Listener’s November viewing guide: Ayrton Senna drama and new Beatles doco with NZ connection
Gabriel Leone as Ayrton Senna in the six-part drama series about the Brazilian Formula One champion. (Photo / Supplied)
The Diplomat
The dance continues
Streaming: Netflix
US ambassador Kate Wyler (Keri Russell) finished the first season of The Diplomat with a big problem: the realisation that the deadly attack that destroyed a British ship was less likely to be the work of a rival foreign power than of the British prime minister. But how can she act on that knowledge when she’s in the UK and who – apart from her nearly ex-husband Hal (Rufus Sewell), who survived the explosion at the end of the first season – can she even trust? In the dance of diplomacy, the pace is picking up.
A Remarkable Place to Die
Resort to murder
Screening: TVNZ1, 8.30pm, Sundays
Streaming: TVNZ+
The chances of being murdered in the actual Queenstown are very slight when compared to the rest of the country but that hasn’t stopped crime dramas setting up shop there every few years. A Remarkable Place to Die follows Top of the Lake and One Lane Bridge as a story of a cop new to the Southern Lakes beat taking charge. Chelsie Preston Crayford plays Detective Inspector Anais Mallory in the series of 90-minute murder mystery episodes, which say its makers, isn’t as cosy crime as The Brokenwood Mysteries but isn’t as dark as its aforementioned Queenstown predecessors. No stranger to the district having starred in Under the Vines, Rebecca Gibney plays Crayford’s mother, and the cast also includes Matt Whelan, Alex Tarrant, and Roimata Fox.
Dead And Buried
Didn’t you kill my brother?
Streaming: ThreeNow
When young Derry mum Cathy McDaid (Annabel Scholey, The Split) bumps into Michael McAllister (Colin Morgan, Merlin), the man who killed her brother 20 years earlier, she is shocked. When she discovers that he has been a free man for years, she is enraged and embarks on a scheme to reel in the killer by adopting a fake online persona, stalking him and trying to ruin his comfortable new life. The Irish Times’ reviewer found the BBC Northern Ireland four-parter absurd (“none of the characters behaves rationally”) but entertaining.