Call Jane

Skip the prestige-TV noise — Call Jane, in Australia on Amazon Prime Video and Beamafilm, and in the US on Hulu, is quietly one of the better ones. The length is exactly right for the story it is telling — nothing rushed, nothing dragged out. 209 viewers have already rated it on TMDB — the kind of consensus that does not happen by accident. Elizabeth Banks anchors it with a performance that rewards close attention. Put it on tonight on Amazon Prime Video and see for yourself.

Whatever else is competing for your attention this week, Call Jane is worth clearing space for. The writing in Call Jane treats its characters as people first, plot devices second. A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help. Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver lead a cast doing genuinely serious work here. It hit screens in 2022. The writing trusts the audience to sit with ambiguity rather than wrapping everything up in a tidy conclusion — it is the approach that separates good drama from great. It knows exactly what it is, and does not try to be anything else.

Viewers drawn to character-driven storytelling will find plenty to sit with in Call Jane. It has built its own audience without needing a direct comparison. Best experienced as a single, sustained watch from start to finish. Elizabeth Banks's work here is the kind that gets referenced in career retrospectives. It makes everything else feel thin by comparison.

Call Jane was released in 2022, directed by Phyllis Nagy. The full 121-minute film is available to watch now. Find exactly where it's streaming below, and TV Butler Pro makes it effortless to track your progress as you go. Just search the name, and Butler finds it instantly, tells you which service has it, and remembers exactly where you left off.