Severance

If you are after a comedy that actually makes you laugh out loud, Severance is available in Australia on Foxtel Now and Shudder, and in the US on Philo and YouTube TV right now. The runtime earns every minute, with nothing here that feels like padding. 675 people have weighed in on TMDB, and the verdict leans heavily positive. Watch it for Danny Dyer — stay for everyone else around them. There is no real reason to keep putting it off — it is right there on Foxtel Now.

There is a reason Severance keeps coming up in conversation. Severance gets the fundamentals right first, then finds room to get weird with it. Seven employees of an international weapons manufacturer are treated to a team-building weekend at the company’s newly built luxury spa lodge. Things quickly go awry as the colleagues find their corporate weekend sabotaged by a deadly enemy. Danny Dyer and Laura Harris lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was released in 2006. Severance earns its laughs from character rather than situation, which is why it does not wear thin the way pure farce tends to. It delivers reliably on what it promises, which is more than most of its competition manages.

Severance is the kind of thing you put on in the background and end up fully watching. If you have run out of similar titles to watch, this is a strong next pick. The complete film is available and best experienced without too much prior knowledge of where it goes. Danny Dyer anchors an ensemble with real chemistry. Genuinely funny, consistently, across the whole run.