YouTube
Inhuman Condition
This polished Canadian webseries offers the sort of brooding sci-fi that wouldn’t be out of place on a bigger budget show. Set in a world where supernatural beings including werewolves and zombies roam freely but are treated as outcasts, it’s the job of therapist Dr Kessler (Torri Higginson of Stargate: Atlantis fame) to make sure that they stay safe. While it’s currently on a mid-season break, there are 17 of a promised 33 episodes to catch up with before its return.
Available now
BBC iPlayer
Brought Up On Porn
Successfully transferring from radio to online TV, this Newsbeat doc explores young people’s experiences of watching pornography. While familiar topics are covered – particularly the unrealistic expectations engendered by porn – some controversial issues are also touched upon. It is worrying, for example, to hear about the effects of porn on a survivor of sexual abuse. However, a point about the lack of LGBT sexual education emphasises why the availability of material with an open-minded approach towards sexuality is important.
Available from Monday
BBC3
People Just Do Nothing
The first instalment of series three (produced by Ash Atalla of The Office fame) has certainly done its predecessors justice. The YouTube hit-turned-mockumentary follows the juvenile antics of the gang behind Kurupt FM, a fictional pirate radio station. Prepare to wince as the group record a track that hinges on the sound of a breaking bottle and cringe as Miche and Grindah’s drunken mistake of an engagement begins to unravel.
Available from Wednesday
Podcast
The Vice UK Podcast
Vice has made a podcast and it sounds exactly like its news articles read: sarcastic and waffling but more fun to consume than most traditional ways of getting your daily allowance of current affairs. In this episode, journalists offer their take on Marina Joyce-gate; the method behind the madness of the man who hid a bag of cocaine in his foreskin is explored; and, more importantly, the team discuss generational resentment following the EU referendum from an unashamedly biased but necessary perspective.
Available now
Netflix
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead
EDM might be big business these days but it’s also the punchline to many a joke about laptop DJs who press a few buttons, twiddle a knob or two and bring in the kajillions before retiring in their 20s (see: Avicii). A doc about cake-throwing house agitator Steve Aoki might sound like a riot of partying and premium vodka but, in fact, it opts for a more ambitious angle, focusing on his relationship with his successful yet absent father and Aoki Jr’s own deeply work-oriented life.
Available from Friday
All4
Eden
A worthy sociological experiment? Or simply Love Island in Gore-Tex? However you’ve viewed this exercise in isolated society-building, it’s been undeniably entertaining. The whole Lord Of The Flies-evoking, pig-slaughtering, homebrew-glugging series is now available for bingeing.
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