A widower’s young son vanishes, and the one man he can turn to is the estranged father who once hunted a killer. That is the setup of “The Whisper Man,” the Netflix film that opened the weekend of August 28, according to Decider’s streaming guide.
Adam Scott plays Tom Kennedy, a crime writer whose boy has been kidnapped. Robert De Niro plays his father, a former detective. Tom reaches out reluctantly after spotting links between the abduction and a case his father solved years earlier, involving a serial killer known as the Whisper Man. The film is based on the novel by Alex North. Michelle Monaghan, Michael Keaton and Hamish Linklater co-star.
Back for a second round
On Hulu, the sitcom “Adults” returned with its second season on Thursday. All eight new episodes are on Hulu now, while FXX airs two a week. The show follows Samir (Malik Elassal), Billie (Lucy Freyer), Issa (Amita Rao), Anton (Owen Thiele) and Paul Baker (Jack Innanen) as they live in Queens. Guest stars this season include Susie Essman, Raven-Symoné, Gaten Matarazzo, Jake Shane, Isaac Powell, Ben Marshall and Zosia Mamet.
Apple TV brought back “Dark Matter” for a second season, premiering Friday. Joel Edgerton plays Jason Dessen, a Chicago physics professor abducted by a mysterious alternate version of himself and dropped into a timeline where he made different choices. In that life he is no longer married to Daniela (Jennifer Connelly). Season two opens with Jason assuming things are heading back to normal. Decider says he is mistaken. Oakes Fegley plays his son Charlie.
Everything else on the list
Netflix also added two series, “All the Truth in My Lies” from Spain and “Four Hands, Two Sonatas” from Korea. Prime Video carried live WNBA and NWSL games, and ESPN had the TOUR Championship and the US Open first round, on ESPN2 at 3 pm ET. Peacock streamed the finale and reunion of “Married at First Sight” Season 20, along with all episodes of the second season of “The Undeclared War.” “Project Runway” Season 22 had a new episode at 10 pm PT.
