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Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Amaryllis August and Paprika Steen in Families Like Ours

Your country is sinking. This alarming Danish drama asks what you would do

Written and directed by the Oscar-nominated Thomas Vinterberg, Families Like Ours imagines a new kind of climate refugee.

  • Bridget McManus

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Emily Alyn Lind, Esther McGregor, Joseph Zada and Shubham Maheshwari in We Were Liars.

Based on a twisty YA bestseller, this thriller feels like a teenage Succession

We Were Liars has a touch of King Lear and a hint of Wuthering Heights, but it’s unashamedly soapie as all hell.

  • Kylie Northover
Taron Egerton as arson investigator Dave Gudsen in the twisty thriller Smoke.

Taron Egerton is a master of flawed men. He’s done it again in this fiery thriller

In the unconventional drama Smoke, the British actor plays an arson investigator who believes he’s the hero of his own story.

  • Craig Mathieson
Dr Liz Burgess (Jo Joyner) talks to new mum Jess (Diane Kruger) in Little Disasters.

Secrets and lies: This ABC thriller will make you look at your mother’s group differently

The darker side of new motherhood, once barely whispered about, has proven a fruitful starting point for any number of psychological parenting dramas.

  • Bridget McManus
Charlie Vickers as Kieran in The Survivors.

Powerful acting keeps Netflix’s Australian coastal crime drama from sinking

Despite the now ubiquitous small-town-big-secrets premise, The Survivors has enough going on to keep you watching.

  • Kylie Northover
What to stream this week (clockwise from top left): Pernille; Ange & the Boss: Puskas in Australia; Bono: Stories of Surrender; Towards Zero; Mix Tape; and Rick and Morty.

What to stream this week: Teresa Palmer’s Gen X drama and five more to add to your list

Our picks include an Australian-Irish romantic drama, an Agatha Christie adaptation and documentaries about an eccentric football legend and U2’s Bono.  

  • Craig Mathieson
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Robert De Niro as former president George Mullen in Zero Day.

Watched everything? Here are seven hidden gems you might have missed

A couple of US presidential thrillers, a drama from the creator of Adolescence and a shocking Norwegian drama lead our list.

  • Debi Enker
Marta Dusseldorp as Stella in season two of Bay of Fires.

Marta Dusseldorp’s ABC crime thriller recaptures its nutty spirit

The actor managed to outwit, outrun and outplay everyone in season one of Bay of Fires, but will her luck run out in season two?

  • Debi Enker
What to stream this week (clockwise from top left): The Better Sister; She Came to Me; Mike Birbiglia; The Mortician; Dept. Q and Stick.

What to stream this week: Netflix thriller Dept. Q and five more to add to your list

This week’s picks include a thriller that matches Mare of Easttown, a golf comedy for fans of Ted Lasso and a pulpy drama starring Jessica Biel.

  • Craig Mathieson
Amita Rao as Issa

Adults rocks: This share-house comedy is one for the age(s)

It owes much to Girls, Friends and even The Young Ones, but Adults also goes its own very funny way.

  • Karl Quinn

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