We round up everything coming to streaming services this week, including Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, Apple TV+, ThreeNow, Neon and TVNZ+.
If you love Nicole Kidman pretending everything’s fine: The Perfect Couple (Netflix, September 5)
Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber, Dakota Fanning and Eve Hewson star in Netflix’s glossy new drama that sees Kidman and Schreiber play the parents of a wealthy family living their best lives in beautiful Nantucket. As everyone gathers for a family wedding, the celebration turns to tragedy when a body is discovered floating in the sea only hours before the nuptials, making the entire wedding party a suspect. Awkward! Based on the book by Elin Hilderbrand, this series is channelling some Big Little Lies energy and should be the perfect watch for a lazy weekend on the couch.
If you love a local comedy: Not Even (Neon, September 4)
Welcome back to the local comedy about a group of Māori and Pasifika 20-somethings living in Wellington, as they grapple both with their cultural identities and with each other. When Not Even premiered in 2022, writer Dana Lemming told the Spinoff about her process of making the show. “In all honesty I approached writing Not Even like I approached writing my Tinder profile. All my insecurities rose to the surface, got somewhat drunk, called a friend, found a cat, cat was not friendly, got my friend drunk with me, ate dumplings, wrote manically for three hours, freaked out, deleted it and then ended staying up till 4am to then return to my original writing thinking it wasn’t that bad in the first place. My Tinder profile is now defunct, Not Even on the other hand is anything but.”
If you love a true crime docu-series with a local twist: The Body Next Door (TVNZ, September 2)
Back in 2015, a human corpse was discovered buried in a garden in a small, quiet village deep in the Welsh valleys. With the identity of the body unknown and the location of the crime scene so unusual, police began a complex search to untangle the mystery. Their search ended up taking them halfway around the world to suburban Aotearoa. The Body Next Door is a shocking and bizarre true crime story that mixes a murder mystery with a dramatic family saga, and reveals a heartbreaking web of lies and a tragic manhunt in New Zealand over 50 years ago.
If you love Nadia’s Farm: Nadia’s Farm (Three, September 9)
The warm and wonderful Nadia’s Farm returns this week, with more insights into the reality of running a 1,200 acre property on the Crown Range in Central Otago. Masterchef NZ winner Nadia Lim and her husband Carlos Bagrie are determined to become leaders in regenerative and ethical farming, and the series follows them as they juggle farm life with raising a young family. As Lim and Bagrie told The Spinoff earlier this year, their life isn’t for the faint hearted, and they’re happy to let the cameras capture both their failures and their successes. “Everything that can go wrong, goes wrong, all the way through,” Bagrie told us of the season ahead. “At our expense, for the viewers benefit,” Lim added. “At least it makes good TV.”
If you love an original: Slow Horses (Apple TV+, September 4)
Fans of Slow Horses will already have this date marked in their calendars, but if you’re indeed a slow horse to discover Apple TV+’s sharp spy thriller about a team of exiled MI5 agents, it’s not too late to saddle up. Ahead of season four’s arrival, we’ve got this handy explainer on the series (we called it “John le Carre with really good jokes”), although we did lament the show had changed a lot by season three. No need to worry: Slow Horses is a sharp, clever and entertaining series that will impress fans of both the spy thriller and British drama genres – and doesn’t even feature many horses, slow or otherwise.
The rest
Netflix
Chestnut vs Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef (September 3)
Knock at the Cabin (September 3)
Last One Standing S3 (September 3)
Phil Wang: Wang In There Baby (September 3)
Untold: Hope Solo vs US Soccer (September 3)
Outlast S2 (September 4)
The Perfect Couple (September 5)
A Good Person (September 5)
Apollo 13 Survival (September 5)
Caught in the Web (September 5)
Lantana (September 6)
Rebel Ridge (September 6)
Selling Sunset S8 (September 8)
TVNZ+
The Body Next Door (September 2)
The Boy that Never Was (September 3)
I Literally Just Told You (September 4)
Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist (September 6)
The Life and Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson (September 7)
ThreeNow
Born Evil: The Serial Killer and the Saviour (September 3)
The Last King of the Cross S2 (September 3)
Nadia’s Farm (September 4)
Neon
Holy Spider (September 2)
Jules (September 2)
Maggie Moore(s) (September 3)
Merkel (September 3)
My Sailor, My Love (September 3)
Not Even S2 (September 4)
Say Yes To the Dress S20-21 (September 4)
Say Yes to the Dress with Tan France S1 (September 4)
Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse (September 5)
Jamestown S1-3 (September 6)
He Went That Way (September 6)
Under The Boardwalk (September 7)
Force of Nature: The Dry 2 ((September 8)
Teen Torture Inc. S1 (September 8)
Prime Video
Force of Nature: The Dry 2 (September 5)
WNBA: Seattle Storm At New York Liberty (September 5)
Call Me Bae (September 6)
Elisabeth Rioux: Unflitered (September 6)
Lego Dreamzzzz S2 (September 6)
WNBA: Washington Mystics At Phoenix Mercury (September 6)
Disney+
Tell Me Lies S2 (September 4)
LEGO Pixar: BrickToons (September 4)
Murai in Love (September 4)
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives (September 6)
Believeland (September 6)
The Birth of Big Air (September 6)
Mike and the Mad Dog (September 6)
Into the Wind (September 6)
Catholics vs. Convicts (September 6)
Fernando Nation (September 6)
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation (Sing-Along Version) (September 8)
Apple TV+
Slow Horses S4 (September 4)
Acorn/AMC+/Shudder
All You Need is Death (Shudder, AMC+, September 7)