From the return of a Marvel fave to Meghan Markle’s big gamble, here’s the best streaming in March
Between Meghan’s long-awaited lifestyle show and the eagerly anticipated return of a cancelled Marvel superhero, the March streaming options are well worth the wait.
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From a resurrected superhero to royal lifestyle gamble and a homegrown comedy-drama to a portrait of a sporting great, there’s something for everyone coming to streaming in March
BINGE
SELLING HOUSES AUSTRALIA
MARCH 5
Despite the first interest rate cut in four years, it’s still tough out there in the property game, with volatile markets and continuing cost-of-living pressures. And with average Australian homeowners with property in the middle of the market hit the hardest, this season of the long-running real estate makeover show is promising to be both timely and practical. Real estate guru Andrew Winter, interior design expert Wendy Moore and landscape designer Dennis Scott are back to weave their magic – and make every dollar count – on a wide range of properties from an inner-city terrace to a heritage home.
THE LAST ANNIVERSARY
MARCH 27
The same dream team – author Laine Moriarty and the production companies of Nicole Kidman and Bruna Papandrea – that made Big Little Lies a global hit have reunited for this new six-part homegrown comedy-drama. Filmed around the Hawkesbury River west of Sydney, which Moriarty says is a character in the books, Teresa Palmer stars as Sophie Honeywell, who inherits a house on a picturesque but remote island from her ex-boyfriend’s great aunt Connie. But Sophie’s unexpected arrival puts her off-side with Connie’s family and the suspicious locals as she gradually uncovers the island’s secrets. Also stars Miranda Richardson and Danielle Macdonald.
ALSO SHOWING
S.W.A.T. Season 8 – March 2
The Real Housewives of Atlanta Season 16 – March 10
The Righteous Gemstones Season 4 – March 10
Stanley Tucci: Searching For Italy – March 21
The Cleaning Lady Season 3 – March 26
STAN
REVEALED – CRAIG BELLAMY: INSIDE THE STORM
MARCH 9
At Stan’s recent presentation of its coming shows, Rugby League Immortal Andrew “Joey” Johns expressed his astonishment that notoriously private Melbourne Storm coach Craig Bellamy – a man he said was very much in the conversation as the game’s greatest ever coach – would allow the unprecedented access that forms the backbone of this sports doco. It’s hard to argue with his assessment of his status though, given that under his eagle eye and astute tactics, the Storm have won four premierships (and had two more stripped) and made the finals in 21 of his 22 years in charge. Through interviews with league and other sporting greats and behind the scenes footage of chair-kicking, air punching and inspirational speeches, it sheds new light on the enigma that is Bellamy – and why his team are favoured to go all the way again this year.
LONG BRIGHT RIVER
MARCH 13
Amanda Seyfried stars in this eight-part suspense thriller adapted by author Liz Moore from her best-selling novel of the same name. The Emmy-winning actor plays Mickey, a police officer who now patrols the rough neighbourhood she grew up in and which has been even further devastated by the opioid crisis. But when some of the women she has vowed to protect start to go missing or turn up dead, and her attempts to investigate meet with resistance from her superiors, she realises that her own history might be related to the case.
ALSO SHOWING
Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue – March 2
Power Book III: Raising Kanan – March 7
Ten Pound Poms Season 2 – March 10
PARAMOUNT+
HAPPY FACE
MARCH 21
Dennis Quaid was enough of a grub as a misogynist TV executive in The Substance and he looks absolutely chilling as a serial killer in this eight-episode drama. Inspired by the true-life story of Melissa G. Moore (played by Masters of Sex star Annaleigh Ashford) and adapted from her autobiography Shattered Silence and the critically acclaimed Happy Face podcast, it recounts how she found out at the age of 15 that her father was a murderer. As an adult, she changed her name and hid her story while her father served a life sentence but when he finds a way to re-enter his daughter’s life, Melissa has to discover whether an innocent man is going to be executed for a crime that he committed.
ALSO SHOWING
Paw Patrol Season 11 – March 1
Georgie Stories: Charlotte’s New Baby Season One – March 5
The Tiny Chef Show Season 3 – March 6
In A Bloom: Everybody’s Fight – March 8
Tom Petty: Heartbreaker’s Beach Party – March 12
DISNEY+
DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN
MARCH 5
Daredevil fans were devastated when the Netflix adaptation of the Marvel comic was abruptly axed in 2018 after three successful seasons. But after soft relaunching the street-level superhero – blind crusading lawyer Matt Murdock by day and rage-fuelled masked vigilante Daredevil by night – in Spider-Man: Far From Home and She-Hulk: Attorney At Law, The Man Without Fear is back with his own nine-episode series that is part continuation and part reboot. And the word is very good, with Murdock once again squaring off with his arch-enemy/mirror image Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) who is promising to leave his thuggish gang boss days behind him with a tilt at Mayor of New York City. But can either of them truly leave their violent natures behind them?
DELI BOYS
MARCH 6
In this new, hilarious-looking, 10-part black comedy, Ran and Mir Dar are a couple of spoiled Pakistani-American brothers living the high life in Philadelphia courtesy of the father they think is a convenience store magnate. But when he dies unexpectedly, they discover through a posthumous video that he was in fact “a fraud, a drug dealer and possibly a murderer” and they are expected to carry on the family business. Enter the badass Lucky Auntie, who is well versed in the ways of cocaine dealing, gangsters and extreme violence, and might just help them survive the ruthless underworld that’s their new home.
ALSO SHOWING
Good American Family – March 19
David Blaine: Do Not Attempt – March 24
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip – March 28
PRIME VIDEO
WHEEL OF TIME
MARCH 13
The fantasy epic based on Robert Jordan’s series of the same name is behind only The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power and Fallout as one of Prime Video’s most popular shows and looks to be getting even bigger in its eagerly anticipated third series. The most pressing question after last season’s climax is whether Rand al’Thor – once a lowly shepherd and now the fearsome Dragon Reborn – is going to use his formidable new powers for good or evil. After killing Ishmael, the rest of the Forsaken are now hunting Rand down but as he grows stronger, he becomes less and less recognisable to his closest allies. Strap in for more of the mighty battles, magical duels and fearsome beasts that WOT enthusiasts have come to expect.
ALSO SHOWING
Picture This – March 6
Holland – March 27
Bosch Legacy Season 3 – March 27
APPLE TV+
DOPE THIEF
MARCH 14
The great Ridley Scott (Alien, Gladiator, The Martian) directed the opening episode and executive produced this eight-part crime thriller, based on Dennis Tafoya’s book of the same name. Brian Tyree Henry and Wagner Moura play small-time Philadelphia crims who have cooked up a scam of relieving drug dealers of their cash and their stash by posing as Drug Enforcement Administration agents. But when they hit the wrong house and find themselves in the middle of a massive narcotics operation they soon realise they are in way over their heads, putting their lives – and those of their families and friends – in grave danger.
THE STUDIO
MARCH 26
Seth Rogen and his longtime friend and collaborator Evan Goldberg have no doubt mined their experiences making hits and misses including Superbad, Pineapple Express and The Interview in this hilarious and something scathing take-down of how the Hollywood sausage gets made. Rogen plays Matt Remick, who is suddenly and unexpectedly elevated to head of the fictional Continental Studios and is immediately drawn into the delicate dance between art, commerce, excess and ego that drives Tinseltown. Schitt’s Creek’s Catherine O’Hara and Agatha All Along’s Katherine Hahn are in top form as a producer and marketing guru respectively and expect plenty of cameos from Rogen’s celebrity mates playing themselves.
ALSO SHOWING
BE@RBRICK – March 21
Side Quest – March 26
NETFLIX
WITH LOVE, MEGHAN
MARCH 4
Love them or hate them, there’s a lot riding on this lifestyle show for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. It’s the last release in their five-year deal with the streaming giant – reportedly worth a whopping US$100 million – and potentially the most accessible. It claims to be reimagining the genre of lifestyle programming by sharing “personal tips and tricks, embracing playfulness over perfection and highlighting how easy it can be to create beauty” and showing the actor formerly known as Meghan Markle with celebrity chef and friends. It’s already being targeted by her many haters for ripping off other shows, but only time will tell whether it’s enough to turn her into the next Martha Stewart or Gwyneth Paltrow.
THE RESIDENCE
MARCH 20
“132 rooms, 157 and one dead body” is the tagline for this whodunit from Shonda Rimes’ Shondaland (Grey’s Anatomy, Bridgerton) production house. They could also have added a cameo from Kylie Minogue as herself and Julian McMahon as the Australian Prime Minister as selling points for a star-studded murder mystery set in “upstairs, downstairs and backstairs” of the White House. When Chief Usher AB Wynter (the ever reliable Giancarlo Esposito) is murdered during a state dinner, there are suspects everywhere and oddball detective Cordelia Cupp (Orange is the New Black’s Uzo Aduba) is called in to find the culprit.
ALSO SHOWING:
Formula 1: Drive To Survive Season 7 – March 7
American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden – March 10
The Electric State – March 14
Revelations – March 21
Chelsea Handler: the Feeling – March 25
Survival of the Thickest – March 27
Originally published as From the return of a Marvel fave to Meghan Markle’s big gamble, here’s the best streaming in March
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