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2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Oilers vs Florida Panthers: Full 2025 Schedule & 3 Bold Series Predictions
EDMONTON – Get ready Oil Country, the Stanley Cup Final is coming for you. After the Edmonton Oilers smashed the Dallas Stars' dreams of competing in the final playoff round, the NHL announced the schedule for the Cup Final. Advertisement Bookmark The Hockey News Edmonton Oilers team site to never miss the latest news, game-day coverage, and more. For the second consecutive season, the Oilers will face the Florida Panthers, winner-take-all. Trending Oilers Stories EXCLUSIVE: Mark Messier On Oilers, Budweiser, His Future & More EXCLUSIVE: Mark Messier On Oilers, Budweiser, His Future & More EDMONTON – Mark Messier loves Edmonton. Oilers 2025 Playoff Tickets: Buy Them Now With Pre-Sale Oilers Secretive Of New Victory Song, "Pink Pony Club" If Oilers Win Tonight, Here's When They Play Next Oilers Jeff Skinner Reaches New Milestone Messier Would Love Oilers To 'Bring It Full Circle' Messier Would Love Oilers To 'Bring It Full Circle' EDMONTON – 'It was incredible to be in the rink in Game Six last year.' Oilers vs Panthers Full 2025 Series Schedule All games are posted in Mountain Time. Italics are used for games that will only be played if necessary. Bold denotes home games. Advertisement Game 1: June 4 (Wednesday) - Florida at Edmonton - 6 PM Game 2: June 6 (Friday) - Florida at Edmonton - 6 PM Game 3: June 9 (Monday) - Edmonton at Florida - 6 PM Game 4: June 12 (Thursday) - Edmonton at Florida - 6 PM Game 5: June 14 (Saturday) - Florida at Edmonton - 6 PM Game 6: June 17 (Tuesday) - Edmonton at Florida - 6 PM Game 7: June 20 (Friday) - Florida at Edmonton - 6 PM 3 Stanley Cup Final Series Predictions A new series needs a new series of predictions. This might be the second year that these teams are facing each other, but this is not last year's Edmonton Oilers. Here are my three major series predictions: Oilers Won't Go Down 0-3 The Oilers have not lost more than two games in a row for this entire playoff run. Since losing their first two games against the Los Angeles Kings, they have only lost two total games. Advertisement They have demonstrated a calmness and maturity that they didn't have last year. Those attributes will serve them well in the Cup Final. And there is no way that Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl allow their team to be put in the same unfortunate situation. Evander Kane Will Be Evander Kane It's time for the Oilers to raise some Kane…that is, Evander Kane. Last year, Kane was virtually invisible in the series against the Panthers. He only played two games (Games 1 & 2), recording two hits and one block in 25 total minutes of ice time. That's not going to be good enough this year. Kane seemingly took a backseat during the Dallas Stars series. I suspect he might have struggled to find a way to get physically engaged. There should be no struggles to get physically engaged with the likes of former Calgary Flames forwards Sam Bennett and Matthew Tkachuk. Oilers Will Get The Last Laugh My final prediction: the Oilers will win the Stanley Cup. There is enough different about this year's Oilers that they won't fail in the final twice. Oilers in five. Add us to your Google News favourites, and never miss a story.
Sydney Morning Herald
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
The best new TV shows to stream in June
Another month, another stack of streaming titles to add to your roster. There are shows that are going to hit some hard-to-reach spots, whether it's Stan's idiosyncratic sibling comedy Hal & Harper (with bonus dad energy from Mark Ruffalo) or Apple TV+'s hard-nosed arson drama Smoke. Let's get your watching squared away! Apple TV+ My top Apple TV+ recommendation is Smoke (June 27). One sure sign that the creative voices on a show genuinely enjoyed their collaboration is when they sign up to do it all again. That's the case with British star Taron Egerton (Rocketman) and American crime novelist and series creator Dennis Lehane (Mystic River), whose 2022 Apple TV+ crime drama Black Bird drew widespread praise. The pair have reunited for this investigatory thriller, which is inspired by true events in America's Pacific Northwest, where an arson investigator (Egerton) and a police detective (Jurnee Smollett, The Order) reluctantly team up to track down not one but two serial arsonists. The stacked supporting cast includes Rafe Spall (Trying), John Leguizamo (The Menu) and Greg Kinnear (Shining Vale). Loading Also on Apple TV+: Owen Wilson, good to see you! The Wedding Crashers star brings his deadpan delusions to Stick (June 4), a screwball sports comedy about a washed-up former professional golfer who seeks redemption via coaching a young prodigy. Created by screenwriter Jason Keller (Ford v. Ferrari), the limited series stars Wilson as the not entirely reliable Pryce Cahill, who is dodging divorce proceedings when he discovers teenage phenomenon Santi Wheeler (Peter Dager). Qualifying tournaments and goofy golf philosophy ensue, with Marc Maron (Glow) as an unconvinced sounding board. Meanwhile, Sydney Sweeney continues to diversify her Hollywood profile. Having already ticked off a romcom (Anyone But You), a horror flick (Immaculate), and a bad superhero movie (Madame Web), the coronated screen queen stars opposite Julianne Moore in the crime thriller Echo Valley (June 13). Written by Brad Ingelsby (Mare of Easttown) and directed by Michael Pearce (Beast), the feature begins with a tearful, bloodied Claire Garrett (Sweeney) arriving at the horse ranch of her estranged mother, Kate (Moore), claiming that she had to kill her abusive boyfriend in self-defence. When Kate covers up the crime, she becomes an accomplice even as Claire's actions on the night raise questions. May highlights: Should a security cyborg binge space soaps or protect its human clients? Sci-fi black comedy Murderbot had the answer, plus culinary thriller Careme brought Kitchen Confidential into the Napoleonic era. Netflix My top Netflix recommendation is The Survivors (June 6). Netflix has first-rate source material for its new Australian drama: a Jane Harper novel. The author of The Dry creates menacing mysteries that resonate, as is the case with this story of a small seaside town where a tragedy that left several people dead 15 years prior returns to the public eye when a new murder takes place. Confronting the town's collective amnesia is a young couple, Kieran (Charlie Vickers), the son of a local clan returned home with his young family, and his partner, Mia (Yerin Ha), who sees the community's failings. Adapting Harper's novel is Tony Ayres, whose previous shows include Stateless and Fires. Also on Netflix: Squid Game (June 27), the blockbuster South Korean series that helped change the definition of event television, comes to an end with its third season. These new episodes were filmed back-to-back with last December's second season, which culminated in a failed rebellion among the players of the dystopian competition that once again left player turned saboteur Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) facing a very uncertain future. Creator Hwang Dong-hyuk will steer the show to its conclusion, safe in the knowledge that Squid Game fascination has not eased. The second season's first three days smashed Netflix viewing records. May highlights: Julianne Moore was compelling as a billionaire's controlling wife in Sirens, Tina Fey and Steve Carell starred in the bittersweet comedy The Four Seasons, and Conan O'Brien: the Kennedy Centre Mark Twain Prize for American Humour was an uproarious celebration. Stan * My top Stan recommendation is Hal & Harper (June 26). Mark Ruffalo is in his do-anything era. After big-screen turns as a cad in Poor Things and a pompous interplanetary dictator for Mickey 17, the former Marvel star comes back to Earth in this bittersweet comic drama. Ruffalo plays a suburban single father whose child-raising techniques have resulted in stunted, co-dependent lives for his now 20-something children, Hal (Cooper Raiff, the show's writer and director) and Harper (Lili Reinhart, Riverdale). The pair's attempts to understand where they're at, and engage with their emotionally shifty dad, form the basis of this limited series. Raiff turned heads with his last movie, Apple TV+'s idiosyncratic rom-com Cha Cha Real Smooth, so there's real promise here. Loading Also on Stan: There are currently many shows about London's fictional crime gangs, including Stan's Gangs of London, so thankfully the setting for this latest British organised crime drama moves north to Liverpool. This City is Ours (June 4) stars Sean Bean (Snowpiercer) as Ronnie Phelan, a drug dealer who has cornered the city's narcotics business and built an empire. Wealth and age have Ronnie thinking of retirement, but that soon creates chaos and instability when he leans towards his right-hand man, Michael Kavanagh (James Nelson-Joyce, A Thousand Blows), over his impatient son, Jamie (Jack McMullen, Hijack). The unofficial mediation process, as fans of this genre well know, is violent and vengeful. May highlights: The murder mystery is never more fun than when Natasha Lyonne's rogue detective is solving them on Poker Face, plus The Walking Dead devotees got a new season of post-apocalyptic New York with the return of Dead City. Disney+ My top Disney+ recommendation is The Bear (June 26). I love this outstanding show's scheduling commitment – late June every year, a new season appears. The fourth instalment of Christopher Storer's celebrated comic-drama about an obsessive chef turning his family's Chicago sandwich spot into a fine-dining restaurant has plenty to resolve. The third season ended with a crucial newspaper review leaving Carmy Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White), once more, torn between satisfaction and torment, while the bills mount and the staff start to fray. All the 'yes, chef!' cast return, plus a further appearance by Jamie Lee Curtis as Carmy's troubled mother, Donna. I wouldn't be completely surprised if the show recalibrated after the third season and leant more into its drama. Loading Also on Disney+: Having previously flooded Disney+ with spin-off superhero series, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has tapped the breaks these past two years. Quality over quantity has been the goal. The latest offering is Ironheart (June 25), a six-part comic-book drama about young scientist Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne), who was introduced in the 2022 blockbuster Black Panther: Wakanda Forever as the creator of her own Iron Man-like suits. Williams returns to her hometown of Chicago, where her belief in technology comes up against magic in a show that leans into community struggle and personal responsibility. May highlights: The accolades continued for Andor, the Star Wars show that matters, while Tucci in Italy was a truly delicious food and travel documentary. Max My top Max recommendation is Mountainhead (June 1). Succession hive assemble! The tech billionaires are far richer and far less regulated than everyone's favourite toxic media moguls in the new feature film from Succession creator Jesse Armstrong. The British satirist, whose inspired dialogue can cause whiplash, charts a weekend retreat for a quartet of digital titans – played by Steve Carell (The Four Seasons), Ramy Youssef (Ramy), Jason Schwartzman (Asteroid City), and Cory Michael Smith (May December) – just as new AI features on one of their platforms is stoking violence and economic panic around the world. A crisis? No, it's an opportunity. Armstrong, who also directs, dissects his delusional new subjects with one tech bro nightmare after another. Also on Max: Mariska Hargitay is one of television's most enduring stars. Since 1999, she's played Olivia Benson, the unyielding New York detective investigating sexual crimes on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. The 61-year-old has always been open about the void in her own life – when Hargitay was just three her mother, Hollywood bombshell Jayne Mansfield, died in a car accident; Hargitay was asleep in the vehicle's back seat. My Mum Jayne (June 28) is a documentary about Hargitay's attempts to delve into her mother's personal and public legacy. Hargitay, who directs, calls it a, 'a labour of love and longing'. Amazon Prime Video My top Amazon Prime recommendation is We Were Liars (June 18). Shows about the young and privileged are timeless: wealth porn, aristocratic beauty, and unfulfilled privilege have powered everything from Gossip Girl to Elite. The latest variant is an adaptation, by Julie Plec (The Vampire Diaries), of E. Lockhart's 2014 best-selling young adult novel about a teenager, Cadence Eastman (Emily Alyn Lind, the Gossip Girl reboot), trying to fill in the trauma-induced gap in her memory connected to a summer she spent at her family's island compound with her cousins and best friends. Something bad obviously happened, but the truth gets twisted in a narrative that leans more towards psychological thriller than pouty melodrama. Loading Also on Amazon Prime: Adding to the conspiratorial thriller genre – think Condor, Deep State and Rabbit Hole – Countdown (June 25) is a law enforcement drama about an LAPD detective, Mark Meachum (Jensen Ackles), assigned to a task force responding to the murder of a government official. Once the investigators start to unwind the plot, the stakes are very much raised. Derek Haas, who kept procedural television afloat with both Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D., is responsible for a series that should add to Amazon Prime's Reacher -led stable of tough guy TV. May highlights: The Marvellous Mrs Maisel crew put their mark on the ballet world with Etoile, while a new season of Nicole Kidman's Nine Perfect Strangers continued to do heads in (including our critic). ABC iview My top iview recommendation is Bay of Fires (June 15). The first season of this Australian drama was the anti- SeaChange: at-risk finance CEO Stella (co-creator Marta Dusseldorp) and her children are given new identities and relocated to a small Tasmanian town, only to discover that it's full of suspicious criminals, a budding cult and other untrustworthy former government assets. If the debut season required Stella to fight for survival, with a tone that mixed heightened black comedy and thriller tension, the second instalment finds her trying to hold together the fractious coalition she built. It's a very different kind of local politics. This is a chance for the ABC to build a series that doesn't just endure, it evolves. May highlights: It was a month of hardy crime dramas that crisscrossed Britain – The One That Got Away was a gritty Welsh mystery, while Bergerac rebooted the Channel Islands detective, plus feel-good reality series The Piano hit all the right notes. SBS On Demand My top SBS On Demand recommendation is Families Like Ours (June 20). Much like the British drama Years and Years, which viewed that nation's fictional dystopian descent through the lens of an everyday Manchester clan, this Danish drama tackles the vastness of climate change through an ordinary family's struggle. A what-if set in the not-quite near-future, it's driven by the need to evacuate Denmark as rising sea levels will flood the nation. Certainty ends as the country's millions of citizens explore immigration options or forced relocation, facing separation and a loss of a lifestyle taken for granted. The co-writer and director is Thomas Vinterberg (The Celebration, Another Round), who has stressed that his focus is more personal than political. May highlights: A dedicated team of German police detectives made The Black Forest Murders a gripping investigation drama, while an iconic character got a new twist in the period adventure Sherlock & Daughter. Other streamers My top recommendation for the other streaming services is Binge's Mix Tape (June 12). A romantic second chance couched in the past's unquenchable promise and the siren's song of beloved teenage tunes, this Irish-Australian limited series tells a then-and-now story. In 1989, in Britain a connection is slowly forged between teenagers Alison (Florence Hunt) and Daniel (newcomer Rory Walton-Smith), only for them to be irrevocably separated. Cut to the current day and both have built lives of their own, only for Daniel (Jim Sturgess) to discover that Alison (Teresa Palmer) is living in Sydney. What they do next – with a soundtrack of vintage classics – is in the hands of writer Jo Spain (Harry Wild), who adapted Jane Sanderson's 2020 novel of the same name, and director Lucy Gaffy (Irreverent). Loading Also: The Agatha Christie mystery-industrial complex rolls onwards with the BBC's new three-part adaptation of a 1944 novel from the doyenne of detective fiction. Towards Zero (June 3) is very much classic Christie, albeit with an impressively credentialled cast, set at a 1930s British country estate where the imperious order maintained by Lady Tressilian (Anjelica Huston) is interrupted by visitors and then a murder. It falls to Inspector Leach (Matthew Rhys) to interview the assembled suspects and sift the clues.
The Age
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Age
The best new TV shows to stream in June
Another month, another stack of streaming titles to add to your roster. There are shows that are going to hit some hard-to-reach spots, whether it's Stan's idiosyncratic sibling comedy Hal & Harper (with bonus dad energy from Mark Ruffalo) or Apple TV+'s hard-nosed arson drama Smoke. Let's get your watching squared away! Apple TV+ My top Apple TV+ recommendation is Smoke (June 27). One sure sign that the creative voices on a show genuinely enjoyed their collaboration is when they sign up to do it all again. That's the case with British star Taron Egerton (Rocketman) and American crime novelist and series creator Dennis Lehane (Mystic River), whose 2022 Apple TV+ crime drama Black Bird drew widespread praise. The pair have reunited for this investigatory thriller, which is inspired by true events in America's Pacific Northwest, where an arson investigator (Egerton) and a police detective (Jurnee Smollett, The Order) reluctantly team up to track down not one but two serial arsonists. The stacked supporting cast includes Rafe Spall (Trying), John Leguizamo (The Menu) and Greg Kinnear (Shining Vale). Loading Also on Apple TV+: Owen Wilson, good to see you! The Wedding Crashers star brings his deadpan delusions to Stick (June 4), a screwball sports comedy about a washed-up former professional golfer who seeks redemption via coaching a young prodigy. Created by screenwriter Jason Keller (Ford v. Ferrari), the limited series stars Wilson as the not entirely reliable Pryce Cahill, who is dodging divorce proceedings when he discovers teenage phenomenon Santi Wheeler (Peter Dager). Qualifying tournaments and goofy golf philosophy ensue, with Marc Maron (Glow) as an unconvinced sounding board. Meanwhile, Sydney Sweeney continues to diversify her Hollywood profile. Having already ticked off a romcom (Anyone But You), a horror flick (Immaculate), and a bad superhero movie (Madame Web), the coronated screen queen stars opposite Julianne Moore in the crime thriller Echo Valley (June 13). Written by Brad Ingelsby (Mare of Easttown) and directed by Michael Pearce (Beast), the feature begins with a tearful, bloodied Claire Garrett (Sweeney) arriving at the horse ranch of her estranged mother, Kate (Moore), claiming that she had to kill her abusive boyfriend in self-defence. When Kate covers up the crime, she becomes an accomplice even as Claire's actions on the night raise questions. May highlights: Should a security cyborg binge space soaps or protect its human clients? Sci-fi black comedy Murderbot had the answer, plus culinary thriller Careme brought Kitchen Confidential into the Napoleonic era. Netflix My top Netflix recommendation is The Survivors (June 6). Netflix has first-rate source material for its new Australian drama: a Jane Harper novel. The author of The Dry creates menacing mysteries that resonate, as is the case with this story of a small seaside town where a tragedy that left several people dead 15 years prior returns to the public eye when a new murder takes place. Confronting the town's collective amnesia is a young couple, Kieran (Charlie Vickers), the son of a local clan returned home with his young family, and his partner, Mia (Yerin Ha), who sees the community's failings. Adapting Harper's novel is Tony Ayres, whose previous shows include Stateless and Fires. Also on Netflix: Squid Game (June 27), the blockbuster South Korean series that helped change the definition of event television, comes to an end with its third season. These new episodes were filmed back-to-back with last December's second season, which culminated in a failed rebellion among the players of the dystopian competition that once again left player turned saboteur Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) facing a very uncertain future. Creator Hwang Dong-hyuk will steer the show to its conclusion, safe in the knowledge that Squid Game fascination has not eased. The second season's first three days smashed Netflix viewing records. May highlights: Julianne Moore was compelling as a billionaire's controlling wife in Sirens, Tina Fey and Steve Carell starred in the bittersweet comedy The Four Seasons, and Conan O'Brien: the Kennedy Centre Mark Twain Prize for American Humour was an uproarious celebration. Stan * My top Stan recommendation is Hal & Harper (June 26). Mark Ruffalo is in his do-anything era. After big-screen turns as a cad in Poor Things and a pompous interplanetary dictator for Mickey 17, the former Marvel star comes back to Earth in this bittersweet comic drama. Ruffalo plays a suburban single father whose child-raising techniques have resulted in stunted, co-dependent lives for his now 20-something children, Hal (Cooper Raiff, the show's writer and director) and Harper (Lili Reinhart, Riverdale). The pair's attempts to understand where they're at, and engage with their emotionally shifty dad, form the basis of this limited series. Raiff turned heads with his last movie, Apple TV+'s idiosyncratic rom-com Cha Cha Real Smooth, so there's real promise here. Loading Also on Stan: There are currently many shows about London's fictional crime gangs, including Stan's Gangs of London, so thankfully the setting for this latest British organised crime drama moves north to Liverpool. This City is Ours (June 4) stars Sean Bean (Snowpiercer) as Ronnie Phelan, a drug dealer who has cornered the city's narcotics business and built an empire. Wealth and age have Ronnie thinking of retirement, but that soon creates chaos and instability when he leans towards his right-hand man, Michael Kavanagh (James Nelson-Joyce, A Thousand Blows), over his impatient son, Jamie (Jack McMullen, Hijack). The unofficial mediation process, as fans of this genre well know, is violent and vengeful. May highlights: The murder mystery is never more fun than when Natasha Lyonne's rogue detective is solving them on Poker Face, plus The Walking Dead devotees got a new season of post-apocalyptic New York with the return of Dead City. Disney+ My top Disney+ recommendation is The Bear (June 26). I love this outstanding show's scheduling commitment – late June every year, a new season appears. The fourth instalment of Christopher Storer's celebrated comic-drama about an obsessive chef turning his family's Chicago sandwich spot into a fine-dining restaurant has plenty to resolve. The third season ended with a crucial newspaper review leaving Carmy Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White), once more, torn between satisfaction and torment, while the bills mount and the staff start to fray. All the 'yes, chef!' cast return, plus a further appearance by Jamie Lee Curtis as Carmy's troubled mother, Donna. I wouldn't be completely surprised if the show recalibrated after the third season and leant more into its drama. Loading Also on Disney+: Having previously flooded Disney+ with spin-off superhero series, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has tapped the breaks these past two years. Quality over quantity has been the goal. The latest offering is Ironheart (June 25), a six-part comic-book drama about young scientist Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne), who was introduced in the 2022 blockbuster Black Panther: Wakanda Forever as the creator of her own Iron Man-like suits. Williams returns to her hometown of Chicago, where her belief in technology comes up against magic in a show that leans into community struggle and personal responsibility. May highlights: The accolades continued for Andor, the Star Wars show that matters, while Tucci in Italy was a truly delicious food and travel documentary. Max My top Max recommendation is Mountainhead (June 1). Succession hive assemble! The tech billionaires are far richer and far less regulated than everyone's favourite toxic media moguls in the new feature film from Succession creator Jesse Armstrong. The British satirist, whose inspired dialogue can cause whiplash, charts a weekend retreat for a quartet of digital titans – played by Steve Carell (The Four Seasons), Ramy Youssef (Ramy), Jason Schwartzman (Asteroid City), and Cory Michael Smith (May December) – just as new AI features on one of their platforms is stoking violence and economic panic around the world. A crisis? No, it's an opportunity. Armstrong, who also directs, dissects his delusional new subjects with one tech bro nightmare after another. Also on Max: Mariska Hargitay is one of television's most enduring stars. Since 1999, she's played Olivia Benson, the unyielding New York detective investigating sexual crimes on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. The 61-year-old has always been open about the void in her own life – when Hargitay was just three her mother, Hollywood bombshell Jayne Mansfield, died in a car accident; Hargitay was asleep in the vehicle's back seat. My Mum Jayne (June 28) is a documentary about Hargitay's attempts to delve into her mother's personal and public legacy. Hargitay, who directs, calls it a, 'a labour of love and longing'. Amazon Prime Video My top Amazon Prime recommendation is We Were Liars (June 18). Shows about the young and privileged are timeless: wealth porn, aristocratic beauty, and unfulfilled privilege have powered everything from Gossip Girl to Elite. The latest variant is an adaptation, by Julie Plec (The Vampire Diaries), of E. Lockhart's 2014 best-selling young adult novel about a teenager, Cadence Eastman (Emily Alyn Lind, the Gossip Girl reboot), trying to fill in the trauma-induced gap in her memory connected to a summer she spent at her family's island compound with her cousins and best friends. Something bad obviously happened, but the truth gets twisted in a narrative that leans more towards psychological thriller than pouty melodrama. Loading Also on Amazon Prime: Adding to the conspiratorial thriller genre – think Condor, Deep State and Rabbit Hole – Countdown (June 25) is a law enforcement drama about an LAPD detective, Mark Meachum (Jensen Ackles), assigned to a task force responding to the murder of a government official. Once the investigators start to unwind the plot, the stakes are very much raised. Derek Haas, who kept procedural television afloat with both Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D., is responsible for a series that should add to Amazon Prime's Reacher -led stable of tough guy TV. May highlights: The Marvellous Mrs Maisel crew put their mark on the ballet world with Etoile, while a new season of Nicole Kidman's Nine Perfect Strangers continued to do heads in (including our critic). ABC iview My top iview recommendation is Bay of Fires (June 15). The first season of this Australian drama was the anti- SeaChange: at-risk finance CEO Stella (co-creator Marta Dusseldorp) and her children are given new identities and relocated to a small Tasmanian town, only to discover that it's full of suspicious criminals, a budding cult and other untrustworthy former government assets. If the debut season required Stella to fight for survival, with a tone that mixed heightened black comedy and thriller tension, the second instalment finds her trying to hold together the fractious coalition she built. It's a very different kind of local politics. This is a chance for the ABC to build a series that doesn't just endure, it evolves. May highlights: It was a month of hardy crime dramas that crisscrossed Britain – The One That Got Away was a gritty Welsh mystery, while Bergerac rebooted the Channel Islands detective, plus feel-good reality series The Piano hit all the right notes. SBS On Demand My top SBS On Demand recommendation is Families Like Ours (June 20). Much like the British drama Years and Years, which viewed that nation's fictional dystopian descent through the lens of an everyday Manchester clan, this Danish drama tackles the vastness of climate change through an ordinary family's struggle. A what-if set in the not-quite near-future, it's driven by the need to evacuate Denmark as rising sea levels will flood the nation. Certainty ends as the country's millions of citizens explore immigration options or forced relocation, facing separation and a loss of a lifestyle taken for granted. The co-writer and director is Thomas Vinterberg (The Celebration, Another Round), who has stressed that his focus is more personal than political. May highlights: A dedicated team of German police detectives made The Black Forest Murders a gripping investigation drama, while an iconic character got a new twist in the period adventure Sherlock & Daughter. Other streamers My top recommendation for the other streaming services is Binge's Mix Tape (June 12). A romantic second chance couched in the past's unquenchable promise and the siren's song of beloved teenage tunes, this Irish-Australian limited series tells a then-and-now story. In 1989, in Britain a connection is slowly forged between teenagers Alison (Florence Hunt) and Daniel (newcomer Rory Walton-Smith), only for them to be irrevocably separated. Cut to the current day and both have built lives of their own, only for Daniel (Jim Sturgess) to discover that Alison (Teresa Palmer) is living in Sydney. What they do next – with a soundtrack of vintage classics – is in the hands of writer Jo Spain (Harry Wild), who adapted Jane Sanderson's 2020 novel of the same name, and director Lucy Gaffy (Irreverent). Loading Also: The Agatha Christie mystery-industrial complex rolls onwards with the BBC's new three-part adaptation of a 1944 novel from the doyenne of detective fiction. Towards Zero (June 3) is very much classic Christie, albeit with an impressively credentialled cast, set at a 1930s British country estate where the imperious order maintained by Lady Tressilian (Anjelica Huston) is interrupted by visitors and then a murder. It falls to Inspector Leach (Matthew Rhys) to interview the assembled suspects and sift the clues.
Tom's Guide
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Tom's Guide
How to watch 'Scrublands' season 2 online – stream 'Silver' TV adaptation from anywhere
In "Scrublands" season 2, murder rocks a quiet town as journalist Martin races to clear his partner's name. "Silver", as season 2 is also named, aims to serve up more gripping murder-mystery action from Australia. Intrigued? Keep reading for how to watch 'Scrublands" season 2 online from anywhere with a VPN and potentially for free! "Scrublands" season 2 premieres in the U.S. on AMC on Thursday, May 29 with streaming on AMC+. All four episodes are already available in Australia.• U.S. — AMC+ (FREE trial) / AMC via Sling• Australia — Stan (All 4 episodes now)• Watch anywhere — try NordVPN 100% risk-free Based on Chris Hammer's novel "Silver," this season follows investigative journalist Martin Scarsden (Luke Arnold) as he returns to his coastal hometown, Port Silver, aiming to start anew with partner Mandy Bond (Bella Heathcote). Their plans unravel when Martin's childhood friend, Jasper, is found murdered, and Mandy becomes the prime suspect. As Martin investigates to clear Mandy's name, he confronts buried secrets about Port Silver and his own past. Filmed in Augusta, Western Australia, the series also features Luke Carroll, Debra Lawrance, David Roberts, and Tasma Walton. Season 2 originally premiered on April 17, 2025, exclusively on Stan in Australia, where you can find all four episodes available to stream. Fortunately, our guide below reveals how to watch "Scrublands" season 2 from anywhere with a VPN. "Scrublands" season 2 premieres on AMC on Thursday, May 29 in the U.S and will be available to stream on AMC+ (7-day free trial). You can also watch AMC without cable using a live TV service such as Sling TV, Fubo, DirecTV or Philo. If you're away from home when "Scrublands" season 2 drops, you can tune in as you usually would using a VPN like NordVPN. AMC+ gets you the best of AMC, BBC America, IFC, and Sundance TV with this streaming bundle that also includes Shudder, Sundance Now, and IFC Films Unlimited. Subscribers also get early access to certain AMC shows such as "The Walking Dead" and "Scrublands". You can watch AMC with the Sling TV Orange or Blue packages, which both start at $45.99 per month. Which to go for depends on the channel line up that's right for you, which you can read about in more detail on their website. Abroad and blocked from watching 'Scrublands" through your usual streaming platform? Don't worry. You can continue to watch your favorite films and TV shows when you download a VPN (Virtual Private Network). The software allows your devices to appear to be back in your home country regardless of where in the world you are. So ideal for viewers away on vacation or on business. Our favorite is NordVPN. It's the best VPN on the market. There's a good reason you've heard of NordVPN. We specialize in testing and reviewing VPN services and NordVPN is the one we rate best. It's outstanding at unblocking streaming services, it's fast and it has top-level security features too. With over 7,000 servers, across 110+ countries, and at a great price, it's easy to recommend. Get over 70% off NordVPN with this deal There's no U.K. release date for "Scrublands" season 2 as yet. Google's Gemini AI claims that "you can stream it on BBC iPlayer" but this is inaccurate information. You can stream season 1 on BBC iPlayer – but not season 2. What's more, we'd expect to find 'Scrublands' season 2 on Sky first. However, f you are a U.S. viewer abroad you can use a good quality VPN to unblock AMC+ and watch the 'Scrublands' 2025 from anywhere in the world. Using a VPN is easy. We have NordVPN running the background and it's pretty much a 'set and forget' app. It's also far superior to most VPNs when it comes to unblocking and securing streaming platforms like AMC+. "Scrublands" season 2, known as "Scrublands: Silver," is not available on AMC Plus in Canada. Remember, subscribers traveling abroad can use a VPN to watch AMC+ from anywhere. In case you hadn't noticed, we recommend NordVPN. All four episodes of "Scrublands" season 2 are available to stream now on Australian streamer Stan. Abroad? Use a VPN to unblock AMC+ or Stan and watch season 2 from anywhere in the world. Get NordVPN for the job and you won't be disappointed (they even offer a 30-day trial). We test and review VPN services in the context of legal recreational uses. For example: 1. Accessing a service from another country (subject to the terms and conditions of that service). 2. Protecting your online security and strengthening your online privacy when abroad. We do not support or condone the illegal or malicious use of VPN services. Consuming pirated content that is paid-for is neither endorsed nor approved by Future Publishing.
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- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Marvel actor video edited to spread India-Pakistan misinformation
"Goose Bumps Hats off to this gentleman, now Pakistani must know how ruthless Modiji is," reads an X post published May 13, 2025. The video in the post, which accumulated more than 2.4 million views, shows a person approaching a bus stop and replacing a poster that reads "Tell Modi" with another that says "I Told Modi." Indian media reported that, during the April 22 attack on tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir, a survivor said the gunman told her after killing her husband: "I won't kill you. Go and tell Modi" (archived link). The posts surfaced online after India said it had carried out strikes against "terrorist camps" in Pakistan, which led to four days of fighting before a ceasefire between the nuclear-armed South Asian rivals was announced by US President Donald Trump on May 10 (archived links here and here). India claimed Pakistan backed the militants behind the Pahalgam attack that killed 26, mainly Hindu men -- a charge Islamabad denies. The same video circulated with similar claims on Facebook and X, but the clip has been digitally altered from Marvel Studios promotional footage. A reverse image search using the video's keyframes found an unedited version published May 7 on Instagram (archived link). The caption reads: "#TheNewAvengers, but still #FilmedForIMAX experience #Thunderbolts* in #IMAX now!" Further keyword searches found the original video published May 5 on X by Marvel Studios with #TheNewAvengers (archived link). Originally titled "Thunderbolts*", the latest superhero film from Marvel stars Stan and remained on top of the North American box office in mid-May. The American production company revealed the asterisk in the movie's name referred to the titular ragtag team of antiheroes becoming "The New Avengers" (archived link). In Marvel's original video, Stan replaces a "Thunderbolts*" poster with one that says: "*The New Avengers" (archived link). AFP has fact-checked other misinformation about the India-Pakistan conflict here.
