Shaoshupai Weekly Guide Recommends Nine Recent TV Series and Documentaries

Slow Horses Season 6 began on Apple TV+ on Wednesday, according to the guide. The season adapts elements from the sixth and seventh novels in the series and has been described by its creators as darker, more violent, and more emotional. In the new episodes, Slough House has no salaries and no records in the system, and a real estate agent visits to appraise the office. Two professional killers attack former Slough House colleagues and their deaths are classified as natural. River becomes the next target. Still mourning his grandfather, River discusses the funeral with Diana and meets his mercenary father, Frank. The guide's reviewer, Pan Yuhan, said the first episode maintains the show's suspense and humor.

Marble Hall Murders returns Susan to London from Crete, where she becomes an editor at an independent publisher. She works on a new Atticus Pünd detective novel titled Pünd's Last Case, set after Magpie Murders. In the manuscript, Pünd goes to Corfu and meets Mrs. Chalfont, her second husband Elmer, and her children; Mrs. Chalfont is poisoned and dies. The novel's author, Elliott, is the grandson of a famous British children's author and deeply resents his family and his grandmother, whose death 20 years earlier may be connected to him. Anthony Horowitz continues as screenwriter, and the series uses a dual narrative of manuscript and reality with the same cast playing different but linked roles. The guide said the pacing is not fast but the details and puzzle keep viewers engaged.

Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story opens with a Mother Goose rhyme about Lizzie Borden striking her mother 40 times and her father 41 times, a rhyme rooted in an 1892 murder case. The season depicts Lizzie's mother dying when she was two, her father running a coffin shop and neglecting the family, and her stepmother humiliating her. Lizzie is seen as an outsider in town but grows into a seemingly innocent young woman. The arrival of the unconventional maid Bridget, who has traveled in Europe and holds firm views, prompts Lizzie to resist her cruel parents. The guide praised the historical photography, natural imagery, rock music, and cult-like visuals, as well as the performances, including a modern storyline about Lizzie's afterlife influence and women's struggles across classes.

Last Seen is an eight-episode Australian series. A storm exposes the skeleton of a young child and disrupts the quiet life of Ian, a former detective whose daughter Maggie disappeared 11 years earlier. Ian divorced, began drinking, left frontline police work, and became a dispatcher. The skeleton's DNA does not match him or his ex-wife, and a girl calls him saying she may be Maggie, giving him new hope. Directed by Christian Schwochow and adapted from Ryan David Jahn's CWA Dagger-winning novel The Dispatcher, the series is set in a cold, vast coastal town in Victoria where everyone hides secrets.

Babylon Berlin Season 5 begins with Greve arriving for an appointment with Dr. Foster and finding the doctor's assistant dead in the office. Charlotte initially treats the case as ordinary but discovers deeper connections. Dr. Foster specialized in psychiatry and, during World War I, treated a soldier with hysterical blindness using psychological suggestion, filming the process. The soldier was Hitler, just appointed chancellor by Field Marshal Hindenburg. The guide said the season uses this case to show the confusion and conflict of the era, including self-satisfied politicians, communists willing to sacrifice themselves, and ordinary Germans who believed Hitler would improve their lives.

Happy Kanako's Killer Life Season 2 continues the story of Nishi no Kanako, who left a black company for an assassin company and built the reputation of the killer K. She targets a bullying boss, meets the freelancer Ado, and joins an assassin women's group. There she meets the killer Xiao Qi, who is searching for K, the person who killed her brother. The second season, made by much of the original team, has five episodes and updates on Thursdays. The guide said it keeps the absurd humor, action scenes, and manga-based additions, with new characters and possible romantic developments. It is described as a stress-relieving comedy for office workers.

Jackpot or Work follows Kong Eun-tae, a top university graduate at a major company who becomes the youngest team leader, suffers health problems, and is quietly pushed aside by colleagues. After an ordinary day of endurance, he buys a lottery ticket because a clerk cannot make change and wins the first prize of 1.9 billion won. He decides to keep going to work. The first episode spends much time on his routine and his habit of swallowing anger. The guide said the jackpot gives him the confidence to stop tolerating unfair treatment and to take risks, and the series examines why people work and when they stop striving.

Fate and People is the third episode in Shihungdao's Chernobyl series and is mainly set in Belarus. The team interviews a kindergarten director who was responsible for evacuating children from the radiation zone and whose own child was in the evacuation group but could not be prioritized. They also visit the Polesie State Radioecological Reserve, which is unexpectedly green and quiet. The guide said the people there, whether Russian, Ukrainian, or Belarusian, can live bravely as long as they can tell their stories.

A Beautiful Obsession is a four-episode documentary about football coach Pep Guardiola, directed by BAFTA winner Kevin Macdonald. It begins with the 2023-24 Premier League season, when Manchester City won a fourth consecutive title and Haaland won the Golden Boot. The 2024-25 season follows, and November and December are described as the darkest low of Guardiola's time at City. The guide said the documentary does not simply praise his record but uses behind-the-scenes stories from his final two seasons to explain his football philosophy, including his near-obsessive attention to possession, movement, and positions, and his belief that competitive sport can have artistic beauty.

The guide also mentions more titles. The film The Counterfeit King follows Polish Jew Bojarski, a World War II prisoner of war who escapes to France, makes forged documents, and then turns to counterfeit money, earning the name the Cézanne of counterfeiters. The second season of the U.S. series Decker returns with a case-of-the-week format in South Florida, after Decker's prison friend Stevie is recruited as a driver by a robbery gang and asks Decker to delete a video; Decker finds the gang murdered. The film Aang: The Last Airbender is set after Aang reaches adulthood, 13 years after the end of the Hundred Years' War, as he understands the responsibilities he must bear.

In trailers and industry news, the guide lists the first special trailer for Doraemon: Nobita's Steam Time Machine, the final trailer for Wildwood, a new trailer for Primetime, and a new trailer for How to Pull Off a Big One. It also notes that Resident Evil: Outbreak Night has been confirmed for import, Happy Birthday is set for a mainland China release on October 23, and Clayface has a new poster.