5 things you need to watch. Now. Right now. After you’ve read this list, obviously. Here’s last week’s edition if you’re in need of more recommendations: #1.
The Newsreader (BBC iPlayer – 12 x 60 mins)
With season two having been uploaded in one go, it’s the perfect time to point everyone in the direction of this classy and criminally underseen drama about two journalists (Anna Torv and Sam Reid) in a newsroom in 1980s Australia.
Interview With A Vampire (BBC- 6 x 60 mins)
The BBC has had an impressive run of acquisitions this year, epitomised with the arrival of season one of this long-awaited adaptation of Anne Rice’s novels. (So long a wait that the US is already airing season two…). Jacob Anderson is Louis de Pointe du Lac, a vampire who has decided to tell the story of his long life to a journalist. Sam Reid (yep, him again!) is Lestat de Lioncourt, the great love/hate of his life.
The heist genre has to be one of the most universally enjoyed genres, right? Even when badly done, it still makes for an entertaining watch. Luckily this is one that is both entertaining and actually really good. After a heist, the crew have gone their separate ways, but now, they are being targeted by a killer one-by-one. Not only is it big budget looking, it’s got a cracking cast – Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Gemma Arterton and Eddie Izzard are our frenemies reunited.
The Buccaneers (AppleTV+ – 8 x 50 mins)
An adaptation of Edith Wharton’s last novel, which was finished & published posthumously after her death, in the 1870s a bunch of rich American girls are trying to find a posh English husband during the London debutante season. Whilst not as good as Bridgeton, it will go some way to filling the void until season 3 (which still doesn’t have a release date, but expect it next rather than this year).
Dark Winds (SKY/NOW – 6 x 60 mins)
Credit for this recommendation has to go to my dad, who had it on his radar for months. Coincidentally arriving in UK around the same time as Killers of the Flower Moon, we’re finally – yet still slowly – seeing more Native American voices on the big & small screen. A crime drama thriller, we follows Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon) and Chee (Kiowa Gordon), two Navajo police officers in the 1970s Southwest that are forced to challenge their own spiritual beliefs when they search for clues in a double murder case.
Charlotte Sometimes 
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