WHAT TO WATCH

Platform: Showmax, Paramount+ original series.

Info: Currently on season one on Showmax, Paramount+ original series,

Halo, based on the iconic Xbox franchise and one of the highest-grossing game franchises, will be available to binge on Showmax from Friday.

With CBR hailing the series as “a compelling, gorgeous sci-fi adventure” and The Wrap proclaiming that the show “has the potential to be Paramount+’s flagship series”, Halo set a record as the mostwatched original series to premiere globally on Paramount+ in its first 24 hours of release.

Emmy nominee Pablo Schreiber brings humanity’s deadliest weapon – and our greatest hope – to life as the iconic Master Chief.

As The Guardian says, “Whoever decided to cast Schreiber – the character actor veteran of shows such as Orange is the New

Black [as dodgy prison guard Pornstache] and American Gods, as an action hero – deserves a medal.

“Standing 196cm tall and now built like a tank, he makes just the sort of imposing, statuesque figure required for a seemingly unstoppable human battle machine.”

The series is set in a separate timeline to the games, dramatising an epic 26th-century conflict between humanity and an alien threat, the Covenant.

If the Halo universe sounds worlds away, it’s closer to home than you think.

South African Jonathan Liebesman (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) directs four episodes, including this week’s finale.