Keep yourself in the loop with Digital Spy’s guide to the biggest shows that everyone is watching right now, across all your favourite streaming platforms.
Glueing people to their screens is the Olivia Cooke-led psychological thriller The Girlfriend, which is the number one show on Prime Video right now, followed by a tense drama starring Eve Myles on ITVX.
Desperate to find out what the talk is around the water cooler? Here are the nine shows with the ultimate buzz.
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Netflix
Black Rabbit
Netflix’s miniseries starring Jude Law and Jason Bateman is already a hit with viewers, sitting at number three on the UK streaming site (as of the time of writing).
The drama stars Bateman and Law as brothers whose loyalty and love for one another brings about chaos of the most dangerous kind.
Restaurant owner Jake Friedkin (Law) is at the height of his success, with his establishment on the brink of becoming New York’s hottest spot. That is until Vince (Bateman) resurfaces in his life, lifting the lid on old traumas, whilst also bringing new dangers that threaten, not only what Jake has built, but both of their lives too.
Black Rabbit is available to stream now on Netflix.
FX
Alien: Earth
The year is 2120, two years before Ridley Scott’s original 1979 Alien movie, and a deep-space research vessel has crash landed on Earth, unleashing catastrophe on the planet.
There is plenty of creepy gruesomeness on its way, befitting of the franchise, but be prepared to fall in love with Sydney Chandler who stars as Wendy, the first of a group of terminally sick children who, under some serious coercion and deception (courtesy of Samuel Blenkin’s Boy Kavalier and his corporation Prodigy) are persuaded to have their consciousness transferred into an artificial adult body.
The children’s journey, and that of those aboard the research vessel, become quickly entangled, resulting in a compelling watch that has Alien: Earth currently trending number two on Disney+.
Alien: Earth is available to stream now on Disney +.
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High Potential
Alien: Earth is followed by High Potential, which is holding steady at number four on Disney+ in the UK, no doubt bolstered by the arrival of a brand new season.
The second instalment sees exceptionally intelligent single mum Morgan Gillory (Kaitlin Olson) continue to consult for the Los Angeles Police Department in criminal matters. The cleaning lady turned font of all knowledge will use her exceptional mind to help crack new and exciting cases in this whodunnit marvel.
High Potential is available to stream now on Disney +.
Amazon Prime
The Girlfriend
A dangerously manipulative girlfriend, or a paranoid mother? That is the question that Prime Video’s thriller The Girlfriend poses, when Daniel (Laurie Davidson) introduces his new partner Cherry (House of the Dragon’s Olivia Cooke) to his mother Laura (House of Cards’ Robin Wright).
Laura and Cherry go head-to-head when Laura begins to suspect Cherry’s motives for dating her son, but the more she digs the more her perfect life begins to unravel. It’s a tense thriller that has viewers locked in, keeping The Girlfriend in first place on Prime Videos top 10 list – but is Cherry a true threat? Watch and find out.
The Girlfriend is available to stream now on Prime Video.
Prime Video
Gen V
Returning superhero show Gen V is back with a bang, sitting pretty in second place on the Prime Video streaming site at the time of writing.
The Boys spin-off centres around a new generation of supes living and studying crime-fighting at Godolkin University, as they tussle it out for the opportunity to become one of The Seven.
Season two follows on from the explosive events that ended season four of The Boys, which saw Homelander in the thick of his nefarious reign. It seems the new sadistic Dean of Godolkin, Cipher (Hamish Linklater), is ripping a page out of the same play book as he vows to make the students more powerful than ever.
Meanwhile Marie (Jaz Sinclair), Jordan (London Thor/Derek Luh), and Emma (Lizzie Broadway) may be back in class after a tortuous few months, but their ordeal is far from over…
Gen V is available to stream now on Prime Video.
BBC
The Reunion
Despite being over five months old, BBC’s The Reunion continues to enthral viewers, keeping the drama in iPlayer’s chart.
An arresting watch, The Reunion stars Matthew Gurney as ex-prisoner Daniel Brennan who is on the path of absolution, but can’t shake the ghost of his past that led to him being imprisoned.
The recently-released Daniel treads a dangerous path that threatens everything, even his fragile relationship with his daughter Carly (Lara Peake).
The drama, which also stars Bad Sisters’ Anne-Marie Duff and Code of Silence’s Rose Ayling-Ellis, uses a mix of BSL (British Sign Language) and spoken English to help deliver an exquisite series that should not be ignored.
The Reunion is available to stream on BBC iPlayer.
ITV
The Hack
ITV promised The Hack would be an “explosive” watch, and it appears to be living up to its word.
The new drama, which is already trending at number two on ITVX, sees David Tennant lead an exciting cast in the seven-part series focusing on the phone-hacking scandal.
Tennant is joined by The Crow Girl’s Eve Myles and Katherine Kelly, as well as Robert Carlyle and Toby Jones.
The Hack is available to stream now on ITVX.
ITV
Coldwater
Haunted by his past mistake, a disgruntled stay-at-home father called John (played by The Walking Dead star Andrew Lincoln) uproots his family from London to the rural idyll of Coldwater, Scotland where they meet some very interesting neighbours.
John becomes enamoured by neighbour Tommy (Ewen Bremner) who, along with his wife vicar Rebecca (Eve Myles), is a beloved member of the community, but his wife Fiona (Indira Varma) senses something very unsettling about John’s new friend.
Despite “scathing reviews“, Coldwater is trending number three on ITV’s streaming site.
Coldwater is available to stream now on ITVX.
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The Rumour
Desperate for a fresh start with her young son Alfie (Eiden-River Coleman), Joanna (Rachel Shenton) moves to the quiet town of Flinstead. But as all idyllic places go in shows like these, Flinstead turns out to be much more sinister than it first seemed.
Disaster begins to unravel when Joanna learns of a daunting rumour involving a convicted child killer hiding in plain sight. However, she sets off a fever of panic and suspicion when she shares this information with the local mums.
As tensions thicken and trust frays, Joanna begins to doubt who she can count on. A gripping watch that’s currently trending at number one on Channel 5’s streaming site.
The Rumour is available to stream on the Channel 5 streaming site now.
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