Here Are 5 Shows You Can Watch If You’re Staying Home This Week
It’s all about revenge travel after being cooped up for three years. Travel costs may be on the rise, but more people are planning trips this year compared to 2022 with the World Tourism Organization’s count of more than 900 million people traveling internationally.
But there are those who choose to stay home, chill, watch their favorite movies and shows. Here are five shows you can watch uninterrupted all thanks to PLDT Home’s fast and reliable Internet connection:
1. Killers (2010)
This romcom opens in one of the most beautiful places on earth: Nice, France, where the rich frolic on the beaches and arrive on private jets and yachts. With its red-roofed villas, a palm-tree lined boulevard, boutiques, cafes and restaurants, Nice attracts holidaymakers from all over the world. Including assassins. Starring Ashton Kutcher (“That ‘70s Show,” “The Ranch”) as assassin Spencer and Katherine Heigl (“Grey’s Anatomy,” “Knocked Up”) as lovelorn woman Jen traveling with her well-off parents, the film shows that je ne sais quoi that makes it easy to fall in love with and in Nice.
Spencer gets involved in a mission to kill while Jen tries to untangle herself from her protective and overbearing parents (played by Tom Selleck, and Catherine O’Hara).
The moment she meets him, shirtless and with that boyish charm, Jen is smitten. The two go on a date, and even before the aperitif Spencer remotely blows up a helicopter. They fall in love and we flash forward to the American suburbs three years later.
They are now married and Spencer is retired from the killing business. Unfortunately, someone has put a $20 million bounty on his head and suburbia is never the same again.
2. Green Book (2018)
This is a biographical film starring Viggo Mortensen (“The Lord of the Rings”) as Italian-American bouncer Tony Lip and Mahershala Ali (“House of Cards,””Luke Cage”) as the pianist Dr. Don Shirley, inspired by the latter’s 1962 tour of the Deep South. The movie is a road trip drama set in the Jim Crow south.
The “Green Book” refers to the annual guidebook for blacks traveling through the United States. It is a directory of safe roads, motels, restaurants, and gas stations in segregated America. Tony Lip is hired by Don Shirley, a black man, to drive him on his eight-week concert tour with plans to return to New York City on Christmas Eve. A friendship grows between the two men as Don helps Tony write love letters to his wife in the Bronx.
The movie captures the zeitgeist of a segregated America in the 1960s. Lip’s transformation begins as he sees how the other side lives.
3. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)
It’s the end of the world and Dodge Petersen (Steve Carell) is unhappy. Penny Lockhart is unhappy (Keira Knightley,) too. Dodge’s wife has left him while Penny’s boyfriend has made her miss her last opportunity to go back to England and be with her family.
After Penny accidentally spills that his wife was having an affair, Dodge tries to kill himself by guzzling window cleaner but wakes up in a park with a dog tied to his foot. The two strike a deal: Dodge would connect her with someone who can fly her to England while she would help him find Olivia, his high school sweetheart and the love of his life.
Dodging madmen, riots, and an assassin — and everything else that make people crazy at the end of the world—they locate Penny’s ex-boyfriend, a doomsday prepper that lets her contact her family in England with his satellite phone. They also arrive at Olivia’s home but find it empty. Here, they fall in love and figure out their feelings for one another.
4. Travel Stalker
This is a Japanese series whose hosts connect with travelers with no plans and hang out with them for the day. Each episode features different tourists, locations, shopping areas, food, and adventures.
In the first episode, the hosts go to Nara, Japan’s first capital city, where they feed deer and visit the Todaiji Temple. Episode 3 in Inari is a special one featuring the Fushimi Inari Shrine. Throughout the 10-episode season, viewers get to see places like Shinsaibashi, which is famous for its shopping district, a marathon, temples, sunsets, how Osaka looks in autumn, Kyoto, Arashiyama, and Sagano.
This travel series is useful inspiration for when you’re going to a place (whether international or domestic) without much of a real plan. And if you’re actually headed to Japan — or impulsively made plans for later in the year — “Travel Stalker” is a great guide for making your DIY itinerary.
5. 2 Days and 1 Night (2007-present)
Two days and one night is usually how long a quick break goes. But what if you had to perform tasks to earn points for things like food during this short time? That’s exactly what this South Korean reality show is all about.
There are now four seasons available to stream on Viu, featuring a cast of six men that have continually been replaced by new ones since the show first aired in 2007. The cast travels throughout South Korea and deal with unpredictable situations and severe environments.
Start streaming on Lionsgate Play when you activate your complimentary access voucher until June 1. For Asian content, subscribe to Viu Premium for only P80 a month and charge it straight to your PLDT Home account. To find out, visit pldthome.comentertainment.
