Drawing out the melancholic chaos of its cinematic counterpart, The Penguin’s premiere episode enables a seamless transition in format – offering a richly textured character study which hooks you from minute aught. 

After escaping prison, Lindsay (Charlie Hunnam) finds himself in the Bombay slums, in a Casablanca-Esque story of redemption, corruption, love, and friendship; surrounded by characters he comes to trust, some who use him for his skills, and others that want him dead.

After the rise of, among other things, the #MeToo movement, this event fits into another, darker timeline. It’s within this context that the Netflix Original documentary, Trainwreck: Woodstock ‘99 strives to situate itself.

The Kardashian family makes their triumphant TV return in The Kardashians, and they’re here to pull back the curtain that was behind the curtain they pulled back for Keeping Up with the Kardashians.

In Maid, we are enveloped in the protagonist’s scramble for all of the following: income, social security benefits, custody rights and a place to live. For the most part, the ticket to each of these is a low-paid, labour intensive house cleaning job with a lousy employer called Value Maids.

Rarely does the Australian Television industry produce something that feels so real. However, Fires is also a fascinating case study of how easy it is for good television to become bad.

Fans of Normal People, Fleabag and Marriage Story: rejoice. Your next fix of authentic romantic suffering has arrived.

It’s hard to justify watching The D’Amelio Show as mind-numbing reality television in the same way that Keeping up the Kardashians could be at its finest.

 …as is usually the case with Gervais’ work, it’s far sweeter, and also much cruder, than anticipated.