Streaming on AMC+, Shudder, Acorn TV – quick links
AMC+, Shudder & Acorn TV: new this week
The Field of Blood – 16 February (Acorn TV & AMC+)
Series. Based on the hit book by Denise Mina and set in the gritty Glasgow of the early 1980s, this slick drama follows Paddy (BAFTA Award-winner Jayd Johnson), a low-level newspaper employee whose world is turned upside down when a murder story involves her family.
The ensemble cast includes David Morrissey (The Walking Dead) and Peter Capaldi (Doctor Who). Season 2 is based on the second novel in the Paddy Meehan series, The Dead Hour, where Paddy tries to make a career for herself against the backdrop of the miners’ strike and the changing face of journalism.
True Crime Story: It Couldn’t Happen Here – 19 February (AMC+)
Series. The new six-episode season examines the challenges and complexities of small-town justice, spotlighting cases that range from unsolved missing persons and wrongful convictions, to death while in police custody. Led by advocate and actress Hilarie Burton-Morgan (One Tree Hill, The Walking Dead), the series travels to Pennsylvania, Texas, Indiana, Oklahoma and Kentucky, in powerful pursuit of accountability and justice for victims.
By speaking directly with the family members of those involved with the cases, as well as community members, local journalists and legal experts, the series continues its work revealing systemic flaws within the criminal justice system and encourages viewers to lend their voices to those who have been silenced.
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Dark Winds Season 4 – 15 February (AMC+)
Series. Dark Winds’ gripping fourth season focuses on the search for a missing Navajo girl, which takes Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito from the safety of Navajo Nation to the gritty terrain of 1970s Los Angeles in a race against the clock to save her from an obsessive killer with ties to organised crime.
Executive produced by Robert Redford, George RR Martin and star Zahn McClarnon, Dark Winds boasts a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score for its first three seasons. Also stars Kiowa Gordon (The Red Road, Roswell, New Mexico) as Jim Chee, Jessica Matten (Rez Ball, Tribal, Burden of Truth) as Bernadette Manuelito, and Deanna Allison (Accused, Edge of America) as Emma Leaphorn.
Honey Bunch – 13 February (Shudder & AMC+)
Film (2025). In this new Shudder Original horror, when Diana wakes from a coma with fragmented memories, she and her husband seek experimental treatments at a remote facility. As the procedures intensify, their marriage is put to the test, and Diana begins to question her husband’s true motives.
My Life is Murder Season 5 – 9 February (Acorn TV & AMC+)
Series. The new season of this Australian-New Zealand murder mystery crime comedy-drama series sees eight thrilling new cases featuring dangerous villains that only Alexa Crowe (Lucy Lawless, Xena: Warrior Princess) can catch. As always, she’s bringing her friends and family along for the ride, and Alexa’s cantankerous cat, Chowder, also continues to stir up trouble in his own mischievous way.
This season, while soaking up the sun in Fiji, Alexa’s holiday takes a dark turn when a familiar foe resurfaces. But catching a killer isn’t her only unfinished business – she’s also reunited with Jesse (Craig Parker, Spartacus, Xena: Warrior Princess), her former police partner. Is he the one that got away? With her whānau (extended family) backing her every step of the way, Alexa is diving headfirst into a new wave of high-stakes cases – where buried secrets resurface and justice is never as simple as it seems, but one thing’s clear: Alexa’s not backing down.
Cold Call – 2 February (Acorn TV & AMC+)
Series. After single mother June (Sally Lindsay, Scott & Bailey) receives a fateful phone call, she takes increasingly desperate measures to salvage her family’s future in this dark thriller. Finding herself the victim of a scam that wipes out her savings, June tries to hunt down those responsible with the help of an old flame (Daniel Ryan, Mount Pleasant).
Terrifier 3 – 1 February (Shudder & AMC+)
Film (2024). Art the Clown is set to unleash chaos on the unsuspecting residents of Mile County as they peacefully drift off to sleep on Christmas Eve.
Fear the Waking Dead Seasons 7 & 8 – 1 February (AMC+)
Series. Arm yourself up and dive into the final two seasons of post-apocalyptic chaos with Fear the Waking Dead, AMC’s original spin-off to The Walking Dead.
In Season 7, Teddy (John Glover) brought about his vision of ‘The End’ when he detonated nuclear warheads across the Texas landscape, but it will be up to those who survived to decide what ‘The Beginning’ will look like. (Also starring Lennie James, Kim Dickens, Colman Domingo and Rubén Blades.)
And in Season 8, Morgan’s (Lennie James) and Madison’s (Kim Dickens) hope to rescue Mo from PADRE did not go as planned. Now, Morgan, Madison and the others they brought to the island are living under PADRE’s cynical rule. With our characters demoralised and dejected, the task of reigniting belief in a better world rests with the person Morgan and Madison set out to rescue in the first place – Morgan’s daughter, Mo.
Rise of the 49ers – 1 February (AMC+)
Series. This limited series event explores the dramatic and iconic run of the San Francisco 49ers during the ‘80s and early ’90s, utilising rare and never-before-seen footage from NFL Films, including video of team speeches and behind-the-scenes photos of San Francisco’s legendary head coach Bill Walsh.
Featuring incisive interviews with club legends (and Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees) such as Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, Ronnie Lott, Steve Young and Eddie DeBartolo Jr, among others, each episode will also include on-camera contributions from Tom Brady, a San Mateo, CA native and life-long 49ers fan.
