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After a decade-long absence, the Party Down crew is back on our screens. Plus, everything else worth streaming this week.
Television
Everything Everywhere All at Once sweeps the SAG Awards
Cate Blanchett was snubbed in the best lead female actor category, for her role in Tar.
The next season of Succession will be the last
Weeks out from its release, creator Jesse Armstrong says he wants the Emmy-winning series’ ending to be ‘muscular and complete’.
The Last of Us zombies: animal, mineral or vegetable?
It seems the creators of the gruesome beasts in the hit series were inspired by one common natural phenomenon.
Last King of the Cross: a hollow Underbelly rehash
Tim Roth is wasted in this true crime adaptation.
Disbarred, disgraced and all but destroyed
Bryan Cranston’s judge wants to die in his jail cell but the law isn’t finished with him yet in season two of Your Honor.
No sex scenes please, we’re Gen Z and we’re prudish
Young audiences say that cinematic sex scenes are gratuitous and exploitative.
Boy locked up for 18 years in brilliant, offbeat drama
Somewhere Boy is the weirdest and best new show on television – and everything else we’re watching.
‘World Privacy Tour’: Cartoon mercilessly roasts Harry, Meghan
The Sussexes were the clear target in the latest episode of popular US cartoon, South Park, which depicted a particular limelight-seeking couple who also demand their privacy.
Poor, ugly people being miserable? We can’t get enough
It’s one of the great mysteries of British television history. Was Nolly Gordon sacked for being a diva, or just too popular? We might finally have the answer.
A sleuth better than Columbo?
Natasha Lyonne is an amateur sleuth who calls bulls..t in the series Poker Face. And it could be her most memorable role yet
A distressing look into the spread of far-right hate
Stephen Graham is on top form as a reformed neo-Nazi in Jeff Pope’s mini-series.
Unsolved murders grip state
The series focuses on the “geography” of murder, and the intimate and profound relationships killers have with the landscape in which they commit their crimes and dump their victims’ bodies.
Selling the moon
Hollywood star Billy Crudup draws on his relationship with his ‘hustler’ salesman father for his latest TV role as a lunar real estate agent in Hello Tomorrow!
Gen X: ‘We’ve got the skills but none of the luxuries’
On the cusp of turning 50 and with a surprise career turn in the works, Myf Warhurst reflects on “the forgotten generation” she’s come to symbolise.
Bleaching away the awful truth
Would you drink bleach? Sounds crazy, doesn’t it? But two men have built a global empire and started a religious movement on the back of the Miracle Mineral Solution.
The return of Fawlty Towers? What a terrible idea
It is the comeback that nobody expected. Can we trust John Cleese to get it right again? Does anybody actually expect it to be any good?
Is it time to admit we were wrong about Pamela Anderson?
From pin-up to punchline, Pamela Anderson’s ability to laugh off the losers and lousy treatment she has endured since the late 1980s turns out to be the most shocking thing about her.
Xi crime drama gets 300 million daily views
The success of the series extolling Beijing’s anti-corruption and crime campaigns underlines the ruling party’s clever use of entertainment to spread propaganda.
The kids making millions on YouTube
Vlad, Niki, Diana and Nastya are locked in a fierce rivalry over YouTube supremacy. They’re not even 10.
Before you watch Tár …
You should revisit Todd Field’s Little Children, plus, two choice Taika Waititi picks.
Why our big producers are focused on the small screen
With hits such as The White Lotus and The Last of Us dominating the cultural conversation, the makers of Australia’s biggest cinematic hits of the past decade are ditching the big screen.
‘Historian’s’ exquisite BBC mockery blows everything away
Complete ignorance, complete prejudice, and all the self-awareness of a brick. Diane Morgan is turning history on its head. But a warning: You’ll laugh so hard you may injure an organ | WATCH
Actor Zoe Terakes steps into the Marvel universe
Roles in key Australian productions helped the actor along the path to embracing their gender identity.
The moment that set actor Tim Draxl free
Tim Draxl got outed on a film set in 2011, when a colleague unknowingly made a joke in front of the whole cast. The now 41-year-old still remembers his stomach dropping in fear, as the facade he had carefully maintained had just been demolished.
Is this really worth $14m an episode?
The Last of Us brims with scare-you-to-death moments and visually-rich set pieces.
Pioneering Wednesday Addams exits stage left at 64
The actor was best known for her role as the sweet but eccentric daughter in 1960s TV show The Addams Family.
We’ve sanitised the ‘90s
Welcome to the new era of TV, where getting cancelled by the audience is more terrifying than actually getting canned by the network.
Redemption in the name of peace
The third season of Sally Wainwright’s riveting drama Happy Valley promises to be as gripping and rewarding as the previous two.
A first-class moron gets the probing treatment
While he languishes in a Romanian prison on suspicion of human trafficking, a new documentary gets a glimpse inside Andrew Tate’s “secret society”.
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