Sunday Times

Things to stream

- By Tymon Smith

IF YOU HAVE 1+ HOURS Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind Showmax

When she died in 1981, aged 43, actress Natalie Wood’s life and career were overshadow­ed by the circumstan­ces of her death — she drowned off the California coast. Thirty-nine years later, her daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner attempts to refocus the story on her mother as person, gifted actress and legend who left us with some of the most memorable performanc­es of an era, in this deeply personal and fascinatin­g documentar­y.

IF YOU HAVE 3 HOURS Norsemen Season 3 Netflix

The sometimes silly but satisfying­ly dry-humoured reimaginin­g of the oh-so-serious, macho, gory world of the Vikings continues. It’s funny, selfdeprec­ating and shows that even the Scandinavi­ans have a refreshing ability to sometimes laugh at themselves.

IF YOU HAVE 4 HOURS More and The Valley (Obscured by Clouds) Mubi.com

Two visually breathtaki­ng classics showing the clash between hippie idealism and the doomed realities of the search for psychic expansion by cult director Barbet Schroeder, and featuring a pair of expansive, experiment­ally hazy soundtrack­s by earlyera Pink Floyd. More, set on the Balearic island of Ibiza in its pre-house-music mecca days, follows the adventures of a freewheeli­ng pair of lovers whose hedonistic search for Eden is tinged by drug addiction and self-destructio­n. The Valley is a cult classic docudrama that examines the fraught interactio­n between western transcende­ntalists and an ancient Amazonian tribe.

IF YOU HAVE 10 HOURS El Candidato Amazon Prime Video

Creator Peter Blake takes us on an actionpack­ed, cloak-and-dagger journey into modern-day Mexico City for this thriller series. It follows the rollercoas­ter ride of CIA rookie Isabel Alfaro, who arrives in the capital only to be recruited into the personal revenge campaign of off-the-reservatio­n spook Wayne Addison in his battle against the city’s most ruthless drug kingpin. Just for good measure there’s also the problem of her ex-boyfriend, who since she’s been away in the US, happens to have landed the job of mayor of Mexico City.

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