Tessa Thompson and Jon Bernthal star in a steamy, fraught murder mystery, and Steven Knight’s brooding boxing thriller returns for a second round. Plus, a jaw-dropping documentary about the family who adopted a booze-loving bear
The brutal murder of an anonymous woman? Rarely a promising start to a drama, but thankfully things get more interesting from this point. The killing is the backdrop to a dangerous game of cat and mouse between tightly wound detective Jack (Jon Bernthal, on fine, nervy form) and Tessa Thompson’s broadcast journalist Anna, whose career has hit the skids following a personal trauma. She views the case as a source of professional redemption, but there is history between the pair – and it turns out the victim might not be unknown to them. A dark thriller, adapted from Alice Feeney’s novel, that utilises the steamy heat and fraught racial politics of Atlanta to tense, claustrophobic effect.
Netflix, from Thursday 8 January
