Pick of the week
The Girlfriend<\/p>\n
Tense, jumpy music. An oddly intense mother-son relationship. Plenty of conversational cut and thrust. This melodramatic psychological thriller parades its genre signifiers like a badge of honour. It centres on the relationship between Cherry (Olivia Cooke<\/a>) and Danny (Laurie Davidson). She\u2019s an ambitious, cunning, thwarted estate agent who is looking for a shortcut up London\u2019s social ladder; he\u2019s a slightly gormless, grinning rich boy. When Danny brings Cherry home to meet his parents, his uptight, manipulative mother Laura (Robin Wright<\/a>) smells a rat. Thus begins a battle of wills between two women whose mutual suspicion quickly turns into deep antipathy. AKA Charlie SheenConfessional \u2026 AKA Charlie Sheen. Photograph: PA<\/p>\n To say that Charlie Sheen<\/a> has had a tumultuous life is an understatement. He has experienced the most dizzying highs and the deepest lows \u2013 and he promises that none of these extremes are out of bounds in this two-part confessional. Sheen is now seven years sober and able to look back with clarity (and some wry humour) on his lively personal life and galloping substance abuse problems. And should we be in any doubt, even his erstwhile crack dealer is interviewed. Other witnesses to the chaos of this charismatic loose cannon include Sean Penn, Heidi Fleiss, Ramon Estevez and his ex-wife Denise Richards. Dr Seuss\u2019s Red Fish Blue FishGentle fun for all the family \u2026 Dr Seuss\u2019s Red Fish, Blue Fish. Photograph: Netflix<\/p>\n Look out for a welcome flurry of preschool-friendly Dr Seuss<\/a> adaptations on Netflix this autumn, with Dr Seuss\u2019s Horton! and Dr Seuss\u2019s The Sneetches following hot on the heels of this bite-size series of cute underwater odysseys. The cartoon follows a pair of fishy friends, one red and one blue, as they explore their colourful, watery world and deal with crabs, ice and, unexpectedly, a very heavy piano. The animation doesn\u2019t quite have the inventive angularity of the originals but it still offers gentle, immersive fun for all the family. Only Murders in the BuildingOn the beat \u2026 Selena Gomez, Steve Martin and Martin Short in Only Murders in the Building. Photograph: Patrick Harbron\/Disney<\/p>\n Poor Lester. As the fifth season of this crime comedy<\/a> starring Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez begins, the gang are reckoning with his death \u2013 which, they are startled to learn, has been recorded as accidental. Clearly they\u2019re going to have to investigate \u2026 and before long, they\u2019re bumping heads with one of New York\u2019s mafia families. As ever, it\u2019s densely written, overflowing with celebrity cameos (this time Ren\u00e9e Zellweger, T\u00e9a Leoni and Christoph Waltz appear) and slightly too pleased with its own cleverness to quite hit its emotional or thriller beats. skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n Get the best TV reviews, news and features in your inbox every Monday<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain information about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com<\/a> to send you this newsletter. You can complete full registration at any time. For more information about how we use your data see our Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy<\/a> and Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n Tyler Perry\u2019s Beauty in BlackAll the gloss \u2026 Taylor Polidore Williams as Kimmie in Beauty in Black. Photograph: Quantrell Colber\/Netflix<\/p>\n
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