The sixth and final series of the feminist sci-fi drama started on April 15th on RTÉ2, but for those who didn’t catch it on terrestrial TV it’s available for bingeing from Saturday, May 3rd. Elisabeth Moss is brilliant as usual in this series based on the classic dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood, but we can’t avoid the niggling feeling that stretching things out to a sixth series might be diluting the drama a bit. Nevertheless, this tale of Trumpian totalitarianism is still one of HBO’s biggest shows, and the final series promises to go out with a bang as June, formerly known as Offred, returns to Gilead to take down the patriarchal dictatorship formerly known as the United States once and for all. But will the women of Gilead have the courage to rise up and stick it to the man? Somehow, June has to find a way to unite them in rebellion and persuade them to risk all and make one last, desperate bid for freedom.
When Netflix announced it was making a documentary about the killing of the Irish man Jason Corbett in 2015, it promised to “shed a bright light” on the questions raised by this horrific crime and the subsequent trial of his second wife, Molly Martens, and her father, the retired FBI agent Thomas Martens. The pair tried to paint Corbett as an abusive spouse, but his two children, Jack and Sarah, who were eight and 10 when their father was beaten to death with a baseball bat and a paving brick in the family home in North Carolina, were in no doubt who the real abuser was. The Martenses were initially convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 20-25 years in prison, but the sentence was overturned on appeal, and the Martenses cut a plea deal for voluntary manslaughter that saw them released last year, having served just four years and three months.
Best mates Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman have been motorbiking around the world for the past 20 years for our delight and delectation, but in this new series they’re apparently staying closer to home, riding from McGregor’s native Scotland to Boorman’s English home. There’s a twist and a turn, however: rather than take the direct route, the pair will take a circuitous path around Europe, crossing the North Sea to Scandinavia, heading up the Arctic Circle and down the Baltics, and then across the Continent before hopping over the Channel to England. “We’ve never properly explored the countries on our own doorstep,” says McGregor, “so this time Europe is our playground.” There’s just one thing: the pals will be travelling on refurbished vintage bikes, and they’ll be hoping these temperamental 50-year-old machines will still have a few more kilometres in them. They’ll be motoring through 17 countries over 10 episodes, meeting local people and taking part in local customs along the way, and kick-starting the old sense of adventure once again.
Benny is a former school football star and homecoming king who needs some help navigating his way through college – and finding his way out of the closet. Luckily there’s no shortage of outsiders and misfits at Yates College, desperately trying to find their tribe, and when Benny become friends with Carmen, campus life soon becomes a whirlwind of “horrible hook-ups, flavoured vodka and fake IDs”. It’s a world where everyone is overcompensating, and terrified of showing their real selves for fear of being laughed at. Presumably, viewers will laugh at this comedy series starring the US actor and comedian Benito Skinner, who is also the show’s creator, writer and executive producer.
Alexander Skarsgård is the star and executive producer of this sci-fi comedy thriller based on the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novels by Martha Wells. Skarsgård plays a security unit, or sec unit, an android tasked with protecting a space colony from slimy monsters and other alien perils. But this sec unit has managed to hack its own system, and has now gone rogue. But we don’t mean going on a killing rampage a la Terminator – more like going off into its own world and watching endless interplanetary soap operas. While keeping its newfound self-awareness a secret, Murderbot sets out to learn more about its masters, and discovers a profound truth: humans are pretty much idiots. Nicknaming itself Murderbot may not have been a smart idea, however, because when the members of the colony learn the truth about their sec unit, they are naturally a bit nervous around this newly sentient – and somewhat clueless – killing machine.
The Welsh underdog club continues its rise through the English Football League, with the encouragement of its Hollywood-star owners, Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, in this fourth series of the fly-on-the-dressingroom-wall documentary. We join the club as it attempts to make the leap from League One to the Championship, which would put it within kicking distance of the Premier League. We join the club as it goes from strength to strength in its bid for the Championship, but the pressure is on to gain ever more wins on the pitch despite a growing injury list, and keep the fans coming back week in, week out to support one of the world’s oldest professional soccer clubs.
Typical: you wait ages for a Kevin Bacon to come along, and two of them arrive at the same time. Hot on the heels of the fantasy horror series The Bondsman, Bacon stars with Julianne Moore in this dark comedy of power, social climbing and sexual politics. Moore and Bacon play the billionaire Kell couple, Michaela and Peter, with Milly Alcock as Michaela’s new personal assistant, Simone, and Meghann Fahy as Simone’s rebellious and protective older sister, Devon. Simone is entranced by her new boss, but Devon is suspicious of Michaela’s cult-leader style, and is determined to break her spell over her little sis. When these two strong-minded women go head to head during a Labor Day weekend at the Kells’ palatial beach estate on an exclusive island paradise, all hell breaks loose.
Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks star as estranged sisters Chloe and Nicky in this twisty, thrilling whodunit based on the 2019 novel by Alafair Burke. Chloe has the charmed life, married to a handsome, successful lawyer (Corey Stoll) and working in a high-flying media job. Nicky has been dealt a bad hand: she’s an addict who is just barely holding it together. The siblings are brought together by an unlikely event: the brutal murder of Chloe’s husband. The sisters must find common ground if they are to learn the truth about Adam’s murder, but soon long-buried family secrets come to the surface that test the sisters’ loyalties.
Don’t be fooled by the cool-sounding name: Department Q is where cops’ careers go to die, and it’s where DCI Carl Morck ends up following a botched operation that has left one officer dead and another paralysed. Morck is banished to the titular section of the Edinburgh police, a cold-case unit of which he is the sole member, and where his colleagues no longer have to put up with his cutting sarcasm. But rather than sit in the basement and rot, Morck gathers a motley crew of castaway cops, and Department Q soon becomes a force to be reckoned with. So: a sort of police version of Slow Horses, with Morck in the Jackson Lamb lounger, getting up the noses of his superiors and getting the job done. Matthew Goode stars as Morck, with Kelly Macdonald, Mark Bonnar and Chloe Pirrie among the cast.
The U2 frontman’s bestselling memoir, from 2022, has since grown legs and travelled across Europe and the United States in the form of a one-man show featuring storytelling, readings and renditions of the Irish band’s best-known tunes. Now comes the Apple TV+ film, which takes us deeper into Bono’s world and features exclusive footage from the stage tour along with insights into Bono’s family, friends and faith, and candid stories from his remarkable life and career as a singer and activist. The film will feature unique versions of U2 songs, with Bono accompanied by the DJ and producer Jacknife Lee, the cellist Kate Ellis and the musician and composer Gemma Doherty.
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