![]() With a cast consisting of Tom Holland, Amanda Seyfried and Emmy Rossum, there’s enough wattage here to give it at least an episode. The Crowded Room, a psychological thriller about a man arrested for a shocking crime that he may or may not have actually committed, and the investigator tasked with solving the mystery, is aiming to be the former. There are two types of Apple TV+ drama: event shows with massive stars that everybody tunes into (The Morning Show), and event shows with massive stars that pretty much no one is aware of (basically everything else, sorry). (*Not an actual island.) The Crowded Room (limited series weekly on Apple TV+ from June 9) If you’re a fan, you’ll probably already have June 7 marked down in your calendar if you’re curious what all the fuss is about, it’s now free to watch on TVNZ+. You know the drill by now: a group of young men and women inhabit a giant villa on a sunbaked island*, completing inane challenges and swapping partners until they meet the love of their life or get voted off, while Scottish comedian Iain Stirling wryly commentates. ![]() If that sounds like your kind of thing, get stuck in! Love Island UK (new season on TVNZ+ from June 7) The reviews out of the Cannes Film Festival have been… unkind… highlighting the graphic sexual content, empty provocations and general misanthropy. The series follows an aspiring pop idol (Lily-Rose Depp) in the midst of a nervous breakdown while trying to reclaim her title as the “sexiest popstar in America”, who somehow ends up in a relationship with Tedros (Tesfaye), a self-help guru. If you’ve heard about The Idol, the new series from Abel Tesfaye (aka The Weeknd), Sam Levinson (Euphoria) and Reza Fahim (non-film-and-TV things), it’s probably due to the controversy. What are you going to be watching this week? We round up everything coming to streaming services this week, including Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, Apple TV+, Neon and TVNZ+.
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