Four to watch this week...
Space Force – Season 2 (10 episodes, streaming from February 18 exclusively on Netflix
In space, everyone can hear you scream with laughter at the second series of the sci-fi comedy created by Steve Carell and Greg Daniels, mastermind of the American version of The Office.
Space Force focuses on highly decorated pilot General Mark R Naird (Carell), who transplants his family from Washington DC to a remote base in Colorado to spearhead a team of misfit scientists dedicated to putting American troops on the moon by 2024.
In these 10 episodes, Narid and his team, comprising lead science adviser Dr Adrian Mallory (John Malkovich), righthand man Dr Chen Kaifang (Jimmy O Yang), media consultant Tony Scarapiducci (Ben Schwartz) and helicopter pilotturned astronaut Captain Angela Ali (Tawny Newsome), face an uphill battle to prove their worth to a new administration.
The underdogs encounter myriad interpersonal challenges including inevitable moments of tension between Mark, his wife Maggie (Lisa Kudrow) and their daughter Erin (Diana Silvers).
One Of Us Is Lying (8 episodes, streaming from February 18 exclusively on Netflix
There are faint echoes of John Hughes’ 1980s coming-of-age classic The Breakfast Club in this slick thriller based on Karen McManus’s best-selling novel.
Instead of five disparate high schoolers “finding themselves” during detention, the lead characters in One Of Us Is Lying are prime suspects for a classmate’s death in suspicious circumstances.
The crime scene is Bayview High School where gossip-mongering student Simon (Mark McKenna) has managed to accrue dirt on four of his peers – Addy (Annalisa Cochrane), Bronwyn (Marianly Tejada), Cooper (Chibuikem Uche) and Nate (Cooper van Grootel).
Simon is poised to expose their dirty secrets online but, before he can tell all, he suffers a fatal allergic reaction while serving detention with his four targets.
Detective Wheeler (Jacque Drew) investigates the tragedy and Addy, Bronwyn, Cooper and Nate turn on each other as the finger of suspicion points at each of them.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Cert 18, 81 mins, streaming from February 18 exclusively on Netfliix
Almost 50 years after director Tobe Hooper first unleashed Leatherface in the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the cannibalistic mass murderer with a penchant for power tools runs amok in a ninth instalment in the gruesome franchise.
Director David Blue Garcia terrorises a new generation of phone-obsessed friends in the Lone Star state.
Melody (Sarah Yarkin), her teenage sister Lila (Elsie Fisher) and friends Dante (Jacob Latimore) and Ruth (Nell Hudson) unwittingly stray into the lion’s den when they start a new business venture in the remote town of Harlow.
Leatherhead has been shielded from the outside world for years, safely at arm’s length from terrified residents, including Sally Hardesty (Olwen Fouere), sole survivor of the 1973 massacre.
When Melody and co unknowingly disrupt Leatherface’s home, they unleash a new tidal wave of carnage and dismemberment as well as Sally’s vengeance.
Lincoln’s Dilemma (4 episodes, streaming from February 18 exclusively on Apple TV+
Jeffrey Wright narrates a four-part examination of Abraham Lincoln’s life and the efforts made by the 16th American president to abolish slavery. Based on the award-winning book Abe: Abraham Lincoln In His Times by historian David S Reynolds, the series features the voices of Bill Camp as Lincoln and Leslie Odom Jr as Frederick Douglass to bring to life events that shaped the statesman’s evolving stance on slavery during the tumultuous final years of the American Civil War. Journalists, educators and scholars provide valuable insights to guide viewers through the political and social turmoil of the era.