What To Watch This Week 18.11.24
MONDAY
Dune: Prophecy, Sky Atlantic
If you’ve been impressed with Denis Villeneuve’s cinematic epics, this fresh Dune-adjacent series will sate your need until part three comes out in 2026. Starring Emily Watson, Olivia Williams, Travis Fimmel, Jodhi May and Mark Strong, Dune: Prophecy is set 10,000 years before the ascension of Paul Atreides. It follows two Harkonnen sisters as they combat forces that threaten the future of humankind to establish the fabled sect that will become known as the Bene Gesserit.
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WEDNESDAY
Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy, Netflix
This subversive documentary examines the way that major corporations are the puppet masters behind our collective need for endless consumption, the techniques they employ to make us part with our money, as well as the environmental ramifications of our discarded purchases. We hear from frank commentators on these goliath brands, who give us the inside scoop on some of the more morally dubious practices their former employers are still using.
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Our Oceans, Netflix
Barack Obama lends his dulcet voice to this new nature documentary.. The series explores life beneath the surface of the water across Earth’s five oceans, delivering stunning visuals, from mesmerising cuttlefish ballets to majestic underwater kelp forests.
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THURSDAY
A Man On The Inside, Netflix
Netflix’s new comedy series reunites The Good Place alums Michael Schur – its creator – and Ted Danson. In a similarly oddball plot, A Man On The Inside follows Charles, a retired man who finds a new purpose after answering an ad from a private investigator, only to end up as an undercover mole in a secret investigation at a nursing home. In a case of truth being stranger than fiction, the series is a dramatisation of the Oscar-nominated documentary The Mole Agent, based on the true story of an 83-year-old Chilean man who posed as a care home resident to uncover abuse.
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Cruel Intentions, Amazon Prime
The 90s cult classic Cruel Intentions, starring a fresh-on-the-scene Reese Witherspoon, has been revamped for a new series. The trailer teases a familiar storyline, complete with 'Bittersweet Symphony' on the soundtrack. This time, scheming stepsiblings Caroline Merteuil (Sarah Catherine Hook, First Kill) and Lucien Belmont (Zac Burgess, One Night, Totally Completely Fine) plot to lie, cheat and seduce their way out of a botched university hazing. Innocent Annie Grover (Savannah Lee Smith, Gossip Girl), the vice-president’s daughter, is soon caught in their tangled web.
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FRIDAY
Joy, Netflix
Starring James Norton and Bill Nighy, Joy tells the remarkable true story behind the ground-breaking birth of Louise Joy Brown in 1978, the world’s first test tube baby, and the tireless ten-year journey to make it possible. The story is told through the perspective of Jean Purdy, a young nurse and embryologist, who joined forces with scientist Robert Edwards and surgeon Patrick Steptoe to unlock the puzzle of infertility by pioneering in vitro fertilisation (IVF). The film celebrates the power of perseverance and the wonders of science, as it follows this maverick trio of visionaries who overcame tremendous odds and opposition to realise their dream, and in doing so allowed millions of people to dream with them.
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Blitz, Apple TV+
Steve McQueen’s latest project focuses on London’s wartime working class. Amid relentless bombings, George (Elliott Heffernan), the mixed-race son of Saoirse Ronan (Little Women, Lady Bird), escapes evacuation by jumping off the train. Back in the city, he faces a chaotic world of fire-watchers, looting, corpse-robbing, Dickensian thieves, Nigerian air-raid wardens and swing bands. Also starring Stephen Graham and Kathy Burke, it’s a vivid dive into Blitz-era London, while exposing the hypocrisy of British wartime authorities, who praised imperial loyalty yet upheld racist attitudes toward people of colour.
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