Tiger King 2
(Netflix)
The breakthrough true crime sensation about America's dubious big cat owners comes roaring back for its hugely anticipated second season.
With season one's subject, Joe Exotic, now behind bars due to his repeated attempts to hire a hitman to assassinate rival big cat park owner and personal nemesis Carole Baskin, the series shifts focus on to Baskin's own backstory, which involves the mysterious disappearance of her first husband many years ago. After heavy involvement in the first season, Baskin declined to take part in the second and even launched a legal battle to prevent the series from using any footage of her. Clearly the behaviour of someone with nothing to hide...
Streaming now.
8 Days: To the Moon and Back
(TVNZ OnDemand)
"Breathtaking" is the word that many critics landed on when reviewing this miniseries about Apollo 11, the space flight that first took man to the moon.
Featuring a galaxy of previously unseen footage, declassified cockpit audio, film audio and dramatic reconstructions, this sublime documentary has been celebrated almost as much as the astronauts themselves, with one critic calling it "absorbing and edifying".
And if you're wondering, the title is a reference to the complete duration of this history-making journey; eight days, three hours, 18 minutes and 35 seconds, which, coincidentally, is the rumoured time it will take to pass through Auckland's motorways this holiday season.
Streaming now.
Hawkeye
(Disney+)
Shooting on to Disney+ next week is Marvel's action-packed new series on Hawkeye, the bow-and-arrow toting Avenger. The show seems to be taking aim at the Christmas-action genre popularised by the classic Bruce Willis action flick Die Hard.