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Stranger Things | Netflix, from Thursday ☆☆☆☆ “After two stellar seasons, Stranger Things has evolved beyond its ’80s-ness being its most defining feature. Even though it feels the most aggressively, intentionally, and bodaciously ’80s of all three seasons by a lot, Season 3 is wildly entertaining on its own from top to bottom because it clearly […]

13 Reasons Why, The Handmaid’s Tale and Stranger Things were the most streamed original digital TV series in NZ from April to June, according to the latest quarterly survey by Parrot Analytics. “The Handmaid’s Tale generated increasingly high demand in New Zealand, with peaks aligning with episodic releases of the series’ second season,” the latest Global […]

Netflix today announced season two of its controversial youth drama 13 Reasons Why will premiere globally on May 18. It follows other recent announcements about returning and commissioned series, including the season two premiere of female wrestling romp GLOW on June 29. A few days earlier, production of Dark’s second season will start in Berlin, while […]

Dark | Netflix, from Friday ➢ “At first glance, Dark, Netflix’s first original German-language series, might seem familiar to fans of the streaming service’s other recent hits. The show centres on a small town plagued by strange goings-on at a nearby power facility … But its creators are quick to point out that Dark isn’t a […]

Stranger Things 2 | Netflix, from today ➢ “The much anticipated second season of Stranger Things is even stranger than the first, at least in terms of plot twists and endearing references to fantasy films from the ’80s … While others may try to imitate what the Duffers are doing, it’s harder than it may […]

Bonus Family (Bonusfamiljen): Season 1 (5/10/2017)    A new couple, their exes and their children navigate the emotional challenge and tricky logistics of blended family life in this Swedish dramedy. Suburra: Season 1 (6/10/2017) A seaside town near Rome becomes a gambling paradise – and a battleground for a powerful family, the mafia and corrupt […]

Next month The Zone will premiere horror anthology Channel Zero. The Wall Street Journal dubbed it a “creepy new series” from some of the minds behind Twin Peaks, Hannibal and Child’s Play, and predicts it “will plunge viewers into an odd world of murder, obsession and mass hallucination. “The six-episode first season is based on […]

Prime reboots English Premiere League … Expect even stranger Things …  Great news for free-to-air soccer fans: this month Prime will start broadcasting English Premier League matches. Coverage will kick off 11.30 on September 12, with Swansea vs Chelsea at Liberty Stadium. Prime will play a featured game every Monday night and a weekly highlights package on Saturday afternoons. Live EPL […]

Kiwi Coro fans streets behind … TV One lifts lid on MasterChef Oz … TV2 spices up kids TV with Sesame … Stranger Things new Netflix hit … Coronation Street fans will be the biggest losers when it comes to TV One’s coverage of the Rio Paralympics. The network’s nightly highlights package means the warhorse soap won’t […]

Halt and Catch Fire (S0H0, 9.30 Wednesdays) “Halt and Catch Fire is both a retro pleasure and a forward-looking gem … Halt picks up its third season in 1986, a few months after the gang from the tech company Mutiny made the trip from Texas to San Francisco … There are many things to love about Halt — […]