Murderbot — Apple TV+
Alexander Skarsgård stars in this dystopian black comedy series as a futuristic security robot who, after he disconnects himself from the program that governs his behaviour, finds himself facing the all-too-human problems of emotion, free will and existential dread as he tries to hide his newfound self-awareness from the scientific team that hired him for their protection.
If you have seven hours:
The Eternaut — Netflix
Based on the influential cult comic strip created by Argentine journalist and activist Héctor Germán Oesterheld, who disappeared under the country’s military junta in 1977, this dystopian survivalist thriller follows the struggles of a group of survivors of a mysterious deadly snowfall and alien invasion in Buenos Aires.
If you have three hours:
Fred and Rose West — Netflix
The gruesome crimes of notorious British serial killer couple Fred and Rose West are revisited in all their nasty detail in this docuseries that uses Fred’s own words from his confession to give a glimpse of what lay inside the minds of a couple whose names have become synonymous with evil since their arrest in 1994.
If you have two hours:
Octopus! — Prime Video
Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge takes a left turn for her next series project with this sharp-quipping, eccentric look at one of nature’s more eccentric and fascinating characters, the octopus.
If you have two hours:
The Assessment — Prime Video
Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Olsen and Himesh Patel star in director Fleur Fortune’s dark drama about a couple, who, in a near future where parenthood is heavily controlled, undergo a weeklong assessment to be approved as parents, with nightmarish results.
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