My Dinner with Hervé

This week's most rewarding drama pick on Crave is My Dinner with Hervé. The length is exactly right for the story it is telling — nothing rushed, nothing dragged out. A 6/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. Jamie Dornan anchors it with a performance that rewards close attention. Start it on Crave whenever you need something guaranteed to land.

My Dinner with Hervé arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. Character-driven storytelling at its most effective — My Dinner with Hervé earns every emotional beat it goes for. An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both. Jamie Dornan and Peter Dinklage lead a cast doing genuinely serious work here. It hit screens in 2018. 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. There is real craft here, even in the moments that do not fully land.

Viewers drawn to character-driven storytelling will find plenty to sit with in My Dinner with Hervé. It stands on its own even without an obvious comparison point. Best experienced as a single, sustained watch from start to finish. Jamie Dornan is the centre of it, and it is one of their strongest performances on record. The patience it asks of you early on is paid back with interest.

My Dinner with Hervé was released in 2018, directed by Sacha Gervasi. The full 106-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.