Steve Coogan stars as a cop infiltrating a heroin-smuggling ring in the nerve-jangling new show from the creator of The Gold. Plus: more silly espionage fun!
This thriller from Neil Forsyth aims for a similarly picaresque tone to his previous series, The Gold. It stars Steve Coogan as Don, a jaded detective who assembles a team of misfit customs employees either bored or bold enough to take a gamble with their careers, and possibly their lives. It’s inspired by real events in the 90s in which officers infiltrated heroin-smuggling rings at the behest of Margaret Thatcher, who needed “a crisis she could solve”. It’s more of a slow burn than The Gold but, as the officers (who include Tom Burke and Hayley Squires) embed themselves within criminal gangs, the stakes rise, identities collapse and events become increasingly nerve-jangling.
Netflix, from Thursday
The slightly garish CGI animation style loses a little of the tactile charm of the original Dr Seuss children’s books. But the central premise of this breezy cartoon about the cheerful young elephant remains strong enough to imprint itself upon a new generation of kids. Horton remains as relentlessly wholesome and helpful as ever and he returns for a second season of low-stakes adventures with his small menagerie of animal pals. This time, they’re hunting for treasure, navigating a mud pit and trying to find a lost family of butterflies.
