Welcome to Boston.com’s weekly streaming guide. Each week, we recommend five must-watch movies and TV shows available on streaming platforms like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Disney+, HBO Max, Peacock, Paramount+, and more.

Many recommendations are for new shows, while others are for under-the-radar releases you might have missed or classics that are about to depart a streaming service at the end of the month.

Have a new favorite movie or show you think we should know about? Let us know in the comments, or email [email protected]. Looking for even more great streaming options? Check out previous editions of our must-watch list here.

New Movies Streaming

“Challengers”

Director Luca Guadagnino pulls off a neat little trick in the intensely erotic, over-the-top drama “Challengers.” Instead of releasing the film’s pent-up carnal tension in the bedroom, the lustful energy explodes on the tennis court, where Zendaya, Mike Faist, and Josh O’Connor grunt, groan, and scream their way through one of the most deliriously entertaining movies of the year.

Tashi (Zendaya) is the former tennis phenom turned manager for her star client and husband, Art (Faist). Art is in a slump, so Tashi puts him in a low-level “Challengers” tournament. There, Art comes face to face with Patrick, a washed-up pro who we learn via lengthy flashbacks was once Art’s best friend and involved in a love triangle between him and Tashi.

Every interaction in “Challengers” — be it an argument or a romantic tryst — plays out like a game of tennis, with the camera bouncing back and forth like it’s watching a particularly vigorous rally. Every game of tennis, meanwhile, plays out like a no-holds-barred one-night stand. It’s ridiculous — and ridiculously fun.

How to watch: “Challengers” is streaming on Prime Video.

“His Three Daughters”

“His Three Daughters” is a movie that will likely hit close to home for many of a certain age. Natasha Lyonne (“Poker Face”), Elizabeth Olsen (“WandaVision”), and Carrie Coon (“The Leftovers”) play three sisters whose lives followed different paths but are now forced to make nice in a cramped Manhattan apartment while caring for their ailing father.

Lyonne (the stoned slacker), Coon (the uptight, judgmental mom), and Olsen (the conflict-averse yogi) speak to each other in a way that is both strangely stilted but also rooted in elemental truth about familial bonds. Watching them spar is heartbreaking, and watching them bond is hugely affirming.

How to watch: “His Three Daughters” is streaming on Netflix.

“I Saw the TV Glow”

Director Jane Schoenbrun, who captured the mind-warping force of social media and loneliness in “We’re All Going to The World’s Fair,” goes even broader in scope with their A24 debut, “I Saw the TV Glow.” The life of quiet, depressed ’90s teenager Owen (Ian Foreman) is irrevocably changed by the introduction of two simultaneous obsessions: A new, older friend named Maddy (Brigette Lundy-Paine) and the TV show she shares with him, “The Pink Opaque.”

Flash-forward a decade, and an adult Owen (Justice Smith) is still living at home with his widowed father (Fred Durst), still unsure about his identity/sexuality, and still depressed. Maddy is long gone, but Owen still thinks of “The Pink Opaque,” which lives on as a fully realized world, whether on fuzzy VHS or a modern-day streaming platform. Shoenbrun has a lot to say about the illusion of nostalgia, and why fandom, even for a seemingly ridiculous TV show, can provide meaning and identity to someone desperately seeking them.

How to watch: “I Saw the TV Glow” is streaming on Max.

New TV streaming

“Agatha All Along”

After a relatively light summer for Marvel (save the box office dominance of “Deadpool & Wolverine”), the MCU is back on Disney Plus with “Agatha All Along,” The show stars Kathryn Hahn as Agatha Harkness, who we last saw pretending to be a suburban housewife on “WandaVision” but who is actually one of the original Salem witches. Taking place after the events of “WandaVision,” Agatha has been drained of her powers and left in the drab suburb. When a former member of her coven (Aubrey Plaza) shows up to tell her she’ll be dead by sundown, Agatha must team up with a goth-y teen (Joe Locke) to reach the end of Witches’ Road and regain her powers.

“WandaVision” was probably the best Marvel show of the 2020s. With Plaza playing Hahn’s foil in a mini “Parks and Recreation” reunion, “Agatha All Along” makes for above-average Marvel fun.

How to watch: “Agatha All Along” is streaming on Disney+.

“American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez”

Showrunner extraordinaire Ryan Murphy has expanded his “American ___ Story” franchise into the sports world, chronicling the rise and fall of former Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez in “American Sports Story.” The Globe’s Spotlight team already covered the case extensively in the 2010s with its reporting and a subsequent podcast. But “American Sports Story” — which was created in collaboration with the Globe — does a good job highlighting lesser-known aspects of Hernandez’s life and tells his story in an approachable, watchable fashion.

As Hernandez, Josh Rivera is achingly human, and his performance helps shine a light on the negative impact that the football world had on his life. Viewers who prefer a clean hero/villain dichotomy may not like it, but there’s room for nuance even when telling the story of a convicted murderer.

How to watch: “American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez” is streaming on Hulu, with new episodes airing Tuesday at 10 on FX.