BLACK WATCH: (4.18.25) ‘G20,’ ‘Eight On Eight,’ & More

Andscape Presents Eight on Eight — Source: ESPN / ESPN

The Cassius team is kicking off Easter weekend with a new Black Watch to keep you on point as spring gets properly started. The streams this week feature a nuanced look at the late, great Kobe Bryant, Amanda Waller aka Viola Davis aka a Black female POTUS handing out fades and more.

Whether it’s documentaries, cult classic shows, or movies newly introduced to your favorite streaming platform, we’re making sure your watch list features some of the brightest talents the culture has to offer.

Black Mirror Season 5 still — Source: Netflix / Netflix

Black Mirror – Netflix

Yeah, we’ve heard, a lot of folk weren’t too keen on the acting in the latest season of Black Mirrror. Maybe we’ll get to that later, but now is as good a time as any to catch up with rest of the series considering it is now seven seasons deep. You’ll peep a lot actors who are now household names (i.e. Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Whittaker in the first season way back in 2011) as you fly through the sci-fi series, and you’ll finally get some of the social media humor that’s been going over your head.—Alvin aqua Blanco

Eight on Eight — ESPN+

Andscape, the Black content-led studio under ESPN and Disney, is back again with another documentary. Clocking in at just an hour long, Eight on Eight is essentially a video approach to writer Jerry Bembry’s article of the same name that digs into eight everyday people whom Kobe Bryant had a profound impact on. From a terminally ill cancer patient that he visited, helping establish the career of a Toronto-based journalist, his role in McDonald’s All-American Reshanda Gray’s eventual WNBA career, and aiding a Los Angeles-based homelessness organization, the Black Mamba’s influence runs deep. I randomly discovered the short doc during a random midnight TV guide doom scroll, and it was well worth the delayed bedtime.

Watch Eight on Eight on ESPN+ now. —Bruce Goodwin II

G20

Viola Davis steps away from the dramatic roles she is best known for and steps into her action star phase in G20.

In the Prime Video exclusive, Davis plays U.S. President Danielle Sutton, a former war hero who is now on a mission to end world hunger through a plan involving cryptocurrency. Her plan is to make her pitch to the other world leaders at the G20 summit but her plan is derailed when a group of elite soldiers led by a former military member named Ruttledge (Antony Starr) take all the world leaders hostage. It’s up to Davis, the First Family and her loyal lead Secret Service agent to stop them and save the free world.

G20 also stars Anthony Anderson, Marsai Martin, Ramón Rodriguez and Christopher Farrar. It’s now streaming on Prime Video. —Bernard “Beanz” Smalls

BLACK WATCH: (4.18.25) 'G20,' 'Eight On Eight,' & More