Also coming to streaming
Under the Banner of Heaven (Disney+, from July 27)
Dustin Lance Black is perhaps best known on this side of the Atlantic for his marriage to diver Tom Daley, but he’s also an Oscar-winning screenwriter. He’s the brains behind this seven-part psychological drama, which is based on a non-fiction book of the same name by Jon Krakauer. Andrew Garfield heads the cast as Detective Jeb Pyre, a devout Mormon. When he and his partner, Detective Bill Taba (Gil Birmingham) begin investigating the brutal murder of a mother and her baby daughter, they uncover links to the shocking crime within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, causing Pyre to begin questioning his faith. Daisy Edgar-Jones, Billy Howle, Sam Worthington and Denise Gough are among the supporting cast.
Keep Breathing (Netflix, from July 28)
If Bear Grylls made TV series involving fiction rather than facts, Keep
Breathing is the kind he’d certainly back. It’s described as a ‘survival thriller’ by Netflix, and stars Melissa Barrera – whose other credits include In the Heights and the updated version of Scream
– as Liv, a sharp-witted lawyer. When we first meet her, she’s travelling across Canada in a small plane – which then crashes into the wilderness. As the lone survivor, Liv faces an uphill struggle to stay alive while trying to find her way back to civilisation. Although hugely intelligent and good at her job, she’s a modern woman who is about to find out the hard way whether she has the wherewithal to fight her way out of a seemingly dire predicament.
Surface (Apple TV+, from July 29)
What if you woke up one day and didn’t know your own secrets? That’s the central question behind Apple TV+’s brand new psychological thriller. Set in the high-end of San Francisco, it stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Sophie, a woman who suffers a traumatic head injury that has left her with severe memory loss, believed to be a result of a suicide attempt. However, not all is as it seems as Sophie begins to put the pieces of her life back together, only to later doubt the truths she has been told by her husband and friends. Twists and turns are aplenty in this eight-episode series that explores self-discovery. MbathaRaw is joined on screen by Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Stephan James, Ari Graynor and Marianne JeanBaptiste.