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Channel 4

Trespasses

Channel 4 has a storied history of Troubles-set dramas, from The Crying Game to Hunger. All too often,…

By Antonia Georgiou
apple

Pluribus

With Breaking Bad and its spinoff, Better Call Saul, Vince Gilligan gave us a darkly comic take on…

By Antonia Georgiou
sky

All Her Fault

Based on the book by Andrea Mara, the politics of playdates takes a dark and twisted turn into…

By Antonia Georgiou
disney

All’s Fair

Imagine a show that is so absolute in its gaudiness that it must be seen to be believed.…

By Antonia Georgiou
MGM+

Robin Hood

The tale of Robin Hood has been told dozens of times. The latest is a drama series from…

By Andrew Murray
apple

Down Cemetery Road

Sarah (Ruth Wilson) and her husband Mark (Tom Riley) are in the middle of a disastrous dinner party…

By Andrew Murray
disney

To Cook a Bear

Set in 19th-century Northern Sweden and adapted from Mikael Niemis’s novel of the same name, this gripping Nordic…

By Andrew Murray
Show

Riot Women

Women are rarely at the centre of the old getting-the-band-back-together trope, and even less prominent within tales of…

By Antonia Georgiou
disney

Chad Powers

In 2022, NFL star Eli Manning went undercover as moustachioed character Chad Powers to try out for Penn…

By Andrew Murray
apple

The Savant

Jessica Chastain stars as an investigator tasked with infiltrating online spaces of far-right extremists as she attempts to…

By Andrew Murray