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ABSURD: CRINGEWORTHY REASONS WHY LIFE SHOULDN’T BE REHEARSED

Season 2 of P-Valley ‘funnier than the first, but also fully at ease with itself’. THE WHITE LOTUS S2 | Mondays | from 31 Oct | first on Showmax

The next chapter swaps Hawaii for Sicily, following a new group of vacationers jetting off to a different White Lotus resort. Season 1 was the most awarded show at the 2022 Emmys, winning 10 awards, including supporting actress for Jennifer Coolidge as Tanya – the only season 1 character confirmed to return for season 2.

The new cast includes award-winners Theo James (Divergent), F Murray Abraham (Amadeus, The Grand Budapest Hotel),

Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos),

Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation), Tom Hollander (The Night Manager) and Meghann Fahy (Sutton in the Bold Type).

THE REHEARSAL S1 | Binge from Monday | first on Showmax

Explores the lengths to which one man will go to reduce the uncertainties of everyday life. With a construction crew, a legion of actors and seemingly unlimited resources, Nathan Fielder allows ordinary people to prepare for life’s biggest moments by “rehearsing” them in carefully crafted simulations. When a single misstep could shatter your entire world, why leave life to chance?

has been a hit with fans and critics alike with the consensus on Rotten Tomatoes

being: “The Rehearsal gives Nathan Fielder carte blanche to take his absurdist comedy to the limit, which he pushes even further past with deadpan aplomb in what might be his most uncomfortably funny feat yet.”

Daily Beast hailed Fielder as “the undisputed king of cringe comedy”, calling The Rehearsal “a masterpiece of awkward chaos” and Vanity Fair called it “as enthralling and bizarre as life itself ”.

HBO recently renewed The Rehearsal for a second season.

MINX S1 | Binge now | first on Showmax

In 1970s Los Angeles, an earnest young feminist (Ophelia Lovibond from Feel Good and Elementary) joins forces with a low-rent publisher (Jake Johnson from New Girl) to create the first erotic magazine for women.

Minx topped Esquire’s list of the Best TV Shows of 2022 thus far and has a 97% critics’ rating on

Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus is: “The rapport between Lovibond and Johnson is the irresistible centerfold of Minx, a bawdy and sharp comedy that merits a full-page spread.”

HBO Max has renewed the series for a second season.

P-VALLEY S2 | Binge from Monday | on Showmax

The strip club dancers of the Dirty Delta are back in season 2 of the award-winning drama.

With Covid having shut down the Pynk, Uncle Clifford (award nominee Nico Annan) and Autumn Night (Elarica Johnson) come up with a pop-up alternative: a drive-through car wash, where masked women will give you a neon-lit show…

Created by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Katori Hall, season 2 has a 90% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with Salon calling it “incomparable to much else on TV” and The Guardian saying: “Season 2 is funnier than the first, going further into its campiness, but it also feels as if it is now fully at ease with itself. There is a glut of prestige television, but this is a standout that is well worth tracking down.”