Three to watch this week...
Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight (11 episodes, streaming from July 14 exclusively on Netflix)
Jack Black reprises his role as radish-loving panda Po in an action-packed adventure from DreamWorks Animation Television that expands the character’s misadventur
A dastardly pair of weasels resolve to unite four powerful weapons with the potential to unleash total destruction on Earth. Po is on an eating tour of China when he is wrongfully accused of misusing one magical weapon.
The headstrong bear embarks on a globe-trotting quest to clear his name and crosses paths with a straight-talking and exceedingly impatient English knight named Wandering Blade (Rita Ora).
Despite their obvious differences, Po and Wandering Blade utilise each other’s strengths to locate the magical weapons before the weasels.
The Girl From Plainville (8 episodes, starts streaming from July 10 exclusively on Starzplay)
Based on an article in Esquire magazine written by Jesse Barron, The Girl From Plainville dramatises a disturbing true story of texting suicide, which shocked the people of Massachusetts. Following the death of troubled 18-year-old Conrad
Roy III (Colton Ryan), 17-yearold girlfriend Michelle Carter (Elle Fanning) elicits support and sympathy from across the community.
Events leading up to the carbon monoxide poisoning come sharply into focus and a series of incriminating texts between Conrad and Michelle indicate that the young man’s death may not have simply been a result of his depression. Conrad’s mother Lynn Roy (Chloe Sevigny) seeks answers as Michelle faces a possible charge of involuntary manslaughter. Lisa Cholodenko directs the first two episodes.
Solar Opposites – Season 3 (12 episodes, starts streaming from July 13 exclusively on Disney+)
Over the past couple of years, animated adult sci-fi comedy Solar Opposites, created by Justin Roiland and Mike McMahan, has generated more buzz that Captain Kirk’s phaser set to stun. The series centres on extra-terrestrials Korvo (voiced by Roiland) and Terry (Thomas Middleditch) from the planet Schlorp and their respective replicants Yumyulack (Sean Giambrone) and Jesse (Mary Mack), who crash-land on Earth and are evenly divided between wishing to annihilate humans and observing our primitive species. In the third series, Korvo and Terry are no longer fixated on their mission to protect a living super-computer called The Pupa (Sagan McMahan) that will evolve and terraform the third rock from the Sun into a new Shlorp.