Black Earth Rising
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British actress Michaela Coel provides an engaging emotional centre as the plot twists come thick and fast in this thorny series from British writer-director Hugo Blick that succeeds in making a globe-trotting geopolitical saga not just watchable but riveting. Fans of The Night Manager, Collateral or Blick’s previous series The Honourable Woman will find plenty to relish.
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When criminal lawyer Eve Ashby (Harriet Walter) takes a case to prosecute a Rwandan militia leader, her adopted daughter Kate (Michaela Coel), herself a survivor of the Rwandan genocide, finds herself thrown headfirst into a web of secrets, trauma and colonial conflict.