Worn Stories — Netflix
Adapted from the bestselling book by Lauren Spivacek, this docuseries takes a fresh look at the physical, emotional and psychological impact of clothes. Using fascinating archive material, quirky interviews and animation, it tells a new and intriguing story about a part of daily life that’s an important part of our expression and identity as human beings.
Them — Amazon Prime Video
Lena Waithe executive-produces this timely horror anthology series created by Little Marvin. Venturing solidly but differently into Jordan Peele territory, it’s a smart, chilling horror drama that examines the terrors wrought against ordinary black Americans in 1950s southern suburbia. When an upwardly mobile black family moves into a traditionally white middle-class neighbourhood in the post-World War 2 boom era they get far more than they bargained for from their neighbours and supernatural forces hiding in the walls of their house.
Shtisel Season 3 — Netflix
The sleeper hit show about the pressures, joys and travails of everyday life behind the veil of Orthodox Jewish characters in Israel gets a welcome, character-rich and complex third season that brings a fitting close to a small but elegantly executed show that has all the narrative and emotional satisfaction of a solid Victorian novel.
Motherless Brooklyn — Showmax
Directed by and starring Edward Norton, this underrated 2019 adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s acclaimed novel is a dark, cynical and excellently realised piece of neo-noir. When a young, gifted but Tourette’s Syndrome-afflicted private detective determines to bring to justice the murderers of his mentor, he finds himself navigating a twisty, shadowy path through the underbelly of New York that will set him on a reckoning with his own demons and the nefarious gang boss who runs it all.
Delhi Crime — Netflix
A solid, well-acted and often gut-wrenching police procedural that celebrates the real-life men and women of the Delhi police service who, under enormous public and political pressure, swiftly brought to book those responsible for the infamous 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape that sent shockwaves and sparked outrage across the globe.
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