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ACAPULCO RAGS-TORICHES CAPER

Apple’s warm show is set largely at a resort in Mexico in the 1980s. It’s told in flashbacks and partly in Spanish, from the perspective of the successful Maximo as he explains the way he rose from an idealistic resort employee (Enrique Arrizon, left) to master of all he surveys. It’s a sunny show on the surface and the

1980s outfits are fabulous, but there’s a sliver of darkness if you look for it. Second series weekly from Friday, Apple TV+

RAYMOND AND RAY BROTHERS’ AWKWARD REUNION

If you like movies that feel like plays in the best sense of that description, look no further than this wry, finely acted drama about the reunion of two troubled half-brothers — Ray and Raymond (Ethan Hawke and Ewan McGregor, above) — for the funeral of their father. Dad was a tricky figure to both sons, but everyone they meet seems to have loved him… From Friday, Apple TV+

WAR OF THE WORLDS INTELLIGENT SCI-FI SAGA

Taking the basic premise of HG Wells’s classic alien-invasion novel and twisting and expanding it in strange new ways for a modern audience, this British-French co-production is a smart, innovative and exciting chunk of science fiction. The first two series saw the survivors of the invasion — with Gabriel Byrne (above), Elizabeth McGovern and Daisy Edgar-Jones among the leads — battling first to survive the arrival

of the extraterrestrial forces and then to understand what lay in wait for them next. More mysteries are queuing up to be unleashed when series three begins and an odd partnership forms to investigate a strange new phenomenon threatening people around the globe. Impressive, intelligent sci-fi that isn’t afraid to take risks, it’s by writer Howard Overman, who also gave us edgy superpower show Misfits (All4) and the underrated comedy Vexed. Series three from Wednesday, Disney+