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What to stream this week: No Taste Like Home with Antoni Porowski; Babes; Newtopia; Good Cop/Bad Cop; Running Point and Yellowjackets.

What to stream this week: Five new shows and a movie to add to your list

Our picks include a basketball comedy with Ted Lasso vibes, a globe-trotting cooking show with a Queer Eye star and an Australian-made comedy with a Northern Exposure feel. 

  • Craig Mathieson

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Julianne Nicholson as Kate, who opens a nightclub in Soho in 1918 in <i>Dope Girls</i>.

Cocaine, electronica and glamour: This is not your average World War I drama

This new BBC drama’s set in Soho at the end of WWI, but is full of music, colour and style.

  • Kylie Northover
Daisy May Cooper is astonishing as Nic in the dramedy Am I Being Unreasonable?

Looking for the holy grail of TV dramedy? This is as close as you’ll get

Starring Daisy May Cooper, the second season of Am I Being Unreasonable? seamlessly interweaves gut-busting comedy and heartbreaking drama.

  • Ben Pobjie
Robert De Niro as former President George Mullen.

Robert De Niro’s first TV role is a conspiracy thriller for troubled times

A cyberattack that throws the US into chaos is the spur for a virtual suspension of democracy in Zero Day.

  • Karl Quinn
Allison Tolman as Alex and David Alan Grier as Dr Ron in the promising comedy St. Denis Medical.

Need a break from tough dramas? Give this goofy mockumentary a chance

Set in a regional US hospital, St Denis Medical hits all the familiar but funny beats, with strong performances from a cast schooled in sitcom style.

  • Craig Mathieson
Christopher Walken, master of the happy accident, in Severance.

Christopher Walken has always been the bad guy. Now we’re seeing a different side

After a 60-year career thick with oddballs, playing a regular character comes as a welcome relief for the Oscar winner.

  • Karl Quinn
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Adam Scott as Mark Scout in Severance.

Severance performance review: Halfway through season two, what is going on?

The internet is full of theories about what’s actually going on in Apple’s cult hit show, and we’ve got a few of our own.

  • Karl Quinn
This image released by HBO shows Patrick Schwarzenegger in a scene from “The White Lotus.”

The White Lotus recap: New guests, a familiar face and a surprise return

It’s time to quiet our chattering monkey minds and check in with episode one of the third season of Mike White’s wild satire.

  • Sinead Stubbins
Christina Ricci as Misty and Elijah Wood as Walter in Yellowjackets.

Cannibalism, hallucinogens and forest spirits: Yellowjackets is back

The bonkers tale of a group of high school students who (mostly) survive a 1996 plane crash returns with even more mysteries.

  • Kylie Northover
Carrie Preston plays the eccentric detective Elsbeth Tascioni in the eponymous series created by Good Wife and Good Fight producers Robert and Michelle King.

This quirky Good Wife spinoff is a joyful antidote to all the slick legal thrillers

Starring Carrie Preston, Elsbeth is a modern crime series that follows the Columbo template of delightful detectives.

  • Ben Pobjie

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