Code of Silence

A groundbreaking take on the British detective series, Code of Silence pivots around a deaf canteen worker whose lip reading skills become critical to an investigation into a violent criminal gang, as its members only meet in “unbuggable” locations.  From The Times‘ Carol Midgely:  “The result is a fresh, original drama that has done the near impossible and given us a cop drama with something new to say.”  (Read the review)

Available on: Britbox More Britbox

more RELEASES this week:

August 14, 2025
  Season 1
Available on: Disney More Disney+
In time for football season, and for anyone trying to understand the hype around Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs, this joint ESPN+ and Disney+ series will demystify the franchise, its history, and it’s most visible star. It comes from the team behind the Emmy-winning The Last Dance, so expec  …
August 14, 2025
  Season 1
Available on: Netflix More Netflix
Tyler Perry’s timely political satire about race, sexism and media scrutiny in modern day state politics returns with its second batch of episodes. It follows Mississippi’s first Black lieutenant governor (Terri J. Vaughn), as she juggles her dismissive boss and her family’s sudden fame. Former Atla  …
August 13, 2025
  Season 1
Available on: Prime Video More Prime
A high-adrenaline espionage thriller set against South Korea’s vibrant nightlife and sleek bullet trains, Butterfly stars Daniel Dae Kim as a former spy whose daughter is sent to assassinate him in this six-episode Amazon Prime series based on the graphic novel series created by Arash Amel.  “Viewer  …
August 13, 2025
Available on: Netflix More Netflix
A bawdy, very R-rated animated comedy about a dog who lets himself loose on the world after finding out he’s going to be neutered, Fixed boasts an impressive voice cast that includes Idris Elba, Kathryn Hahn, Fred Armisen and Bobby Moynihan, among others.  “Just like the dog it’s about, Fixed has pl  …
August 12, 2025
  Season 1
Available on: Hulu More Hulu
Alien gets a timely, thought-provoking prequel series that taps into our current angst about AI and corporate overlords. Set in 2120, in a world run by five mega-companies, a deep-space vessel with experimental life forms crashes to earth, leaving it up to the first human-AI hybrid, Wendy, and rival  …
August 12, 2025
Available on: PVOD
You might think you know Marlee Matlin’s story. An Oscar winner at 21, the first Deaf actor to win an Academy Award, she captured the spotlight again in her mid-50s in the Oscar darling CODA. But there is much more to her story that will surprise, enlighten, and make you feel less alone, and her she  …
August 12, 2025
  Season 1
Available on: Acorn More Acorn
Decades after her father’s disappearance, a powerful LA divorce lawyer returns to Ireland to discover that she wasn’t abandoned after all, as she begins to uncover secret relatives, local crime rings, horse racing cons, and family betrayals. Alicia Silverstone stars in the taut six-episode drama tha  …
August 8, 2025
  Season 1
Available on: Starz
A prequel to the Outlander series that stands on it own, Blood of My Blood is a romantic historical drama that tells the alternating love stories of the future Jamie Fraser’s parents in 18th-century Scotland and Claire Beauchamp’s parents in World War I England. Grounded in actual historical events  …
August 7, 2025
  Season 2
Available on: AMC+/Sundance Now
A hidden gem that debuted on the Roku Channel in 2022, The Newsreader is an 80s-set drama that follows a veteran Australian news anchor (Anna Torv) as she’s paired up with a handsome young reporter (Sam Reid) to cover everything from the Challenger explosion to Halley’s Comet to the AIDS crisis. Bla  …
August 7, 2025
  Season 2
Available on: AppleTV+ More AppleTV+
A light and smart “com without the rom” for anyone in the midlife crisis years – or viewers staring down parenting challenges, career pivots, and an identity shift. Platonic follows former lawyer turned stay-at-home mom (Rose Byrne) as she rekindles her friendship with a recently divorced brewery ow  …
August 7, 2025
  Season 2
Available on: Netflix More Netflix
A deeper and darker second season of the hit Addams family show finally arrives for August binge-watching, with an all new supernatural mystery, a quicker pace, and more of the family.  Wednesday investigates a new series of murders and makes new friends, and Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones), Gomez (  …
August 7, 2025
  Season 1
Available on: OTHER
Imagine being dropped into the alternate versions of your life — those roads not taken — using a new psychiatric therapy?  That’s the premise of this inventive, six-episode comedy that tries out a different genre with each episode and each life, from a relationships reality show to a satire to a d  …



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