SCREENING GUIDE

THE UNAUTHORISED BEVERLY HILLS 90210 STORY

Lifetime/TVNZ OnDemand

Yes, it’s a viewing pleasure so guilty it should be behind bars but nevertheless, how could we not recommend this. This Lifetime special re-enacts all the real-life drama behind the first four seasons of the immensely popular 90s teen drama. Most of that drama emanated from the show’s wild-child star, Shannen Doherty, whose notorious behaviour on and off set at the time almost single-handedly kept the tabloid industry ticking over. This is superficial and glossy and unashamedly focused on delivering the gossipy goods.

THE ONE Netflix

This new sci-fi drama imagines a world where candlelit dinners and romantic walks on the beach are out when it comes to finding your perfect love match and coldhearted DNA tests are in. Set “five minutes in the future”, it follows an ambitious and impulsive tech CEO whose company has created a DNA test that lets you find your perfect love match via the genetic hard coding embedded in your cells. It’s all very Love 2.0 until non-DNA-approved love begins to blossom in the office and everything is called into question. Based on the novel of the same name, The One is bound to leave you wondering if your soulmate is really your cellmate. From Friday.

ZEROZEROZERO Neon

This critically acclaimed crimethriller follows the grim and murderous transatlantic journey a shipment of cocaine takes, beginning with the initial bulk buy by an Italian cartel, through to packaging in Mexico, shipping across the Atlantic, before reaching its inglorious final destination of being snorted up the nostrils of wasted partygoers.