The Offer (Paramount Plus)
Even when you know the ending, this ten-part drama about the making of The Godfather, seen from the perspective of novice producer Albert S. Ruddy (Miles Teller), is outrageously gripping, gorgeously evocative of louche, cocktail-drenched late 1960s Hollywood, wittily scripted and superbly acted. Matthew Goode is especially watchable as superproducer Robert Evans. And this mostly true story has so many eye-popping moments – often involving the real mafia who at first resisted, then supported the movie – it feels more like the raciest and most implausible fiction.
Reacher (Amazon)
Yes, the entire concept is the most preposterous tosh: incredibly tall, handsome loner from military background travels across America dispensing justice while eating junk food and staying in cheap motels which obviously don’t have gym facilities, yet maintains the perfect physique throughout. But it’s redeemed by its cartoonish knowingness. Reacher (Alan Ritchson) is almost comically monosyllabic and brutal, yet adorably sweet with his old-fashioned good manners.
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