WORTH WATCHING
Landscapers SoHo and Sky Go
Until a couple of days ago Landscapers was just a name on several international best-TV-of-2021 lists, but good things come to those who wait. It has Olivia Colman, which almost immediately makes it a must-watch, alongside David Thewlis as Susan and Christopher Edwards, an unassuming real-life British couple who in 1998 killed Susan’s parents and buried them in the back garden before evading arrest for more than a decade. Directed by Will Sharpe, who worked with Colman on the Netflix hidden gem Flowers, the four-part miniseries operates at the darker end of the comedy-drama spectrum, delivered with reliably strong performances from the two leads.
The Hungry and the Hairy Netflix
As we stare down another year with probably not a lot of international travel prospects, it’s time once again to turn to TV for our vicarious holiday thrills. And not many shows do this better than The Hungry and the Hairy, in which we get to ride shotgun with South Korean celebrities Rain (a K-Pop icon) and Noh Hongchul (a maniacal entertainer whose main claim to fame seems to be appearing in the Gangnam Style music video) on a motorcycle tour of their country’s many culinary delights. It’s high energy, very funny and will both fuel and satisfy your food and travel cravings.
Peacemaker Sky Go and Neon
If there’s one thing we can be sure 2022 will bring, it’s about 10 more new Marvel shows. But for now, it’s the DC Comics cinematic universe’s time to shine with Peacemaker, a spin-off of 2021’s The Suicide Squad (not to be confused with 2016’s Suicide Squad). Written and directed by James Gunn, who also wrote and directed the film (and before that, Marvel’s extremely popular Guardians of the Galaxy movies), this series is all about John Cena’s character (Peacemaker, a merciless killer hell-bent on achieving peace) and his origin story. Very much at the comedy end of the
superhero spectrum.