What to watch this week

The Long Song (February 21, TVNZ OnDemand)

Adapted from Andrea Levy’s award winning 2010 novel, this three-part BBC drama looks at the final days of slavery in Jamaica, seen through the eyes of a spirited survivor as she looks back over her life. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’s Tamara Lawrance stars alongside Lenny Henry, Hayley Atwell and Jack Lowden. ‘‘So finely-tuned and carefully-balanced that it’ll break your heart – and make you laugh at the same time,’’ wrote Radio Times’ Eleanor Bley Griffiths, while The Spool’s Oluwatayo Adewole thought that it ‘‘refuses to be a conventional period drama, pushing back against one-dimensional portrayals of the enslaved, whilst also never letting the masters of the system off the hook’’.

Vikings: Valhalla (February 24, Netflix)

This eight-part sequel to the hit series Vikings is set more than 100 years later and begins with their armies plotting to avenge a humiliating massacre in England. However, siblings Leif (Sam Corlett) and Freydis Eriksson (Frida Gustavsson) have a different kind of retribution on their minds. The cast also includes Johannes Haukur Johannesson, Leo Suter and Laura Berlin.

Sorry For Your Loss (February 26, TVNZ OnDemand)

WandaVision’s Elizabeth Olsen headlines this twoseason drama about a woman whose husband’s sudden death upends and transforms every relationship in her life. It also forces her to realise there was a lot about her partner that she didn’t know. ‘‘An intense, emotionally raw meditation on grief. And yet, it’s never overwhelming as much as engrossing,’’ wrote Collider’s Allison Keene.