I’m stoked that Parks and Recreation star Amy Poehler is back in sitcom mode with Binge’s Dig, while I’m hoping that ABC iview’s Shakedown, a drama about the Robodebt scandal can be both gripping and illuminating.
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The story of FTX, the high-flying cryptocurrency exchange that went bankrupt in 2022 with prison sentences for its young founders, is vast.
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It’s a $12 billion finance scandal, a philosophical betrayal and a catastrophic love story.
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What creator Graham Moore (The Imitation Game) does and does not focus on will be crucial, but he has an exceptional pair of leads as the gifted couple
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that started the company to change the world and ended up as adversaries: Julia Garner (Ozark) plays Caroline Ellison, while Anthony Boyle (Say Nothing) is the now infamous Sam Bankman-Fried.
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Wig aficionados will feast on this one.
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Also on Netflix: The first season of Black Doves (November 5) required some acclimatisation.
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The London-set action thriller looked deadly serious, but with Keira Knightley (Boston Strangler) and Ben Whishaw (A Very English Scandal) as covert operative besties who combined whimsical diffidence and automatic weapons, the show had a pulpy pleasure that verged on the ludicrous.
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The show has a bloody groove now, with creator Joe Barton (Giri/Haji) returning for the second instalment.
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Neve Campbell (The Lincoln Lawyer) joins the cast and Knightley’s Helen is now the undercover wife of Britain’s new prime minister.
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The Body (November 19) is giving bonkers plot with a cheerfully satirical vibe.
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In this horror-thriller, the ambitious members of the dance team at a Catholic girls school take their preparation a little too far, turning a drug-fuelled initiation for new members into an occult ritual that may have, like, summoned the devil.
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Disturbing visions, spiritual ecstasy and mass hysteria are soon on the rise, as students, faculty and clergy grapple over eight episodes with the implications.
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I like it.
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Florence Pugh was outstanding in East of Eden, Below brought the watery horror vibes, documentary The One About Matthew Perry needed more, there were issues with The New Stanford Prison Experiment but truly great lip service from Nobody Wants This.
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I, along with Stephen King, was in the minority that found Silka Luisa’s 2022 Apple TV thriller Shining Girls to be a compelling show.
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Now she faces an even bigger challenge: making the sequel series to one of science-fiction’s most revered – and complex – franchises.
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The setting remains a dystopian Los Angeles, but 50 years after Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 movie.
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The bioengineered replicants, once hunted, are now the ruling class overseeing the dwindling human population.
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Staying alive is all that matters for a replicant police detective, Olwen (Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once), whose expiration date is looming.
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Hunter Schafer (Euphoria) also stars as a human survivor posing as a replicant.
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The production design and the performances will need to be top-tier on this one.
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Also on Amazon Prime Video: Produced in collaboration with his estate, The Greatest (November 4) tackles the breakthrough years of Muhammad Ali, who in the early 1960s went from Olympic boxing gold medallist to the heavyweight champion of the world.
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Good luck to Jaalen Best (All American: Homecoming), who must portray the most charismatic athlete of all time and find the man beneath the legend.
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Cross creator Ben Watkins certainly has no shortage of material to draw on, from high-profile title fights to Ali’s conversion to Islam and family conflict.
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Eight episodes actually feels right.
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A Stephen King classic got a timely update with a 21st century Carrie.
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Rose Byrne continues to do it all.
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The Platonic star swings back to drama with this psychological thriller, in which she and Meghann Fahy (The White Lotus) play estranged sisters and attorneys.
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Samantha and Charlotte Quinn are reunited when their lawyer father, Rusty (Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin), falls ill, and they must deal with his pressing new case defending a young woman charged with a double murder.
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Crime author Karin Slaughter adapted her own 2017 novel of the same name, which opens the siblings up to their own residual trauma over an unsolved attack on their family when they were children.
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Also on Stan: With licentious energy and a knowing wink, the first season of The Hunting Wives (November 26) made a bold impression in 2025.
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Brittany Snow (The Night Agent) played Sophie, a from-up-north outsider in the Texas town where her husband has moved for a new job who is overwhelmed by the very blonde socialite wife of her husband’s boss, Margo (Malin Akerman, Billions).
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The show is bonkers, and I suspect the new instalment is only going to up the ante.
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October highlights: Halloween-appropriate horror arrived with a Friday the 13th prequel, Crystal Lake, plus an enjoyably demented Australian creature feature in Gnomes.
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Anthony Mackie (Twisted Metal) and Jamie Dornan (The Fall) had a perilous chemistry as friends in the brain-bending 2020 thriller Synchronic (currently on Amazon Prime Video), but in this European-set heist thriller, they’re obsessive adversaries.
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The former is an FBI agent, the latter a master thief planning to hit a Swiss bank.
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Per the title, the series unfolds over three timelines: the 12 months to plan the job, the 12 minutes to execute it and the 12 days to disappear safely afterwards.
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Also on Apple TV: Stick (November 4) debuted last year with a Ted Lasso-gets-sketchy vibe, as Owen Wilson and his trademark crooked nose played former pro golfer Pryce Cahill, who saw redemption (and some much-needed money) in coaching a diffident teenage prodigy.
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It was pretty clear that sweetness would win out over cynicism in this sports comedy, but the second season has some welcome additions as Pryce decides to make his own comeback at the US Open.
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…and 47 more, not listed.
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