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Februaryhighlights: A star-studded cast made the high society scandal of Feud: Capote vs. the Swans bittersweet, while Jon Hamm got into the adult animation game with the detective satire Grimsburg.

How much do you remember from your history classes at school? I ask because March is back to the future month in streaming. The period setting is a regular on our screens, but there\\u2019s definitely an upswing coming your way. You can tick off the 19th century pursuit of a US Presidential assassin (Manhunt on Apple TV+), gay bedroom power plays in the court of King James I (Binge\\u2019s Mary & George), and an exile in Soviet-era Russia (Paramount+\\u2019s A Gentleman in Moscow). Thankfully, we will not be tested at term\\u2019s end.

Historic settings have become more common on our screens for several reasons. The first, simply, is budgetary. Streaming platforms are spending more to have their shows stand out, making detailed costumes and location shooting affordable. Beyond that, there\\u2019s a sense that stories from the past speak to today, whether as revisionist retellings that reveal hidden truths or all too clear messages about ill-chosen paths we\\u2019re heading down. Plus, actors love getting dressed up.

This adaptation of the Hugo Award-winning science-fiction novel is a prime example of the adaptation dilemma: I\\u2019m excited they\\u2019re making it, but I\\u2019m worried they can\\u2019t pull it off. They, in this case, happens to be Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, who, along with Alexander Woo, are trying to corral the first novel in Chinese author Liu Cixin\\u2019s acclaimed Remembrance of Earth\\u2019s Past trilogy. The text is hard sci-fi: concepts over characters and a vast sweep in scope tell a story of a discovery that threatens both scientific reason and Earth\\u2019s existence. If nothing else, there\\u2019s room for considerable reinvention. The international cast includes Thrones alumni such as John Bradley and Liam Cunningham, plus Benedict Wong (Doctor Strange) and Eiza Gonzalez (Baby Driver). Please let this be better than All the Light We Cannot See.

Netflix has a track record of picking up underperforming or cancelled shows it believes it can successfully signal boost. Think You or Designated Survivor. The latest resurrection goes to Girls5Eva (March 15), a terrific madcap comedy about using a second chance to right your wrongs. Netflix has already uploaded the two existing seasons, and now they\\u2019re adding an exclusive third instalment to continue the comeback of late \\u201990s girl group Girls5Eva, who use a brief burst of nostalgia to relaunch their music career. With its 30 Rock and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt lineage the show is loaded with canny gags, but it\\u2019s also a paean to women who refuse to accept that popular culture has no use for them because they\\u2019re in their forties.

Cloaked in an evocative atmosphere, this investigative thriller uses the winding roads, verdant forests, and snaking rivers of Victoria\\u2019s mountainous north-east as the backdrop for a new Australian series. Leah Purcell (Wentworth, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart) plays Andrea \\u201CAndie\\u201D Whitford, a detective transferred to uniform duties in an isolated town where the welcome is warm but no-one wants to discuss a series of disappearances stretching back over years that are increasingly roiling the locals. Creators Marcia Gardner and John Ridley are both Wentworth veterans, and their challenge here is to take a familiar genre outline and make it contemporary. A policing protagonist who\\u2019s an Indigenous woman is a strong start, and Purcell is joined by the likes of Ian McElhinney (Game of Thrones) and Aaron Pedersen (Mystery Road).

Also on Binge: Mary & George (March 5) has all the hallmarks of a British historic drama, but from the opening scenes this tale of 17th-century royal power games reveals a wicked wit, a queer sensibility, and a sharp eye for how power is channelled through pleasure. Based on historians\\u2019 studies, it stars Julianne Moore (May December) as Mary Villiers, the newly widowed Countess of Buckingham. Searching for a foothold and without illusion about how privilege is earned, she alights on casting her handsome but wayward second son, George (Nicholas Galitzine, Bottoms) as the lover of the wildly indiscreet King James I (Tony Curran, Ray Donovan), which swiftly upends the gravy train surrounding the monarch. The humour is tart, the insults delectable, and Moore is imperious.

Succession writer Will Tracy plugs into a different but equally dysfunctional power structure with this black comedy about an autocratic ruler of a fictional European nation whose absolute authority starts to fall to bits amidst delusion and paranoia. The Regime (March 4) stars Kate Winslet as Elena Vernham, a blonde bombshell styled as the mother of the nation. The show is in turns madcap, jaw-dropping, and creepy, as Central European geopolitics meet palace intrigue, Elena\\u2019s hypochondria, and civil unrest. Matthias Schoenaerts (Red Sparrow) plays a Rasputin-like advisor, and if nothing else you can bingo card the numerous references to real-life dictators.

Also on Stan: There are certain actors whose mere presence in the supporting cast is a good sign for a series or film. The likes of Bill Camp, Sacha Horler, or Stephen Root guarantee an anchoring performance or welcome energy. Definitely add American actor Patricia Clarkson to that list, having elevated everything from High Art and The Station Agent to Sharp Objects and She Said. In the espionage thriller Gray (March 8), Clarkson tries something new: the lead role. She portrays Cornelia Gray, a former American spy exiled for 20 years but brought back to track down a mole whose leaks are proving deadly. Rupert Everett, himself a welcome addition, co-stars as Gray\\u2019s reluctant recruiter, but this is Clarkson\\u2019s showcase and she looks more than ready for the plot\\u2019s every malevolent twist.

This bare-knuckled Hollywood remake got an unexpected jolt of publicity recently when director Doug Liman (the original Mr and Mrs Smith, Edge of Tomorrow) launched a broadside at Amazon for not giving his movie a cinema release. Distribution debates aside, this is a remake of the 1989 action flick where Patrick Swayze played a Zen master bouncer who cleans up a Missouri roadhouse. Jack Gyllenhaal, back to his ripped Southpaw physique, is Elwood Dalton, a former professional MMA fighter paid to sort out a chaotic Florida tavern. The film\\u2019s fight scene credentials are impeccable, with former real-life MMA champion Conor MacGregor going full tilt unhinged as Dalton\\u2019s boss-level adversary, but it\\u2019s unclear if this version of Road House will acknowledge the original\\u2019s status as one of the most homoerotic Hollywood films of the 1980s.

February highlights: proved that a reboot of an old hit can be canny, unpredictable and deeply satisfying, an Academy Award favourite in American Fiction debuted, and was Jennifer Lopez\\u2019s celebration of J. Lo.

Deluded assassins stalking Washington DC, covert networks, unchecked criminal pursuits \\u2026 some qualities are apparently timeless to the American political thriller. Set in the minutes, hours, and days after the assassination of US President Abraham Lincoln in 1865, just five days after he\\u2019d overseen the surrender of the Confederacy and the end of America\\u2019s Civil War, this expansive drama is both a historical study and a timely vision of a democratic system under attack. Tobias Menzies (The Crown\\u2019s Prince Philip in seasons three and four) plays Edwin Stanton, who goes from serving as Lincoln\\u2019s Secretary of War to organising the pursuit of his friend\\u2019s assassin, actor John Wilkes Booth (Anthony Boyle, Masters of Air). There\\u2019s nothing stuffy about this period piece. It\\u2019s more 24 than Ken Burns documentary.

Also on Apple TV+: When two of the most prominent credits on your screen CV are absurdist sitcom The Mighty Boosh and beloved reality series The Great British Bake Off, you don\\u2019t star in just any old period tale. The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin (March 1) finds Noel Fielding and his gorgeous locks playing 18th-century English highwayman Dick Turpin, although this is definitely an ahistorical version. More of a failed influencer than an armed scoundrel, Turpin exasperates his gang, makes farcical mistakes, and checks in with his victims about how he can improve his service. Fresh from The Gold, Hugh Bonneville plays the underworld boss looking to put an end to Turpin in a series whose silliness might be consolation for fans of the recently cancelled Our Flag Means Death.

February highlights: Football fans got a telling of one of the game\\u2019s great modern stories with , delivered eerie sci-fi, and Juliette Binoche and Ben Mendelsohn went haute couture in the period fashion drama .

Whether you\\u2019re still buzzing from seeing Taylor Swift on her blockbuster Australian tour or need further consolation after missing out on a ticket, the singer-songwriter\\u2019s concert film, which earned approximately $400 million at the global box-office, is making a timely arrival on streaming. The cultural event of the decade, Swift\\u2019s sustained rise to whatever it is that ranks above superstardom has delighted fans, shifted a few societal boundaries, and probably left academics racing to publish. Fans should note that the version of The Eras Tour debuting on Disney+ has extra content not on the cinema release: four additional songs in the main set, and a further quartet of acoustic tracks after the credits. Have at it, Swifties.

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