Availability: Five episodes now streaming, new episode Sunday. The characters could be icy and obtuse, yet also belligerent and cripplingly open. This unexpected third season upends the few creative constants.
When Iris Julia Goldani Telles quits her PhD in neuroscience in the States, she cuts her hair and gets two new jobs in London: researcher with ambitious — or is that malfeasant — dating start-up NGM by day, escort with exclusive agency The V by night. With a suitably detached perspective, Iris sees the two gigs as intertwined. She records each meeting with a client set up The V as an experiment she might identify applicable data from, while in the office she develops a project to teach AI how to match people together.
It is intriguing, but not entirely satisfying, but it is clearly playing the long game. A national obsession in the U. The current season is streaming on BritBox, but Netflix has all five previous seasons for those who need a new police procedural. The creator and architect is Jed Mercurio, who was also responsible for the white-knuckle Netflix limited series Bodyguard [ full review here ]. Click here for the weekly e-mail. Show Index. Movie Index. List Index. May 7. Craig Mathieson.
