Best new shows – quick links
5 best new shows
Spider-Noir – 27 May (Prime Video)
Series. Based on the Marvel comic Spider-Man Noir, this live-action series tells the story of Ben Reilly (Nicolas Cage), a seasoned, down on his luck private investigator in 1930s New York. Following a deeply personal tragedy, Reilly is forced to grapple with both his past life and his current one as the city’s one and only superhero.
For a special and unique viewing experience, Spider-Noir will be available to stream two ways, in ‘Authentic Black & White’ and ‘True-Hue Full Color’.
Starring Academy Award-winning actor Nicolas Cage in his first leading television role, alongside Lamorne Morris, Li Jun Li, Karen Rodriguez, Abraham Popoola, Jack Huston and Brendan Gleeson.
ScreenHub: Spider-Noir review: Nicolas Cage’s Marvel period piece is an artful treat
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder – 27 May (Stan)
Series. After solving the case of a murdered schoolgirl, Pip’s entire world has changed and she’s determined to avoid anymore investigations. But when a key witness in the trial of Max Hastings suddenly goes missing, Pip jumps back into action and must embark in a high stakes race against time to find him.
Based on the bestselling novels by Holly Jackson, Emma Myers (Wednesday) is back as Pip, alongside Zain Iqbal as Ravi Sing, Asha Banks as Cara Ward, Jude Morgan-Collie as Connor Reynolds, Yali Topol Maraglith as Lauren Gibson, and Henry Ashton as Max Hastings.
The Four Seasons Season 2 – 28 May (Netflix)
Series. The friends reunite for four new seasonal get-togethers, as they process a personal loss and embrace the regrets and reinventions of middle age.
Starring Tina Fey, Steve Carell, Colman Domingo, Will Forte and Kerri Kenney-Silver.
Litvinenko Season 1 – 29 May (BritBox)
Docudrama series. Detectives work to prove who was responsible for the death of the British-naturalised Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko in 2006, in one of the most complex and dangerous investigations the Metropolitan Police has ever mounted.
Starring David Tennant, Mark Bonnar, Kayla Meikle and Margarita Levieva.
Star City – 29 May (Apple TV)
Series. A propulsive paranoid thriller that takes us back to the key moment in the alt-history retelling of the space race – when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon.
But this time, we explore the story from behind the Iron Curtain, showing the lives of the cosmonauts, the engineers and the intelligence officers embedded among them in the Soviet space program, and the risks they all took to propel humankind forward. The series is a bold new chapter which expands the world of For All Mankind.
Recent best new shows
The Boroughs – 21 May (Netflix)
Series. In a seemingly perfect retirement community, a crew of unlikely heroes must stop an otherworldly threat from stealing the one thing they don’t have: time.
Starring Alfred Molina, Geena Davis, Alfre Woodard and Denis O’Hare.
Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed – 20 May (Apple TV)
Series. We follow newly divorced mum Paula (Tatiana Maslany) as she falls down a dangerous rabbit hole of blackmail, murder and youth soccer. Convinced she witnessed a crime – while simultaneously struggling through a custody battle and an identity crisis – Paula begins her own investigation, one that could unravel a greater conspiracy while also holding the keys to rebuilding her family and sense of self. Jake Johnson, Brandon Flynn and Murray Bartlett also join the cast.
Maxima Season 2 – 21 May (SBS On Demand)
Series. For most princesses, the fairy tale ends with a wedding. For Máxima (Delfina Chaves), it was only the beginning. From her marriage to Willem-Alexander (Martijn Lakemeier) to the coronation 10 years later, she seeks to find balance between love, power and protocol. She soon realises that keeping the love of the Dutch people is far more difficult than winning it.
The new season follows Máxima’s journey from mother, wife and future queen to a woman who finds her own voice.
