PICK OF PAY TV AND MOVIES

NETFLIX

BEHIND HER EYES (All six parts) ★★★★ Tense British love triangle thriller that steadily reveals its full hand. Simona Brown is very likeable as Louise, who has an affair with her psychiatrist boss (an occasionally charming Tom Bateman), while Eve Hewson is mesmerising as his heavily medicated and doll-like wife, whom Louise accidentally befriends.

PACIFIC RIM: THE BLACK (Season 1) ★★★ Grandly animated spin-off series from the Hollywood blockbusters about duelling monsters and giant robots. The plot of the show follows two siblings in search of their parents across a war-ravaged

Australia. From Thursday.

MURDER AMONG THE MORMONS

(All three parts) ★★★

This Bbc-produced series explores a trio of bombings in Salt Lake City in 1985. From Wednesday.

MOXIE (2021) 15 ★★★ Amy Poehler directs a fiery and thoughtful highschool comedy about a Vivian, a retiring girl who makes a revolutionary feminist mark after taking inspiration from her once rebellious mum (Poehler). From Wednesday.

AMAZON PRIME

HUNTERS (Season 1) ★★★ Al Pacino makes his longest foray into TV yet for Amazon’s thriller. It’s a stylish, violent and heartfelt blend of fantasy and reality about a diverse group of Nazihunters in 1970s America, of which Meyer Offerman (Pacino) is the charismatic leader. There will be a second season.

LADIES OF LETTERS (All 20 episodes) ★★★ Originally made for ITV3, this is a comic and occasionally poignant exchange of letters between two ladies (Anne Reid and Maureen Lipman).

COMING 2 AMERICA (2021) 12 u ★★★ Thirty-three years after the original film, Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall and James Earl Jones all return for another instalment of Africa-to-america cultureclash comedy. Wesley Snipes, who auditioned for the first film back in the 1980s, joins the cast as tough guy General Izzi as Akeem, the soon-to-be King of Zamunda (Murphy, left), heads over the Atlantic after learning he has a son. From Friday.

THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS (2006) 12 u ★★★ Will Smith is the single dad struggling to provide for his son in this sweetly sentimental movle. From today.

SKY / NOW TV

SEX AND THE CITY (All six seasons) ★★★★ The frothy TV adaptation of Candace Bushnell’s darker original book, a sequel series to which is due later this year.

FRAYED (All six parts) ★★★★ Sarah

Kendall’s comedy is set in the

1980s, and follows a suddenly broke, posh London housewife to a new start in her native

Australia, along with her two shell-shocked children. Kendall wrote the whole show, and a second series recently started filming in Sydney.

DISNEY+

BIG SKY (Episode 4) ★★★

Men with dark secrets are a running theme in David E. Kelley’s splashy Montana-set drama. This week, the Psycho-like family relationship between Ronald and his mother takes a nasty turn at breakfast, and has you wondering if she’s actually real. Meanwhile, state trooper Rick is getting twitchy.

SOLAR OPPOSITES (Episode 4) ★★★ Fans of The Simpsons or Family Guy should enjoy this witty, animated sitcom about aliens in the suburban US. A new episode of both shows arrives every Friday.

BEST OF THE REST

PENNYWORTH (Starzplay via Amazon & Virgin) ★★★★ This drama is an origin story for Batman’s butler, but it’s also a whole world all on its own. In this new, second season, Alfred is looking for a way out of civil war-torn Britain, while sociopath Sykes (a fantastic Paloma Faith, left) tires of her new job. A new episode arrives every Sunday.

CANDY LAND

(discovery+) ★★★ Kristin Chenoweth goes inside a bewildering reallife re-creation of a sweet-based board game in this new show. From Thursday.

PAY MOVIES

THE LAST VERMEER (2019) 12 u (BT TV Store, Sky Store, Virgin) ★★★ Guy Pearce plays the Dutch artist Han van Meegeren in this tale of post-war justice, with Dracula’s Claes Bang as the army officer on the trail of a Vermeer sold to Goering. The resulting film is charismatically acted, full of questions, and based on a real-life story.

PIXIE (2020) 15 u (BT TV Store, Sky Store, Virgin) ★★★ Lively Irish heist comedy with a touch of Quentin Tarantino, starring Olivia Cooke (Vanity Fair), with Alec Baldwin as a gun-toting priest. Both from Monday.