The Boroughs

A retirement community in the New Mexico desert. A supernatural threat stealing the one thing its residents have the least of - 'time'. Alfred Molina, Geena Davis, and Alfre Woodard are not going quietly

Where to watch: Netflix

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Elle Fanning is a 20-year-old college dropout, a new mother and completely out of options. Her solution involves OnlyFans and her estranged father, a retired pro wrestler. Michelle Pfeiffer and Nicole Kidman are also somehow in this and it all works

Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video

Spider-Noir

Nicolas Cage plays a retired superhero turned 1930s private detective who gets dragged back into action by mobsters, monsters, and a femme fatale. Eight episodes, available in black and white or colour. Cage is gloriously unhinged

Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video

Star City

The Soviet space race, seen from behind the Iron Curtain. A cold, slow-burning spy thriller about the cosmonauts and intelligence officers who kept the programme alive at enormous personal cost. More dangerous on the ground than in space

Where to watch: Apple Tv

Black Doves

Keira Knightley is a government minister's wife who is secretly a spy. When her lover is murdered over Christmas, she teams up with her old handler, played by Ben Whishaw, to find out why. Already renewed for season 2

Where to watch: Netflix

Jo Nesbo's Detective Hole

Jo Nesbo adapted his own Harry Hole novels for this nine-part Netflix series, and the results are everything the 2017 film was not. A brilliant, self-destructive detective hunts a serial killer while quietly at war with his corrupt colleague. Twisty, stylish, and gloriously grim

Where to watch: Netflix

Say Nothing

Based on Patrick Radden Keefe's acclaimed book, this FX limited series traces four decades of The Troubles in Northern Ireland through the lives of two young IRA members. It begins with the 1972 murder of a mother of ten and does not let go. Won a Peabody Award

Where to watch: Jio Hotstar

Bait

Riz Ahmed created and stars in this six-episode Prime Video comedy about a struggling British-Pakistani actor who lands an audition to play James Bond and promptly watches his entire life unravel over four chaotic days. Funny, honest, and unlike anything else on television right now

Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video

Sweetpea

Ella Purnell plays Rhiannon, an unremarkable office worker in a small English town who has spent her whole life being invisible. After her father dies and her world starts collapsing, she quietly starts killing the people who made it that way. Already renewed for season 2

Where to watch: Jio Hotstar

Rooster

A mystery-thriller with an unusually sharp sense of humour and the kind of small-town secrets that keep you second-guessing every episode. Critics praised its left-field character work and a slow burn that absolutely earns it. One of 2026's most pleasantly odd watches

Where to watch: Jio Hotstar

Deadloch S2

Detectives Dulcie Collins and Eddie Redcliffe are back in the Tasmanian town of Deadloch for another murder investigation that is stranger, funnier, and sharper than the first. If you have not started this show yet, that is your problem to fix

Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video

Nemesis

An LAPD detective's obsession with bringing down career criminal Coltrane Wilder is costing him his marriage, his sanity, and possibly his badge. Created by the showrunner behind Power, directed by Mario Van Peebles. Eight episodes and neither man blinks first

Where to watch: Netflix

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder S2

Emma Myers returns as amateur sleuth Pip Fitz-Amobi, this time investigating the disappearance of a fellow student in a case that is darker and more personal than anything she tackled before. Myers carries the whole thing and then some

Where to watch: Netflix