We round up everything coming to streaming services this week, including Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, Apple TV+, ThreeNow, Neon and TVNZ+.
If you like homegrown murder mysteries: A Remarkable Place to Die (TVNZ+, November 3)
In the new local murder mystery miniseries a Remarkable Place to Die, shrewd detective Anais Mallory (Chelsie Preston Crayford) returns home to Central Otago, a place haunted by swirling secrets. Soon after her homecoming, Mallory is confronted with a series of gruesome homicides and ghosts from her past. Also starring Rebecca Gibney (Packed to the Rafters), this is one for fans of One Lane Bridge and Broadchurch. Here’s hoping it is as dramatic and thrilling as the show’s snow-capped namesake.
If you need some early holiday cheer: Meet Me Next Christmas (Netflix, November 6)
It’s never too early to get festive, despite what the cynical grump in your social circle might say. Meet Me Next Christmas, a heartwarming romcom, takes a leaf from Before Sunrise – a chance encounter and the promise to meet again one year later. Where? The sold-out Pentatonix Christmas Eve Concert in the Big Apple. Layla (Christina Milian), in pursuit of the man of her dreams, must race through the snow-swept city to get her hands on the hottest ticket in town. There’s plenty of doom and gloom in the world, but Meet Me Next Christmas looks like the cheesy pick-me-up we all need.
If you fall for down-to-earth dating shows: Love Village S2 (Netflix, November 5)
Season two of Love Village is back for more honest discussions about sex, money and health, as a group of contestants aged 35 to 60 hope to find “the final love of their life.” They live a communal lifestyle together in an old Japanese-style house on the picturesque island of Okinawa. Unlike its dating show peers, Love Island and Love Is Blind, there are no aspiring influencers with perfectly sculpted bodies and blindingly white teeth – only ordinary folk on the hunt for true love. Check out Love Village if you’re tired of cringe dating show gimmicks and want a raw, real portrayal of romance.
If you enjoy coming-of-age comedies: My Old Ass (Prime Video, November 7)
Elliott (Maisy Stella) is a queer teen spending her last summer before she goes off to college hooking up with a local girl and getting as high as a kite. If you’re thinking My Old Ass sounds a bit like The Edge of Seventeen or Lady Bird, you’d be wrong; My Old Ass has a fun twist up its sleeve – time travel. On a mushroom trip with her two close friends, Elliott comes face-to-face with her not-so-happy 39-year-old self (Aubrey Plaza). Described as “one of the best coming-of-age comedies in forever”, My Old Ass sets out to answer the question: What advice would you give to your younger self?
If you love dystopian-ish thrillers: Civil War (Neon, November 10)
This week, a divided America goes to the polls to choose its next President. If the election doesn’t go Trump’s way, how likely is a repeat of the violence seen during the attack on the Capitol building? Civil War expands upon this frightening possibility. Set in a war-torn near-future America, where 19 states have seceded and a tyrannical President (Nick Offerman) rules with an iron fist, a group of journalists must travel from New York to Washington DC. to get “the only story left”. Per one critic, “Civil War expressed a nation’s soul-sickness so vividly that it felt like an X-ray” – if you can stomach it, the film is essential viewing.
