June 2020 - Highway Durban
You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
New on Showmax<br />
Season one of Run is a top Showmax choice<br />
this month. Seventeen years ago, college<br />
sweethearts, Ruby and Billy made a pact – if<br />
either of them ever texted the word RUN<br />
and the other replied with the same word,<br />
they would drop everything, board the first<br />
train after 5pm out of Grand Central Station,<br />
and travel across America together. But<br />
they’re about to discover that the reality of<br />
taking that leap may not be quite how they<br />
pictured it.<br />
Insecure (S4) is an insightful, raunchy,<br />
and hilarious journey through the life of<br />
a 20-something black woman that cuts<br />
through stereotypes with sharp wit and an<br />
effusive spirit.<br />
From David Simon and Ed Burns – award<br />
-winning creators of The Wire – comes<br />
The Plot Against America (S1), an alternate<br />
history story in which Franklin D Roosevelt<br />
loses the 1940 US presidential election to<br />
Nazi sympathiser Charles Lindbergh. What<br />
follows is the terrifying and tension-building<br />
tale of the country’s turn to fascism, told<br />
through the eyes of a working-class Jewish<br />
family in New Jersey in the build-up to World<br />
War 2.<br />
In season one of The Outsiders, police<br />
detective Ralph Anderson is still grieving the<br />
death of his own son when the mutilated<br />
body of 11-year-old Frankie Peterson is<br />
found in the Georgia woods. The mysterious<br />
circumstances surrounding the horrifying<br />
crime lead Ralph to bring in unorthodox<br />
private investigator Holly Gibney to help<br />
explain the inexplicable.<br />
Golden Globe nominee Patrick Dempsey<br />
(McDreamy in Grey’s Anatomy) and<br />
Alessandro Borghi (Suburra), co-star in<br />
season one of Devils, an adaptation of the<br />
best-selling book by Italian trader Guido<br />
Maria Brera – an insider’s look at the world of<br />
millionaire bankers.<br />
In Billions season five, Bobby Axelrod and<br />
Chuck Rhoades see their vicious rivalry<br />
reignited, while new enemies rise and<br />
take aim. The struggle for power becomes<br />
a struggle for survival, and all characters<br />
must adapt or risk extinction. Look out for<br />
Golden Globe winner Julianna Margulies<br />
(The Good Wife, Hot Zone) as Catherine Brant,<br />
an Ivy League sociology professor and<br />
bestselling author.<br />
‘Good Kenyan girls become good Kenyan<br />
wives,’ but Kena and Ziki long for something<br />
more. When love blossoms between them in<br />
Rafiki, the two girls will be forced to choose<br />
between happiness and safety.<br />
Our best of Netflix<br />
Netflix series and movies we can’t get enough of...<br />
... and<br />
binge!<br />
New Girl<br />
If you fancy a classic, you can’t go wrong with Modern Family. This Emmywinning<br />
sitcom about Jay Pritchett and his eclectic family dealing with<br />
the challenges of contemporary life in Los Angeles, stars Ed O’Neill, Sofía<br />
Vergara, and Julie Bowen.<br />
Great fun ... filmed in a loft in downtown LA, New Girl revolves around the<br />
quirky Jessica Day, who moves in with three single guys. With 146 episodes<br />
to watch, this will keep you entertained for months!<br />
The sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror is exceptionally creepy. It explores<br />
a twisted, high-tech near-future, where humanity’s greatest innovations<br />
and darkest instincts collide.<br />
How to Get Away with Murder – all you need know is it’s a Shonda<br />
Rhimes legal drama/thriller. What more could you want? Staring Viola<br />
Davis as Annalise Keating, a law professor at a prestigious university in<br />
Philadelphia who, along with a handful of her students, gets involved in a<br />
murder plot. Unmissable!<br />
In Last Breath, a commercial deep sea diver is stranded on the seabed. He<br />
has five minutes of oxygen, but there’s no chance of rescue for more than<br />
half an hour. With access to amazing archives, this is the true story of one<br />
man’s impossible fight for survival.<br />
04 Get It <strong>Highway</strong> • Berea • <strong>Durban</strong> North <strong>June</strong> <strong>2020</strong>