Television

In HBO’s docuseries Ren Faire, the battle over who is going to succeed the geriatric ruler of the Texas Renaissance Festival throws a surreal light over contemporary politics.

Power, a new Netflix documentary on how the history of policing in America has preserved the dominance of ruling classes, has lessons for Australia.

Making new Australian television drama in an age of global competition is a continual challenge. How do we support it? And how do we determine its cultural value?

The 2015 docuseries The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst famously led to the real estate heir’s conviction for murder. Now season two documents the aftermath.

Comedian Richard Gadd’s whip-smart Netflix hit, Baby Reindeer, is compelling because it refuses to simplify the realities of trauma.

The brutal vision of Patricia Highsmith’s prose is given expressive texture in Ripley, Steven Zaillian’s elegant black-and-white adaptation for Netflix.

Up-and-coming screenwriter and director Tig Terera, creator of the new SBS series Swift Street, redefines perceptions of Black masculinity through his intimate films.

Netflix’s lavish adaptation of Liu Cixin’s allegedly unfilmable 3 Body Problem is spectacular, if flawed, epic television.

Netflix’s unsettling psychological thriller Dear Child explores the archetypes of family to reach unerringly into the subconscious.

Night Country – the fourth season of the darkly philosophical police procedural True Detective – brilliantly reinvents the show.