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April 29, 2022Temporal probe: ‘Shining Girls’
Elisabeth Moss is exceptional in time-travelling drama ‘Shining Girls’, while absurd comedy ‘Killing It’ reveals Australian Claudia O’Doherty as a comic force
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April 29, 2022Temporal probe: ‘Shining Girls’
Elisabeth Moss is exceptional in time-travelling drama ‘Shining Girls’, while absurd comedy ‘Killing It’ reveals Australian Claudia O’Doherty as a comic force
Culture
May 1, 2022‘We Own This City’
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, returns to Baltimore for a present-day examination of rapacious police corruption
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March 31, 2022A great American grifter: ‘The Dropout’
A nuanced and exacting portrayal of the Theranos scam leads this month’s streaming highlights
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April 1, 2022‘Slow Horses’
A sardonic Gary Oldman heads a misfit branch of MI5 in Apple TV+’s thrilling exploration of personal motivation and political expedience
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February 28, 2022Hit the right note: ‘Somebody Somewhere’
A distinctive comedy about grief, friendship and the joy of singing leads this month’s streaming highlights
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March 1, 2022‘Severance’
Apple TV+’s darkly comic satire takes the pursuit of a desirable work-life balance literally
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December 15, 2021Raising the stakes: ‘Firebite’
Warwick Thornton’s magnificently pulpy Indigenous vampire-hunter drama leads the pack of December streaming highlights
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December 1, 2021Candid camera: ‘How To with John Wilson’
Both delightfully droll and genuinely moving, John Wilson’s idiosyncratic documentary series is this month’s streaming standout
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December 1, 2021‘Yellowjackets’
The US drama about teen plane-crash survivors is a heady mix of folk horror and high-school betrayal
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October 28, 2021The host with the most failings: ‘This Time with Alan Partridge’ season two
Steve Coogan’s hapless TV host remains an absurdist joy, while Bilal Baig’s comedy series ‘Sort Of’ and Margaret Qualley’s performance in ‘Maid’ are among the latest streaming highlights
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November 1, 2021‘New Gold Mountain’
SBS’s Australian goldfields series looks beyond colonial orthodoxies to tell the neglected stories
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September 30, 2021Murder they spoke: ‘Only Murders in the Building’
A droll comic mystery about budding true crime podcasters leads September’s streaming highlights
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August 30, 2021Funny business: ‘Hacks’
Tracking a growing friendship between two comics, bittersweet comedy series ‘Hacks’ leads August’s streaming highlights
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July 28, 2021Petty bourgeoisie: ‘The White Lotus’
Mike White’s scathing takedown of privilege leads July’s streaming highlights
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June 25, 2021High-impact exercise: ‘Physical’
Starring Rose Byrne as an uncompromising aerobics instructor, Annie Weisman’s unorthodox series leads June’s streaming highlights