New to View: July 18 – 24
July 18, 2021 
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A weekly guide to what’s new of note on air and online
Sunday
➢ Clarice TVNZ Ondemand
“In Clarice Starling, creators Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet have a character with ample untapped depths, and their approach to the trauma she endured by the end of Silence of the Lambs is admirably complex. But the series has a frustratingly hard time standing on its own two feet … It’s unclear whether this attempt to tell the story as a broadcast procedural with a full, serialised mystery arc will ever amount to anything more than a prehensile tail clinging to a beloved property..” — The Hollywood Reporter.
Monday
➢ Ake, Ake, Ake Maori TV, 8.30
Part one of three that documents from the perspective of three cousins the historic Ihumātao occupation. “This was a campaign that drew its strength and willpower from previous land movements,” producer Whatanui Flavell says. “The difference was the use of modern technology to engage, motivate and shake a nation out of complacency.” All three episodes can be streamed in the new MĀORI+ app.
➢ Elizabeth is Missing Vibe, 8.30
Glenda Jackson won a BAFTA for playing an elderly woman with dementia who tries to solve the mystery of her friend’s disappearance years after her own sister vanished without trace. “Jackson’s ferocious performance grounds a devastating misery.” — Variety.
➢ Outlier Acorn TV
“Outlier, which tells the story of a young female crime profiler attempting to solve a murder committed in the Sami community where she grew up, presented a unique creative challenge: the team needed to shoot eight 45-minute episodes of high-quality drama in the remote north of the Arctic wilderness.” — Adobe Blog.
Wednesday
➢ Turner & Hooch Disney+
Reboot of buddy-cop-but-with-a-dog drama. “This latest rehash by Disney+ is family-friendly and fine enough but plays out like telly commissioned by computer.” — The Guardian.
➢ Sexy Beasts Netflix
“Kind of like the illegitimate child of Love is Blind, The Masked Singer, and your worst nightmares. In each episode, singles transform into human-sized creatures through elaborate prosthetics and then go on dates with other, uh, sexy beasts … Just as disturbing as you’d expect.” — Entertainment Weekly.
Friday
➢ Casual TVNZ 2, 10.30
Broadcast premiere of the four-season Hulu comedy, about a divorcee and her bachelor brother raising her teenage daughter under the same roof, that first streamed here on Lightbox. “Packs an extraordinary amount of plot and wit into each half-hour episode.” — The Washington Post.
➢ Heart of Darkness Neon
A chance to see in HD the Investigation Discovery docuseries about what happens when “love descends into its darkest place”. Says executive producer Thomas Latter: “All six of the episodes centre around a different real-life murder case — all of which are rife with stunning twists, startling mysteries, and incredible, stranger-than-fiction truths.”
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