If you have 1 hour
Murderbot – Apple TV +
Alexander Skarsgård stars in this dystopian black comedy series as a futuristic security robot who, after he disconnects himself from the program that governs his behaviour, finds himself facing the human problems of emotion, free will and existential dread as he works to hide his newfound self-awareness from the scientific team who’ve hired him for their protection.
If you have 3 hours
Fred and Rose West – Netflix
The gruesome crimes of notorious British serial killer couple Fred and Rose West are revisited in all their nasty detail in this docuseries that uses Fred’s own words from his confession as a guide inside the minds of a couple whose names have become synonymous with evil in the years since they were arrested in 1994.
If you have 7 hours
The Eternaut – Netflix
Based on the influential cult-comic strip created by Argentinian journalist and activist Héctor Germán Oesterheld, who was disappeared by the country’s military junta in 1977, this intelligent, humanist dystopian survivalist thriller follows the struggles of a group of survivors of a mysterious deadly snowfall and alien invasion in Buenos Aires.
If you have 2 hours
Octopus! – Prime Video
Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge takes a left turn for her next series project with this sharp-quipping, eccentric look at one of nature’s more eccentric and fascinating characters, the octopus.
If you have 2 hours
The Assessment – Prime Video
Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Olsen and Himesh Patel star in director Fleur Fortune’s dark dystopian drama about a couple who in a near future where parenthood is heavily controlled, undergo a week-long assessment to be approved as parents, with nightmarish results.
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