A nun takes on AI in Mrs. Davis, a media pundit is framed for murder in The Madness and a spy takes on their trickiest mission yet in a starry remake of The Bureau.
Mrs. Davis
Thursday
ITVX
Artificial intelligence meets divine intervention in this sci-fi comedy drama.
Mrs. Davis is an all-knowing, all-powerful AI that communicates with humanity via earpieces. However, the only omnipotent thing in the life of Sister Simone (Betty Gilpin, GLOW) is God, thank you very much.
What follows is a quest to destroy Mrs. Davis, when Sister Simone teams up with her ex-boyfriend (Jake McDorman, What We Do in the Shadows) to try and do what’s best for humanity.
The Madness
Thursday
Netflix
In this conspiracy thriller, things are going well for media commentator Muncie Daniels (Colman Domingo, Sing Sing), until he takes an ill-fated trip to the Poconos mountains. There, he stumbles upon the body of a murdered white supremacist, and quickly realises he’s being framed for the killing.
Determined to prove his innocence, Daniels will need to rebuild bridges with his estranged family if he wants to survive. As Stephen McKinley Henderson (Lady Bird) warns, though, the stakes are high:
“This ain’t no fight or flight. It’s just flight.”
The New Front
Friday
Channel 4
Walter Presents unveils another intriguing foreign language drama.
Cop Julia (Emma Bading, From Hilde, with Love) is new on the force. When a one night stand takes off his shirt to reveal an enormous swastika tattoo, she sees an opportunity. Nick (Jannik Schümann, Close to the Horizon) will be her way into infiltrating the far right, she decides.
However, Nick is no longer a white supremacist, having left the movement to team up with German intelligence services and disrupt the organisation with which he was once affiliated. Unbeknownst to her, Julia is essential to his plans.
Senna
Friday
Netflix
It’s 30 years since F1 racer Ayrton Senna died after crashing at the San Marino Grand Prix. After a 2010 documentary, Senna, explored his rise to the top of the sport, a drama of the same name delves back into his incredible story.
Born in São Paulo, the Brazilian racer won no less than three world championships. Played here by Gabriel Leone (Ferrari), the show aims to capture the mercurial quality that made him great.
The Agency
Saturday
Paramount+
Michael Fassbender (X-Men: Days of Future Past) stars in this espionage thriller about a secret agent instructed to abandon his undercover alter ego and report to the CIA’s London offices. This means walking away from the woman with whom he’s fallen in love (Jodie Turner-Smith, After Yang), but he knows better than to expect sympathy from his handlers. Another agent has gone missing, and the eponymous agency wants them back.
Jeffrey Wright (The French Dispatch) and Richard Gere (Pretty Woman) round out the cast in this adaptation of French series The Bureau.