The Handmaid's Tale S5 to Industry S2, stream the best international series this September

2nd Sep 2022 | Source: Showmax

<div><strong>THE HANDMAID'S TALE S5</strong><strong> </strong><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Thursdays from 15 September, first on Showmax</span></div>

<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Adapted from the classic novel by Margaret Atwood, </span><em>The Handmaid's Tale</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was formerly the United States, where the few fertile women, known as Handmaids, struggle to survive as reproductive surrogates.</span></div>

<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">In Season 5, June faces consequences for killing Commander Waterford, while struggling to redefine her identity and purpose. The widowed Serena attempts to raise her profile in Toronto as Gilead's influence creeps into Canada. Commander Lawrence works with Nick and Aunt Lydia as he tries to reform Gilead and rise in power. June, Luke and Moira fight Gilead from a distance as they continue their mission to save and reunite with Hannah.</span></div>

<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The show's 15 Emmy Awards include wins for Elisabeth Moss, Ann Dowd, Bradley Whitford, and Samira Wiley, with nominations for Yvonne Strahovski, Max Minghella, O-T Fagbenle, and Madeline Brewer, all of whom return for the new season.</span></div>

<div><em>The Handmaid's Tale</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> has an 83% critics' rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> and 8.4/10 score on </span><em>IMDb</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">. </span></div>

<div><strong>INDUSTRY S2</strong><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> | Binge from 23 September, first on Showmax</span></div>

<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Created by former bankers Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, </span><em>Industry </em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">follows new bankers Harper (Myha'la Herrold), Yasmin (Marisa Abela) and Robert (Harry Lawtey) as they forge their identities within the sex- and drug-fuelled pressure cooker environment of Pierpoint & Co's London office. </span></div>

<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">In Season 2, they can no longer hide behind their graduate status. The market is ripping and Pierpoint's back-to-work-or-else mandate has the post-COVID trading floor more charged up and paranoid than ever. New US management will be gasoline on the flames - an injection of cross-Atlantic energy that lights a fire under each and every employee. </span></div>

<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Rated 18LSDN, </span><em>Industry</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> S1 won Casting and Cinematography awards from The Royal Television Society Awards in 2021 and earned five-star reviews in places like </span><em>The Guardian</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> and </span><em>The Independent</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, who hailed it as, "A millennial </span><em>Mad Men </em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">with plenty of swagger... the kind of thrillingly fresh series that only comes along once every few years, a drama that makes its rivals look tired and uninspired...." As </span><em>Vanity Fair </em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">put it, it's like "the missing link between </span><em>Euphoria </em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">and </span><em>Succession</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">." </span></div>

<div><strong>PRETTY LITTLE LIARS: ORIGINAL SIN</strong><strong> </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Binge now, first on Showmax</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Twenty years ago, a series of tragic events almost ripped Millwood apart. Now, in the present day, a brand-new set of Little Liars finds themselves tormented by an unknown assailant, </span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">known only as "A"</span><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">.</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">HBO Max's </span><em>Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> revives the hit teen franchise with an eerie new setting, a sharp left into the horror that the original 2010s hit series took its time coming around to, and an all-new line-up of teens we can't wait to meet (with the bonus of a literal Karen we can't wait to hate).</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The ensemble cast includes a host of fresh faces, along with Critics Choice Award nominee Bailee Madison (</span><em>Good Witch</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Brothers</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) as Imogen, Chandler Kinney (</span><em>Lethal Weapon</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> the series) as Tabby, and </span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Mallory Bechtel (</span><em>Hereditary</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) as the Beasley twins, mean-girl Karen and her sister, Kelly.</span><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> Singer and YouTuber Alex Aiono (</span><em>Doogie Kamealoha, M.D.</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), and award winner Eric Johnson (</span><em>Smallville</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>The Knick</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) are among the support cast.</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Created by </span><em>Chilling Adventures of Sabrina</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">'s Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Lindsay Calhoun Bring, the slasher series has an 88% critics' rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, with </span><em>The Daily Beast</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> headlining, "Believe It or Not, </span><em>Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> Is the Next Great Teen Drama." </span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">As </span><em>Decider</em><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> says, "It's </span><em>The Breakfast Club</em><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> meets </span><em>Scream</em><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, and it's a breezy blast that's perfect for summer."</span></div>

<div><strong>THE OFFER</strong><strong> </strong><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Binge now</span></div>

<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The biographical drama series </span><em>The Offer</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> is inspired by Oscar-winning producer Albert S Ruddy's never-before-revealed experiences of making the 1972 smash-hit gangster classic </span><em>The Godfather</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">. </span></div>

<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">"</span><em>Godfather</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> cultists, and we are legion, will find the entire 10-part dramatic series – presented by the studio that almost didn't make the movie – not just impossible to refuse, but nerve-racking," says </span><em>Wall Street Journal</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">. </span></div>

<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">BAFTA nominee Miles Teller (</span><em>Top Gun: Maverick</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) stars as Ruddy, alongside Emmy nominees Matthew Goode (</span><em>A Discovery of Witches, Downton Abbey</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), Juno Temple (</span><em>Ted Lasso</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">'s Keeley Jones), Giovanni Ribisi (Parker Selfridge in the </span><em>Avatar</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> films), Tom Hanks's son, Colin Hanks (</span><em>Fargo), </em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">and Dan Fogler (</span><em>The Walking Dead</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">). Look out for People's Choice winner Justin Chambers (</span><em>Grey's Anatomy</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">'s Dr Alex Karev) as Marlon Brando, and Frank John Hughes (</span><em>The Sopranos</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">' Walden Belfiore) as Frank Sinatra. </span></div>

<div><strong>THE STAIRCASE</strong><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> | Binge from 15 September</span></div>

<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Oscar winner Colin Firth and Oscar nominee Toni Collette are nominated for Outstanding Actress and Actor in a Limited Series at this year's Emmys for the biographical drama series </span><em>The Staircase</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">.</span></div>

<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Inspired by a true story, the eight-part series explores the life of Michael Peterson, a crime novelist accused of killing his wife Kathleen after she is found dead at the bottom of the staircase in their home, and the 16-year judicial battle that followed. </span></div>

<div><em>The Staircase </em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">was one of the Most Anticipated Series of 2022 on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, where it has a 93% critics rating. </span><em>The Guardian</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> calls it "riveting... practically fizzing with tension... If you didn't know it was true, you wouldn't believe it."</span></div>

<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The star-studded cast includes Emmy nominees Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark in </span><em>Game of Thrones</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and Michael Stuhlbarg (</span><em>Boardwalk Empire</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), Oscar winner Juliette Binoche (</span><em>Chocolat</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), Teen Choice nominee Patrick Schwarzenegger (</span><em>Midnight Sun</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), MTV Movie & TV Award nominee Parker Posey (</span><em>Scream 3</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), and Olivia DeJonge (Priscilla in </span><em>Elvis</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">). </span></div>

<div><strong>WE OWN THIS CITY </strong><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Binge now</span></div>

<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Co-created by David Simon (</span><em>The Wire </em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">- still "the greatest TV series of the 21st Century", according to a 2021 BBC Culture Critics' poll</span><em>)</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> and George Pelecanos (Simon's co-creator on </span><em>The Deuce</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), </span><em>We Own This City </em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">chronicles the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force and the corruption and moral collapse that befell an American city in which the policies of drug prohibition and mass arrest were championed at the expense of actual police work. </span></div>

<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green (</span><em>King Richard), </em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">the six-part series stars BAFTA-nominated Nigerian actress Wunmi Mosaku (</span><em>Lovecraft Country</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Loki</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), Screen Actors Guild Award nominee Jon Bernthal (</span><em>The Walking Dead</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and Emmy nominee Josh Charles (</span><em>The Good Wife</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), alongside a number of alumni from </span><em>The Wire</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, including Jamie Hector, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Domenick Lombardozzi, Trey Chaney, Delaney Williams, Jermaine Crawford, Anwan Glover, Chris Clanton, Nathan Corbett, Maria Broom, Susan Rome and Michael Salconi.</span></div>

<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Adapted from Justin Fenton's non-fiction book of the same name, </span><em>We Own This City</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> has a 93% critics' rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, with the critics' consensus calling it "a spiritual successor to </span><em>The Wire</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">".</span></div>

<div><strong>GEORGE CARLIN'S AMERICAN DREAM</strong><strong> </strong><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Binge now</span></div>

<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Directed by Emmy winners Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio, the two-part HBO documentary </span><em>George Carlin's American Dream</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> was nominated for five Emmys this year, including Best Documentary Special and Directing. </span></div>

<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Described by Stephen Colbert as "the Beatles of comedy", Carlin's fearless countercultural comedy spanned five decades, including 14 HBO comedy specials and more than 130 appearances on </span><em>The Tonight Show</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, until his death in 2008. The documentary chronicles the life and work of the legendary comedian, a cultural chameleon who is remembered as one of the most influential stand-up comics of all time. </span></div>

<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The documentary opens an intimate window into Carlin's personal life, and includes both material from his stand-up specials and footage from his personal archive, as well as interviews with George Carlin's family, friends, and the people he inspired – legends like Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, Patton Oswalt, Bette Midler, W. Kamau Bell, and Jon Stewart.</span></div>

<div><em>George Carlin's American Dream</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> holds a 100% critics' rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, where the critics' consensus calls it, "an exhaustive and revealing retrospective on the beloved comedian's career that ought to be mandatory viewing for standup fans."</span></div>

<div><strong>BOSCH S7 </strong><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Binge now, first on Showmax</span></div>

<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Based on Michael Connelly's 2014 novel </span><em>The Burning Room</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, the seventh and final season of </span><em>Bosch</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> sees Harry Bosch (People's Choice Award winner Titus Welliver) investigating the death of a 10-year-old girl in a fire caused by arson. Risking everything to bring her killer to justice despite opposition from powerful forces, Bosch must make good on his credo: "Everybody counts or nobody counts". </span></div>

<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Meanwhile, Detective Jerry Edgar is falling apart as he grapples with the consequences of shooting Jacques Avril, while Maddie assists Honey Chandler on a high-profile case that draws Bosch in and puts them in the crosshairs of dangerous criminals.</span></div>

<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Season 7 has a 100% critics' rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, with Lance Reddick (</span><em>John Wick</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and Madison Lintz (</span><em>The Walking Dead</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) returning in their Saturn Award-nominated roles as Irvin Irving and Maddie Bosch respectively, along with Emmy nominee Mimi Rogers (</span><em>Captive</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) as Honey Chandler, and Black Reel nominee Jamie Hector (</span><em>We Own This City</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>The Wire</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) as Jerry Edgar.</span><br />
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