What To Watch Online This Month
Beckett, Netflix
Following a tragic car accident in Greece, Beckett, an American tourist, finds himself at the centre of a dangerous political conspiracy – and on the run for his life. Played by John David Washington, Beckett becomes the target of a manhunt and – desperate to get across the country to the American embassy to clear his name – tensions escalate as the authorities close in, political unrest mounts, and Beckett falls even deeper into a dangerous web of deceit.
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Memories Of A Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes, Netflix
Britain’s most notorious serial killer, Dennis Nilsen, confessed to killing 15 people in 1983. Over a five-year period, he picked up vulnerable young men, lured them back to his home and strangled them, before disposing of their bodies under the floorboards. Now, with access to a wealth of personal archive left in his cell after his death, including over 250 hours of never-before-published cassette tapes of his private recordings, this film takes viewers into Nilsen’s world. Weaving together interviews from police, journalists, survivors, bereaved families, and – for the first time – the killer’s own voice, this feature-length documentary explores how Nilsen was able to get away with multiple murders and attacks, unchallenged, for five years.
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He's All That, Netflix
In this reimagining of 1999’s ultimate teen movie She’s All That, social media influencer Padgett’s humiliating on-camera breakup goes viral, leading her to make a risky bet to save her reputation: turning scruffy antisocial Cameron into prom king material. But things get complicated when she finds herself falling for him. A nostalgic watch.
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Howards End, Starz
Based on EM Forster's classic novel, this miniseries adaptation of Howards End is a portrayal of England at the turn of the 20th century told through the lens of three families: the intellectual Schlegels, the wealthy and prejudiced Wilcoxes and the working-class Basts. Margaret Schlegel is an intelligent, idealistic young woman who is courted by the older Henry Wilcox, a self-made conservative businessman, after his wife Ruth dies unexpectedly and he becomes owner of Howards End. Meanwhile Margaret’s passionate younger sister Helen Schlegel takes up the cause of Leonard Bast a young bank clerk who falls on hard times at work and at home with his partner Jacky.
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Kevin Can F*** Himself, Prime Video
Kevin Can F**k Himself is a story of a woman who keeps playing a perfect housewife. Then, one day Allison McRoberts realises what she wants: to kill her husband, Kevin, a self-centered man-child who is clearly punching above his weight. Starring Emmy winner Annie Murphy (Schitt's Creek), this is set to be a dark, laugh-out-loud look at marriage and taking control of your fate.
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Modern Love – Series 2, Prime Video
Modern Love series one was an absolute hit when it landed in 2019. Now the anthology series – explores love in all of its complicated and beautiful forms – is about to return. Each episode brings to life a different story that has been inspired by the New York Times' popular ‘Modern Love’ column. A collection of stories about relationships, connections, betrayals and revelations, this series stars the likes of Game of Thrones’ Kit Harrington and Bohemian Rhapsody’s Lucy Boynton.
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Nine Perfect Strangers, Prime Video
The retreat at health-and-wellness resort Tranquillum House promises total transformation. Nine stressed city dwellers are keen to drop their literal and mental baggage and absorb the meditative ambience while enjoying their hot stone massages. Miles from anywhere, without cars or phones, they have no way to reach the outside world. Just time to think about themselves and get to know each other. Watching over them is the resort's director, a woman on a mission, but quite a different one from any the guests might have imagined. From the writer behind Big Little Lies and The Husband’s Secret, this page-turner has Nicole Kidman and Melissa McCarthy in the lead roles. We can’t wait.
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Party Down – Series 2, Starz
Adam Scott, Jane Lynch, Ken Marino, Martin Starr, Ryan Hansen and Lizzy Caplan star as the employees of Hollywood catering company Party Down, a group of struggling actors and dysfunctional dreamers waiting for their big breaks while stuck serving canapés. But in a town where everything is possible, can the ultimate going-nowhere job actually get them somewhere?
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Post Mortem, Netflix
Live Hallangen is declared dead. Hours later she suddenly wakes up on the forensic table. A dark, insatiable hunger has awoken in her. Meanwhile, her brother Odd tries to keep the family driven funeral home afloat, but the stagnant death rate in the small Norwegian town of Skarnes makes it impossible. Live has to learn to control her new dangerous nature and decide if she is willing to sacrifice people’s lives for her own survival, which ironically goes hand in hand with the survival of the family business.
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The Chair, Netflix
The Chair follows Dr Ji-Yoon Kim (Killing Eve’s Sandra Oh) as she navigates her new role as the chair of the English department at prestigious Pembroke University. Ji-Yoon is faced with a unique set of challenges as the first woman to chair the department, and as one of the few staff members of colour at the university.
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The Dry, Now
Federal agent Aaron Falk (Eric Bana) returns to his hometown after an absence of over 20 years to attend the funeral of his childhood friend, Luke, who allegedly killed his wife and child before taking his own life. When Falk reluctantly agrees to stay and investigate the crime, he opens up an old wound – the death of 17-year-old Ellie Deacon. Falk begins to suspect these two crimes, separated by decades, are connected. As he struggles to prove not only Luke’s innocence but also his own, Falk finds himself pitted against the prejudice towards him and the pent-up rage of a terrified community.
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The Kid Detective, Now
A once-celebrated kid detective, Abe (Adam Brody) – now 31 – continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bout of self-pity. That is until a naïve client brings him his first ‘adult’ case: to find out who brutally murdered her boyfriend. A fun dark comedy.
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The White Lotus, Now
This six-episode HBO series is a social satire set at an exclusive Hawaiian resort. Starring Murray Bartlett, Connie Britton, Jennifer Coolidge, Alexandra Daddario, Fred Hechinger, Jake Lacy, Brittany O'Grady, Natasha Rothwell, Sydney Sweeney and Steve Zahn, the series follows the holidays of various hotel guests over the span of a week as they relax and rejuvenate in paradise. But with each passing day, a darker complexity emerges in these picture-perfect travellers, the hotel’s cheerful employees and the idyllic locale itself.
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Untold: Caitlyn Jenner, Netflix
From the creators of Wild Wild Country, comes this five-part docuseries that brings fresh eyes to tales from the world of sports. Premiering weekly, each film kicks off at a pivotal moment – a big fight, the Olympics, the playoffs – and then delves deep into what happened beyond the headlines, as told by those who lived it. In this instalment, Olympian Caitlyn Jenner reflects on her journey to winning gold. After setting a new world record, Jenner’s image became the standard for athletic excellence and propelled her into immediate American superstardom. The athletic feat she craved and celebrity image she crafted, however, also became the main deterrents from embracing her identity as she knew it. Told with a collection of never-before-seen archival footage, Jenner traces her life with new insight from winning gold to making the decision to transition to her relationship with her children.
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The Wimbledon Kidnapping, Now
This year is the 50th anniversary of the trial of the first ever kidnap and ransom case in Britain. Now, one of those convicted in this extraordinary crime story speaks for the first time. The mysterious disappearance of Muriel McKay took place on 29th December 1969 in Wimbledon. Kidnapping was an unheard-of crime in the UK, and such was the strangeness of the case that everyone from the police, Fleet Street and hundreds of clairvoyants struggled to decipher the respectable 55-year-old housewife’s disappearance from her home, five minutes’ walk from Wimbledon tennis courts. Taking place in the last days of the 1960s – a decade defined by the rise of a new tabloid press, of challenge to the established social order and the arrival of the Windrush generation – two immigrants from Trinidad were convicted of McKay’s murder, as the case fell within the fault lines of change in British society at that time.
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