More winners from HBO
BINGE-WORTHY: LOOK FOR ANOTHER THREE COMPLEX ORIGINAL SERIES
From winter to spring, Showmax is turning up the viewing heat.
Whatever your fix, when it comes to unforgettable original streaming content, one title always seems to come up tops. We’re talking Home Box Office, otherwise known as HBO.
From fiction and non-fiction to documentaries, dramas and science fiction, the creative team at HBO always seems to have a finger on the pulse (when they aren’t wrapped around awards) of what works and what doesn’t.
But that comes as no surprise, as the service has been churning out binge-worthy content for almost 50 years.
However, it was only in the mid-90s that HBO tried its hand at creating original and often highly addictive content. Although The Sopranos, Deadwood and The Wire helped it develop its repertoire of complex original series, it was the prison setting of Oz that cemented its fame.
Since then, HBO has produced half of IMdB’s 10 top-rated fiction TV series of all time – think Band of Brothers, Westworld, Chernobyl and Game of Thrones.
And now, thanks to Showmax, we get to indulge in another three new series from HBO.
PERRY MASON S1: Tuesday 11pm from 28 July
HBO’s biggest debut in nearly two years, Perry Mason (starring Emmy winner and Golden Globe nominee Matthew Rhys, and Oscar nominee John Lithgow) reboots the award-winning 1950s-60s series, based on Erle Stanley Gardner’s detective stories.
When a kidnapping case comes knocking on down-andout detective Mason’s door, his relentless pursuit of the truth reveals a fractured city and, maybe, a pathway to redemption.
I MAY DESTROY YOU S1: Wednesday 10.30pm from 26 August
Arabella (British Academy Film Award-winner Michaela Coel from Chewing Gum) is a carefree, self-assured Londoner with great friends, a boyfriend in Italy, and a burgeoning writing career.
But when her drink is spiked with a date-rape drug, she must question and rebuild her life.
LOVECRAFT COUNTRY S1: Tuesday 10.30pm from 8 September
Based on the cult novel by Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country was created by Misha Green (Underground) and executive produced by JJ Abrams (Star Wars, Super 8 and Westworld).
It’s about Atticus Black (Jonathan Majors), a young man who joins his friend and uncle on a road trip in the 1950s to find his missing father. This begins a struggle to survive as well as to overcome racist terrors and terrifying monsters.