Three to watch this week
Paper Girls (8 episodes, streaming from July 29 exclusively on Prime Video)
As the dust settles on the fourth and penultimate series of Netflix’s otherworldly horror Stranger Things, Prime Video steps back in time to the late 1980s for a high-stakes comingof-age story based on the bestselling graphic novels written by Brian K Vaughan and illustrated by Cliff Chiang.
On November 1 1988, 12-year-old papergirls Erin Tieng (Riley Lai Nelet), KJ Brandman (Fina Strazza), Mac Coyle (Sofia Rosinsky) and Tiffany Quilkin (Camryn Jones) are on their early morning rounds when they become collateral damage in the war between rival groups of time travellers.
Transported far into the future, the plucky quartet come face to face with grown-up versions of themselves and deduce that their childhood fantasies were never realised.
More pressing, they must contend with a militant faction of time-travellers known as the Old Watch as they seek a pathway back to 1988 and a gloriously fraught adolescence.
Uncoupled (8 episodes, streaming from July 29 exclusively on Netflix)
Darren Star, creator of Sex And
The City and Emily In Paris, contemplates the inner turmoil of a 40-something gay man at large in New York City in a comedy of modern errors co-conceived by Jeffrey Richman.
Successful real estate agent Michael Lawson (Neil Patrick Harris) is poised to celebrate the 50th birthday of his longterm partner Colin (Tuc Watkins), who has shared his life for the past 17 years.
Out of the blue, Colin announces he is moving out.
A shell-shocked Michael faces the loss of his soulmate and the sobering reality that he is now single in an age when dating has moved online and sometimes requires naked snapshots.
Good friends rally around Michael in his hour of need as he ploughs his energy into selling the lavish apartment of socialite Claire Lewis (Marcia Gay Harden), who is divorcing her husband and dividing their assets including a coveted highrise residence.
Amber Brown (10 episodes, starts streaming from July 29 exclusively on Apple TV+)
Emmy Award-nominated writer and director Bonnie Hunt is the creative driving force behind this family-oriented 10-part adaptation of the bestselling series of books by Paula Danziger.
Eleven-year-old Amber Brown (Carsyn Rose) has struggled to accept the separation of her parents Sarah (Sarah Drew) and Philip (Michael Yo).
She lives with her mother, who has a new boyfriend called Max (Darin Brooks), while her father has moved abroad for work and her lifelong best friend Justin (Joshua Gallup) has announced that his family is moving to Alabama.
Geographical divides exacerbate a sense of abandonment as Amber prepares to start middle school with next-door neighbour Brandi Colwin (Liliana Inouye).
When Philip announces he is returning home, Amber excitedly believes her parents can learn from past mistakes.
However, there are no guaranteed happy-ever-afters in real life and Amber faces a few obstacles to impress her achingly cool crush Stanley (Beau Hart).