Mr Loverman — M-Net (Wednesdays at 9pm)
Veteran British actor Lennie James gives a Bafta-winning performance in director Hong Khaou’s gently funny and quietly heartbreaking adaptation of the novel by Bernardine Evaristo. James plays Barrington Walker, a dapper, charismatic older gentleman who’s lived in the UK for decades since emigrating from the Caribbean as part of the Windrush generation.
With his daughters all grown up and living their own lives, his long-suffering wife still on his case about everything he does, and his sunshine years fast approaching, Barrington is hoping to live his best life in the company of his best friend and partner in crime, Morris De La Roux (Ariyon Bakare).
But Morris is not just Barrington’s bestie — the two men have shared a secret life as lovers for most of their lives and when their secret isrevealed to their families, the results threaten to tear apart their lives. Heartfelt, delicately directed and acted, and emotionally honest, Mr Loverman is a bittersweet love story set against the realities and challenges of immigrant life.
The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox — Disney Plus
The sensational story of Amanda Knox, the brash American college student who was arrested and convicted in 2007 of the murder of her roommate in Italy. She served four years before she was found to have been innocent. This eight-episode Hulu series is solid and engaging. Grace Van Patten does strong work in her portrayal of Knox as the series unravels the circumstances of how she came to be in Italy and found herself at the centre of global headlines and nothing she could say could convince Italian investigators that she wasn’t guilty of the crime.
Invasion Season 3 — Apple TV+
Simon Kinberg’s and David Weil’s modern update of HG Wells’ sci-fi alien invasion classic The War of the Worlds finally brings its disparate set of main characters together in its third season. The apparent peace of much-changed global life after the momentous ending of season 2 is shattered by the discovery of a new, far more dangerous and intelligent alien foe, for which humanity is woefully unprepared.
Long Story Short — Netflix
Bojack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg makes a much-anticipated return to the world of philosophical, darkly comic adult animation with this deeply personal and decade-spanning series that tracks the lives, histories, loves and challenges of an angst-ridden ordinary American Jewish family.
Hostage — Netflix
Treason creator Matt Charman returns to the world of high-stakes political intrigue in this thriller series, in which Suranne Jones and Julie Delpy team up as the leaders of the UK and France who must enter an uneasy alliance when shadowy terrorists threaten their families, personal lives and the security of Europe.
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