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Octopus to Long Way Home: the seven best shows to stream this week

Phoebe Waller-Bridge gives us an oddball love letter to the charming creatures, while Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman jump on their motorbikes and head out on the open road for another grand tourPhoebe Waller-Bridge’s post-Fleabag career has been somewhat eccentric and this two-part documentary, which she narrates and executive produces, is another left turn. It’s essentially an oddball love letter to the octopus – with its powers of transformation, bizarre mating habits and general air of underwater alien strangeness. But the series soon transcends its ostensible subject matter and becomes an exploration of some of the people who have devoted their lives to the celebration, study and preservation of these charismatic creatures. These include environmentalists, scientists ... and 30 Rock star Tracy Morgan, who is charmingly and volubly obsessed with them. Prime Video, from Thursday 8 May Continue reading...

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