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What to stream this week: (clockwise from top left): Every Year After; To a Land Unknown; Crimes of the Future; Best in Show; Alice and Steve and Swiping America.

What to stream this week: An intentionally icky wrong-com, plus five more picks

Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement’s taboo-breaking comedy will leave you with more questions than answers.

  • Jared Richards

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The fifth and final season of this award-winning hit sees the team banding together for one last service, as the restaurant teeters on the brink of collapse.
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The Bear (Disney+)

The fifth and final season of this award-winning hit sees the team banding together for one last service, as the restaurant teeters on the brink of collapse.

From the creator of Twenty Twelve, Twenty Twenty Six is a new comedy based around the FIFA World Cup. 

Hugh Bonneville is at his best in this timely comedy (just don’t mention FIFA)

Fans of British comedy won’t need an introduction to this iconic character. But how does the show stack up against his past works?

  • Paul Kalina
What to stream this week (clockwise from top left): Dead of Winter; Mad Men; Over Your Dead Body; Journey Home, David Gulpilil; Tip Toe; and Best of the World with Antoni Porowski.

What to stream this week: Alan Cumming’s devastating Brit drama, plus five more picks

Created by Russell T. Davies, Tip Toe isn’t about the failures of the past or the future, but the failures of right now.

  • Jared Richards
Javier Bardem is unnervingly brilliant as ex-prisoner Max Cady.

I’m sceptical of remakes, but this new version of Cape Fear is incredible – and terrifying

Part remake and part homage, this reimagining of the 1957 novel marries classic cinema with modern paranoia.

  • Kylie Northover
Emma Harvie as Destiny Pitt and Sam Pang as Hugh Shen in Ground Up.

An ABC comedy about Tasmania’s new AFL team should have worked. Instead, it’s an own goal

Ground Up relies on low-hanging fruit for its gags, while most of the withering dialogue is delivered with indifference.

  • Paul Kalina
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What to stream this week (clockwise from top left): Not Suitable for Work; Beast; Two Years Later; Bring Me the Beauties; Make That Movie; and Welcome to Babel.

What to stream this week: Sam Campbell’s wonderfully weird comedy, plus five more picks

With Make That Movie, the Australian comedian has made what is possibly the most absurd show of the year.

  • Jared Richards
The cast of Shark! (from left): Matt Nable, Ariarne Titmus, Lynne McGranger, Scott Cam, Sam Thaiday and Tammy Hembrow.

Yes, Scott Cam is being fed to some sharks – but this new show has a good reason

Come for the celebrity bloodlust, stay for the timely messages about safety and conservation. Shark! isn’t quite as silly as it seems.

  • Meg Watson
Nicolas Cage as The Spider in Spider-Noir.

Love Nicolas Cage or hate him, Spider-Noir will prove your point

He’s never been known for his restraint, but playing a web-slinging gumshoe superhero in 1930s New York sends Nic Cage right over the top.

  • Karl Quinn
What to stream this week (from top left): Alias; The Yoghurt Shop Murders; Star City; Marty, Life is Short; and streaming reviewer Craig Mathieson.

What to stream this week: Bill Pullman’s retiree thriller, plus five more picks

The Boomers are more than OK in The Boroughs, an enjoyably upbeat supernatural adventure starring Bill Pullman and Geena Davis.

  • Craig Mathieson