Sean Combs: The Reckoning
Streaming now on Netflix
If you were a teen in the 90s, you’d have been hard-pressed to escape the stranglehold hip-hop and rap culture had on us all back in the day.
For a young, middle-class girl from Perth, I knew far more than I ever should have about East vs West Coast rap, the battles between New York’s Bad Boy Records (the guys behind The Notorious B.I.G.) and LA’s Death Row Records (who brought us Snoop and Tupac Shakur).
I was the full bottle on Crips vs Bloods gang feuds (I’ve not looked at a red bandana in quite the same way since) and, like a lot of people my age, had THOUGHTS about who killed Tupac and Biggie.
Needless to say, I tuned in with anticipation to this unbelievably watchable doco series from Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, which details — in painstaking detail — all the ways in which Sean “Puff Daddy, P Diddy” Combs fell short of the pedestal we all put him on back in his heyday.
When I tell you my jaw was on the floor!
This is the mother of all take-downs. 50 Cent came with RECEIPTS, and you’d be hard-pressed to find a more comprehensive dismantling of someone’s reputation than the one detailed through this excellent four-part documentary.
“It does such a thorough job of laying out and backing up so many horrific allegations that his (Combs) way back to stardom is surely blocked forever,” The Guardian wrote last week — and we agree.
Both Combs — who is two months into a 50-month sentence for two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution — and his mother Janice have slammed the documentary, claiming inaccuracies were “intentionally done to mislead viewers and further harm our reputation”, but they failed in their attempts to stop this from going to air.
If you watch one doco this year, make sure it’s this. Even if you’re not up to speed with 90s rap culture, you’ll still be thoroughly mesmerised by this stunning documentary.
Emily In Paris
Thursday, streaming on Netflix
Camera IconEmily In Paris is returning to Netflix – and it looks like Emily has a new hot Italian man on her arm! Credit: Caroline Dubois
Pack your bags, mon amie — we’re going to Italy! This season, having mastered (mangled?) the French language, Emily (Lily Collins) is off to head up the Italian office of Agence Grateau — and if the recent trailer is anything to go by, then it’s looking like more play than work for our cherie, which we love.
Those worried we’ll be saying goodbye to our Parisian peeps — fear not! They’re all popping up in this new season, plus our favourite love triangle is rumoured to be migrating too, with Alfie (Lucien Laviscount) and Gabriel (Lucas Bravo) heading to Rome at some point over the season.
But has Emily moved on and into the arms of Italian stallion, Marcello (Eugenio Franceschini)?
Inject this ridiculousness into my frazzled eyeballs.
Abbott Elementary S5
Wednesday, streaming on Disney Plus
Camera IconAbbott Elementary is streaming on Disney Plus. Credit: Gilles Mingasson/Disney
This one’s for all the teachers about to go full catatonic over the next six weeks of summer hols — if you can stomach the PTSD, this is well worth a binge-watch. You’ll find much to relate to in the new season.
Fallout S2
Wednesday, streaming on Prime
Camera IconFallout Season Two is coming to Prime Video. Credit: Lorenzo Sisti/Prime
Unexpectedly loved the first series of this post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama. Series two sees Lucy (Ella Purnell) and The Ghoul (Walton Goggins) heading to New Vegas in their quest to hunt down Hank. Meanwhile, Maximus (Aaron Moten) prepares for a civil war.
The Good Wife
Wednesday, streaming on 7Plus
Camera IconJulianna Margulies stars in The Good Wife. Credit: David M. Russell/CBS
If you missed this great drama the first time around, now’s your chance to find out what the hype’s all about — with 156 episodes, you’ve got some catching up to do. Emmy winner Julianna Margulies knocks it out of the park as the wife of a disgraced state attorney who reinvents herself as a formidable litigator.
