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Jacob Elordi as Dorrigo Evans and Olivia DeJonge as Ella in The Narrow Road to the Deep North. 

Horror and heartbreak is real in the devastating Narrow Road to the Deep North

With a tender performance from Jacob Elordi at its centre, this is perhaps one of the most beautiful and harrowing war stories I have seen. 

  • Louise Rugendyke

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Nathan Fielder has set season two of The Rehearsal in a replica of Houston airport.

No one else is making television like Nathan Fielder – that actually might be for the best

The Canadian comedian has done it again, with the jaw-dropping second season of The Rehearsal set in a replica airport.

  • Craig Mathieson
Brenda Blethyn as DCI Vera Stanhope and David Leon as DI Joe Ashworth.
  • ★★★★
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Goodbye, pet: TV’s iconic detective gets the ending she deserves

The final episode of a beloved show can produce mixed emotions, but this two-part Vera special is a fitting tribute to a beloved character.

  • Stephen Brook
Clockwise from top left: G20; Ernest Cole; Your Friends and Neighbours; The Knick; North of North and Hacks.

What to stream this week: A new Jon Hamm show, plus five more to add to your list

This week’s picks include John Hamm’s first lead since Mad Men, the return of Hacks and a Steven Soderbergh medical drama. 

  • Craig Mathieson
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
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
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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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