Five things for you to watch this week

GRISELDA — NETFLIX

Sofia Vergara sheds her cheery Modern Family skin and dons a prosthetic nose for this limited series about the rise and fall of Griselda Blanco, the ruthless Colombian woman who ran Miami’s cocaine-dealing streets with an iron fist and murderous determination in’the 1970s and 1980s. The show, created by writers of Netflix s popular Narcos franchise, takes more than a few liberties with the truth in its dramatisation and has been the target of a lawsuit from Blanco’s son. It offers a disco-thumping soundtrack and cocaine-madness-soaked tale of ambition and hubris that benefits from its focus on a strong, complicated and bloodyminded woman who struck the fear of God into a maledominated underworld.

THE LONG SHADOW — PRIME VIDEO

The terror that Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe inflicted on the north of England during his five years of murder has been the subject of many dramas and documentaries since his capture in 1981. This hardhitting series focuses on the stories of his victims and how the prejudices and misogyny of certain police detectives allowed his reign of terror to go on too long. More social realist drama than crime procedural, it gives space to the stories of the murdered women and their broken families and loved ones.

MASTERS OF THE AIR — APPLE TV +

Following on the success of their previous World War 2 drama series, Band of Brothers and The Pacific, executive producers Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks turn their attention to the US airmen of the 100th Bomb Group seconded to England to help in the fight against Germany. Epic in scale, fastidiously realised in period detail and valiantly acted, it’ sa fitting testament to the bravery of young men thrown into the madness of war and the sacrifices they made.

IRVINE WELSH’S CRIME SEASON 2 — BRITBOX

Dougray Scott returns as determined, messed-up but trying-hard-not-to-blow-it-all Edinburgh detective Ray Lennox in this second season of the series based on the novels by Irvine Welsh. As this series begins, Ray has finished a stint in rehab and is working with a therapist to try to tame his rage and deal with his traumatic past as a survivor of child abuse. When a series of murders seems to implicate untouchable figures in the city’s elite, the frustrations of trying to bring the killer to justice threaten to send Lennox back over the edge and into the darkness.

FROM FRANCE WITH LOVE — MUBI.COM

Mubi, in partnership with MyFrenchFilmFestival, presents a selection of films from France in the 14th edition of the world’s first online French film festival. Films include New Wave pioneer Agnes Varda’s 1988 portrait of actress and singer Jane Birkin, Alain Ughetto’s painstakingly stop-motion-created family memoir drama No Dogs or Italians Allowed and Patric Chiha’s time-travelling Henry James adaptation The Beast in the Jungle, set on a nightclub dance floor.