This rollicking narrative of pickpocketing and boxing in the brutal East End of late-1800s London is simply gorgeous to look at. It has operatic style, grand complicated characters and, like Peaky Blinders, confronting violent moments straight from the Scorsese gangland manual.
Countless war-weary Britons bought into clever advertising showing golden beaches and beautiful houses. In reality, many immigrants arrived Down Under to gross disappointment.
Homicide: Life on the Street still looks innovative and only slightly dated – and is as dramatically satisfying as it was first time around.
The Jerry Springer Show was tacky at best, tawdry at worst … but there was a liberatory streak.
This savagely violent survival tale is set within one of the more pitiless and uncompromising periods of American history.
Netflix’s twisty Harlan Coben thriller Missing You takes a swipe at love with a woman tracking down her missing fiance on a dating app.
Shetland’s Mark Bonnar and Game of Thrones’ Jamie Sives return as brothers in Guilt, a wicked parable about the futility of trying to outrun your own past.
This series, starring Colin Firth, charts a man’s dogged quest for the truth about his daughter’s death in the UK’s deadliest terrorist attack.
While away the hours with a pulpy mystery series set in ‘a sunny place for shady people’ and scene-stealing wildlife.
Old favourites like The Bear, Poker Face, The Lincoln Lawyer, The Last of Us and White Lotus are set to return – but there are surprises in store, too.
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