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Greg Davies plays Paul ‘Wicky’ Wickstead, a cleaner of crime scenes, in The Cleaner.

This British crime comedy knows how to pull the bloodstained rug out from under you

Season two of The Cleaner, starring Taskmaster’s Greg Davies, has a new level of self-examination and mordant revelation.

  • Craig Mathieson

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Ava (Hannah Einbinder) and Deborah (Jean Smart) return for the fourth season of Hacks.

Hacks returns with a new setting but the same razor-sharp satire

Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder return with an all-new (but still toxic) dynamic as they take on late-night TV.

  • Kylie Northover
K-pop star Lisa Manobal was inspired casting as Mook.

Holiday from hell or killer season? The cases for and against The White Lotus

The central mystery may have been solved, but one question remains: Did season three live up to the hype?

  • Thomas Mitchell and Cameron Bayley
What to stream (clockwise from top left): Pulse; Pawno; The Last of Us; Bill: Drop Dead Years; The Bondsman; and The Daily Show.

What to stream this week: The Last of Us plus five more shows to add to your list

This week’s picks include the return of HBO’s hit zombie series, Netflix’s take on a medical drama and Kevin Bacon in a bananas Southern horror. 

  • Craig Mathieson
Say cheese? The cast of The White Lotus after the Los Angeles screening of the 90-minute season three finale.

‘We were all crying’: The White Lotus cast unpack the epic finale

At the LA screening of the final episode, the cast host a spoiler-riddled discussion of the twists and turns.

  • Michael Idato
Mussolini: Son of the Century.

Preening Mussolini resonates with our times in nightmarish study of craven opportunity

Director Joe Wright’s audacious portrait of the dictator in a new TV series recasts the political biopic as a fever dream.

  • Craig Mathieson
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Nicole Kidman as Nancy Vandergroot in Holland.

Nicole Kidman tiptoes through the tulips in sexy thriller Holland

In Holland, Kidman plays a woman whose fantasy life may be getting the better of her reality.

  • Karl Quinn
Michelle Williams (right) as Molly and Jenny Slate as Nikki in the comedy Dying for Sex.

What to stream this week: Dying for Sex and five more shows to add to your list

This week’s picks include Michelle William’s five-star comedy, the return of Wolf Hall and the final season of an underrated police procedural.

  • Craig Mathieson
Father Brown (Mark Williams) is once again accompanied by Sister Boniface (Lorna Watson).

They are cosy and irrelevant, but that’s the point of twee British murder mysteries

The unstoppable Father Brown is back for an 11th season, with plots that swing wildly from foul play to vampires.

  • Lenny Ann Low
Teresa Palmer as Sophie Honeywell in The Last Anniversary.

This Liane Moriarty adaptation has a terrific ensemble, but a fanciful plot

The Last Anniversary has a gorgeous setting and some incredible actors, but it’s pure soap.

  • Kylie Northover

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