Netflix’s best original movie yet – the tale of a giant pig, big business and animal rights – is a constant delight, benefitting from a fine cast, brisk narrative pace and the fantastic visual effects that bring Okja herself convincingly to life.Īziz Ansari writes and stars as jobbing actor Dev in this whimsical series about life, love and tacos, which works its way deftly and inventively through subjects like dating, religion, kids, work and racial stereotypes.Ī series of (mostly) short one-off cautionary tales about our problematic relationship with technology, social media and the internet, Black Mirror makes for ideal mobile viewing. The short and sweet episodes make for great mobile viewing. This raucous animated spy series delivers a winning mix of quickfire self-referential gags, brilliantly awful personalities and hilarious scrapes and japes. Netflix’s latest original series features some of the tensest scenes since Breaking Bad, as Jason Bateman and Laura Linney’s dysfunctional couple launder money for a ruthless drug cartel. Heavy stuff (it’s almost three hours long for one thing) but the music and editing are sublime.Įven if you’re not a particular fan of whatever celeb’s having their ancestors’ dirty laundry sifted through, the Beeb’s long-running genealogy show is always an entertaining, thought-provoking journey into the past. Phoebe Waller-Bridge both writes and stars in this riotous six-part sitcom about a single woman’s attempts to navigate the many pitfalls of modern London life.Ī powerful documentary on the state of the modern world – and why we seek solace in our media and politicians’ simplified explanations – from Adam Curtis.
A rare iPlayer entry with multiple episodes of an entire series available to stream (22 in all), this drama series about a ghost, a vampire and a werewolf sharing a modern-day Bristol flat brilliant juxtaposes the supernatural with the super normal.Īccidental Anarchist: Life Without GovernmentĪ compelling feature-length documentary about a career diplomat who, disillusioned by the Iraq war, renounced his views about the power of government and decided there must be a better way of doing things.