TV & Satellite Week – 13 July 2019

TV&Satellite Week 15

Benjamin Wadsworth

as troubled teen Marcus

GLOW

Genre: Comedy drama Available: Now

Seasons: 1-2 Episodes: 20

Runs: 27-46min

With the third series starting next

month, now’s the time to catch

up with this hit show from

the makers of Orange Is the

New Black, about women

wrestlers in Los Angeles

in the 198 0 s. Mad Men’s

Alison Brie and Nurse

Jackie’s Betty Gilpin star.

Money Heist

Genre: Thriller Available: Fri 19 July

Season: 3 Episodes: 8 Runs: 45min

The first two series of this action-

packed Spanish-language thriller

centred on an audacious heist on

the Royal Mint of Spain as a criminal

mastermind manipulated the

police to carry out his plan.

In this latest series, the

robbers, led by El Profesor

(Álvaro Morte), reunite

to carry out another

daring mission – freeing

one of their gang.

WORDS: JUDY EWENS, RICHARD MCCLURE. PHOTOS: NETFLIX, STAR ZPLAY, SYFY

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Netflix, Amazon Prime Video,

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Catch up before

the new series...

Shaft

Genre: Crime drama Available: Now

Runs: 112min

Samuel L Jackson’s return as

private eye Shaft hasn’t won

over critics, who’ve called

it ‘rudely conventional’

and ‘an interesting

movie struggling to get

out of a hyperactive

action comedy’.

Beats

Genre: Drama Available: Now

Runs: 110min

Reviewers have praised the

performances of the cast,

which includes Black-ish’s

Anthony Anderson, but

have criticised the ‘clunky’

script of this movie about

a hip-hop prodigy with the

odds stacked against him.

Watch it

or dodge it

NEW

Genre: Comedy mockumentary

Available: Tuesday 16 July

Runs: 32min TVSW says: Expect the unexpected

David Harbour takes time off from

playing Jim Hopper in Stranger Things

to take the lead in this one-off comedy

mockumentary, which Netflix describes

as an ‘over-the-top tale of mystery and

suspense’. Cameras follow the Hellboy star

as he finds lost footage of his actor father’s

disastrous TV production of Mary Shelley’s

classic novel Frankenstein – a discovery

that makes him dig deeper into his family’s

secrets. Look out too for An Education’s

Alfred Molina and comedian Kate Berlant.

Frankenstein’s

Monster’s Monster,

Frankenstein

NEW

Genre: Thriller Available: Fri 19 July Season: 1 Episodes: 10

Runs: 43-54min TVSW says: Hogwarts from hell

Adapted from a comic book,

this action drama is set in 1987

and follows homeless teenager

Marcus Lopez (Benjamin

Wadsworth), who is recruited

into King’s Dominion, an elite

private academy where pupils

are trained to be assassins. Led

by ruthless headmaster Master

Lin (Benedict Wong), the school

is an explosive mix of white

supremacists, gang leaders and

kids of KGB operatives, and

Marcus must fight to maintain

his moral code while trying to

survive his dangerous setting.

●STARZPLAY is available

on Amazon Prime Video and

Virgin TV at an added cost

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Deadly Class

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heist thrillers...

What we’re watching...

The Lawyer

Season: 1 Episodes: 10 Runs: 44min

The Bridge’s creator Hans Rosenfeldt is the writer of

this Danish drama set in the Copenhagen underworld.

Lawyer Frank (Alexander Karim) is left reeling when

he learns the truth about the death of his parents.

La Mante

Season: 1 Episodes: 6 Runs: 51-63min

There are echoes of The Silence of the Lambs in this

gripping French thriller. Baffled by a string of grisly

murders in Paris, the police turn to imprisoned serial

killer Jeanne Deber (Carole Bouquet) for help.

Bordertown

Seasons: 1-2 Episodes: 21 Runs: 55-60min

A disenchanted detective (Ville Virtanen) takes a job

in a small town so that he and his family can lead a

simpler life, but he’s immediately called in to solve

a murder in a slick, stylish series from Finland.

Occupied

Seasons: 1-2 Episodes: 18 Runs: 45min

Set in the not-too-distant future, this Norwegian

political thriller is riveting. When Norway ends its

production of fossil fuels, Russia initiates a ‘soft’

invasion to get the oil flowing again, creating chaos.

The end of oil

production in

Norway sparks

chaos in Occupied

A sneak peek at what’s being watched in the TV&Satellite Week office

What the critics are saying

about the latest releases...

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David Harbour

stars in this comedy