Stuff UK – September 2019

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What’s the opposite of on-demand TV? Live

broadcast. So see if you can you spot the odd

one out in this month’s ‘streaming’ selection...

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US Open Tennis

Amazon Prime’s push into the

world of live sport broadcasting

is well underway. It’ll be airing 20

English Premier League matches

this season, but for starters we’ll

be heading to Flushing Meadows

for the US Open where Novak

Djokovic, fresh off his Wimbledon

triumph, will be looking to defend

his men’s singles title.

Live sport / Amazon Prime

Brassic

With Preacher finished and This

Is England on indefinite hiatus,

Joe Gilgun needs a new platform

to show off his roguish talents.

Step forward Sky’s latest comedy

series, with Gilgun starring as the

head of a gang of working-class

mates looking for ‘alternative’

ways to make a bob or two in

suburban Lancashire.

S1 / Now TV

American Factory

Hotly tipped for an Oscar nod,

this feature-length doc from the

Obamas’ production company

tracks the tragicomic culture clash

that unfolds when a Chinese tech

billionaire opens a factory in the

US rust belt. Illuminating the wildly

different approaches of the two

‘sides’, it’s a timely look at the

globalised economy.

Film / Netflix

Carnival Row

Anyone yearning for more gothic

vibes should find Carnival Row right

up their... row. Set in the sort of dark

fantasy-Victorian world seen in the

likes of Bloodborne, this Amazon

series stars Cara Delevingne and

Orlando Bloom as a faerie and a

human detective in a setting where

mythical creatures have ‘migrated’

into the real world.

S1 / Amazon Prime

Free Meek

Rapper Meek Mill may be known on
this side of the pond for being Nicki
Minaj’s ex, and for his tiresome beef
with Drake, but in the States he’s
become a figurehead in the fight
for justice reform. On probation
since his teens on some very shaky
charges, Meek’s battle to stay out of
prison while changing the system is
charted in this six-part Amazon doc.
S1 / Amazon Prime

The Dark Crystal:
Age of Resistance

Almost 40 years from the original
Dark Crystal film, Jim Henson’s
fantasy world is back courtesy of
Netflix. If you’re imagining this new
series as a modern CGI-fest, think
again: it’s been created using the
same sort of animatronics and
puppetry as the 1982 movie. Yep,
it’s The Muppet Show for goths.
S1 / Netflix

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Film / NowTV

Spidey takes a break from the behemoth of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and finds a

new direction in this wildly inventive animated movie, which uses the multiverse theory

(essentially, that there are an infinite number of parallel dimensions co-existing on top of

each other) to take the web-slinger off in all sorts of weird and wonderful directions. To

reveal more would spoil the joy of watching this alternative origin story, which brilliantly

parallels the one we’ve already seen in so many other movies, comics and games.