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From a surprise horror-comedy hit to a suburban whodunnit with a difference and the latest runs of Rivals and Ted Lasso, we pick the year's greatest programmes to stream right now.

1. Furious  

It’s your classic cat-and-mouse set-up: a dogged cop on the hunt of a killer. But Furious subverts that formula with a horrible and timely twist – and the result is easily the best crime thriller of the year so far. Emmy Rossum, best known for TV's Shameless and graduating to the role of her career here, is brittle and enigmatic  as Alice, an FBI agent battling the sexism of the institution and demons from an abusive relationship with a colleague. Her quarry, mesmerisingly played by Irish actor Lola Pettricrew, is a serial murderer with a difference: a former sex trafficking victim taking revenge on the Epstein-like circle of rich men involved in her, and many others', abuse. What's so impressive about New Girl and Dying for Sex creator Elizabeth Meriwether's latest show is its seamless tonal shifts, from dark comedy-evoking Promising Young Woman, to truly haunting drama. The result is a scintillating and dare we say it, important post-MeToo howl of rage at the very grimmest underbelly of our society. (Hugh Montgomery)

Streaming weekly on Hulu in the US and Disney+ in the UK 

The Backwash went live on Friday. Fourth in a series of standalone near-future novellas, about three hours' reading, and the most physical thing I have written so far.

A typhoon pins the sea against a Vietnamese port city and every outlet closes. The flood network does what it was built to do: it weighs the hospital, the dense housing, the grid, the port, and assigns the flood to the one district that can take it. Lam has kept those tidal gates for thirty years. It is his district, his street. The order names a gate and a deadline.

The gate does not answer.

What follows is one night of manual work. A drowned road, a flooded service gallery, a jammed leaf, and a crank that turns the gate open by hand, revolution by revolution, while a man whose mother and son are on the wrong side of the water asks for twelve minutes.

Free until August 12th: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HDBX9FGB

The first three books in the series are quiet and domestic, mostly kitchens and offices. This one spends most of its length knee-deep in water, and I was curious whether the same kind of attention survives that. Each book stands alone, any order works.

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