Qin Lan (left) and Dylan Wang star in Netflix’s office drama The Rational Life. Photo: Netflix
Opinion
What a view by Stephen McCarty
In Netflix office drama The Rational Life, starring Qin Lan and set in Shanghai, treachery rules
Qin plays a hard-nosed but warm-hearted lawyer who must face down corporate duplicity and vicious competition in The Rational Life
In Ted Lasso, Jason Sudeikis reprises his role as the eponymous bumbling soccer coach who is still blissfully unaware of his many sporting shortcomings
Kim’s Convenience on Netflix, starring Simu Liu, keeps the laughs coming, and the compassion
Appa and Umma will forever be slightly out of step with the Toronto community their store serves, and with their children – and therein lies the show’s charm
In David Hare’s Roadkill, Hugh Laurie is British government minister Peter Laurence, a libertarian who seems capable of overcoming even the seediest of scandals
Corruption, the sex trade, a murder and a notorious cold case have Taiwan police detectives in a sweat in HBO drama series Trinity of Shadows. Hong Kong band Mirror’s Stanley Yau has a supporting role.
Netflick K-drama Mad for Each Other is an unusual romcom with slapstick-comedy characteristics, in which the two main protagonists don’t dare to be happy.
Korean drama series Mine skewers rich people behaving badly in a tale of the machinations that threaten to bring down a family business empire. Meanwhile, HBO’s skateboarding series Betty returns for a second season.