Have time to kill and wondering what to stream on Showmax? We’ve got you covered with this exciting line-up. Stay in and binge your favourite shows with this top-rated selection. You’re welcome!
EUPHORIA S2
Stream the first two episodes now, with new episodes express from the US every Monday
Euphoria topped multiple “the most anticipated shows of 2022” lists, from Complex to Esquire, Mashable to Polygon. Now the first two episodes of its long-awaited second season are streaming on Showmax, with new episodes coming express from the US every Monday.
Sam Levinson’s ground-breaking adults-only hit series stars Zendaya (Chani in Dune, and MJ in the Tom Holland Spider-Man movies) as teenage addict Rue, trying to find hope while balancing the pressures of love, loss and addiction. It’s been two years since Season 1 concluded, and the mid-pandemic 2020/21 two-part special only made us miss it more, so it’s no surprise that the Season 2 trailer hit over 1 million views on YouTube within 12 hours when it dropped at the end of November last year.
INSECURE S5
All good things come to an end, even Issa Rae’s landmark, Emmy-winning comedy, Insecure. The final season is now available to binge on Showmax, along with Insecure: The End, a documentary exploring the show’s cultural impact and emotional final season.
Season 5 ended on a high, with a 100% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes and 2022 Critics Choice nominations for Best Comedy and Best Actress (Rae), as well as a Golden Globe nomination for Rae. As the Rotten Tomatoes’ critics consensus puts it, “Insecure enters its final season as a fully confident comedy with plenty left to say about friendship, love, and self-esteem.”
WHY WOMEN KILL S2
The delicious (but deadly) new season of the drama anthology series Why Women Kill is here is at last. Created by Emmy nominee Marc Cherry (Desperate Housewives, Devious Maids), the series has an 8.3/10 score on IMDb, with an 83% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes for Season 2.
IN TREATMENT S4
The season stars Emmy winner Uzo Aduba (Mrs. America, Orange Is The New Black) as the observant, empathetic therapist Dr. Brooke Taylor, who takes over from Gabriel Byrne’s Doctor Paul Weston. She’s up for Best Actress at the 2022 Critics Choice Awards, having already been nominated at the 2021 Emmys and 2022 Golden Globes. As Variety says, Aduba is “proving to be one of the essential actors of the 21st century.”
SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE S1
A remake of the iconic 1973 Swedish miniseries by legendary Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergman, the HBO drama Scenes From a Marriage stars Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty, The Help, Interstellar) and Golden Globe winner Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis, Star Wars’ Poe Dameron) in an intimate examination of love, hatred, desire, monogamy, marriage and divorce, as seen through the eyes of a contemporary American couple.
GOSSIP GIRL
Based on the bestselling novels by Cecily von Ziegesar, the original 2007 Gossip Girl won 18 Teen Choice Awards and launched the careers of the likes of Penn Badgley (You) and Blake Lively (The Town). Now this extension of the pop culture classic takes us back to the Upper East Side, finding a new generation of New York private school teens being introduced to social surveillance nine years after the original blogger’s website went dark.
Gossip Girl, which explores just how much social media - and the landscape of New York itself — has changed in the intervening years, saw record viewership over its first weekend on HBO Max in July 2021, trending at #1 on Twitter and generating over 15 billion total social impressions at launch. Also catch all 122 episodes of the original Gossip Girl series for a limited time only, until 31 March 2022.
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