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Kusama (8 x 30-36 min episodes)
Christoph Waltz plays perfectly into typecasting in this disturb- ing, subversive, and offbeat comedy-mystery series currently streaming on Amazon Prime. Brought in as the titular consult- ant for a mobile gaming company after the shooting of its young CEO, Waltz proceeds to eliminate remote workers, humiliate people for being ‘smelly’ and gives employees Elaine (Brittany O’Grady) and Craig (Nat Wolff) the heebie-jeebies. Who is he really and why did their deceased boss sign everything over to him just before his death? Recommended if you enjoy ‘work is hell’ shows like Severence.
Streaming now on Amazon Prime. Coming up
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The Consultant Dirs. Matt Shakman, Dan Attias, Alexis Ostrander, Karyn
Grease: Rise Of The Pink Ladies The Grease prequel series nobody saw coming. Fri 7 Apr, Paramount+
Tiny Beautiful Things Kathryn Hahn plays a successful advice columnist who can’t help herself. Fri 7 Apr, Disney+
The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die Feature-length culmination of the five-season Viking invasion series. Fri 14 Apr, Netflix
Sweet Tooth (S2) Part boy, part deer, all heart – and back for a second season. Thurs 27 Apr, Netflix
Malpractice
Medical thriller from the people behind Line Of Duty and Pembrokeshire Murders. Apr 2023 (exact release date TBA), ITV
The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, S5 (final) Dirs. TBA
(8 x 40-76 min episodes)
After five fabulous seasons, it’s time to wave goodbye to our favourite trailblazing stand-up of the mid-centu- ry, Midge Maisel. The creation of Gilmore Girls power couple Amy and Daniel Sherman-Palladino, this come- dy-drama has paid lip service to America’s fearless fe- male comics of the 1950s/60s and New York’s Jewish community since 2017, squeezing in plenty of era-ap- propriate cameos too. Season 4 left Midge reduced to doing sets at a strip joint, career and personal life in the toilet. Can she claw her way back in time for the series’ end? Maybe old pal Lenny Bruce can help…
Streaming from Fri 14 Apr on Amazon Prime. Dead Ringers
Dirs. Sean Durkin, Karena Evans, Lauren Wolkstein, Karyn Kusama
(6 episodes; runtimes TBA)
Not to be confused with the long-running Radio 4 pro- gramme, this is a TV version of David Cronenberg’s classic 1988 body horror. The original film starred Jer- emy Irons in two roles: twin gynaecologists who do the ol’ switcheroo to abusively romantic and violent ends. Here, sapphic idol Rachel Weiz steps into the part(s) with acclaimed feminist playwright and screenwriter Al- ice Birch on scripting duties. As well as Lady Macbeth, Sucession and Normal People, British-born Birch’s work includes Revot. She Said. Revolt Again., which played at Cardiff’s Other Room last year.
Streaming from Tue 21 Apr on Amazon Prime.
Guilt, S3 (final) The first BBC Scotland original drama comes to an end.
Intelligence, (season special)
Apr 2023 (exact release date TBA), BBC
David Schwimmer and Nick Mohammed re-team for GCHQ office comedy. Apr 2023 (exact release date TBA), Sky Max
Why Didn’t They Ask The Evans?
Hugh Laurie acts in and directs this Agatha Christie three-parter. Apr 2023 (exact release date TBA), ITV
HANNAH COLLINS
Barry, S4 (final) Dir. Bill Hader
(8 x 30 min episodes)
Yet another standard-bearing comedy-drama leaving our TV screens this month is Barry. The HBO series stars Bill Hader as a hitman who suddenly discovers a passion for acting on a job. Unfortunately, leaving behind a life of professional murder isn’t without its complications. In Season 3, one of these deadly complications catches up to him in a finale that very well could have killed the character off. Instead, Barry goes to prison, which is where Season 4 will pick up. But those hoping for a miraculous escape may be disappointed: Barry is, in Ha- der’s own words: “a very dumb guy”.
Airing from Sun Apr 16 on Sky Comedy. 38
Citadel Dirs. Josh Appelbaum, Bryan Oh, David Weil, Angela
Russo-Otstot, Melissa Glenn, Jesse Alexander (6 eps; runtimes TBA)
Produced by the Russo brothers, the directors behind the MCU’s Infinity War and Endgame, Citadel is another costly venture from Amazon Studios. A futuristic espio- nage series starring Richard Madden and Priyanka Cho- pra, it’s the second-most expensive show ever – beaten only by the studio’s The Rings Of Power – with a budget of $250 million thanks to reshoots; plus, an ambitious multilingual release schedule of localised spinoffs to cre- ate a “layered” world. The English-language version was shot here in the UK, while Indian and Italian iterations are already underway.
Streaming from Fri 28 Apr on Amazon Prime.
Grease: Rise Of The Pink Ladies
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