What to watch on streaming in March: Highlights from Netflix, Stan, Disney, Apple, Prime, HBO and more

ROOSTER

HBO Max, March 9th

If you’re really vibing with the gentle comedy-drama tone of Ted Lasso and Shrinking, Rooster is really going to work for you, and not just because one of its co-creators is Bill Lawrence, who has a hand in those other shows.

Rooster is really easy watching but still has the right amount of spice and spikes. It stars Steve Carell as a best-selling author of pulpy novels who ends up taking a visiting writer gig at the university where his daughter, going through a public divorce, is a professor.

PEAKY BLINDERS: THE IMMORTAL MAN

Netflix, March 20th

The long-awaited Peaky Blinders movie sequel will get a cinema run first, so, if you’re a true fan, go and find it in a theatre from March 6. Think of the moral superiority you’ll feel when you tell people you did it the right way.

Set during World War II, Tommy is now basically a reclusive haunted by the violent actions of his past, but he returns to Birmingham when his son, Duke (Barry Keoghan), is causing havoc.

DEADLOCH S2

Prime Video, March 20th

What’s worse than the bone-shattering damp and cold of Tasmania? The repressive humidity of the Top End. Trading in one extreme for another, Dulcie and Eddie are caught up in another investigation of a baffling death. Actually, several deaths.

There’s dead croc, the dismembered arm, the missing backpackers and the supposed suicide of Eddie’s former partner. Are they are connected? Almost definitely. Will there be some wild characters that get in the way? Absolutely.

LOUIS THEROUX: INSIDE THE MANOSPHERE

Netflix, March 11th

A documentary veteran of three decades, who better than Louis Theroux to explore the manosphere, both a modern phenomenon and the continuation of millennia of misogyny. Ever curious, often wry and with the ability to probe his subjects like no one else, Theroux cuts a distinct figure.

Describing the manosphere as a video game’s “final boss”, he’ll look into how many intersection hate-driven ideologies come together through the power of the internet, and how that’s infecting throngs of young men.

SCARPETTA

Prime Video, March 11th

Crime writer Patricia Cornwall’s famous literary Kay Scarpetta is long overdue for a screen adaptation, and if you’re going to wait that long, you need someone like Nicole Kidman to finally bring the forensic pathologist to life.

The show also stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Bobby Cannavale, Simon Baker and Ariana Bose in a story about how a gruesome murder scene in the present day connects to a horrific crime 28 years in the past.

HEARTBREAK HIGH S3

Netflix, March 25th

School’s (almost) out! We’ve followed the rambunctious kids of Hartley High for two seasons and now we’ll get to see them go off to the fabulous futures they’re destined to lead, but not before one last hurrah and one hell of a muck-up day.

Because it wouldn’t be an authentic Australian high school experience without the chaos of that particular end of school experience.

MARSHALS: A YELLOWSTONE STORY

Paramount+, March 2nd

Yellowstone fans are legion so there will be plenty of attention on the first direct sequel/spin-off since the main series ended after the behind-the-scenes shemozzle with Kevin Costner.

Marshals will follow Luke Grimes’ Kayce Dutton, the youngest of the brood, as he joins a super special unit of the US Marshals serving as the supposed “last line of defence” in the war against violence, or some very American thing like that. It will co-star Logan Marshall-Green, Arielle Kebbel and Gil Birmingham.

YOUNG SHERLOCK

Prime Video, March 4th

Guy Ritchie obviously didn’t completely scratch his Sherlock Holmes itch with those two Robert Downey Jr movies 15 years ago, because he’s diving back into the world of Victorian England.

This version follows a younger version of Sherlock at Oxford University where he’s arrested for a crime he didn’t do, but he’s only pulling on the thread of a much larger conspiracy. Instead of the usual Watson team-up, he’s actually buddies with his eventual nemesis, James Moriarty.

VLADIMIR

Netflix, March 5th

Rachel Weisz plays a professor who’s in a slump – she feels uninspired to write, her class has fewer and fewer students, and her husband has been accused of sexual assault. Against all this, she’s swept up in an unexpected dalliance with a younger colleague, played by Leo Woodall.

The comedy-drama series, adapted from a novel by Julia May Jonas, promises to be an examination of sexual desire and malaise, of a crush turning into an obsession and the gender politics of campus life.

DTF ST LOUIS

HBO Max, March 2nd

Bateman plays a TV weatherman who forms a relationship his colleague, a sign language interpreter named Floyd (Harbour), and is also having an affair with Floyd’s wife (Cardellini). Not surprisingly, because it’s a TV show, someone winds up dead.

THE OTHER BENNET SISTER

Binge, March 16th

Poor overlooked Mary Bennet. It’s hard to be the middle sister in a family where almost everyone else attracts so much drama. It’s about time the often forgotten about Pride and Prejudice character got to be the centre of her story.

Adapted from a book by Janice Hadlow, the 10-part series follows Mary on a journey to London and the picturesque Lake District. It stars Call the Midwife’s Ella Bruccoleri along with Richard E. Grant and Indira Varma.

THE COMEBACK S3

HBO Max, March 23rd

It’s as if when Lisa Kudrow and Michael Patrick King named their creation The Comeback, they knew it would be the show that refused to die. This third season of The Comeback is the second time it’s been revived after previous instalments in 2005 and 2014.

A satirical comedy about the entertainment industry, Kudrow plays a one-time sitcom star who keeps trying to become relevant again.

DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN S3

Disney+, March 25th

Speaking of revivals, Daredevil: Born Again (hey, it’s also in the name) returns for the second season of its own comeback. The original series was part of Netflix’s street-level heroes universe and eventually Disney gave in to fan clamour and brought Charlie Cox back as the Devil from Hells Kitchen.

This second season will also feature another we all thought had retired after the Disney-Netflix deal was done: Jessica Jones, the near-impervious and hella-snarky superhero played by Krysten Ritter.

GONE

Stan, March 8th

When you consider that Gone is created by George Kay, the man behind Lupin and Hijack, you’re expecting it’ll be high octane and suspenseful. In Gone, we’re promised a cat-and-mouse chase between a detective (Eve Myles) and a school headmaster (David Morrissey) whose wife has disappeared.

The two opponents comes from different worlds, and he embodies the upper crust of the British social establishment, which should add another layer of tension in the investigation.

IMPERFECT WOMEN

Apple TV, March 18th

Mary, Eleanor and Nancy have known each other for decades, and from the outside, seem like they have the perfect friendship. Then Nancy is found dead and it becomes apparent that everyone has been keeping their own secrets.

Billed as a psychological thriller and adapted from a book by Annie Weisman, it stars Elisabeth Moss, Kerry Washington and Kate Mara as the imperfect women in the title, along with Joel Kinnaman, Leslie Odom Jr and Corey Stoll.

THE MADISON

Paramount+, March 14th

Those Yellowstone devotees will feel very well served this month with a second Taylor Sheridan series, although this is not technically a spin-off. It does feature the landscapes of Montana and similar themes around family fealty, so the vibes are very familiar.

Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell are the leads here in this six-episode first season, centred on the Clyburns, a New York family who moves to Montana after a tragedy.

FRAUDS

ABC iview, March 15th

A heist series with Suranne Jones and Jodie Whittaker? Say no more! Oh well, if we must, here’s the gist: The pair play old friends and con-artists, one who has been in prison for 10 years and is being released to die from cancer, and the other is the mate who feels guilty for being somewhat responsible for landing them in prison.

With little left to lose, they decide to pull off one last big job, while contending with all the history between them.

HOMEBODIES

SBS On Demand, March 28th

This Australian family drama starring Claudia Karvan, Luke Wiltshire and Jazi Hall was selected to be part of Series Mania, a prestigious TV festival.

It tells the story of Darcy, a trans man who returns home to care for his mother, from whom he has been estranged. He discover she has been living with the ghost of his pre-transition teen self, and now must confront ghosts literal, metaphorical and emotional.

THE MATTER OF FACTS

ABC iview, March 24th

A three-part docuseries hosted by Hamish Macdonald, The Matter of Facts wants to explore that most pertinent of questions: If we can’t even agree on what’s truth, how are we supposed to exist together?

Sifting through the slop and sorting out misinformation, the series will examine how facts become distorted in the digital ecosystem, and how it affects individuals and communities as small as Jindabyne and as large as Paris.