{"id":781974,"date":"2026-09-25T08:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T08:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/781974\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T08:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T08:20:11","slug":"east-of-eden-to-kill-jackie-the-seven-best-shows-to-stream-this-week-television-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/781974\/","title":{"rendered":"East of Eden to Kill Jackie: the seven best shows to stream this week | Television & radio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pick of the week
East of Eden<\/p>\n

\u201cA girl like that doesn\u2019t just fall out of the sky.\u201d Charles Trask has a bad feeling about Cathy Ames, the woman who has arrived, beaten almost to death, on the doorstep of the farm he shares with his brother Adam. But it\u2019s too late \u2013 Adam is smitten and therefore doomed. Zoe Kazan is behind this adaptation of John Steinbeck\u2019s study of family, free will and arbitrary evil. Her new twist is a closer focus on Cathy (played with icy sweetness by Florence Pugh<\/a>). She\u2019s a more ambiguous figure here: not a purely sociopathic destroyer of lives but instead a ruthless survivor at all costs. The script doesn\u2019t always do the ideas justice but there\u2019s still plenty to like.
Netflix, from Thursday 1 October<\/p>\n

Kill JackieAll in \u2026 Catherine Zeta-Jones as Jackie Price in Kill Jackie. Photograph: Unai Mateo<\/p>\n

This thriller starring Catherine Zeta-Jones<\/a> ought to be the kind of cartoonish nonsense that, as long as you are willing to leave plausibility concerns at the door, is a source of endless fun. But the writing isn\u2019t quite funny or smart enough for it to attain the brutally hilarious Killing Eve vibe it is clearly aiming for. If you manage your expectations, though, there\u2019s still a good time to be had. Jackie is a dealer who has pivoted from cocaine into art. But assassins the Seven Demons didn\u2019t get the memo: cue an ultraviolent, international game of hide and seek with Jackie as both hunter and quarry.
Prime Video, from Friday 2 October<\/p>\n

Chilean Mine Rescue: Race Against TimeGripping \u2026 Chilean Mine Rescue: Race Against Time. Photograph: Miguel Soffia<\/p>\n

Sixteen years on, the rescue<\/a> of 33 miners after 69 days spent trapped at the bottom of the San Jose mine seems even more extraordinary than it did at the time. With testimony from rescuers, relatives who were waiting anxiously and the miners themselves, this three-part series offers what can only be described as a deep dive. The most gripping segments are those detailing the underground survival effort, from the careful rationing of food to the filtering of water through socks. \u201cI felt like I was in another dimension,\u201d recalls one miner.
Disney+, from Saturday 26 September<\/p>\n

OutsideLike I\u2019m a Celebrity \u2013 with mud \u2026 Outside. Photograph: Charlie Woodward\/Courtesy of Netflix<\/p>\n

A sequel of sorts to Netflix\u2019s challenge show Inside (see what they did there?) devised by YouTube wags Sidemen. This show plunges various shrieking, content creators (including the likes of Dani Babes, Chloe Veitch and Lacy) into a forest where they will be tested by a series of daft, gross, infuriating games. There\u2019s \u00a31m up for grabs but the prize fund drains away if contenders can\u2019t resist a few creature comforts. It aims for Squid Game: The Challenge with laughs and ends up more like I\u2019m a Celebrity \u2026 with mud.
Netflix, from Monday 28 September<\/p>\n

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The Widower: Til Death Do Us PartDisturbing\u00a0\u2026 Thomas Randolph in The Widower: \u2018Til Death Do Us Part. Photograph: Netflix<\/p>\n

The story of Thomas Randolph is as bizarre as it is disturbing. Over several decades, Randolph married six times. Four of his wives wound up dead. Was he cursed? Or was he a serial killer? This startling documentary tracks the police and press investigation into a man variously described here as \u201cjovial, smart and funny\u201d and \u201cvery charming and witty\u201d as he manipulates everyone around him, up to and including police officers. The storytelling is basic and unvarnished but the case itself is wild enough to make that essentially beside the point.
Netflix, from Wednesday 20 September<\/p>\n

Somebody Knows SomethingOn a mission \u2026 Kara Chamberlain in Somebody Knows Something. Photograph: Disney<\/p>\n

About 600,000 people are reported missing in the US every year. Many are found but thousands are not. This series follows law enforcement officer turned true-crime influencer Kara Chamberlain as she reopens some cold cases. They range from babies taken from cots to adults who went on holiday and never came back, but Chamberlain is an indefatigable sleuth \u2013 and if the mining of these stories for content feels a little queasy, it\u2019s salient to note that Chamberlain herself was kidnapped as a teenager so, for her, the missions feel personal.
Disney+, from Wednesday 20 September<\/p>\n

Schumacher 94Hair-raising \u2026 Michael Schumacher at the Australian GP in November 1994. Photograph: Ercole Colombo\/Studio Colombo\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

The 1994 Formula One season saw the first world title for a startlingly self-assured young German called Michael Schumacher<\/a>. His win in the first grand prix of the season in Brazil was the beginning of an era of domination. This documentary gets the inside track on his ascent and also examines the death of Ayrton Senna, the tragedy that clouded the season and which, as many contributors here suggest, transformed Formula One for ever. The race clips are hair-raising and confirm the suggestion that danger levels had peaked and something needed to change.
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