Life in Colour — Netflix
A welcome escape from the restrictions of Covid-19 is presented by that most engaging and enraptured guide to the natural world, Sir David Attenborough, in this three-part series about the many inventive and beautiful ways that the natural world uses colour for survival, attraction and invisibility.
Skemerdans — Showmax
Created by the winner of the Standard Bank young artist award for theatre Amy Jephta, here’s a piece of atmospheric, shadow-drenched Cape Town neo-noir that takes a welcome hard look at the underbelly of the Mother City. When the patriarch of the Fortune family, self-made nightclub owner Glenn, is murdered, the forces of bitter family acrimony, economic competition and predatory gangsters converge to threaten to tear apart his family and the legacy he worked so hard to preserve.
The Confession — Showmax
Martin Freeman gives an earnest but committed performance in the role of real-life English police officer Steve Fulcher, whose commitment to seeking justice for the families of two murdered women saw him place his career on the line by throwing protocol out the window in an effort to convict a serial killer. Focused not so much on the manly heroics of Fulcher but rather on the characters and life stories of the victims and their families, it’s a slow burning but thoughtful examination of the philosophical challenges that surround justice and what it ultimately offers to those whose lives are upended by tragedy.
Why are you like this? — Netflix
A trio of suitably woke, terribly obnoxious Australian Millennials makes for frustrating but often lovable guides through the eggshell paved landscape of the social media outrage era in this sly, sometimes cynical, always engaging and often downright hilarious short, sharp, satirical comedy series.
Ammonite — Apple TV
Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan give excellent performances in this evocative, erotically tinged drama of forbidden love set in the 1840s. When a quietly focused hermit fossil collector has her work on the English coast disturbed by the arrival of a young woman sent there to convalesce, a strong, sometimes dangerous but all-encompassing bond develops between these two seemingly different women. (Available to buy from Apple TV).
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