Craig Mathieson
Craig Mathieson is a TV, film and music writer for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
Laced with blood and guilt, this five-star drama’s tale is universal
Say Nothing, set in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, employs crackling authenticity and gallows humour in a bitterly brilliant portrait of political fanaticism and violence.
- by Craig Mathieson
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The Cold War sci-fi drama that’s harder to explain than watch
Set in Berlin, Counterpart features two J.K. Simmons characters in parallel worlds linked by a single crossing.
- by Craig Mathieson
Forget Timothee or Zendaya, the Dune prequel has space to forge its own identity
Sturdy and familiar pillars support this origin story behind the science-fiction movies, set 10,000 years earlier.
- by Craig Mathieson
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Australian comedy Audrey goes to dark, dark places in its hunt for laughs
Jackie van Beek plays a former Logie winner who pretends to be her teenage daughter in a black comedy that counts Muriel’s Wedding as a spiritual predecessor.
- by Craig Mathieson
Mexico’s top stars reunite in this shape-shifting boxing drama
Starring Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna, La Maquina is a pugilistic drama, a buddy comedy, a bittersweet bromance and more.
- by Craig Mathieson
Edgier and updated, the case of the procedural show is back
Programs like Matlock, Tracker and Elsbeth are taking classic TV procedural formats and shaking them up.
- by Craig Mathieson
The best new shows to stream in November
Our guide to what’s new on the streamers and free-to-air in Australia this month.
- by Craig Mathieson
Do yourself a favour: check out this Countdown 50th anniversary top 10
A six-week TV experiment became Sunday night appointment viewing for the nation, in the process turning its host into a distinctly Australian icon.
- by Craig Mathieson
Based on an ’80s ‘bonkbuster’, Rivals is salaciously engrossing
Rich people behave very badly in this adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s bestselling 1988 novel, starring David Tennant.
- by Craig Mathieson
With bulls, guns and baddies, dusty land saga Territory aims to thrill
Nothing is subtle in this Netflix Top-End drama as family members battle it out on the biggest cattle property in the world.
- by Craig Mathieson
Boys to men: Adam Brody and Joshua Jackson finally grow up
After their boyish charms propelled them to fame in Dawson’s Creek and The O.C, they’re now shining as leading men.
- by Craig Mathieson
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