• Hulu's hit reality TV series "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" is back for season two.
• The series finale of the "Star Wars" spin-off "Andor" aired this week on Disney+.
• "Murderbot" and "Overcompensating" are among the shows that are new to streamers.

MomTok has survived for season two.

Hulu's hit reality TV series "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" returned this week, once again addressing the group's infamous 2022 "soft swinging" scandal while also chronicling friendship and relationship fractures within the group.

If reality TV isn't your cup of tea, there's plenty more to check out on streamers, like the R-rated action movie "Novocaine," the college-set coming-of-age series "Overcompensating," and the series finale of the "Star Wars" spin-off "Andor."

Here's a complete rundown of all the best movies, shows, and documentaries to stream this weekend, broken down by what kind of entertainment you're looking for.

Jack Quaid plays an average guy with an uncanny ability to not feel pain in "Novocaine."

Jack Quaid, known for playing an unlikely vigilante in the superhero satire series "The Boys," portrays a different kind of action star in "Novocaine."

In the 2025 film, Quaid stars as Nathan Caine, an introverted everyman who works at a trust credit union. When his coworker, whom he has a crush on, gets kidnapped, Nathan uses his inability to feel pain to fight and try to rescue her.

Streaming on: Paramount+

The '70s-set drama series "Duster" follows a getaway driver and a rookie FBI agent.

"Lost" star Josh Holloway plays Jim, a getaway car driver who teams up with Nina (Rachel Hilson), the first Black female FBI agent, to take down a crime syndicate in the Southwest.

The eight-episode series is co-created by J.J. Abrams, and new episodes release weekly, leading to the finale on July 3.

Streaming on: Max

"Better Man" offers a fresh take on the typical biopic.

The 2024 musical film follows the highs and lows of UK pop star Robbie Williams' life with a twist — he's portrayed by a CGI monkey.

Streaming on: MGM+

See Adrien Brody's Oscar-winning performance in "The Brutalist."

If the lengthy runtime and intermission deterred you from seeing "The Brutalist" in theaters, you can now watch the film at home.

The movie stars Adrien Brody as László Tóth, a Hungarian-Jewish Holocaust survivor and accomplished architect who immigrates to America post-WWII to rebuild his life.

Streaming on: Max

For a coming-of-age comedy series, check out "Overcompensating."

Actor and comedian Benito Skinner, known for his internet persona Benny Drama, brings his humor to Hollywood as the creator and writer of Prime Video's raunchy college series "Overcompensating."

In the show, he plays Benny Scanlon, a closeted freshman trying to keep up appearances while also figuring out who he really is.

The eight-episode first season dropped all at once this week, featuring cameos from celebrities like Charli XCX and Megan Fox.

Streaming on: Prime Video

Watch "Matteo Lane: The Al Dente Special" for more laughs.

Comedian and cookbook author Matteo Lane jokes about conversations with white women, Uber etiquette, and more in his stand-up special.

Streaming on: Hulu

"Andor" came to an end this week.

The final three episodes of "Andor" were released this week, concluding Cassian Andor's pre-"Rogue One" storyline.

Streaming on: Disney+

Alexander Skarsgård stars as a rogue robot with free will in "Murderbot."

The Apple TV+ series adaptation of Martha Wells' bestselling book series "The Murderbot Diaries" fuses comedy and thrills as it follows a security construct with an artificial body.

After hacking his system and gaining free will, Muderbot (Alexander Skarsgård) tries to maintain his cover while on assignment with a team of researchers when really, he'd rather just watch soap operas.

Streaming on: Apple TV+

Season two of "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" brings more drama.

The new season kicks off with the surprise arrival of Miranda McWhorter, the former best friend of star Taylor Frankie Paul and one of the original MomTok members. After distancing herself from the group amid the swinging scandal, McWhorter is back to repair her friendships and possibly rejoin MomTok.

All 10 episodes are streaming now.

Streaming on: Hulu

"Untold: The Liver King" chronicles the rise and fall of a health influencer.

Remember the raw organ-eating influencer who touted an "ancestral lifestyle" and unconventional health practices? Netflix's new documentary "Untold: The Liver King" unpacks the life of the disgraced internet star known as Liver King, aka Brian Johnson, and the steroid scandal that caused backlash.

Streaming on: Netflix

True crime fans can check out "Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story."

The three-episode limited series tells the story of married couple Fred and Rose West, notorious UK serial killers who committed horrific crimes against their own kids and other young women and children.

Streaming on: Netflix

Season seven of the scripted sports drama series "All American" is now streaming.

The rivalry between the Beverly Hills and Crenshaw crews intensifies in season seven of "All American."

After recently airing its season seven finale on The CW, all 13 episodes are available to stream online.

Streaming on: Netflix

For unscripted sports, watch the new season of "Welcome to Wrexham."

Season four of "Welcome to Wrexham" continues to document the journey of Wrexham AFC, the oldest English football club in Wales that made waves when it was purchased by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney a few years ago.

Streaming on: Hulu

Or "Vini Jr."

Netflix's latest sports documentary focuses on Brazilian soccer star Vinícius Júnior, aka Vini Jr., and how the sport changed his life.

Streaming on: Netflix

Season 50 of "Saturday Night Live" ends this weekend.

Scarlett Johansson returns to host "SNL" for a seventh time and will be joined by musical guest Bad Bunny.

Streaming on: Peacock

• "The Brutalist" has won four BAFTAs and three Golden Globes, and is nominated for 10 Academy Awards.
• But the film's director, Brady Corbet, said he hasn't made any money from it.
• Corbet said he spent the money promoting the film for the last six months.

"The Brutalist" is a frontrunner this awards season, having been nominated for 10 Oscars and winning four BAFTAs and three Golden Globes.

But Brady Corbet, the film's director, told Monday's episode of "WTF with Marc Maron" that he and Mona Fastvold, his romantic partner and co-writer, made no money from this film or their last, 2018's "Vox Lux."

"We had to just sort of live off of a paycheck from three years ago," Corbet said without stating where that paycheck came from.

In previous interviews, Corbet has said that "The Brutalist," which is over 3 hours long, cost $10 million to make, and "Vox Lux" cost roughly the same amount.

"Vox Lux" bombed, grossing $1.4 million, while "The Brutalist" has been more successful, making $31 million in ticket sales since it was released in December.

On the "WTF" podcast, Corbet said he didn't make money on "The Brutalist" because he has been touring the world to promote the film for awards season, after it premiered at the Venice Film Festival last September.

"The timing during an awards campaign, having to travel every two or three days, was less than ideal, but it was an opportunity that landed in my lap, and I jumped at it," Corbet said. "You're not paid to promote a film."

He added: "I've spoken to many filmmakers that have films that are nominated this year that can't pay their rent. I mean, that's a real thing."

Actors and directors typically have contractual obligations to promote a film when it first premieres. However, that often does not extend to award-season promotion, and some studios do not pay talent for their further appearances. The contracts for "The Brutalist" are not publicly available.

Corbet said that promoting films for awards also prevents filmmakers from taking new jobs.

"I've been doing this for six months and had zero income because I don't have any time to go to work. I can't even take a writing job at the moment," Corbet said. "It's constant travel, but you're also working Saturdays and Sundays. I haven't had a day off since the Christmas break, and that was also only four days."

Corbet said that he was recently able to take a job shooting three ads in Portugal.

"It's the first time I have made any money in years," he said.

Business Insider contacted Andrew Lauren Productions, the production company that financed "The Brutalist," for comment.

• The film editor for "The Brutalist" revealed the movie used AI in post-production.
• Writer-director Brady Corbet responded to the controversy and defended the film's use of AI.
• This likely won't affect the Oscar nominations, as voting ended before the controversy went mainstream.

People online can't stop talking about "The Brutalist." But this time, the chatter isn't about the movie's over three-hour runtime, its eye-catching visual style, or the acclaimed performances propelling it to awards season glory. It's about AI, and whether the film's use of it should make it less deserving of artistic praise and potential awards.

The controversy reached a peak this weekend after excerpts from an interview with "The Brutalist" editor Dávid Jancsó went viral online.

Jancsó told online tech magazine Red Shark News that the production team used AI to perfect minute pronunciation details in the Hungarian accents of stars Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones, who play Hungarian Jews who flee Europe after World War II in search of a better life in America. (The film includes scenes in both Hungarian and English.)

Jancsó, who is a native Hungarian speaker himself, said the language is one of the most difficult to learn to pronounce. So while Brody and Jones had dialect coaching and did a "fabulous job" learning the language, the filmmakers wanted to perfect the dialogue "so that not even locals will spot any difference."

'The Brutalist' used AI to improve Adrien Brody's accent

Jancsó said they first tried to use ADR (automated dialogue replacement) in post-production, but it didn't work. So the team opted to feed Brody and Jones' voices into Respeecher, a Ukrainian software company that uses AI to let one person speak in the voice of another, then fed in Jancsó's own voice to finesse it.

"We were very careful about keeping their performances. It's mainly just replacing letters here and there," he said in the interview. Jancsó added that generative AI was used to craft the final sequence where viewers see architectural drawings and completed buildings in the style of Adrien Brody's fictional architect László Tóth.

The editor said that he knew it was controversial to talk about using AI in film, but maintained that "there's nothing in the film using AI that hasn't been done before."

"It just makes the process a lot faster. We use AI to create these tiny little details that we didn't have the money or the time to shoot," Jancsó said.

Some fans are turning on 'The Brutalist,' but the news won't impact Oscar nominations

The revelation, which comes days before Thursday's Oscar nominations announcement, threw social media into a frenzy, with many film fans criticizing the movie's use of AI. Some have even suggested the movie (or Brody) should be disqualified over it.

The nearly four-hour epic has been a sensation since premiering at the Venice Film Festival in September, where director Brady Corbet won the festival's Silver Lion award. In the months since, it's continued to rack up more wins, most recently taking home three Golden Globes: best director for Corbet, best actor in a drama for Brody, and best motion picture drama.

Users on X joked that "The Brutalist" is the latest best picture contender to be knocked out of the race after "Anora" faced backlash for not using an intimacy coordinator, clearing the way for papal thriller "Conclave" to win.

But if the Ralph Fiennes drama does clinch a nomination and "The Brutalist" doesn't, it likely won't be due to the latter's use of AI: Oscar voting, which was extended due to the LA fires, concluded on Friday January 17, after the interview was published but before online chatter over the controversy picked up steam that weekend.

As for whether it will affect the chances of "The Brutalist" actually winning anything, that's less clear and all depends on how the voting bodies that make up the Academy feel about AI usage (that is, if the voters even finished watching the whole movie).

Director Brady Corbet responded to the uproar

In an email statement shared with BI by the film's distributor A24, Corbet defended and clarified the use of AI in "The Brutalist," maintaining that Brody and Jones' performances are "completely their own" and that nothing was substantively altered.

"Innovative Respeecher technology was used in Hungarian language dialogue editing only, specifically to refine certain vowels and letters for accuracy. No English language was changed," Corbet said. "This was a manual process, done by our sound team and Respeecher in post-production. The aim was to preserve the authenticity of Adrien and Felicity's performances in another language, not to replace or alter them and done with the utmost respect for the craft."

Corbet also said that AI wasn't used to render any of the buildings, which were all hand-drawn. "To clarify, in the memorial video featured in the background of a shot, our editorial team created pictures intentionally designed to look like poor digital renderings circa 1980," he said.

The Brutalist' isn't the only movie to use AI

AI has been major point of contention in Hollywood, particularly during the 2023 writers and actors strikes, when creatives demanded reassurances that the technology wouldn't replace their work.

The popularity of AI, and Respeecher in particular, is growing. The company struck a deal with Lucasfilm to clone James Earl Jones' voice for use in the 2022 Star Wars series "Obi-Wan Kenobi."

"The Brutalist" also wasn't the only film that used AI in 2024. Respeecher said in a Facebook post that "Emilia Pérez," another awards season favorite, used its software, though it didn't say in what capacity.

Reps for "Emilia Pérez" didn't immediately respond to a request for comment, but an interview with the movie's sound mixer indicates AI cloning tools were used to help Karla Sofia Gascón sing beyond her vocal range, per The Guardian.

Other 2024 films like "Civil War," "Furiosa," "Alien: Romulus," and "Late Night With the Devil," also faced varying degrees of criticism for their use of AI in visuals.

Reps for "The Brutalist" and Respeecher, as well as Brody, Jones, and Jancsó, didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.

• Warning: Major spoilers ahead for "The Brutalist."
• Guy Pearce told BI that the ending and how his character exits the movie is "brilliant."
• "It's important what the audience imagines," he said.

Brady Corbet's three-and-a-half-hour epic "The Brutalist" is filled with eye-popping visuals and moving sequences as it chronicles the life of László Tóth (Adrien Brody), a Hungarian Jew who survives the Holocaust and emigrates to post-World War II America. It all leads to a shocking end centered around Guy Pearce's character, the bombastic wealthy industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren.

The bulk of the movie focuses on Van Buren commissioning Tóth, an architect, to create a massive community center. The endeavor stretches Tóth's talents and patience for most who work with him, but he seems to always have Van Buren's support. Van Buren even helps Tóth get his wife Erzsébet (Felicity Jones) to the US and allows them to live on his estate during the center's construction.

Years into the project, Tóth and Van Buren travel to Italy to order the marble needed to complete the community center. The two enjoy a party there one evening, and Van Buren rapes Tóth. Tóth returns home a changed man, filled with anger towards everyone.

By the end of the movie, Tóth tells his wife what happened in Italy. She then barges in on Van Buren and his family having dinner with guests. Erzsébet calls Van Buren a rapist in front of everyone, which leads to an argument, and Van Buren's son Harry (Joe Alwyn) forces Erzsébet from the room.

Once things calm down, Van Buren has disappeared. Harry begins to search the house for his father while also seemingly having a panic attack. When no one can find Van Buren in the house, they expand their search around the estate and through the unfinished community center.

He is never found.

Pearce doesn't know what happened to Van Buren — but that's not the point

Pearce told Business Insider he didn't have much discussion with Corbet, who cowrote the screenplay with his wife Mona Fastvold, about Van Buren's dramatic exit.

"That was on the page," Pearce said. "It was pretty clear in the script that we go out of the room, we come back, and the dinner guests say, 'He's gone to bed,' and then Joe goes looking for me, and I'm not in bed, and we just don't know where he's at. He's become nothing."

Pearce said looking for answers to what really happened to Van Buren isn't the point. "It's not important even to know what happened to him, it's important what the audience imagines," he said.

"I think the unsatisfactory nature of a character who is so present and so dominant and so controlling then just evaporates — I thought it was brilliant."

After watching the movie, Pearce said what struck him about the scene was how it raised the question of if this was the first time Van Buren sexually assaulted someone.

"Watching how that scene played out — while I was busy hiding behind a chest of drawers in that dining room so I wasn't caught on camera — watching Joe run around as desperate as he was looking for me, there was something there that tells us that there's more to this," Pearce said. "It was harrowing stuff." 

"The Brutalist" is now playing in theaters.