Four to watch this week...
Dollface – Season 2 (10 episodes, starts streaming from April 27)
Kat Dennings reprises her role as web designer Jules Wiley in the female empowerment comedy created by Jordan Weiss, which boasts Margot Robbie as an executive producer.
In the second series, Jules returns to work at wellness company Woom run by fiery CEO (Malin Akerman) after the isolation of the Covid lockdown.
She earns a promotion and continues to nurture romantic feelings for veterinarian Wes (Matthew Gray Gubler), who has recently broken up with his girlfriend Lucy (Shelby Rabara).
Meanwhile, Jules’s best friends, publicist Madison (Brenda Song) and free spirit Stella (Shay Mitchell), experience professional and romantic woes.
Bang Bang Baby (10 episodes, streaming from April 22 exclusively on Prime Video)
Ariana Becheroni plays a resourceful teenager, who follows her father into the world of organised crime, in a glossy 10-part Italian drama for Prime Video.
In 1986 northern Italy, 16-year-old Alice Giammatteo (Becheroni) sleepwalks through a humdrum existence with her mother Gabriella (Lucia Mascino).
The adolescent has always been told that her father Santo (Adriano Giannini) was murdered so when that grim history is exposed as a lie, Alice sets out to meet her old man.
She travels to Milan and is
welcomed into the arms of the Barones, one branch of a sprawling criminal empire controlled by her ruthless grandmother Nonna Lina (Dora Romano).
The 7 Lives Of Lea (7 episodes, streaming from April 28 exclusively on Netflix)
A 21st-century heroine learns how it feels to walk in other people’s shoes in a time-travelling French murder mystery created by Charlotte Sanson.
When the remains of teenage Ismael (Khalil Ben Gharbia) are discovered in a gorge close to her home, 30 years after he vanished without trace, Lea (Raika Hazanavicius) magically wakes up in the body of the deceased
back in 1991. She discovers that Ismael was friends with her own mother (Melanie Doutey) and father (Samuel Benchetrit), and they could be connected to his demise.
Each time she travels back three decades, Lea inhabits the body of a different potential suspect and unearths more clues to solving the mystery of Ismael’s death.
Ozark (Streaming from April 29 exclusively on Netflix)
In January, we were treated to the first seven episodes of the crime drama’s final season. Thankfully we haven’t had long to wait for the rest. The show made its debut back in 2017, with viewers instantly hooked on the misadventures of Marty and Wendy Byrde (played, in career-best performances, by Jason Bateman and Laura Linney), a couple who begin a money-laundering enterprise after relocating to a home close to the Lake of the Ozarks reservoir in Missouri. Now the couple are returning for the remaining episodes; whether the story will be brought to a satisfying conclusion with all loose ends tied up remains to be seen, but what we do know is that Netflix is also making a 30-minute tribute to the show available called A Farewell to Ozark.
Selling Sunset – Season 5 (10 episodes, streaming from April 22 exclusively on Netflix)
The Emmy Award-nominated reality TV series created by Adam DiVello turns up the heat on female real estate agents at The Oppenheim Group in West Hollywood, co-founded by twin brothers Brett and Jason Oppenheim, when Selling Sunset returns to Netflix this week.
Familiar faces including Mary Fitzgerald, Christine Quinn, Heather Rae Young, Chrishell Stause, Maya Vander, Amanza Smith, Emma Hernan and Vanessa Villela work hard but play harder as they plant their heels firmly into the cut-throat Los Angeles property market.
They do whatever it takes to secure sales of some of the most luxurious mansions in the city.