'Northern Lights', 'Turning Point' and more: 5 things to stream this week

If you have 5 hours:

Northern Lights – Showmax

Stephen Jones and Elva Trill star in creator Stephen Jones’ series adaptation of his play about two grieving strangers thrown together by circumstance on a really wet Dublin night. As they wait out the rain and get to know each other, secrets are revealed, traumas are faced and — perhaps — some hope emerges.

If you have 5 hours:

Turning Point: The Vietnam War – Netflix

It’s 50 years since America left Vietnam and Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese army, so it’s a bumper year for documentaries about the US’s worst Cold War adventure. Following in the footsteps of previous excellent series about the Cold War, this series examines the long-lasting social divisions that Vietnam created within the US and the mistrust in the government it left in its wake.

If you have 2 hours:

Careme – Apple TV +

Benjamin Voison stars as “the world’s first celebrity chef,” Marie-Antoine Carême, born in the chaos of the French Revolution and going on to cook for the stars of his day including Napoleon, Tsar Alexander and the Rothschilds.

If you have 90 minutes:

Ash – Prime Video

Musician Flying Lotus makes his feature directing debut with this atmospheric sci-fi horror starring Eiza González and Aaron Paul as space astronauts who wake up to find the rest of their crew have been brutally killed and soon find themselves in a fight for their lives.

If you have 2 hours:

Becoming Led Zeppelin – buy from Apple TV +

Director Bernard MacMahon’s much-anticipated documentary tracing the origin story of the biggest band of the 1970s benefits from the participation of surviving members Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones, and rare archive footage of early concerts. It may not tell fans much they don’t already know but it’s a suitably nostalgic tribute to their musical skills and friendship, so often overshadowed in press coverage by stories of the band’s bad behaviour.