The end of the month is coming up fast, and Peacock will be resetting its movie library very soon.
Unlike many of the other streamers, only a handful of titles are on Peacock long term. Even the films owned by Peacock’s parent company, Universal Pictures, regularly cycle in and out.
The first two titles on Watch With Us‘ list of the three underrated Peacock movies to watch this weekend are films that won’t be sticking around in June.
Our third pick is a recently debuted true crime documentary that has enough mystery to fill up a novel. If you love that genre, it’s a can’t miss experience.
‘Piece by Piece’ (2024)
Last year, British singer Robbie Williams starred in his own biopic, Better Man, as a CGI chimpanzee. Pharrell Williams (no relation) went even further with his music biopic, Piece by Piece, which retells his life story as an animated Lego film. That not only allowed Williams to play himself, it opened the doors for his wife, his parents and more to portray themselves as well.
Several of Williams’ friends and collaborators in the music industry also lent their voices to their Lego counterparts, including Gwen Stefani, Justin Timberlake, Snoop Dogg and Jay-Z. But it is ultimately Williams’ story of how he broke into the music industry and how creating music for other artists initially kept him from creating music for himself. Once Williams got past that, he had a few more stumbling blocks along the way, not all of which were made out of Lego.
Piece by Piece is streaming on Peacock.
‘Honeymoon’ (2014)
Game of Thrones‘ Rose Leslie and Harry Treadaway star as a newly married couple, Bea and Paul, in Honeymoon. Don’t let the title fool you into thinking that this is some kind of rom-com, though. The honeymoon is over pretty quickly when Paul discovers Bea naked and disoriented in the woods during their vacation.
Bea claims she was just sleepwalking, but she begins displaying disturbing behavior and a lack of knowledge about their life together that unnerves Paul. As far as Paul knows, the woman who came back with him may not even be his wife. But getting answers from Bea leads to some strange and dangerous situations for the couple, and no therapy can fix this.
Honeymoon is streaming on Peacock.
‘Southern Fried Lies’ (2025)
Southern Fried Lies expands on a real true crime story that features running commentary from one of the perpetrators and one of the victims. It’s twisty enough that someone should make a real movie out of this, because Donna Herring is quite a character. Years ago, Donna decided that she wanted her daughter, Alex Herring, to marry the richest man in town, Matthew Jacobs. And they pulled it off.
The source of Jacobs’ wealth stemmed from a settlement that he got after surviving the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig explosion. It’s not a huge spoiler to say that Jacobs didn’t survive his marriage. But the thing that caught the attention of the police is that Matthew’s will gave everything to Alex and left nothing for his son, Jordan Jacobs. As suspicious as that sounds, the tale gets even wilder from there, and both Jordan and Donna get to share their perspective on how everything went down.
Southern Fried Lies is streaming on Peacock.
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