To be clear, Stewart’s unhappiness lays with Cutler’s priorities, notably too much of her 2004 jailing for obstruction of justice in an insider trading case. The 83-year-old’s not bothered about the harsh or revealing things he shows because nearly all those harsh and revealing things stem from Stewart’s quotes. A few minutes in, she blithely describes herself as her father’s favourite, outlines his alcoholism and notes that he was a bigot who slapped her face. That’s just Stewart warming up.

Some of her quotes are wild, whether for their lack of tact or eye-raising revelations. Stewart has built multiple fascinating lives in the past 60 years: Wall Street pioneer, catering queen, the original influencer, media magnate, billionaire and Snoop Dogg’s bestie. Each comes with trenchant observations, terrific archival material and unfiltered truths. Stewart was plainly a brutal boss. “I never look the other way,” she says, and thankfully neither does Cutler’s documentary.

Bad Sisters (season 2)
Apple TV+

It’s understandable that a second season of this Irish black comedy went into production. It’s debut in 2022, driven by creator and co-star Sharon Horgan, was one of the year’s most welcome television surprises, entwining complicated sisterly bonds, mordant humour and a critique of Irish misogyny into wish-fulfilment television. It was scalpel-sharp farce with an excellent ensemble cast, but it felt complete when the finale concluded. Set two years on, the second season brings back the talent, but I can’t shake the feeling that it’s covering too much of the same ground.

Murder Mindfully
Netflix

Another week, another intriguing German series that blurs familiar genre lines. In this black comedy, which has a smidge of the Coen brothers’ deliriously deadpan humour, successful criminal lawyer Bjorn (Tom Schilling, Never Look Away) realises that he’s let being on lucrative retainer to mob boss Dragan (Sascha Gersak) ruin his family’s life. After taking a mindfulness course, Bjorn achieves a sense of clarity that has unforeseen outcomes, and he starts eliminating his problems and discovers a talent for underworld machinations. It’s macabre but also satisfying – Bjorn’s brutal sense of release is genuine.

My Old Ass
Amazon Prime

It would be easy to say that fresh from giving Agatha All Along a vivid charge, Aubrey Plaza is on a roll. But the actor has been an accelerant to everything she’s been in – no matter how dubious some projects were – since her 2009 breakthrough in Parks and Recreation. She’s great again in this American independent feature film, which adds an otherworldly spin to the coming-of-age tale as 18-year-old Elliott (Maisy Stella) finds herself in unexpected conversation with Plaza as a 39-year-old Elliott. It gets sentimental, but the metaphysical concept works.

Ghosts
Stan

Now that it has concluded after five successful seasons (the rather good American remake of the same title is ongoing), here’s a reminder that every episode of one of the most consistently funny British sitcoms of the past 10 years is ready for late arrivals. Set at a crumbling country house where one of the new owners gains the ability to interact with the many spirits trapped there from various periods of history, Ghosts was a spectral farce where the jokes were non-stop but the tone always had an unforced feel.