Best new shows – quick links
5 best new shows
Elle – 1 July (Prime Video)
Series. Season 1 of Elle follows Elle Woods before she was a fish-out-of-water at Harvard. We meet her in 1995 as a fish in the tumultuous waters of high school where she encounters tricky friendships, forbidden romance, and questionable fashion choices.
Through it all, Elle uses her family as a touchstone, and forms an even tighter bond to her mother, proving that they can get through anything life throws their way as long as they have each other. With each challenge she faces, Elle grows closer to the Elle Woods we know and love today.
Starring Lexi Minetree June Diane Raphael, Tom Everett Scott, Jacob Moskovitz and Gabrielle Policano.
Couples Therapy Season 5 – 1 July (SBS On Demand)
Series. Acclaimed psychoanalyst Dr. Orna Guralnik counsels four new couples in crisis, navigating stark political differences fuelling daily fights in a volatile marriage; a discovery of secret, paid cuddling sessions that blindside a couple; two people on the brink of moving in together who get derailed by an autism diagnosis; and teenage sweethearts who, 20 years later, wonder if they’ve outgrown the relationship.
Human Vapor – 2 July (Netflix)
Series. A death on live TV. A culprit who turns to gas. Behind it, a secret project that used and discarded the vulnerable. One detective pursues the dark truth.
Starring Shun Oguri, Yu Aoi, Suzu Hirose and Kento Hayashi.
Silo Season 3 – 3 July (Apple TV)
Series. Season 3 continues the saga of a dystopian society of 10,000 people living underground under mysterious circumstances, while revealing an origin story set centuries earlier.
In the present, Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) survives her forced ‘cleaning’ but returns with memory loss as the silo recovers from rebellion and faces a dangerous new threat.
Meanwhile, in the ‘Before Times,’ journalist Helen Drew (Jessica Henwick) and Congressman Daniel Keene (Ashley Zukerman) uncover a conspiracy that pulls them into a chain of events with catastrophic, irreversible consequences.
Saint-Pierre – 3 July (ABC iview)
Series. Two detectives with different policing skills and approaches are partnered to solve crimes in Saint-Pierre, the French Territory nestled in the Atlantic Ocean. At first at odds and suspicious of each other, Arch and Fitz soon discover that they are better together.
Recent best new shows
House of the Dragon Season 3 – 22 June (HBO Max)
Series. Episodes drop weekly, same day as US. Season 3 is an eight-episode instalment based on George RR Martin’s Fire & Blood. Set 200 years before Game of Thrones, it continues the story of House Targaryen and its dynastic conflicts. The Season 3 cast includes Matt Smith, Emma D’Arcy, Olivia Cooke, Steve Toussaint, Rhys Ifans and Fabien Frankel. Watch the trailer.
The Killings at Parrish Station – 24 June (Stan)
Series. It’s 1987, and Detective Georgia Cooke (Mia Wasikowska) is called in to investigate the massacre of four scientists who have been brutally murdered in inexplicable ways, with a lone survivor the obvious suspect. But as Georgia digs deeper, unravelling a complex case entangled in mania, ritual and the occult, her obsessive quest for the truth spirals into a nightmare that will put her family, career and sanity on the line.
Some 37 years later, a chilling new spree of murders will pull Georgia (Heather Mitchell) back into this nightmare as she confronts the terrifying possibility that the horrors at Parrish Station were never fully buried.
Alongside Mia Wasikowska and Heather Mitchell, the cast includes Xavier Samuel, Robert Taylor, Alan Dale, Emma Lung, Doris Younane, Kat Hoyos, Nic English, Alex Malone, Geoff Morrell, Rob Carlton, Alex Lee, Cameron James and newcomer Grace Owens. Watch the trailer.
