TV: The Wilds

Nine teenage girls are on a private plane to attend a women’s empowerment retreat when the unthinkable happens: The plane crashes and they’re stranded on an island. A clichéd premise—Lost and Survivor have trawled these shores before—is turned on its head, as we learn more about the girls’ backgrounds and the sinister forces that brought them together. (Spoiler alert: There are no accidents here.) Gather some supplies, because you’ll be planted on that couch until the end of the 10th episode. Good thing it has already been renewed for a second season. Prime Video. –Genevie Durano

Film: Soul

The latest animated Pixar film isn’t so much for kids as for adults who’ve grown jaded to life’s wonders. Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx) is a jazz musician and middle-school band teacher who lands his dream gig after years of struggling to make it. But when Gardner suddenly “dies” on the day of his big break, he ends up in the Great Before, a whimsical land where souls are given their human form. Paired up with lost soul No. 22 (Tina Fey), Gardner attempts to show the amorphous blob the joys of life and learns some valuable lessons along the way. Disney+. –Leslie Ventura

Videos: Mark Rober's YouTube Channel

Former NASA and Apple engineer Mark Rober has a Carl Sagan-like gift for putting complex science into layman’s terms, and a Jimmy Kimmel-like gift for goofing around. This rare combination results in some terrifically watchable maker videos, like his snowball machine gun, smart glitterbomb to confound package thieves and world’s largest horn. (He also offers fascinating looks at world-saving stuff like water purification techniques for poor communities, and how to plant trees using drones.) Prepare to lose at least an hour being science’d. Youtube.com/c/markrober. –Geoff Carter

TV: Death to 2020

You might not be interested in watching something new from the folks behind Black Mirror, considering how accurately and disturbingly they predicted the dumpster fire Western civilization has become in recent years. But these 70 minutes recapping the year of peak flaming trash are worth the investment. Hilariously on-point performances by Samuel L. Jackson, Hugh Grant, Lisa Kudrow, Kumail Nanjiani and Leslie Jones will help you bid a final good riddance to 2020’s unfortunate characters and developments in pitch-perfect mockumentary style. Netflix. –Brock Radke

Music: Boris Reissues

Can music make one physically ill? A co-worker once spoke of a fellow photographer bursting into tears the instant a heavy band launched into its incredibly loud set. On a related note, Absolutego, the 1996 debut album from Japanese experimental-metal act Boris, actually makes me nauseous when I do battle with its single, hourlong track—a droning beast tuned to a deep frequency that rattles the listener from brain to bowels. The smart move would certainly be to set it aside for 1998 follow-up Amplifier Worship—the other recent (and perhaps better) installment in Boris’ ongoing reissue campaign—but there’s a strange draw to something as singular as Absolutego, no matter how much it hurts. Boris.bandcamp.com. –Spencer Patterson