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Succession’s Jesse Armstrong turns his satirical surgical focus to a different strata of global villains - the tech sector. Holed up in a mountain lair and modelled on Musk, Thiel etc., the comedy is claustrophobic, but the scale global - its many punches landing hard in our present day.

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Bit of an unsung Kiwi gem, a distinctively rural crime thriller that Aotearoa could make more of. Cameron Jones and Josh McKenzie fuel the film as brothers-at-odds, powering the film's very humorous start to a situation that gets increasingly more desperate up to its tense climax.

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A frightening look at the geopolitical scramble for food and water resources, depicting a painstaking journalistic campaign to peer behind the curtain - revealing mercenaries, corruption, hedge fund stooges, shady acquisitions and the odd familiar modern villain like Blackwater founder Erik Prince.

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To suck it up and obey, or rebel and risk annihilation? This is the show’s primary source of tension, giving it an interesting and unusual dynamic. Intensifying things is Murderbot’s white-hot hatred of humans, in a show that’s more funny weird than funny ha-ha. Full article

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Benito Skinner’s hilarious new sitcom Overcompensating has a very cute to-thine-self-be-true message, conveyed through biting cynicism, laugh-out-loud social observations, and characters who you’ll fall in love with against your best interest.

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Some episodes play more for laughs than others in Rian Johnson’s guest-star-heavy ‘howcatchem’. Tapping into Natasha Lyonne’s great range, Poker Face often adds a layer of emotional impact to each death that hits harder than standard murder-of-the-week fare. Full article

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