Jono and Ben Good Sports will air on TVNZ 2 and TVNZ OnDemand at 8 p.m. tonight.
Jono & Ben: Good exercise
(TVNZ 2)
Jono and Ben return victorious on TV tonight with a new show that is sporty wacky. Or rather, a show that is about crazy sports. Each hour-long episode of Good Sports follows the hosts of The Hits Breakfast as they travel around Aotearoa discovering the strangest and most unique sports they can. Forget about boring, everyday things like rugby, tennis or golf. Instead, the comedic power duo tries their hand at bathtub races, lawn mower races, kite surfing and even Harry Potter’s favorite game, Quidditch. Along the way, you will learn how these unusual pastimes found a base of loyal kiwi enthusiasts and meet the people who are enthusiastic about them. Will the sport be the winner that day? Tune in to find out.
Screening tonight, 8 p.m., on TVNZ 2 and on TVNZ OnDemand.
Scenes from a marriage
(Neon)
Writer Ingmar Bergman’s original 1973 miniseries about a break-up marriage was so popular that after its release it was blamed for the skyrocketing divorce rate in Europe. What to keep in mind as you watch this star-studded remake during these difficult blackout times …
Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain star in the miniseries Scenes from a Marriage, a remake of Ingmar Bergman’s 1973 classic. Streaming on neon.
Here Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac play the couple who fall in love, make themselves unhappy and let their gaze wander. Across the five episodes, you’d better believe it’s getting emotional, with one reviewer saying the couple “are absolutely outstanding, capturing emotional hurt, selfishness, self-preservation and despair with an accuracy that can curl you into a ball and take time to “have a rest before the next episode.” Damn it.
Streaming from Tuesday.
Kate
(Netflix)
This chic looking action film should make for some grueling Friday night entertainment. Mary Elizabeth Winstead plays a highly skilled assassin who is poisoned while on assignment in Tokyo. After identifying the deadly toxin as a slow moving poison, she vows to spend her final hours seeking fierce bloody revenge on the yakuza who killed her.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead stars in Kate, a new action film streamed on Netflix.
The always great Woody Harrelson co-stars, and while the reviews were mixed, the critics agreed on the quality of the action, with one saying, “It’s a bloody and fun ride.”
Stream from tomorrow.
Reservation dogs
(Star)
Taika Waititi continues his winning streak with this new series co-created and written with American filmmaker Sterlin Harjo. The show is a quirky comedy that follows four indigenous teenagers who dream of escaping rural Oklahoma to start a new life in exotic, distant California. To make their dreams come true, the quartet turns to a life of petty crime. Which eventually leads to them attracting unwanted attention from both sides of the law.
Paulina Alexis, Devery Jacobs, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai and Lane Factor star in Reservation Dogs, a new comedy co-created by Taika Waititi. Streaming on Star.
The show also stands out for being the first American production to have an entirely indigenous staff in front of and behind the camera. Critics believe it sits on a perfect 100 percent Rotten Tomatoes score, with one raving that it is “full of heart and the right dose of humor, an excellent coming-of-age series.”
The first three episodes land on Star on Wednesday.
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