Ok folks here’s my latest list of fabulous viewing choices – all available on catch up TV so with bingeable options!  Couch potato weather is coming up, so enjoy!

ABC & Iview

• National Treasure – a powerful series with the redoubtable Julie Walters: beautifully produced read more
• Kiri – a social worker, passionate about her job (the wonderful Sarah Lancashire from Last Tango in Halifax, and Happy Valley), comes under a cloud when a child in her care is abducted and murdered – you will never guess by whom!
• Seven Types of Ambiguity – another exquisite piece of writing, and TV production.  Quality, unfaultable cast – captivating screen time.
• Sando – an absolute hoot –  a gorgeous comedy with a larger than life matriarch!
• Gruen Season 10 – Gruen – addictive as usual – should be mandatory viewing in all secondary schools – how we are groomed and influenced by the media funded by mass corporate moneyboxes.

SBS On Demand

• Sunshine – the impressive Anthony LaPaglia (sans American accent thankfully) plays a washed-up basketball coach working with young Sudanese men.  A fantastic watch!
• Safe Harbour – an interesting ensemble tale concerning well off white aussies who try to help a boatload of Iraqi asylum seekers – repercussions are fascinating
• The Handmaid’s Tale – seasons 1 & 2 – Beautiful treatment and expansion of Attwood’s clever and searching storyline
• The Good Fight – seasons 1&2– a spin off that to my mind is  better than the original! (The Good Wife).  Christina Baranski is mesmerising, and I love the lead-in graphics!
• Harlots – welcome to the battle of the bawdy houses!  Two Madams battle for survival in 19th Century London.  Visually gorgeous, lavish with drama and comedy.
• The Bridge – final season – Nordic Noir at its best – what more is there to say?

Netflix

• The Alienist – a strange but enjoyable 19th Century crime drama, a forerunner of modern day forensic psychology.

Youtube

• Indian Summers  (BBC) – seasons 1 & 2 – Beautiful Brit drama set in the 1930’s in colonised India – Julie Walters – that’s enough for me.