Tali’s Baby Diary — Showmax
Julia Anastasopoulos returns as Cape Town kugel Tali Shapiro for a second season of the Safta-winning mockumentary. This time Tali’s carefully managed plans for fame as a fitness influencer are dashed by the unforeseen revelation that she’s pregnant. Of course that won’t daunt the ever-resourceful Tali and when she discovers the world of “momfluencers”, all bets are off as she sets about curating her pregnancy with the same bad taste and impossible-to-please demands she brought to her wedding. Suitably cringe-inducing and offering a slightly wilder, weirder shake-up of the bubble of privilege protecting its heroine, this season offers plenty of awkward laughs and moments of uncomfortable recognition to keep fans entertained and amused. The first four episodes are available to watch from Friday, with the remaining six episodes landing on Showmax on March 12.
Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry — Apple TV
Award-winning documentarian RJ Cutler takes a personal look at teenage superstar pop phenomenon Billie Eilish, after the recording of her 2019 hit debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? and her subsequent emergence from her parents’ house to the floodlights of stadium-packed superstardom. Using archive footage and family films, it’s a uniquely intimate musical biography that brings home that whatever else she might be, Eilish is also an ordinary American teenager dealing with ordinary teenage problems.
Soulmates — Amazon Prime Video
This uneven but still intriguing six-part anthology series is set a few years in the future, when scientists think they have finally made a breakthrough that will help humans successfully navigate the emotionally anxious and tricky problem of how to decide who we will spend the rest of our lives with. Of course, as always, the powerful and emotional rollercoaster ride that is love is ever elusive and beyond complete control, even, and perhaps especially, when science gets involved.
Dam — Showmax
A six-part psychological horror thriller in which a young woman living in Chile returns to a small Eastern Cape town to bury her father. When she inherits his farm, she soon realises that something ominous and supernatural is guiding the eerie goings on in her seemingly picturesque hometown. Spookily shot and suitably infused with creepiness, it’s also a prescient investigation of the relationship between the past and present, and the long shadows it casts on personal development and social organisation.
Behind Her Eyes — Netflix
This is an often maddening, giddy and head-scratching drama adapted from the 2017 best-selling novel by Sarah Pinborough that blurs the line between exterior reality and interior psychological uncertainty. When a young London single mother takes a new job in the office of a psychiatrist and begins a tawdry affair with her boss, she’s sent down a road of twisty unreliability that makes both her and us ask just what the hell is really going on and who can we really trust any more?
