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TV Highlights: Girl in the Picture, Drag Race Down Under, Industry and The Streets with Dan Hong

Pierra WillixThe West Australian
Girl in the Picture.
Camera IconGirl in the Picture. Credit: Supplied by Netflix

Girl in the Picture

Streaming on Netflix

In 1990, a 20-year-old woman was found severely injured by the side of a road in Oklahoma City before dying in hospital.

As police started their investigation into the suspected hit-and-run, they started to unravel a shocking story of the circumstances that had led up to her death, which included fake identities, sexual abuse and even a kidnapping.

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While the woman initially known to them as Tonya Hughes left behind a son and a man claiming to be her husband, the truth of their family unit was far more sinister.

The shocking case is unravelled in this compelling true crime documentary, which is incredibly confronting at times as the details of the young woman’s upbringing are revealed.

But, instead of being exploitative, it gives a voice back to the victim, and those who worked to ensure justice was sought.

Hannah Conda.
Camera IconHannah Conda. Credit: Stan

Reality

RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under

Streaming on Stan

The next batch of Queens better work hard in their quest to be named the next Down Under Drag Race Superstar.

Mama Ru is back, along with judges Michelle Visage and Rhys Nicholson, who will be tasked with whittling down the 10 fierce new contenders to the final stand-out.

Flying the flag for WA is York-raised, award-winning Hannah Conda, who has appeared on Keeping up with the Kardashians and co-founded Drag Storytime in 2016.

Harper (Myha'la Herrold) in a scene from Industry.
Camera IconHarper (Myha'la Herrold) in a scene from Industry. Credit: Nick Strasburg

Drama

Industry

Tuesday, Streaming on Binge

The cut-throat world of finance (and what goes on behind the scenes) made for addictive viewing when this series first dropped back in 2020.

This time around, the second season kicks off with Harper Stern (Myha’la Herrold) having achieved a full-time role as a junior banker at Pierpoint & Co but in the aftermath of the height of the pandemic, the young professional is even more ambitious than ever as she seeks to stand apart from her peers.

The high stakes of this industry will leave you on edge, but totally intoxicated.

Dan Hong.
Camera IconDan Hong. Credit: Supplied by SBS

Food

The Streets with Dan Hong

Thursday, 8pm, SBS Food

There’s no better way to sample a country’s best culinary offerings than trying its street food.

So you can bet I’ll be tuning in (with a rumbling stomach and extreme travel envy) as Dan Hong discovers the origins of delicious street foods from around the world before dishing them up in his new series.

From the Colombian arepa domino to the Indonesian martabak to the iconic Canadian poutine, he’ll also be putting his unique twist on the dishes and offering recipes we can recreate at home.

MOVIE

Honor Society

Streaming on Paramount Plus

The guilty pleasure of taking a trip back in time and enjoying a teen rom-com is even more enjoyable when you know the latest offering comes from the team behind the massively successful To All the Boys I Loved Before franchise.

This laugh-out-loud hilarious flick follows Honor (Aussie Angourie Rice, who starred alongside Kate Winslet in the brilliant Mare of Easttown), an ambitious high school senior whose sole focus is getting into an Ivy League college.

But to do so, she’ll need a recommendation from her guidance counsellor, Mr Calvin (Superbad’s now grown up Christopher Mintz-Plasse).

Not willing to take any chances, she hatches a plan to take down the three classmates who stand in her way (or as she says the smartest people “in this school of underachieving losers”), but things get complicated when she starts to fall for her biggest competition, Michael (Stranger Things’ Gaten Matarazzo) and her plan backfires.

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