You Won’t Want To Miss These New Films & Shows

Secrets Of The Bayeux Tapestry: Inside The Museum, BBC Two

One of history’s most famous works is getting its own documentary. Michael Palin narrates the extraordinary story of the Bayeux Tapestry as it makes its way to the British Museum, where experts including David Olusoga and Janina Ramirez delve into the 11th-century masterpiece and the story it tells. With the tapestry’s journey from France to London proving almost as dramatic as the events depicted in its famous stitches, Rory Stewart also explores why its version of history has been questioned over the centuries.

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Slow Horses, Apple TV

Everyone’s favourite witty, gritty spy thriller is back on our screens and things are looking particularly bleak for Jackson Lamb and co. In season six, the team discover they’ve been wiped from the MI5 database – and, somewhat inconveniently, their pay cheques have disappeared too. Lamb’s answer? Strike. That would be enough drama for most workplaces but this is Slow Horses. Former members of the team are being picked off, River Cartwright is saying goodbye to someone close and an unwelcome face from the past is back in the mix. 

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Neagley, Prime Video

If you enjoyed the muscle, mystery and straight-talking action of Reacher, its new spin-off puts one of the franchise’s most formidable characters centre stage. Frances Neagley (Maria Sten), a former military investigator and close ally of Jack Reacher, finds herself looking into the suspicious death of an old friend. What initially appears to be a straightforward case soon points towards something much darker, forcing Neagley to take on both the authorities and a dangerous group with plenty to hide. 

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Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, Netflix

Ryan Murphy returns to the dark side of American history with the latest chapter of his Monster anthology. This time, the focus is Lizzie Borden (Ella Beatty), who became notorious after being accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an axe in 1892. She was ultimately acquitted, leaving behind a case that has fuelled speculation for more than a century. Murphy takes the enduring mystery and gives it his trademark glossy, dramatic treatment, while the question at its centre remains: did Lizzie really commit the murders?

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Bad Apples

Saoirse Ronan goes dark in this new comedy thriller. Maria Spencer (Ronan) is a primary school teacher in Somerset who finds her class is being disrupted by one particularly unruly ten-year-old. After things escalate, Maria takes matters into her own hands – kidnapping the boy and locking him in her basement. As the authorities search for him, Maria attempts to care for him herself, with the situation becoming increasingly difficult to contain. Based on Rasmus Lindgren’s 2020 novel De Oönskade, the film is directed by Jonatan Etzler and also stars Jacob Anderson, Rakie Ayola and Robert Emms.

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Queen At Sea

This morally knotty family drama looks at dementia, care and who gets to make decisions when someone can no longer make them for themselves. Juliette Binoche plays Amanda, a single mother caring for her teenage daughter (Florence Hut) while also worrying about her mother Leslie (Anna Calder-Marshall), who has advanced Alzheimer’s. Things take a complicated turn when Amanda walks in on Leslie having sex with her stepfather Martin, played by Tom Courtenay. Alarmed, she calls the police – setting off a confrontation between Amanda and Martin over Leslie’s autonomy, consent and care. Directed by Lance Hammer, Queen At Sea is an intimate, emotionally complex drama that refuses to make its central question an easy one.

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Mobland, Paramount+

The Harrigans are back – and London’s most dysfunctional crime dynasty is about to get even messier. Conrad and Maeve (Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren) are still fighting to hold onto their empire, while Harry (Tom Hardy) and Jan (Joanne Froggatt) are dealing with the fallout of their separation. Elsewhere, their daughter Gina is making moves of her own, proving she may be more ruthless than either parent expected. With rivalries, family drama and plenty of violence in the mix, season two looks set to lean into everything that made the first series such gloriously over-the-top viewing.

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