Elle Fanning stars as a student and single mom who turns to OnlyFans to raise cash, plus a tense, clever new season of Beef pitches two sets of couples against one another
Margo’s English tutor thinks she’s Harvard material. If only he wasn’t using this assessment to flatter her into bed. When, with grim predictability, he leaves her literally holding the baby, Margo (Elle Fanning) realises she has followed in the footsteps of her mother Shyanne (Michelle Pfeiffer) who had her after a one-night stand with a punter at Hooters. What unfolds is a story of hardscrabble female solidarity as Margo, determined to retain a degree of autonomy, unlocks both an income and her latent creativity via an OnlyFans account. The script is smart, funny and unsentimental and the lead performances (particularly Pfeiffer) are full of warmth and charm.
Apple TV, from Wednesday 15 April
The second season of this tense, clever comedy stars Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan and pivots on two couples. Ashley and Austin are young, poor and very much in love. They work at a country club for Joshua and Lindsay who are older, wealthier and very much not in love. When Ashley and Austin film the older couple in the middle of a nasty row, battle lines are drawn, leverage is exerted and a tale of gaslighting, coercion and blackmail begins. The narrative is constructed with scalpel-sharp precision, teasing out the neuroses of the characters and the appalling behaviour they induce. A dark delight.
