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title: "This weekend we're watching"
description: "The Daily Maverick team helps you choose what to watch this weekend – a political drama and documentary on how the brain works."
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section: "SMALL SCREEN"
author: "Karabo Mafolo"
author_url: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/author/karabo-mafolo/"
canonical_url: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-09-27-this-weekend-were-watching-29/"
published: "2019-09-27T18:01:23"
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# This weekend we're watching

> The Daily Maverick team helps you choose what to watch this weekend – a political drama and documentary on how the brain works.

By Karabo Mafolo · Published 27 September 2019, 20:01 SAST

## Content

**Ferial Haffajee, Daily Maverick associate editor**

I am watching [Unbelievable](https://www.netflix.com/search?q=Un&jbv=80153467&jbp=0&jbr=0), the Netflix series on a rape investigation. The show is about rape culture and starts off with a young woman whose rape case wasn’t taken seriously, only for detectives to later link her case to a serial rapist. It’s wrenching but resonant with the #AmINext movement in South Africa.

[YouTube video: "YouTube video"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTIkUzkbzQk)

I have finished [The Spy](https://www.netflix.com/search?q=The%20spy&jbv=80178151&jbp=0&jbr=0), produced by and starring Sasha Baron Cohen. It’s about an Israeli spy who infiltrates the Syrian government in the 1960s. While its politics are about as far away from my own as Mars from Earth, the acting and staging is brilliant.

[YouTube video: "YouTube video"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmoG4mGoVBM)

**Thomas von Zahn, Daily Maverick super controller**

I’m busy watching Vox’s short-form documentary series [The Mind, Explained](https://www.netflix.com/search?q=The%20mind&jbv=81098586&jbp=0&jbr=0) on Netflix. You can watch the whole thing in less than two hours: each episode takes a discrete mental phenomenon (the five are anxiety, mindfulness, dreaming, memory and psychedelics) and uses expert interviews, graphics and neuroscience to provide an excellent primer on the topic.

[YouTube video: "YouTube video"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SzZTTHbj-8)

Quick and easy, for people like me who are fascinated by human behaviour and brain chemicals. The documentaries have a lovely tone and they are really information-rich. The mindfulness episode, especially, was great: outlining the most up-to-date understanding of what science knows (and doesn’t know) about the ancient practice of meditation. **ML**