Review
Chilling show means you’ll never think of Fleabag’s Hot Priest the same way
Forget the sunny setting of 1999’s The Talented Mr Ripley – this gritty new version, filmed in black and white, is as noir as it gets.
- by Kylie Northover
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The best new shows to stream in April
Our guide to the best of what’s on the streamers and free-to-air this month.
- by Craig Mathieson
A plot twist for the ages in wild new Colin Farrell series
You’ll need a spoonful of medicine to help Apple TV’s ludicrous Sugar go down.
- by Robert Moran
Faking Hitler is a giddy ride through journalism’s most bonkers gotcha
There’s a lightness of touch in this dramatisation of how a German magazine was duped into buying diaries that were supposedly written by Adolf Hitler.
- by Ben Pobjie
★★★★
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Steve Coogan goes where few actors would dare as sex predator Jimmy Savile
It takes a very brave actor to play a man as irredeemable as the late Jimmy Savile, but Steve Coogan is up to the task.
- by Karl Quinn
In its final season, Happy Valley reaches a pinnacle few dramas manage
Sarah Lancashire’s Sergeant Catherine Cawood is looking forward to a quiet life, but then human remains are discovered in a reservoir.
- by Ben Pobjie
Annette Bening is terrific in this tale of domestic suspense
Annette Bening and Sam Neill star in the latest adaptation of one of Liane Moriarty’s best-selling novel, Apples Never Fall.
- by Kylie Northover
Allen Leech delves into a dark Irish chapter in serial-killer thriller
Best known as Tom Branson in Downton Abbey, Leech plays a detective on the trail of a suspected murderer in The Vanishing Triangle.
- by Ben Pobjie
Netflix doco reveals the truth of cult-like disciplinary schools
Once a student at one of America’s disciplinary schools, filmmaker Katherine Kubler set out to investigate how such institutions get away with physical and mental abuse of minors.
- by Kylie Northover
The best new shows to stream in March
Our guide to the best of what’s on the streamers and free-to-air this month.
- by Craig Mathieson
Capes, cravats, magic mittens: this is the role Noel Fielding was born to play
It’s not The Mighty Boosh, but you’ll be pleasantly surprised by this new Apple TV series.
- by Robert Moran