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From Boiling Point to Breathtaking – the 15 best TV dramas for autumn 2023

Ten new shows Love & Death (ITVX, 7 September) Elizabeth Olsen excels in HBO’s classy true-crime miniseries as 80s suburban Texas housewife Candy Montgomery.

Ten new shows

Love & Death
(ITVX, 7 September)

Elizabeth Olsen excels in HBO’s classy true-crime miniseries as 80s suburban Texas housewife Candy Montgomery. After a fling with a married member of her Methodist church group (the reliably terrific Jesse Plemons), she’s put on trial for killing his wife with an axe. The presence of writer David E Kelley (Big Little Lies, The Undoing) guarantees another addictive, talking-point potboiler.

The Lovers
(Sky Atlantic/Now, 7 September)

“Let’s have an affair. But we can’t fall in love.” Johnny Flynn and talent-to-watch Roisin Gallagher () star in an entertainingly rude romcom, set in Belfast, created by acclaimed playwright David Ireland () and from the producers of and . He’s a posh political TV presenter with a celebrity girlfriend. She’s a potty-mouthed supermarket worker with no interest in current affairs. Or indeed anything much.

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