Five things to watch this week

JERROD CARMICHAEL: REALITY SHOW — SHOWMAX

Comedian Jerrod Carmichael follows up his groundbreaking 2022 stand-up special Rothaniel with this vulnerable and quietly funny take on the reality TV format. Over eight episodes, Carmichael attempts to figure out why he’s like he is and fix the problems that often lead to unfathomable behaviour in public situations. The show uses its navel-gazing for the bigger purpose of trying to help us all be slightly better people.

TRUE DETECTIVE NIGHT COUNTRY — SHOWMAX

The fourth season of the neonoir detective series goes to weird and dark new places. Far more feminist than its predecessors, this season stars Jodie Foster and Kali Reis as a pair of Alaskan detectives with a history who are forced to work together to solve the strange murder of a group of Arctic scientists. It’s a brave rebooting of the original concept that manages to deliver what fans have always loved about the show while adding new layers to its mystery.

HIGH & LOW: JOHN GALLIANO — MUBI.COM

The rise, spectacular fall and reemergence of high fashion’s golden boy, John Galliano, are examined in this documentary from Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald. The film attempts to paint a portrait of a man who struggles with the world he once ruled over: art and the high-stakes pressure of commerce.

EIGHT DEADLY SHOTS — MUBI.COM

Finnish director Mikko Niskanen’s much admired 1972 social drama finally gets the airtime it deserves in Mubi’s presentation of the work in its original four-episode TV release format. Niskanen, who died in 1990, takes the lead role as a poor rural tenant farmer. His involvement in a grisly crime leads him down a depressing road of alcoholism and nihilism. A “powerful howl against the indifference of a community and a nation at large”, it remains as searingly provocative as it ever was.

FERRARI — PRIME VIDEO

Adam Driver stars as car manufacturer Enzo Ferrari in a welcome return to form for director Michael Mann. In the late 1950s, with his company on the brink of bankruptcy and his marriage on rocks, Ferrari bets everything he has on a new car and its participation in the legendary Mille Miglia, a 1,000mile open-road endurance race. It’s a complicated but satisfying sports biopic full of grit, tragedy and triumph at great personal cost.