Pick of the week
Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat<\/p>\n
The first run<\/a> of this series in which an unsuspecting (though carefully selected) member of the public is dropped into an entirely orchestrated and deeply excruciating situation was a cringe masterpiece. This second story repeats the trick: Anthony Norman is the new stooge, recruited as a temporary PA for the annual retreat of a fictional hot sauce company. Once the crew arrive at their resort, poor Anthony is faced with fist-bitingly awkward moments as the enforced corporate jollity gets stranger and stranger. But, crucially, as funny as it is, Anthony is never the butt of the joke \u2013 he remains resourceful and good-natured as the business threatens to crumble around him. The MadisonIdyllic \u2026 Michelle Pfeiffer as Stacy Clyburn and Beau Garrett as Abigail Reese in The Madison. Photograph: Emerson Miller\/Paramount+<\/p>\n Taylor Sheridan\u2019s celebrated creation, Yellowstone<\/a>, shamelessly romanticises the wilderness of Montana. His love affair with the state continues in a drama that stars Michelle Pfeiffer as Stacy, the matriarch of the Clyburn family. She\u2019s a New Yorker but her husband Preston (Kurt Russell) longs for a more rustic life. When tragedy forces members of the family to abandon Manhattan and decamp to a cabin in the mountains, many fish-out-of-water lessons are learned. The Madison idealises the rural urban life and could use a little nuance to undercut the wholesome, slightly simplistic messaging. PH Imperfect WomenGirl power \u2026 Elisabeth Moss, Kerry Washington and Kate Mara in Imperfect Women. Photograph: Nicole Weingart\/Apple TV<\/p>\n There are distinct undertones of Big Little Lies<\/a> in this glossy US drama (adapted from Araminta Hall\u2019s novel) about three close friends drifting through largely unexamined lives in suburbia. When tragedy strikes one of them, it triggers a chain of events that will undermine every assumption they\u2019ve made about each other and end in betrayal and violence. It\u2019s a fairly generic addition to the growing canon of serialised thrillers about unhappy rich people<\/a> but the fine trio of leads (Elisabeth Moss, Kerry Washington and Kate Mara) keep the pot boiling. Radioactive EmergencyAt risk \u2026 Radioactive Emergency. Photograph: Courtesy of Netflix\/2026<\/p>\n In 1987, Goi\u00e2nia in Brazil saw a nuclear incident that had long-term ramifications comparable (albeit on a smaller scale) to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster aftermath. An unsecured radiotherapy unit was stolen from an abandoned hospital, disassembled and sold off by the thieves. As a result, hundreds of people were exposed to the lethal waste, large areas of land were rendered unusable and there were several fatalities. This tense, ominous drama explores the incident and communicates the escalating sense of terror as radiation poisons a community. Last One Laughing UKNo laughing matter \u2026 Mel Giedroyc in Last One Laughing UK, season two. Photograph: Amazon<\/p>\n Observing the timeless pub pool table tradition of Winner Stays On, Bob Mortimer is back to defend<\/a> his crown in the second season of this comedy gameshow. Nothing much has changed in terms of format: the set is a comfortable open plan room and Jimmy Carr and Roisin Conaty look on as contenders \u2013 this time including Diane Morgan, Alan Carr, Mel Giedroyc and dangerous dark horse Sam Campbell \u2013 show us their occasionally disintegrating poker faces. It\u2019s great, impossibly bingeable fun. Plus, you get to see David Mitchell arm-wrestling. What\u2019s not to like? DeadlochGoofy fun \u2026 Madeleine Sami and Kate Box in Deadloch, season two. Photograph: Prime Video<\/p>\n
Prime Video, from Friday 20 March<\/p>\n
Paramount+, from Saturday 14 March<\/p>\n
Apple TV, from Wednesday 18 March<\/p>\n
Netflix, from Wednesday 18 March<\/p>\n
Prime Video, from Thursday 19 March<\/p>\n