Tessa Thompson and Jon Bernthal star in a steamy, fraught murder mystery, and Steven Knight’s brooding boxing thriller returns for a second round. Plus, a jaw-dropping documentary about the family who adopted a booze-loving bear The brutal murder of an anonymous woman? Rarely a promising start to a drama, but thankfully things get more interesting from this point. The killing is the backdrop to a dangerous game of cat and mouse between tightly wound detective Jack (Jon Bernthal, on fine, nervy form) and Tessa Thompson ’s broadcast journalist Anna, whose career has hit the skids following a personal trauma. She views the case as a source of professional redemption, but there is history between the pair – and it turns out the victim might not be unknown to them. A dark thriller, adapted from Alice Feeney’s novel, that utilises the steamy heat and fraught racial politics of Atlanta to tense, claustrophobic effect. Netflix, from Thursday 8 January Continue reading...