Daily Picks M Magazine June 21 - Friday

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BAPTISTE

★★★★

8.30pm, ABC

Call the Midwife’s Jessica Raine as British detective, Genevieve Taylor, has a wonderful monologue about, of all things, the smell of cut grass, at the start of this exciting instalment of the Amsterdam crime drama. It’s a powerful metaphor for the underworld in which retired sleuth, Julien Baptiste (Tcheky Karyo), continues to inch ever closer to his elusive target.

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SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL SELECTS

Movie ★★★★½

SBS OnDemand

The cinemas that would host the 67th Sydney Film Festival may have gone to black, but the myriad works can be enjoyed on this streaming platform. Curated by festival director, Nashen Moodley, are 40 titles available to binge until July 10. Highlights include Belgian drama, The Broken Circle, Studio Ghibli’s The Red Turtle, and powerful American triptych, Certain Women (pictured), starring Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart and Michelle Williams.

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JAMIE: KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON

★★★

7.30pm, Ten

Now that the Naked Chef has revealed that even his scrumptious-looking vegetable dishes must be put through the food processor for the fussiest member of his brood, his recipes just seem all the more doable and adaptable for the busy home cook, lockdown pantry restrictions or no. Here, he makes a “fridge raid pad Thai”, and gets his mate Jimmy Doherty on the blower to talk us through his “ultimate roast beef sandwich”.