September on SBS on Demand – SBS on Demand highlights for the month of September include Arcadia, Christian, River, Dark Winds, The Change, Beyond Signs, The Prize of Silence, Bonn, While The Men Are Away, Blackwater and Chantal.
Belgian sci-fi thriller
Arcadia
Australian Premiere
Thursday, 7 September 2023 SBS On Demand & SBS (all eight episodes available)
After the world survives the outbreak of a global catastrophe, a new society – Arcadia – emerges, where every citizen is assigned a score based on their behaviour.
With a high score, you can have the perfect life; with a low score, you’ll be expelled from society into the wilderness of the Outer World.
When the father of the Hendriks-Jans family learns his youngest daughter’s score will sentence her to exile, he creates an algorithm to inflate her points. Pieter’s tampering is soon discovered and he is banished to the Outer World. Now his whole family are suspects and their scores lowered. Can they survive their new reality?
Arcadia will air at a later date on SBS and will be available in Flemish with English subtitles on SBS On Demand.
Italian crime drama
Christian S 2
Australian Premiere Box Set
Thursday, 7 September 2023 SBS On Demand (all six episodes available)
In a desolate neighbourhood on the outskirts of Rome, Christian lives with the ability to heal people with his hands.
Now, the Città Palazzo is in chaos. As the clans become embroiled in a power struggle, Christian fights to assert himself as the new leader.
Meanwhile, Matteo covers up the murder of Father Klaus by his son’s hands, aided by a mysterious figure: the Dark Woman.
Christian S1 and S 2 will also be available as a box set on SBS On Demand, available in Italian with English subtitles.
British crime drama
River
Box Set
Thursday, 7 September 2023 SBS On Demand (all six episodes available)
Stellan Skarsgård stars as John River, a brilliant police officer whose genius and fault-line is the fragility of his mind: he’s a man haunted by the murder victims whose secrets he must unlock.
Adrift in a London full of other exiled souls, River’s own isolation helps him connect with the troubled victims who crash into his world, and to see the truth in ways his colleagues are drawn to admire and question in equal measure.
But as his long-held defences are eroded by love and loss, River is torn between the living and the dead; will he have to choose once and for all?
River will be available as a box set on SBS On Demand.
western crime drama
Dark Winds
SBS On Demand Premiere
Thursday, 14 September 2023 SBS On Demand (all twelve episodes available)
In 1971, on a remote outpost of the Navajo Nation near Monument Valley, Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Tribal Police is besieged by a series of seemingly unrelated crimes.
Following the FBI investigation of a bank robbery and the Navajo Tribal inquiry into the local murder of two Native residents, Joe, his new deputy Jim Chee, and Sgt. Bernadette Manuelito do the heavy lifting around the reservation.
The strange behaviours of some residents and newcomers intertwine with their personal stories as the two men battle the forces of evil, and their own personal demons, on the path to salvation. Dark Winds S 1 + 2 will be available as a box set on SBS On Demand.
British comedy
The Change
Australian Premiere
Monday, 18 September 2023 SBS On Demand & SBS (all six episodes available)
Linda, a 50-year-old working class married mother of two, is having an existential crisis. Convinced she’s got early onset dementia after forgetting what a shoe is called, Linda’s GP informs her it is, in fact, the menopause.
Feeling empowered by this information, Linda decides to do something for herself… for a change. Linda sets off alone to the spectacular wilderness of The Forest of Dean – in search of an identity, a purpose, and tree she climbed as a child. Along the way she meets an array of eccentric locals, including the infamous Eel Sisters, an angry local radio presenter and a mysterious man who lives in the woods with a wild boar.
What could possibly go wrong?
The Change will also air on SBS Viceland on Monday, 18 September at 9.25pm and 9.55pm, continuing weekly.
French mystery drama
Beyond Signs
Australian Premiere
Thursday, 21 September 2023 SBS On Demand (all five episodes available)
After 11–yearyear–old Lily disappears at her mother’s birthday party, a little boy, Diego, has strange visions linked to the tragedy.
When these come to the attention of the police captain and his psychologist wife Sarah, they investigate the special bond, only to find links between Diego and obscure elements of Sarah’s own past.
Beyond Signs will also air at a later date on SBS and will be available in French with English subtitles.
German period spy drama
Bonn
Australian Premiere
Thursday, 21 September 2023 SBS On Demand (all six episodes available)
In 1950s Germany, Toni is determined to seize every opportunity and overcome every obstacle in her male-dominated world. But what at first appears to be only an entry-level office job at one of the country’s two competing secret services soon sucks her ever deeper into a clandestine world of suspicion and betrayal, where nothing and nobody is as they appear, and where trust and morality are simply two more currencies in a very high stakes game.
Torn between her obligations to country and family, and for the man she loves, Toni will be forced to choose a side, or lose it all.
Stars Mercedes Müller, Juergen Maurer and Martin Wuttke.
Bonn S 1 will also air at a later date on SBS and will be available in German with English subtitles.
Swedish documentary series
The Prize of Silence
Australian Premiere
Thursday, 21 September 2023 SBS On Demand & SBS (all four episodes available)
A searing indictment of the cultures of silence and ingrained power structures amongst the cultural elites, The Prize of Silence lays bare the scandal and the ensuing chaos that would shake the foundations of one of Sweden’s most venerated cultural institutions, force the involvement of the Swedish King, and lead to the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature being cancelled.
The Prize of Silence will be available in Swedish with English subtitles on SBS On Demand.
SBS Original dramedy
While The Men Are Away
SBS Commission Australian Premiere
Wednesday, 27 September 2023 SBS On Demand (all eight episodes available)
It’s 1940s Australia. As you probably know, there’s a ruddy massive war on, so a lot of the men are away for a bit.
This is unsettling, but also pretty exciting for anyone who isn’t a man. Frankie is left in charge of her suffering farm after her husband is sent to war (or was he?).
She enlists Gwen and Esther, the freshly joined city-recruits of the Women’s Land Army to join herself, local Indigenous farmhand Kathleen, and certified coward Robert.
This is a show about people who don’t normally hold the reins of power suddenly having them shoved in their hands and told to giddy the hell up. It’s about five individuals who find each other, and for a glorious moment in time, sample a life tinged with promise, hope and acceptance. And once they taste it, it’s impossible to go back.
All episodes will be available to stream on SBS On Demand from Wednesday, 27 September. While The Men Are Away will premiere with a double episode on SBS on 27 September at 8.30 and 9.00pm, and will continue weekly.
Swedish noir
Blackwater
Australian Premiere
Thursday, 28 September 2023 SBS On Demand (all six episodes available)
One midsummer evening in 1973, in a small Swedish town, two tourists are found murdered in a tent. The unsolved crime casts shadows on the lives of several people.
From the producers of The Killing, The Bridge and Borgen. Adapted from Kerstin Ekman’s international bestseller.
Blackwater will also air at a later date on SBS and will be in available in Swedish with English subtitles on SBS On Demand.
Belgian comedy
Chantal
Australian Premiere
Thursday, 28 September 2023 SBS On Demand & SBS (all eight episodes available)
Inspector Chantal Vantomme starts a new life in Loveringem, aka the Farwest of Flanders, as the new coordinator of the small and rural police office. She arrives in a macho world where the apparent tranquillity does not guarantee less crime.
Chantal will be available in Flemish with English subtitles on SBS On Demand.
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