We round up everything coming to streaming services this week, including Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, Apple TV+, ThreeNow, Neon and TVNZ+.

If you love thought-provoking locally-made documentaries: M9 Season 2 (TVNZ+, January 20)

The second season of the groundbreaking M9 sets out to inspire, empower and entertain by asking one question: “what does it mean to be a Māori athlete?” Its nine kaikōrero, who have all represented Aotearoa on the biggest stages in world sport, include rugby league legend Tawera Nikau, Silver Fern turned TV host Jenny-May Clarkson and Paralympic bronze medalist Peter Cowan. A hybrid between a whaikōrero, a TED Talk, and a theatre show, M9 delves into the setbacks, the triumphs, and the values that have shaped these mighty Māori athletes. Be sure to check-out this illuminating kōrero.

If you like medical dramas: This Is Going To Hurt (TVNZ+, January 20)

As the title suggests, there’s sure to be plenty of moments to make you squirm during medical drama This Is Going To Hurt – the BAFTA award-winning show certainly pulls no punches about everyday life at a hospital. Acclaimed actor Ben Whishaw is Adam, an overworked junior NHS doctor on an under-funded obstetrics and gynecology ward, and the series navigates the many life-and-death decisions that are hurled at him shift-after-shift without enough sleep or resources. It’s been described as “one of the best medical dramas to hit the small screen in years.”

If you love The Office: Abbott Elementary Season 4 (Disney+, January 22)

With all the doom and gloom in the world, the award-winning Abbott Elementary is the joyous small-screen pick-me-up we all need. The workplace mockumentary about the hijinks of a group of passionate teachers at a Philadelphia public school is “full of astonishingly rapid-fire jokes, immaculate timing and note-perfect acting,” wrote The Guardian in their five star review. In season four there’s slow burn romance, sharp social commentary, plenty of belly-aching gags and even an It’s Always Sunny crossover to enjoy. 

If you enjoy twisted true stories: Mister Organ (DocPlay, January 20)

In 2016 David Farrier first introduced us to the clamp-crazy Michael Daniel Albert Organ AKA Mister Organ, the mysterious owner of Ponsonby’s Bashford Antiques. Like with Tickled, what started off as a curious story slowly morphs into something dark and sinister. In Mister Organ, a six-year saga condensed into a gripping feature length documentary, with Farrier caught-up in the insidious whirlwind of a master manipulator. At the “risk of his sanity”, wrote one critic, “Farrier has bottled one of the darkest ways a law-abiding human can be made.” If you watch this film and recognise a Mister Organ in your own life, run for the hills.

Pick of the Flicks: Nightbitch (Disney+, January 24)

Director Marielle Heller has joked that the Nightbitch “is a horror movie for men and a comedy for women.” The film, a howl-arious adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s novel of the same name, follows Amy Adams as an artist turned stay-at-home mum who, in the midst of raising her two-year-old son and an identity crisis, begins to experience odd physical changes. A whip-smart cross between David Cronenberg’s The Fly and Jason Reitman’s Tully, Nightbitch is a “darkly comic exploration of motherhood and the societal expectations that come with it.”

The rest

Netflix

W.A.G.s to Riches (January 22)

The Night Agent S2 (January 23)

The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call (January 24)

The Sand Castle (January 24)

Shafted (January 24)

TVNZ+

Piglets (January 20)

M9 S2 (January 20)

This Is Going To Hurt (January 20)

Fast Five (January 20)

Jackass Number Two (January 20)

Fast and Furious 6 (January 21)

17 Again (January 22)

Satisfaction S1-S2 (January 22)

The Bourne Ultimatum (January 23)

Nightflyers (January 24)

Sing (January 24)

ThreeNow

Love & Translation (January 22)

Neon

Chips (January 20)

Wrath of the Titans (January 23)

Back to Black (January 24)

I, Tonya (January 26)

Prime Video

Harlem S3 (January 23)

Disney+

Abbott Elementary S4 (January 22)

Tracker S2 (January 22)

Whiskey on the Rocks (January 22)

High Potential (January 23)

Shared Custody (January 24)

Apple TV+

Prime Target (January 22)

Nightbitch (January 24)

Roadies (January 26)

Hayu

Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta S12B (January 24)

Prosecuting Evil with Kelly Siegler S2 (January 26)

New York Homicide S3 (January 26)

Acorn TV/AMC+/Shudder

Case Sensitive S1-S2 (Acorn TV, AMC+, January 20)

The Primevals (Shudder, AMC+, January 20)

DocPlay

Mister Organ (January 20)

Blur: to the End  (January 23)