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AMAZON PRIME

American Gods

NEW! (Season 3, Episode 3) HHHH Blythe Danner joins the cast this week as Demeter, the Greek goddess of the harvest. Wednesday is anxious for a reunion with her, and that storyline, along with a tenderly reflective scene for Laura, helps to make this one of the best episodes for a while. A new episode arrives every Monday.

MOVIE Tesla (2020) 12 u HHHH

Quietly unconventional biopic of an unconventional man, with Ethan Hawke as the prolific inventor Nikola Tesla, whose place in history is smaller than it should be. Recently added to Amazon.

MOVIE Blackbird (2020) 15 u HHH Like Tesla, this is a recent addition to Amazon. Roger Michell (My Cousin Rachel) directs, with Susan Sarandon as a dying matriarch who wants her family around her one last time. Kate Winslet and Sam Neill also feature in a well-weaved film that’s not nearly as depressing as it sounds.

NETFLIX

NEW! Snowpiercer (Season 2, Episode 1) HHHH Season two sets up a new dynamic with the arrival of a second train that brings both Sean Bean’s regal Mr Wilford and Melanie’s embittered offspring. A new struggle for power begins, but the future could well lay outside these trains. A new episode arrives every Tuesday.

NEW! We Are The Brooklyn Saints (All four parts) HHH The power of local sport is shown by this strong documentary about an American football youth league in New York City. From Friday.

MOVIE The Dig (2021) 12 u HHHH Netflix’s very English film is a romance played out against the Sutton Hoo excavation as war looms. Ralph Fiennes plays the laconic archaeologist unearthing treasure, Carey Mulligan the lonely landowner (above). From Friday.

Penguin Bloom

MOVIE (2020) PG ● HHH Naomi Watts and Andrew Lincoln star in a heart-warming family tale of a woman’s paralysis, and the healing effect of nursing a magpie. From Wednesday.