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- What to watch
Your country is sinking. This alarming Danish drama asks what you would do
Written and directed by the Oscar-nominated Thomas Vinterberg, Families Like Ours imagines a new kind of climate refugee.
- Bridget McManus
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- ★★★★
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Based on a twisty YA bestseller, this thriller feels like a teenage Succession
We Were Liars has a touch of King Lear and a hint of Wuthering Heights, but it’s unashamedly soapie as all hell.
- Kylie Northover
- ★★★★
- Streaming
Taron Egerton is a master of flawed men. He’s done it again in this fiery thriller
In the unconventional drama Smoke, the British actor plays an arson investigator who believes he’s the hero of his own story.
- Craig Mathieson
- ★★★★
- For subscribers
Secrets and lies: This ABC thriller will make you look at your mother’s group differently
The darker side of new motherhood, once barely whispered about, has proven a fruitful starting point for any number of psychological parenting dramas.
- Bridget McManus
- ★★★
- Spectrum
Powerful acting keeps Netflix’s Australian coastal crime drama from sinking
Despite the now ubiquitous small-town-big-secrets premise, The Survivors has enough going on to keep you watching.
- Kylie Northover
What to stream this week: Teresa Palmer’s Gen X drama and five more to add to your list
Our picks include an Australian-Irish romantic drama, an Agatha Christie adaptation and documentaries about an eccentric football legend and U2’s Bono.
- Craig Mathieson
Watched everything? Here are seven hidden gems you might have missed
A couple of US presidential thrillers, a drama from the creator of Adolescence and a shocking Norwegian drama lead our list.
- Debi Enker
- ★★★★
- What's on TV
Marta Dusseldorp’s ABC crime thriller recaptures its nutty spirit
The actor managed to outwit, outrun and outplay everyone in season one of Bay of Fires, but will her luck run out in season two?
- Debi Enker
What to stream this week: Netflix thriller Dept. Q and five more to add to your list
This week’s picks include a thriller that matches Mare of Easttown, a golf comedy for fans of Ted Lasso and a pulpy drama starring Jessica Biel.
- Craig Mathieson
- ★★★★
- Streaming
Adults rocks: This share-house comedy is one for the age(s)
It owes much to Girls, Friends and even The Young Ones, but Adults also goes its own very funny way.
- Karl Quinn