Things to stream

By Tymon Smith

IF YOU HAVE 1 HOUR Roar Apple TV +

Based on the bestselling 2018 book of short stories by Cecilia Ahern, this new anthology series offers an intriguing premise and a power-house cast of female stars including Nicole Kidman, Cynthia Erivo, Issa Rae and Meera Syal. Eight episodes of stand-alone stories use offthe-wall scenarios to provide a wideranging portrait of the challenges and realities of what it means to be a woman today. New episodes weekly.

IF YOU HAVE 100 MINUTES All the Old Knives Amazon Prime Video

Chris Pine and Thandi Newton star in this old-fashioned cloak-and-dagger tale of former lovers and CIA operatives who meet up years later to discuss what went wrong during a fateful hostage drama and who might have been responsible.

IF YOU HAVE 2 HOURS Return to Space Netflix

Is this an uplifting ode to the restless spirit of the human imagination or is it dragging propaganda for Elon Musk and his Space X programme? You’ll have to watch the show and decide for yourself where this documentary about the tech billionaire’s Mars-travelling exploits lands. But, either way, there’s plenty of fascinating behindthe-scenes investigation of the interplanetary dream and the people behind it to keep you engaged.

IF YOU HAVE 2 HOURS Outer Range Amazon Prime Video

The watchable Josh Brolin stars in this intriguing mix of rural family drama and supernatural thriller in which he plays a rancher who, while trying to keep his land and family together, discovers something inexplicable on the edge of his Wyoming property. Two episodes added weekly.

IF YOU HAVE 2½ HOURS Phoenix Rising Showmax

This empathetic, compelling documentary charts actor Evan Rachel Woods’s journey from victim of terrible abuse at the hands of her anti-establishment rocker boyfriend, Marilyn Manson, to her co-authorship and championing of a law that saw the statute of limitations for domestic violence cases extended in California.