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If you can forgive a bit of narrative bloat midway through the series, you’ll be rewarded with a one-two punch of a finale that you won’t forget in a hurry. Having struck up a formidable screen partnership with high stakes kitchen drama Boiling Point, Philip Barantini and Stephen Graham are back with a new hyper focused, almost unbearably tense one-shot offering — now with added This Is England TV series scribe Jack Thorne. Spread over four parts, Adolescence zeroes in on key moments in the minutes, days, and weeks after 13-year-old Jamie Miller (newcomer Owen Cooper) is arrested for the murder of a classmate. From the heartstopping initial arrest, to a revelatory school visit conducted by detectives DI Bascombe (Ashley Walters) and DS Marsh (Faye Marsay), to a bruising encounter between Jamie and Erin Doherty’s child psychologist, the series is a marvel of filmmaking and storytelling. And anchoring its profound exploration of toxic masculinity, incel culture, and what social media is doing to our country’s youth, is a typically extraordinary Stephen Graham, who plays Jamie’s dad as such an open wound of a man that you’ll be left crying with him by the show’s sucker punch of a finale.

• One of the very first Netflix Originals, Orange Is The New Black began life as the story of Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), a middle-class white New Yorker who becomes incarcerated in an all-female prison for a historic drug-smuggling crime.
• Originating on Channel 4 in 2011 and axed after its second series, Ronan Bennett’s Hackney crime drama was a relatively small homegrown favourite gone too soon – until rap megastar Drake declared himself a massive fan years later, and lobbied Netflix to pick the show up and run with it.
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Some might even argue that by the time the series reaches its breathless climax, it’s even better. Bob Odenkirk — in the role of a lifetime — takes centre stage as the pre-Saul Goodman, ‘Slippin’ Jimmy McGill, edging closer to the broken caricature he so gleefully played in Breaking Bad. The results are melancholic and masterful, adding up to a show that’s something of a minor miracle. This German sci-fi drama is a smart and sophisticated marvel – starting as a mystery thriller, before looping around itself in constantly unexpected ways. It’s part Stranger Things (but way moodier), part Twin Peaks (but way more German), and totally mind-bending — burrowing even further down its multi-chronological rabbit holes with each successive season. It’s thrilling, but you might want to watch with a notepad to keep track of who’s who (and when’s when).

Spanning from ancient history to the heat-death of the universe, taking in deep conversations on theoretical astrophysics and chaos theory along the way, Liu Cixin’s mind bending 2008 novel The Three-Body Problem is perhaps not the most obvious candidate for a lavish TV adaptation. And yet, in the hands of Game Of Thrones masterminds David Benioff and D.B. Viewers’ entry into this ambitious part-police procedural, part-sci-fi, part-something-else-entirely series is Benedict Wong’s detective Da Shi (think Philip Marlowe, only more Mancunian and more sweary), who finds himself investigating a series of seemingly interconnected deaths within the scientific community. How it all eventually ties into the threat of imminent alien invasion is not for us to spoil, but suffice it to say that this is a show whose scope and scale is matched only by its meticulousness and intricacy.

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First to take on the role of Elizabeth II in the initial two seasons was Claire Foy, with Matt Smith as her Prince Philip — before handing over to Olivia Colman and Tobias Menzies in Seasons 3 and 4, and then Imelda Staunton and Jonathan Pryce in season 5. With the latest series boldly tackling the death of Princess Diana, the show inches ever closer to the present day as it continues to subvert our expectations of what a royal costume drama can — or indeed should — be. Its Groundhog Day premise is familiar, but Natasha Lyonne’s Russian Doll — co-created with Amy Poehler — has its own wild spirit.

Across its lifespan, the show’s incredible ensemble included the likes of Sam Neill, Helen McCrory, Tom Hardy, Paddy Considine, Anya Taylor-Joy, Sam Claflin, Stephen Graham, Annabelle Wallis and more. The Stephen King of contemporary horror invokes another literary genre legend, Edgar Allan Poe, with dynastic Gothic chiller The Fall Of The House Of Usher. A Succession worthy cast of irredeemable so-and-sos populate Mike Flanagan’s latest, which sees billionaire patriarch Roderick Usher (Bruce Greenwood) confronted with his own monstrosity as he recollects the grisly ends each of his six children have met.

When a detective learns he can rewind time, he uses his ability to solve complex cases — until he encounters a meticulous killer with their own power. Follow father-son duo Barry and Eddie Hearn in their bid to take their heavyweight sports promotion company to the next level in this documentary series. When a suave guest with a hidden agenda checks into the Blue Moon Hotel, he forms a bizarre and messy love triangle with the two sisters who work there. Sing along with Baby John and his family to classic nursery rhymes and catchy new songs that help preschoolers learn all about the world. While the town prepares for the Star Festival, a washed-up doll comes alive, leading to a journey of growth and understanding with the local hero. When a tropical island known for its delicious bananas freezes over, a pastry-headed hero, his friends and the young queen attempt to save the day.

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The second must-see Judy Blume adaptation in as many years, Mara Brock Akil’s Forever instantly joins Are You There God? Refreshing in its approach to intimacy, refreshing in its resonance with the actual teen experience in the age of smartphones, and driven by a pair of star raiblocks price chart making lead performances, Forever has arrived right on time to fill the imminent Heartstopper shaped hole in our lives. The latest in an increasingly long line of astonishing adult animated series to land on Netflix, Blue Eye Samurai — an Akira Kurosawa-inspired anime from French-Canadian outfit Blue Spirit — is, quite literally, a bloody gorgeous show. Maya Erskine stars as the titular ocean-eyed swordmaster Mizu, a mixed-race samurai carving out a path of R-rated vengeance during Japan’s Edo period, a time where non-Japanese people were banned from its borders.

• With subscriptions starting from just £5.99, it is an affordable streaming service for everyone of all ages to enjoy.
• While there are thriller elements here, including some tense interrogation sequences, the focus is less on killer action and more on the personalities on both sides of the law, in a moody brew of drama and procedural.
• Much like a Demogorgon in the night, Stranger Things crept out of nowhere and took everyone by surprise.
• — with lyrically written, grounded character drama, Supacell is, frankly, super (supa?).

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Once you get past the confusing timelines of Season 1, an unpredictable show that blends old-school fairytales with grisly gothic horror and lashings of magical politics awaits. After an exhilarating third season, it remains to be seen how the show will change as Liam Hemsworth prepares to replace Cavill as the White Wolf. Therapist’s son Otis (Asa Butterfield) starts doling out sex advice to his schoolmates, all the while navigating his own tough road through puberty, in a show that’s witty, warm, and often daring. Call it a “cumming of age” story if you must, but lurking within all the naughty chatter is a sweet, beating heart and characters that keep you watching, and it’s hugely sex-positive with a diverse cast of characters, stories, and identities to boot. Plus, Gillian Anderson rules, and this is that rarest of beasts — a Netflix show that got to play out and end on its own terms.

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One of the very first Netflix Originals, Orange Is The New Black began life as the story of Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), a middle-class white New Yorker who becomes incarcerated in an all-female prison for a historic drug-smuggling crime. But it quickly became an ensemble show about the rest of the inmates, telling the stories of a huge array of women from all walks of life – touching on mental health issues, sexuality, trans identity, immigration, addiction, institutional violence, and the prison-industrial complex. It’s a quietly revolutionary comedy-drama stacked with breakout performances.

When dark stars rain destruction on the town, Baikinman and an invention-gone-wrong are to blame. The membership with ads (£5.99) allows one person to watch at a time. The Standard membership (£12.99) allows two screens to watch at a time and the Premium membership (£18.99) allows four people to watch at once. The advantage is that you can go through the whole Netflix library, watch whatever catches your eye and never see a single advert.

Content creators scheme, sabotage and spend in wild challenges to win up to $1M in the first US series from British YouTube collective the Sidemen. The number of later life mortgages taken out by borrowers aged 55 and over jumped by a third in the first three months of the year, according to UK Finance, with more than 38,5100 loans advanced. Take a look at our best Disney+ shows and best Disney+ movies lists, or take a look at all your options in our best streaming services guide. The catalogue is constantly refreshed, but that does mean you have to be wary of a show you’ve been planning to watch dropping off the service.

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3 Body Problem is wildly ambitious, cinematic storytelling on a Thronesian level — and it’s just getting started. Just at the moment it felt like the original superhero storytelling well was starting to run dry, Blue Story writer-director Rapman’s brilliant new joint Supacell has arrived, bringing the juice back to the ailing genre. As the MCU and its ilk continue to head further and further into multiversal madness, Rapman’s show — inspired by the likes of Heroes and Misfits — quite literally brings superheroes back down to Earth, centring five Black South Londoners who inexplicably develop superpowers. What makes reluctant supes Michael (Tosin Cole), Sabrina (Nadine Mills), Andre (Eric Kofi Abrefa), Rodney (Calvin Demba), and Tazer (Josh Tedeku) such rootable leads — and the series so compelling — is that they are just ordinary people through and through, trying to get by in modern London. Seamlessly blending kinetic, tried-and-true genre features — Superspeed! — with lyrically written, grounded character drama, Supacell is, frankly, super (supa?).