff show is very reminiscent of the early seasons of the original show. It includes an all-star cast of up-and-coming actors, including a standout performance from Chase Infiniti fresh off her breakout performance in One Battle After Another. Based on Margaret Atwood's novel, The Testaments is set after the events of The Handmaid's Tale. 

The show follows Agnes (Chase), a young, dutiful, and pious teen, and Daisy (Lucy Halliday), a new arrival and convert from beyond Gilead's borders. The duo finds themselves navigating Aunt Lydia's (Ann Dowd) elite prep school for future wives. This is a place where obedience is instilled in brutal ways, but always with divine justification. Agnes and Daisy's bond grows and becomes the catalyst that will upend their past, present, and future. The way the show has already established itself as a great standalone series while also connecting to The Handmaid’s Tale is great. I have been glued to my TV every week when a new episode drops, and I really hope this show scores some surprise Emmy nominations this year.

Watch the trailer below:

To celebrate the new season of Running Point, we put Kate Hudson and Brenda Song’s off-screen friendship to the test with this costar quiz! They tried to guess each other’s dating icks, their go-to karaoke songs, their childhood celebrity crushes, and much more. Plus, they reveal how much they’d love for Kate’s Andie from How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days to interview Brenda’s London Tipton from The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. They are so much fun together, and genuinely friends off-screen as they are on-screen. Watch the full video by clicking below:

Also, have a question for me? Send it to me now at screentime@buzzfeed.com, at this Google form, or let me know in the comments below.

If you could change the ending of any TV show, which one would it be?

There are a bunch of my favorite TV shows that, well, haven't stuck the landing. But the top two shows I would definitely change the ending for are Killing Eve and How I Met Your Mother. For Killing Eve, I will never forgive the writers for giving us Eve and Villanelle, only to (spoiler alert) kill Villanelle in the end. The bury your gays trope being used in the series finale of a show I adored from the start really hurt. Villanelle (and Jodie Comer) deserved better.

And then, like a lot of people, I did not care for the How I Met Your Mother ending, simply because they spent an entire final two seasons almost building up Robin and Barney, only to throw it away, along with (again, spoiler alert) killing The Mother after Ted spent the entire show searching for her. The writers stuck to their original plan a little too much here. Cobie Smulders and Neil Patrick Harris ended up having fantastic chemistry, and that should’ve changed the course of the show. Sorry.

And we're continuing the discussion, so tell me which TV show ending you would change and why over HERE.

Well, that's all I've got for this week's edition of Screen Time. Come back every week to get more TV and movie recommendations, find out which celebs we're working with, and so much more!

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