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Two anthropomorphised green and pink monster characters with exaggerated features and expressions, wearing checked and yellow shirts against a textured brown background.
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Jurassic Lark: The satirical genius of Jim Henson’s Dinosaurs

by Aimee Knight

Ani­ma­tron­ic pup­pets, sear­ing social com­men­tary, this short-lived ear­ly ​’90s sit­com had it all.
Arched mirrored frames with shadowed human faces reflected within.
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Pretend It’s a City is a wry love letter to pre-pandemic New York

by Madeleine Seidel

Fran Lebowitz and Mar­tin Scors­ese sit down for a chat about all things NYC in this engag­ing Net­flix docuseries.
A man with curly hair and a moustache holding a rabbit in his hands, set against a blurred green background.
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Ethan Hawke delivers a fiery sermon in The Good Lord Bird

by Emma Fraser

He stars as the con­tro­ver­sial abo­li­tion­ist John Brown in Showtime’s Civ­il War-era his­tor­i­cal drama.
Three young adults, one with blond curly hair, one with straight dark hair, and one wearing a red beret, standing close together in an intimate embrace.
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We Are Who We Are aches with longing for the summer of youth

by Roxanne Sancto

Luca Guadagnino’s com­ing-of-age series sees a group of teenagers dis­cov­er their iden­ti­ties on a coastal army base in Italy.
A woman wearing a blue nurse's uniform stands over a patient lying on a hospital bed.
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Netflix’s Ratched is an over-stylised origin story misfire

by Emma Fraser

Some motives are bet­ter left undi­ag­nosed, as Ryan Murphy’s glossy pre­quel series, star­ring Sarah Paul­son as the tit­u­lar nurse, shows.
Two young women sitting by a tiled pool, one in a floral swimsuit and the other in a blue swimsuit. The background shows a garden with trees and flowers.
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Hulu’s PEN15 continues to capture the joy and horror of being 13

by Emma Fraser

Anna Kon­kle and Maya Ersk­ine play ver­sions of their teenage selves in the hit grow­ing-pains ​“traum­e­dy”.
Man in casual clothes sits on a wooden platform in a field of tall maize plants, holding a tablet device.
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HBO’s Lovecraft Country delivers a fierce broadside against bigotry

by Charles Bramesco

Misha Green and Jor­dan Peele’s 10-part series exter­nalis­es the dark­er impli­ca­tions of Love­craft­ian lore.
Man in brown coat, hat, and tie standing in a wooded area.
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Perry Mason revival delivers with the case of the enticing origin story

by Emma Fraser

HBO’s pre­quel series sees Matthew Rhys take on the role of the famed Los Ange­les defence lawyer.
Large horned, green-bodied creature in a dark, ornate room with brick walls and various items displayed.
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Michaela Coel delivers a searing performance in I May Destroy You

by Emma Fraser

A young women’s life is derailed by sex­u­al assault in this painful­ly hon­est yet humor­ous 12-part drama.
Two people, an African-American man with a beard and a Caucasian woman with curly hair, sitting close together in a dimly lit room.
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The Eddy review – A haunting melody that quickly fades

by Charles Bramesco

Damien Chazelle’s eight-part Paris jazz dra­ma scarce­ly miss­es a note, but we’ve heard this tune before.