ON DEMAND HIGHLIGHTS

AMAZON PRIME

NEW! The Underground Railroad (All ten parts) ★★★★ Barry Jenkins, the Oscar-winning writer-director of Moonlight, brings great skill to this portrait of escape from the brutality of American slavery. The sound of the lash is rarely far away in part one, but this is far from a one-note drama. Later episodes show us very different sides of life in the early 1800s US, and there is an element of fantasy as the railroad here is a real subterranean train system – in reality, it was a network of people. From Friday.

DRAMA The Slap (All eight parts) ★★★ Tense Australian suburban drama, starring Melissa George, about the fallout from a man slapping an unruly child. Each episode tells the story from a different perspective.

DRAMA Invincible (Season 1) ★★★★ It may be a cartoon, but Invincible handles the drama of its superhero family tensions with more skill than Netflix’s recently released Jupiter’s Legacy.

NETFLIX

NEW! Halston (All five parts) ★★★ Ewan McGregor stars as real-life US fashion designer Roy Halston Frowick in Netflix’s drama, which tracks his rise and decline in the 1970s and 1980s, and co-stars Krysta Rodriguez as Liza Minnelli. From Friday.

NEW! The Upshaws (Season 1) ★★★ Mainstream US sitcom with some punchy performances, in which a working-class African-American family struggle for success in middle America. From Wednesday.

MOVIE The Woman In The Window

(2021) 15 ◆ ★★★★

‘Don’t go looking into other people’s houses. You won’t like what you see.’ Amy Adams (above) stars as an agoraphobic psychologist who doesn’t follow that advice, and is pulled into a bewildering mystery after she thinks she sees something terrible. This tense film is based on the Dan Mallory’s bestselling 2018 book. From Friday.

MOVIE Oxygen (2021) 15 ◆ ★★★ Stylish French sci-fi in which a woman is trapped in a cryogenic chamber with her oxygen ticking away. From Wednesday.