Top Boy to The Changeling: The seven best shows to stream this week | Television

The seven best shows to stream this week

The final season of the heart-pounding gang drama is here, and LaKeith Stanfield stars in a bizarre New York romance — or should it be a horror story?

Choice of the week

best boy

Dushane (Ashley Walters) knows that the best criminals come after the first opportunity, but his old comrade Sully (Kane “Kano” Robinson) is determined to establish his dominance. This friction defines the final season of the gripping gang drama. After killing Jamie, Sully is determined to fight his way past Dushane, but is he cool enough to lead? A gruesome introduction to the methods of a new, prominent Irish drug ring, Jonny (a terrifying Barry Keoghan), looks set to test it. Top Boy continues to do a great job of situating these brutal conflicts within the struggles of struggling communities – the world of gangsters is contextualized but never glorified.
Netflix, starting Thursday, September 7

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The Changeling

At first, you might think this is a charming New York romantic drama. But with a hint of something darker lurking on the periphery, there’s soon a turn to full-fledged horror that could be explained by postpartum depression…or could be something much more sinister. . Adapted from Victor LaValle’s 2017 novel, LaKeith Stanfield’s Apollo falls in love with librarian Emmy (Clark Backo). Their stories contain traces of tragedy that manifest in a story that plays with themes of racism, magic, family legacy and submerged trauma. Intriguing.
Apple TV+, starting Friday, September 8

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Is it the wolf?

Series of encounters with wild accents, this Japanese series features a group of 10 young people, all apparently in search of love. But among the women in the group (it is never explained why there are only women) there is at least one saboteur – a so-called “wolf” who is forbidden to fall in love and whose presence in the game only serves as a source. mischief and misdirection. To add to the underlying bizarre air, the series is shot and presented as a bright, action-packed drama. You never really know who is cheating on whom.
Netflix, starting Sunday, September 3

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Justified: City Primeval

A return for Timothy Olyphant’s frontier lawyer Raylan Givens, who is still poised and charismatic but a little older and grayer now – as well as the father of teenage daughter Willa (Vivian Olyphant). A chance encounter sends Givens to Detroit where he reunites with sociopath Clement Mansell (aka the Oklahoma Wildman). Imagine a three-way battle of wits between Givens, Mansell and the felon’s wily lawyer, Carolyn Wilder. Givens often seems lost in the harshness of Motor City, but this adds to the character’s melancholic and anachronistic charm.
Disney+, from Wednesday 6 September

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I am Groot

The youth branch of the Marvel Cinematic Universe returns, as the charming but slightly creepy, half-human, half-tree baby Groot embarks on more intergalactic adventures. Still voiced (somewhat surprisingly) by Vin Diesel, Groot manages to connect the short-term impulses of childhood to the vastness of space. What emerges is fun and slightly dizzying, in a way that will entertain children and adults alike. Expect a chase by gigantic animatronic snowmen and an encounter with the biggest ice cream truck in the universe.
Disney+, from Wednesday September 6

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The murderous kind

Based on the novel by Jane Casey, this dark thriller explores the toxic relationship between defense attorney Ingrid Lewis (Emma Appleton) and her stalking client John Webster (Colin Morgan). When Lewis wins a case involving Webster and his ex-girlfriend, she finds herself drawn into his life. And when her best friend Belinda is killed under mysterious circumstances, Webster persuades Lewis that she is in imminent danger and needs his protection. But who is threatening her? It’s not plausibility-conscious TV, but it’s mature, luscious melodrama nonetheless.
Paramount+, starting Thursday, September 7

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love death

This miniseries is another retelling of a true-crime story that was dramatized last year on Candy on Disney+, which starred Jessica Biel as Candy Montgomery, a Texan woman framed in the murder of a rival. lovers with an ax. This version stars Elizabeth Olsen as the same role and Jesse Plemons as her lover Allan Gore. Like Candy before it, Love & Death makes much of the fuzzy, idealized suburbia in which such a heinous crime seemed so aberrant. Olsen is a compelling lead – equal parts dreamy and deadly – ​​but the series still feels slightly redundant.
ITVX, starting Thursday, September 7