AMERICAN AUTO (NEON)
From the creator of Superstore, comes this US sitcom that follows the misadventures of the workers at Detroit-based Payne Motors. Over the course of two years, it follows the company’s struggles after a new CEO, who knows little about cars, is hired at a pharmaceutical company.
From the corporate offices to the factory floor, everyone is committed to pulling out all the stops to make things happen…
Rob Owen of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, while TV Insider’s Matt Roush opined, “I wouldn’t buy an old car from these people, but I would buy an old car. ‘we’ll be happy to see them dig their graves in the car graveyard of the future’.
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Best Prospects and the Dodgers are some of the biggest shows on the air this week.
LIVE ON REALITY (TVNZ+)
An eight-episode comedy series aimed at capturing the public’s interest in today’s true crime.
With a baby on the way, couple Ava (Flight Attendant’s Kaley Cuoco) and Nathan (Argo’s Chris Messina) hatch a plan to create a potentially lucrative podcast about their recently hired singer Matt (Death on the Nile’s Tom Bateman). , who is believed to be a very ruthless killer.
While the premise is ostensibly similar to The Only Dead in This House (but with more of a star-driven, L.A. vibe than the band it boasts), it feels closer to Lucky Hank (or even sunburned). Ozark, Justin Bateman is creative after all) in style.
The dialogue has the same smoothness, less desperation is felt and the intermarriage has the same tension as that between Hank and Lily or Marty and Wendy.
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BBC
Dodger is now available to stream on TVNZ+.
DODGER (TVNZ+)
Belated New Zealand premiere of UK children’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist.
Set in 1830s Victorian London, the series revolves around Jack Dawkins (Billy Jenkins), better known as the Artful Dodger, and his exploits as a member of Fagin’s (Christopher Eccleston) gang. See also Alex Kingston, David Threlfall and Lucy Montgomery.
“A fun and interesting family story. Please, BBC, can we have something else?” wrote Helen Brown of the Daily Telegraph.
THE BEST (DISNEY+)
Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight is behind the BBC’s latest adaptation of Charles Dickens’ beloved 1861 novel. As in the original, it’s the coming-of-age story of Pip, an orphan who longs for more in life, to the twists and turns of the fate and evil machinations of the mysterious and well-known “Miss Havisham” show him darkness. the world of possibilities.
The impressive cast of actors assembled includes Fionn Whitehead, Olivia Colman, Hayley Squires, Matt Berry and Tim Key.
“The script may have had a good time, but it is well shot, full of atmosphere and Colman’s Miss Havisham is excellent,” wrote Fiona Sturges of the Financial Times.
HULU
Good Expectations is now available to stream on Disney+.
I AM VIRGO (PRIME VIDEO)
Sorry to Bother You Writer-director Boots Riley created this seven-part series, about 13-year-old Cootie (Moonlight’s Jharrel Jerome).
Raised in Oakland, California by his Aunt Lafrancine (Carmen Ejogo) and Uncle Martisse (Mike Epps), after being accidentally discovered by a group of young political activists, he flees to the “real world”, where he makes friends, finds love, goes through hardships and meets an idol. his – The Hero (Walton Goggins).
“The truth that viewers complain they can’t find on television – something new, something wild, something strange,” wrote John Anderson of the Wall Street Journal, while Steve Nguyen Scaife of Slant magazine described it as “an intoxicating thought”.
MANIFEST (NETFLIX)
Dead and buried (and here in New Zealand walking through the grave on Saturday nights on TVNZ 1) in 2021, this spiritual drama found new life after unexpectedly climbing the Netflix charts worldwide in early 2022. .
Get the opportunity for the producers to complete the story of the people on Montego Air Flight 828, who (in the “Snap” story of the Marvel Cinematic Universe) lost five and a half years on the flight from Jamaica to New York, with 20 episodes in the fourth season divided into two parts.
“Trust us. Manifest pulls out all the stops in its final stages to prove it is worthy of surviving Doomsday in 2021,” wrote Decider’s Nicole Gallucci, while Tell-Tale TV’s Lara Rosales believes that “Manifest ends in a very scientific one. possible way, defying every law of logic”.
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Melissa Roxburgh and Josh Dallas play siblings Michaela and Ben Stone on Manifest.
SECRET ATTACK (DISNEY+)
One of Marvel’s most anticipated series, this six-part series picks up the thread of the 2019 Captain Marvel movie.
When Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) learns of a secret invasion of Earth by a group of shape-shifting Skrulls, he joins a small group of allies, including Martin Freeman’s Everett Ross, Cobie Smulders’ Maria Hill and the “friendly” Skrull Talos. (Ben Mendelsohn) to try to prevent it.
With the highest milestones from the Marvel TV series so far, Secret Invasion is definitely a quick change from She-Hulk: Attorney at Law or Ms. Marvel. With its story of global threats and conspiracies, there is the atmosphere of Captain America following The Fifth Soldier, or the most recent series The Falcon and the Winter-Soldier, where Fury tries to solve the problem and prevent a great disaster.
Boasting Olivia Colman, Emilia Clarke and Kingsley Ben-Adir, this decade’s answer to the campy, but V (not a bad thing), instead is a dark, full of tension, High-quality entertainment that sounds like all the Fury shows that you love have been wants and a potential Marvel OG song for Jackson.
STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW ORLDS (TVNZ+)
It has been ten years before the work of Captain James T. Kirk and the five-year company “in search of a new life and a new civilization”, this sci-fi series will begin its second season of 10 episodes with Spock (Ethan Peck) disobeying the law. receives a painful phone call from Lt. La’an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong).
Taking the USS Enterprise and its crew to the conflict zone, they are able to resume their fight against the Klingons.
“Fans get a ton of new stories, often a week’s worth of fun, with unique and compelling stories about these beloved characters,” wrote NPR’s Eric Deggans, at Empire. James White thought that “with a great cast of interesting characters and an interesting, quiet story, this recurring series continues to prove to be the best of the recent Trek shows”.
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