Pam & Tommy, Murderville and Reacher: what’s new to streaming in Australia in February
Netflix
June Again
Film, 2021, Australia – out 4 February
Noni Hazlehurst delivers an excellent, multifaceted performance as June, a woman suffering from dementia, who one day suddenly and inexplicably recovers. The catch? Her newfound lucidity won’t last long. So June escapes her nursing home to reconnect with her family, only to discover circumstances have changed for the worse, creating for her a kind of bizarro reality, sort of familiar and sort of not. A world conceptually similar to that experienced by the protagonist of the Australian film (and novel) Bliss.
If the premise sounds heavy, writer/director JJ Winlove’s film has a lightness of touch. It’s frequently funny, warm, but also prickly around the edges, with well drawn characters and a great cast including Hazlehurst, Claudia Karvan and Stephen Curry.
Murderville
TV, 2022, US – out 3 February
Will Arnett has some big runs on the board – including and especially BoJack Horseman and Arrested Development. Based on the British sitcom Murder in Successville, the trailer for his procedural crime comedy about butter-fingered senior detective Terry Seattle (Arnett) looks pretty goofy, which is perhaps to be expected. This is a semi-improvised show, with a different celebrity playing Seattle’s offsider to help solve a crime each episode, but the celebrities (including Sharon Stone, Kumail Nanjiani and
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