Jude Law and Jason Bateman. How about that for a powerhouse casting in Netflix’s new drama Black Rabbit? Streaming columnist NICK OVERALL is pretty pleased.

Black Rabbit, an eight-episode show, stars Jude Law and Jason Bateman as two brothers who start a high-end restaurant that’s on the brink of becoming Manhattan’s new dining destination.

But, of course, something sinister is cooking up in the background.

Things begin to spiral when Vince (Bateman) returns to town drowning in a huge debt he owes to the criminal underworld.

His brother, Jake (Law) is now forced into a dangerous and potentially dream-shattering limbo: bail out his brother, put the success of the business first or try to do both?

This is a slick, fast-paced series that’s easy to watch thanks to its two fantastic leads.

It doesn’t shy away from its inspirations.

The plot moves with a similar, thrilling rhythm to Ozark, which also starred Bateman as a man who must devise increasingly cunning ways to escape a debt that his life rests upon.

All that is stirred in with some clear influence from The Bear, an Emmy-winning drama series that takes audiences inside the pressure-cooker environment of hospitality.

Black Rabbit takes ingredients from both and mixes them together for a fun, edge of your seat thriller.

The recipe works.

IT’S not often that Darwin and the NT get the spotlight in a big streaming production.

However, it’s the setting of Top End Bub, a new series on Amazon Prime Video made in the NT.

This homegrown comedy-drama is the sequel to 2019’s Top End Wedding (available on ABC iView) a film about an indigenous lawyer named Lauren who is forced to search the territory for her mother just days before her wedding.

Years later, Lauren is living with her husband Ned in Adelaide chasing big-city dreams when they learn that Lauren’s sister has died in a tragic accident.

Lauren’s niece, an eight-year-old girl named Taya, has been orphaned and Lauren and Ned now have to make the tough decision to put their own goals aside to return to the NT and raise the child.

Unlike Top End Wedding, this sequel is a TV show rather than a film, stretching out its story over eight episodes.

It’s the right choice for the follow up.

Miranda Tapsell, who plays Lauren, is also the creator of the show and explores her own heritage and the clash between family roots and city life. It may sound heavy in premise, but there’s a bitter-sweet sense of humour here that, along with its unique setting, makes Top End Bub stand out.

CHARLIE Sheen, an actor whose life has been plastered in headlines and in the media for decades and yet his name has still found new currency amongst streaming subscribers with a new doco on Netflix.

It’s made by Andrew F Renzi who was also behind “Pepsi, Where’s my Jet?”, one of Netflix’s more obscure but most entertaining documentaries.

Following its success Renzi has been given the green light on an even bigger subject matter.

This new two-part show goes into detail about Charlie Sheen’s life, his break at fame and the many controversies that followed.

Each episode runs for a whopping 90 minutes, essentially making them two whole documentary films.

That hasn’t put viewers off, though. The documentary has successfully made it into Netflix’s coveted top 10 this month.

If Charlie Sheen interests audiences enough to sit through more than three hours of what is perhaps the most comprehensive account of his career, then this doco undoubtedly does its job.

For those who don’t really care, don’t expect this production to make you.

It’s remarkable how much traction the star of Two and a Half Men still gets.

Personally, I didn’t get much further than two and a half minutes.