Tune in each week as Marhaba delves into the wonderful world of popular culture to find the best new TV series, movies, books, and music.


STREAM THIS NEW SHOW:

Captains
Netflix, Now Streaming

FIFA’s streaming platform FIFA+ platform has just released the eight-part documentary series which is also made for Netflix. It follows captains from Brazil, Croatia, Gabon, Vanuatu, Jamaica and Lebanon as they lead their squads through the qualifying rounds for this year’s World Cup in Qatar. Official Netflix synopsis reads: ‘From heartbreak to triumph, this docuseries follows six football captains and their teams as they vie for a qualifying spot in the 2022 FIFA World Cup’

Watch the full trailer here.


GET THE POPCORN FOR THIS:

The Good Nurse
Netflix, 26 October

This movie is a 2022 American drama film starring Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne as two nurses, one who accuses the other of being responsible for the death of some patients.

This film is inspired by a true crime book story of the same name By Charles Graeber about the series killer Charles Cullen who is seen by some as the most prolific serial killer in the American history. Cullen was accused of killing 29 victims, but it is believed to have killed more than 300 hospital patients while working as a nurse in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

When Krysty Wilson-Cairns began writing the script about his arrest, she started not with Cullen but with Amy Loughren, the nurse who first revealed his crimes. Director Tobias Lindholm and Wilson- Cairns wanted to focus their film on Loughren and bigger questions about the U.S. health care system that has allowed this murder to happen.

“He’s not, in my mind, Hannibal Lecter. It’s not this brilliant mind. It’s a fairly simple guy doing a fairly simple thing, but a system allowing it.” says Lindholm

Related: See our Cinema Listings for all the latest releases you can watch in Qatar!


SETTLE IN WITH A CUP OF TEA AND READ THIS:

Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver

Demon Copperhead novel is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.

Kingsolver was inspired directly from one of England’s most celebrated classics: “David Copperfield,” by Charles Dickens.


CRANK UP THE VOLUME FOR THIS:

Aston Martin Truck
Roddy Ricch

Compton rapper Roddy Ricch and his new single “Aston Martin Truck” came along. At some point over the weekend, the song was able to climb into the Top 20, where it’s  stayed ever since.

 

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