Weekend Watch: If you loved Saltburn, you have to watch this sexy new period drama.

If you thought last week was chaotic, buckle up, because the streaming gods have delivered a roster of amazing new releases.

We're talking prestige, arthouse vibes, right next to a play-to-movie adaptation that is giving total Saltburn meets vintage drama energy.

But let's be real: nothing washes down existential dread and sophisticated commentary quite like the pure, unadulterated chaos of reality TV. And for your final course of terrifying absurdity, diving headfirst back into Derry for a Stephen King prequel.

Here are some of the best movies and TV shows coming out this week.

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What to watch this weekend, according to Mamamia's entertainment experts.

IT: Welcome to Derry.

Recommended by Laura Brodnik, Head of Entertainment and host of The Spill

Image: HBO Max

New series It: Welcome to Derry is a horror fan's dream TV show, and contains one of the most scream-inducing and entertaining opening scenes in living memory.

This new series is the latest addition to the It universe, which began with the 1986 horror novel of the same name by Stephen King.

That story followed seven children in the small town of Derry as they were terrorised by an evil entity called It, who mostly appears as a monstrous shapeshifting creature known as Pennywise the Dancing Clown.

IT: Welcome to Derry is set in 1962 and serves as a prequel series to the 2017 film It and it's 2019 sequel It Chapter Two and tells the gruesome origin story of child-hunting clown monster Pennywise, palyed by Bill Skarsgård who is reprising his role from the films.

This series introduces to a new gang of children being hunted by IT, and the result is a delightfully horrifying series.

IT: Welcome to Derry is now streaming on HBO Max.

Hedda.

Recommended by Chelsea Hui, Entertainment Producer.

Image: Prime Video

If you're a fan of Saltburn, you need to watch Hedda on Prime Video. Director Nia DaCosta has taken Henrik Ibsen's classic play, Hedda Gabler, and given it a fierce, lush, 1950s cinematic makeover.

The setup is deliciously toxic: you have the titular Hedda, played by Tessa Thompson. Recently married to a good-but-boring academic, Hedda is trapped in a glamorous English manor, suffocating under the weight of high-society expectations.

The film follows one wild, ill-fated house party where Hedda uses everyone around her as a pawn. The real dynamite drops with the arrival of Eileen Lovborg (Nina Hoss), Hedda's former lover, whose success and new relationship become the target of Hedda's destructive jealousy.

It's a sexy, psychological thriller and has all the elements of a must-see movie: stunning visuals, a claustrophobic period drama aesthetic, and a central performance so captivating you can't look away. 

It's a film about class, queer repression, and pure female rage — and it's so good.

Hedda is now streaming on Prime Video.

Bugonia.

Recommended by Emily Vernem, co-host of The Spill.

Image: Universal Pictures

Yorgos Lanthimos has graced us with another banger. Bugonia is a dark comedy/thriller/suspense film that's out in cinemas right now (and I recommend if you can, definitely watch it on the big screen). 

It stars Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons American actor (who in my opinion gives his best performance yet and DEFINITELY deserves an Oscar for it). 

The movie is about a super rich and successful CEO of a pharmaceutical research company and how she gets kidnapped by a guy and his cousin because they think she's an… alien. 

Yes, I know. Look — the movie is weird but not any weirder than Lanthimos' previous films. 

If you're a fan of his work, I'm sure you'll love this movie.

Bugonia is now in cinemas.

Selling Sunset season 9.

Recommended by Tara Watson, Senior Entertainment Writer.

Image: Netflix

Prepare for another season of grown women shouting at each other across restaurant tables, tiny twin brothers bossing them around, and a glimpse at the sort of luxe homes you'll never step a foot inside irl. 

Set at LA's Oppenheim Group, a luxury real estate brokerage, this season brings back series staples like Chrishell, Mary, Emma, Amanza and Chelsea for another season of drama.

Picking up where last season left off, the feud between Chrishell and Nicole is still burning bright, but the season comes with a more serious tone, as it portrays the impact of the Californian wildfires on thousands of homes across LA and how the realtors attempted to help the people who lost everything. Selling Sunset season 9 is now streaming on Netflix.

Feature Image: HBO Max.