We round up everything coming to streaming services this week, including Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+, ThreeNow, Neon and TVNZ+.
North of North (Netflix, April 10)
Indigenous-led Canadian comedy North of North follows Anna Lambe as Siaja, a young Inuk mother trying to rebuild her life after a messy breakup in the fictional small town of Ice Cove, Nunavut. Reinvention is tricky in a tight-knit community and as a chronic people-pleaser, Siaja must navigate the hilarious highs and lows of complicated relationships, solo parenting and new employment. Also joining Lambe are familiar New Zealand faces Jay Ryan and Bailey Poching, continuing our proud tradition of infiltrating big buzzy international shows.
Down For Love (TVNZ+, April 10)
The groundbreaking factual series Down For Love is back for a heartwarming third season, offering refreshing and respectful insights into dating and relationships within the Down Syndrome. Introducing a new cast of singles who are ready to mingle, while also checking back in with smitten twin flames from previous seasons, this smash-hit series will once again spotlight the shared human experience of love, friendship, and heartbreak. As Sam Brooks wrote for The Spinoff, Down For Love “shows every other reality dating franchise how it’s done.”
Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing (Netflix, April 9)
Going all the way back to Jackie Coogan and the silent film era, there have always been horror stories about child performers in the entertainment industry. Now, Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing exposes those same patterns in the world of online influencers. Behind the scenes of innocent-looking pranks, dances and challenges that raked in six-figures a month for internet superstar Piper Rockelle and her momager Tiffany Smith, the series reveals a dark underbelly of forced labour, bullying and paedophilia. Sure to provide terrifying insights into how social media is continuing to reshape our lives.
Black Mirror (Netflix, April 10)
Since moving to Netflix for its third season, Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror has varied widely in quality and tone. The anthology’s first outing, the one with the pig, now stands sardonically in opposition to its American sanitisation. But based on the trailer for Black Mirror season seven, it looks as if Brooker has gone back to basics with six horrifying and thrilling stories about tech gone awry. With a sequel to the now-classic USS Callister, and a star-studded cast that includes Awkwafina, Peter Capaldi, Emma Corrin, and Paul Giamatti, get ready to lose your mind – and your sense of reality.
The Handmaid’s Tale (Neon, April 8)
All great things must come to an end, so it’s time to finally say goodbye to the Golden Globe-winning The Handmaid’s Tale. The adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novel of the same name is entering its sixth and final season, with the world of Gilead teetering on the edge of destruction. The long-awaited revolution is now a reality with June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) and her growing band of freedom fighters hell-bent on bringing the totalitarian and theocratic regime to its knees. Stepped in sacrifice, pain, and the flicker of hope, the final outing of this not-so dystopian drama is sure to hit home.
Pick of the Flicks: Ernest Cole: Lost and Found (DocPlay, April 7)
From Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck, the Oscar-nominated director of I Am Not Your Negro, comes the Cannes award-winning documentary Ernest Cole: Lost and Found. Described as a “vital piece of cine-portraiture,” the film chronicles the life of Cole, a black South African photographer who exposed the brutality and injustice of apartheid to the world with his photobook the House of Bondage. Upon its publication, the photobook was banned in South Africa, and Cole would spend the rest of his life in exile, dying just eight days after Nelson Mandela was released from prison. Narrated by LaKeith Stanfield, Ernest Cole: Lost and Found “amazes and appalls but, above all, inspires.”
The rest
Netflix
Blippi’s Job Show (April 7)
Kill Tony: Kill or Be Killed (April 7)
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman: S5 P2 (April 8)
How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast): Season 4 (April 8)
The Clubhouse: A Year with the Red Sox (April 8)
Kian’s Bizarre B&B (April 8)
Joy Ride (April 9)
Unicorn Academy: Chapter 3 (April 9)
Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing (April 9)
The Dad Quest (April 9)
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning (April 10)
Moonrise (April 10)
Frozen Hot Boys (April 10)
North of North (April 10)
Black Mirror: S7 (April 10)
Left Write Hook (April 11)
Meet the Khumalos (April 11)
The Gardener (April 11)
Resident Playbook (April 13)
TVNZ+
Accused: The Fake Grooming Scandal (April 7)
Suits LA (April 7)
Weekend at Bernie’s (April 7)
ASB Polyfest: Fight For Survival (April 7)
Ahi Wānanga (April 7)
Snow Patrol NZ (April 8)
Vantage Point (April 8)
Down For Love S3 (April 10)
Selling Houses Australia S3 (April 10)
Kung Fu Panda 3 (April 11)
The Whole Nine Yards (April 12)
Together Together (April 13)
The Secret Lives of Pets 2 (April 13)
San Andreas (April 13)
Neon
Vida the Vet (April 7)
The Handmaid’s Tale S6 (April 8)
An American In Paris (April 8)
Twisters (April 9)
The Red Stag Timber Hunters Club S10 (April 9)
Terrifier 3 (April 10)
Happy Valley S1-S3 (April 10)
Cricket & Antoinette (April 11)
Never Let Go (April 11)
Art of Eight Limbs (April 13)
13 Kung Fu Games (April 13)
Prime Video
Mobile Suit Gundam Gquuuuuux (April 9)
Pineapple Express (April 9)
G20 (April 10)
Terrifier 3 (April 10)
Never Let Go (April 11)
Disney+
The Amateur: Special Look (April 7)
FX’s American Horror Story: Delicate: Instalment 12 (Part 2) (April 9)
Chibi Tiny Tales (Shorts): S4 (April 9)
Miraculous World London: At the Edge of Time (April 9)
Got to Get Out (April 11)
The Abyss (Remastered Version) (April 11)
Pets (April 11)
Doctor Who S2 (April 12)
Apple TV+
Your Friends & Neighbours (April 11)
Hayu
The Real Housewives of Sydney S3 (April 11)
Acorn TV/AMC+/Shudder
Long Weekend (2013) (Shudder, April 7)
Road Games (Shudder, April 7)
The Chelsea Detective S2 (Acorn TV, AMC+, April 7)
Midsomer Murders S24 (Acorn TV, AMC+, April 7)
Love After Lockup S2D (AMC+, April 10)
Shadow of God (AMC+, Shudder, April 11)
DocPlay
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found (April 7)
I Am Here (April 7)
2073 (April 10)
