If you have 1 hour
The Pitt – Showmax
The multi-Emmy nominated medical drama returns ER alumnus Noah Wyle to the high-tension world of the emergency room of a frenetic Philadelphia hospital. Though it doesn’t reinvent the genre, the show offers plenty of human-centred stories and dramatic tension in its tightly plotted narrative. Each episode plays out as one hour of a medical shift on a wild rollercoaster of a day.
If you have 80 minutes
Fixed – Netflix
Idris Elba, Fred Armisen and Kathryn Hahn lend their voices to seminal animation director Genndy Tarkovsky’s — definitely for adults only — animated romp about a good dog, who, when he learns he’s about to be neutered decides to embark on one last bawdy adventure.
If you have 100 minutes
Night Always Comes – Netflix
Vanessa Kirby and Jennifer Jason Leigh star in this taut, one-night set adaptation of the best-selling novel by Willy Vlautin. Kirby plays Lynette, a woman who's willing to risk everything to secure the house that represents the one chance for a future that she and her family may have.
If you have 100 minutes
Songs from the Hole – Netflix
Director Contessa Gayles offers a fresh new take on the musical documentary with this portrait of the hard life, times of and opportunities that creativity represent for its protagonist, double-life sentence serving prisoner James “JJ 88” Jacobs, who finds hope for redemption and peace in the music he creates from his cell.
If you have 3 hours
Telemarketers – Showmax
This crazy Emmy-nominated docuseries made by friends who met while working a telemarketing job takes a farcical and often fury-inducing deep dive into the world of telemarketing and its cynical manipulation of consumer trust in service to the dark side of American capitalist profiteering.
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