Our film and TV recommendations this week: from Breathtaking to Can I Tell You A Secret?
Want to hunker down in front of a screen but stuck for something to watch?
Here are the films, TV shows and special streaming events on our cultural radar right now, plus some of our favourites from recent weeks that you can catch up on…
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February 23, 2024
Breathtaking
Not one for the faint-hearted. This new ITV show was written by three current and former doctors (Line of Duty’s Jed Mercurio among them) and is a look at what was happening inside hospitals during the Covid-19 outbreak. It’s extremely harrowing, but fascinating – and a truly rage-inducing watch.
Avatar: The Last Airbender
It’s Netflix’s turn to give Avatar the live-action treatment. Dive back into the world of Aang and his friends as they journey to save the world. This time around, there’s a clear reverence for the source material, plus dialogue that doesn’t sound like it’s been put through a blender. All positives. Plus, the powers actually look cool this time around!
Constellation
Noomi Rapace stars in this high-concept sci-fi piece from Apple TV+. She plays astronaut Jo, who returns from a gruelling mission in outer space to find things are a bit… wrong. She can play the piano (gasp) and maybe had an affair with her colleague? Things are spicy, but is it in her head or is something more sinister at work?
Can I Tell You A Secret?
This shocking new two-part Netflix documentary lays bare the crimes of Matthew Hardy, once dubbed “Britain’s worst troll.” He tormented tens, perhaps hundreds, of women online over ten years, stealing their identities and those
