![]() ![]() Silly fun and worth staying with for a twist that will have you hooting aloud. Simona Brown plays a single mum drawn into a web of forbidden love with her new boss (Tom Bateman) – and his creepily passive wife (Eve Hewson). You’ll have to go far and wide to find a drama as bonkers as this eye-swivelling adaptation of Sarah Pinborough’s supernatural thriller. (Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video, Sky, Now) The direction – particularly of action set-pieces – is more thilling and inventive than anything on the big screen. Hader plays a dissatisfied hitman who finds new purpose in an acting class (run by Henry Winkler’s eccentric coach), but who can’t escape his violent past. This Bill Hader-starring black comedy has grown ever murkier over its gripping four seasons. Based on the League Of Legends online beat ’em up, it’s an animated steampunk thriller about two sisters – Jinx and Vi – who end up on opposite sides of a struggle for power in a richly-imagined fantasy universe. In the “discourse” about whether HBO’s The Last Of Us was the greatest-ever video game adaptation, Arcane was unfairly ignored. Originally a Radio 4 drama set in Oslo, this crime drama about a marine homicide unit has been transported to Glasgow – although Nicola Walker’s Annika Strandhed is still Norwegian, and still a wry presence, whether dealing with corpses or her stroppy teenage daughter. That’s a shame as its fish-out-of-water premise – a Big Pharma exec takes over a skidding auto business – is sharp and the writing is consistently good. ![]() Which perhaps explains why this show was cancelled after only two seasons. ![]() Few, though, have the guts to set themselves in the exuberantly unsexy world of Detroit’s crumbling motor industry. The sparky cast includes Tiffany Haddish and Jack Whitehall. (Where to watch: Apple TV+)įollowing a murder at a high school reunion, different characters shares their perspectives – in the form of genre spoofs for each episode of this inventive whodunit, from action movie to animation, musical, thriller and, in the latest series, Wes Anderson parody. It’s set at a luxury Mexican resort in the 1980s, where wide-eyed staffer Maximo chases wealth – and the girl of his dreams. Roughly inspired by the comic film How to Be a Latin Lover, Acapulco hits that Ted Lasso/Schitt’s Creek feel-good sweet spot. The whole cast is tremendous, but Janelle James is the ultimate scene-stealer as the self-obsessed, social media-savvy principal Ava. Quinta Brunson’s irresistible mockumentary-style sitcom follows the beleaguered teachers of an underfunded Philadelphia school. ![]()
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