Best new shows – quick links
Best shows: new this week
My Brilliant Career – 13 August (Netflix)
Series. Modern, rebellious Sybylla dreams only of writing. Choosing an exciting career over a safe marriage is easy – until she falls in love unexpectedly.
Starring Philippa Northeast, Christopher Chung, Anna Chancellor and Genevieve O’Reilly. Watch the trailer.
Reacher Season 4 – 12 August (Prime Video)
Series. Based on the 13th book in Lee Child’s global best-selling series, Gone Tomorrow, in the fourth season of the action-packed series, when a chance encounter with a distraught stranger on a subway goes horribly wrong, Jack Reacher (Alan Ritchson) is drawn into a complex and deadly game that pits him against ruthless foes from the highest echelons of power.
Minx Seasons 1 & 2 – 13 August (SBS On Demand)
Series. Minx is set in 1970s Los Angeles and centres around Joyce (Ophelia Lovibond), an earnest young feminist who joins forces with a low-rent publisher (Jake Johnson) to create the first erotic magazine for women.
Falling – 16 August (ABC iview)
Series. After years spent dedicated to service, a chance encounter and misunderstanding between Anna, a nun, and David, a radical priest, threatens to change everything they’ve ever known. As Anna begins a new life outside of the convent walls, and David battles to instigate change in a community that desperately needs support, they must each wrestle with their own desires, fears and secrets.
Pure Average – 10 August (Stan)
Series. With a massive global following of over 11 million, Australia’s favourite digital icon, entrepreneur, and author Bridey Drake is pulling back the curtain on fame, flaws and finding yourself. This new six-part comedy docuseries offers a hilarious and deeply personal look into success, self-worth and the beautiful chaos of being anything but perfect.
Led by one of social media’s most magnetic and authentic voices, Bridey Drake: Pure Average offers audiences unprecedented access to the influencer behind the screen, revealing the highs, lows and hilariously unpredictable moments that have shaped her extraordinary journey – from an average outback girl to the founder of a global pyjama empire.
Best shows: recently added
Badly in Love Season 2 – 4 August (Netflix)
Series. School’s back in session in Okinawa as yankiis gather from across Japan. Will they find love and friendship – or will chaos erupt at their seaside campus?
Starring Megumi, AK-69 and Nagano.
Sterling Point – 5 August (Prime Video)
Series. Created by Megan Park, Sterling Point is a heartfelt, coming-of-age drama led by 17-year-old Annie Jacobson (Ella Rubin). Raised in New York City with her twin brother (Keen Ruffalo) and loving adoptive father (Jay Duplass), Annie’s life takes a turn when she inherits her mysterious grandfather’s island in Canada.
There, she finds new friends, budding romances and untold family secrets.
Ted Lasso Season 4 – 5 August (Prime Video)
Series. Ted return to Richmond, taking on his biggest challenge yet: coaching a second division women’s football team. Throughout the course of the season, Ted and the team learn to leap before they look, taking chances they never thought they would.
Starring and executive produced by Emmy Award winner Jason Sudeikis, Season 4 welcomes the return of Emmy Award winner Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple, Emmy Award winner Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt and Jeremy Swift, and introduces new cast members Tanya Reynolds, Jude Mack, Faye Marsay, Rex Hayes, Aisling Sharkey, Abbie Hern and Grant Feely.
Poster Boy: Becoming Zyzz – 5 August (Stan)
Documentary. Premiering on the 15th anniversary of his death, Revealed – Poster Boy: Becoming Zyzz explores how internet phenomenon Australian bodybuilder Aziz ‘Zyzz’ Shavershian constructed a viral persona powerful enough to outlive him.
ScreenHub: Poster Boy review – the life and death of Australian bodybuilder Zyzz
Featuring never-before-seen archival material, the documentary explores the circumstances of his tragic death in 2011 at just 22 years old. With testimony from those who were closest to him at the time, including Zyzz’s brother Said ‘Chestbrah’ Shavershian, Poster Boy: Becoming Zyzz is an intimate perspective on the man who sparked a cultural movement, one that shaped young men’s identities and may still resonate with young men today.
The Good Ship Murder Season 3 – 7 August (SBS On Demand)
Series. Former police detective Jack Grayling, pursuing his dream of becoming a cabaret singer on a luxury Mediterranean cruise ship, investigates a series of murders on board with the help of the ship’s first officer, Kate Woods. Season 3 Episode 1: When a passenger is murdered during a trip to a monastery, Jack and Kate join forces to investigate. Jack is eventually reinstated as the ship’s crooner, and is reunited with Kate.
