What to watch this week

The Chelsea Detective (February 7, Acorn)

Killing Eve’s Adrian Scarborough stars in this fourpart crime drama created by I’m Alan Partridge’s Peter Fincham. He plays Detective Inspector Max Arnold, who, alongside his colleague Detective Constable Priya Shamsie (Luther’s Sonita Henry), attempts to investigate the London borough’s dark underside of deprivation, violence, greed – and murder – from his houseboat.

Rules of the Game (February 8, TVNZ OnDemand)

In this four-part thriller, acclaimed British actor Maxine Peake plays Sam Thompson, the manager of a family run business who finds it and herself under investigation after the discovery of a body at reception. It also makes her reflect on attempts by her recently arrived HR officer Maya Benshaw (Rakhee Thakrar) to change the company’s seemingly toxic work culture – something Sam strongly resisted. ‘‘By exploring female complicity so intriguingly – and by wrapping the whole thing in a properly twisting thriller – this is a winningly tangled cut above television’s usual post-#MeToo fare,’’ wrote The Spectator’s James Walton.

Inventing Anna (February 11, Netflix)

Inspired by the New York Magazine article How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People by Jessica Pressler, this nine-part Shondaland (Bridgerton, Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder) drama tells the story of Anna Delvey (Ozark’s Julia Garner), the Instagram-legendary German heiress who stole the hearts – and wallets – of the Big Apple’s social scene. Veep’s Anna Chlumsky plays a journalist attempting to confirm if she is for real, or simply a con woman.

– James Croot