Five things to watch this week
‘Kramer vs Kramer’ updated, Australia’s Muslim community, second series of ‘Pachinko’, sci-fi parables and convoluted crime drama
OUR SON — APPLE TV+
Luke Evans and Billy Porter star in this bittersweet update of the 1979 divorce classic Kramer vs Kramer. Evans and Porter play a middle-class New York gay couple who find themselves in a bitter custody battle over their eight-year-old son after one of them breaks the couple’s codes about sex with other people. Carried by dedicated performances, though sometimes a bit didactic in its attempts to explain gay relationships to a straight audience, it manages to succeed on its own terms as a small but moving portrayal of a modern marriage in crisis and its effects on the child at the centre of the battle...
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