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– James Croot

You, Me & Anxiety (8.45pm, Tuesday, TVNZ 1)

Robyn Malcolm shares her experiences in this second of an eight-episode Documentary NZ series. One of Aotearoa’s most beloved actors, she is also famous for her activism. What is less wellknown is that while she was playing feisty characters like Cheryl West, behind the scenes she was experiencing serious anxiety and panic attacks. As our country’s anxiety stats are steadily increasing, she sets out to explore more about what is an often debilitating condition.

Blonde Wednesday, Netflix)

Based on the 2000 novel by Joyce Carol Oates, this psychological drama is a fictionalised take on the life of actor and global icon Marilyn Monroe. Wellington-born Andrew Dominik directs, while the cast includes Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale, Xavier Samuel and Julianne Nicholson. ‘‘It’s not literal. It’s not conventional. It’s not even chronological. It’s more like an experience,’’ de Armas has said of the movie.

The Greatest Beer Run Ever (Friday, Apple TV+)

Peter Farrelly follows up his Oscar-winning Green Book with this wild, 1967-set ‘‘true story’’ about a merchant seaman who accepts a bet to deliver a case of beer from New York to his army buddies in Vietnam. Starring Zac Efron, Russell Crowe and Bill Murray, the production did apply for a New

Zealand border exemption in mid-2020, scouted Australia as well, but eventually opted to shoot back home in America instead.

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