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September 25, 2020Processing trauma: ‘I May Destroy You’
Michaela Coel’s inventive series charting sexual assault and creativity is this month’s streaming standout
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September 25, 2020Processing trauma: ‘I May Destroy You’
Michaela Coel’s inventive series charting sexual assault and creativity is this month’s streaming standout
Culture
August 20, 2020Look back in horror: ‘Lovecraft Country’
The monsters are both supernatural and human in HBO’s recasting of the horror genre
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July 27, 2020Pole position
Eschewing clichés and reflecting inclusiveness on both sides of the camera, ‘P-Valley’ tops this month’s streaming highlights
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June 11, 2020Deep cover: ‘The Bureau’
The fifth season of the understated French spy thriller leads the pack of June streaming highlights
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May 12, 2020A lot to be desired: ‘Normal People’
The screen adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel is a piercing portrayal of young lovers
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April 23, 2020A nation’s convulsions: ‘The Plot Against America’
HBO’s adaptation of the Philip Roth novel is a contemporary allegory with a terrifying slow burn
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March 1, 2020‘Stateless’: ABC
A probing drama about Australia’s mandatory detention regime focuses on the dehumanisation experienced on both sides of the razor wire
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February 11, 2020Party of three: ‘Everything’s Gonna Be Okay’
Australian comedian Josh Thomas brings his unique brand of comedy to the classic American sitcom format
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December 3, 2019Streaming highlights: November 2019
‘The Crown’, ‘For All Mankind’ and ‘Dickinson’ offer new perspectives on history, and pragmatism meets pyramid schemes in ‘On Becoming a God in Central Florida’
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November 26, 2019War for attention
The launch of Apple TV+ and Disney+ raises the stakes in the streaming wars
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October 29, 2019Streaming highlights: October 2019
The anthology makes a comeback with ‘Modern Love’ and ‘Criminal’; new ‘Harlots’; and ‘Living with Yourself’ delivers low-key high-tech farce
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September 30, 2019Streaming highlights: September 2019
‘Unbelievable’ and ‘Murder in the Bayou’ expose cultures that devalue women; ‘Shrill’ warmly challenges prejudice; and ‘The Politician’ takes student politics to another level
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August 30, 2019Streaming highlights: August 2019
Heroes and villains take many forms in ‘Mindhunter’, ‘The Boys’ and ‘Bosch’, and the Obamas make their Netflix debut with ‘American Factory’
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September 1, 2019‘Lambs of God’
Director Jeffrey Walker blends ripe melodrama and Gothic thriller in his TV series about three wayward nuns
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August 21, 2019‘The Loudest Voice’: a nightmarish portrait of a monster
The sheer scale of Roger Ailes’s wrongs defies the medium of television