Too Much — Netflix
Eight years after the end of her critically successful and controversial show Girls changed the television landscape, Lena Dunham returns to the small screen with this modern anti-romance series created in partnership with her husband, musician Luis Felber. Starring Megan Stalter and Will Sharpe, it’s a sharp witty, autobiographically inspired tale of a heartbroken New Yorker’s move to London, where she falls for a charming indie musician.
Ballard — Prime Video
Titus Welliver’s time as troubled LA detective Harry Bosch may have ended with the recent final season of Prime Video’s Bosh: Legacy, but Bosch creator Michael Connelly’s continues to expand the universe of his best-selling novels. This time it’s the turn of Connelly’s cold-case-pursuing detective Renée Ballard to take the spotlight in this series starring Maggie Q as the tough, no-nonsense Ballard, who’s on a mission to uncover long buried truths.
Heaven and Earth — Prime Video
The final film in director Oliver Stone’s loose trilogy of Vietnam-focused films, following Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July, is also the least well received, though thanks to committed performances from its stars — Tommy Lee Jones and Hiep The Li — the film still stands as an honest attempt to face one of the less-examined consequences of the war through its romantic tale of the difficult relationship between a US Marine and a Vietnamese woman who find each other in the shadows of the violence erupting around them.
Mobland — M-Net Thursdays at 10pm
Tom Hardy is in fine quietly gruff form in this familiar but strongly cast London mob saga created by Top Boy and Day of the Jackal creator Ronan Bennett. It is written by Bennett and Jez Butterworth and features directing and producing credits from Guy Ritchie. Hardy plays Harry De Souza, a fixer for Irish mobsters the Harrigan family, led by cunning patriarch Conrad (Pierce Brosnan) and his dangerously unpredictable wife Maeve (Helen Mirren). When the Harrigan black sheep, grandson Eddie (Anson Boon), decides to take the future of the dynasty into his own wayward hands, he unleashes forces that will threaten the family’s hold on the underworld and place them in violent confrontation with their mortal enemy, the psychopathic rival gangland boss Richie Stevenson (Geoff Bell).
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