The best of TV and streaming this week

Batman spin-off ‘The Penguin’ stars Colin Farrell as the arch-villain; in ‘Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos’ the showrunner looks back at the hit TV drama he created 25 years ago; ‘The Grand Tour: One for the Road’ brings the Top Gear trio together for one last adventure; more slick, squalid spycraft in ‘Slow Horses’; Nicole Kidman plays Nantucket royalty in ‘The Perfect Couple’; the journey from comedian to wartime leader in ‘The Zelensky Story’ — reviews by Dan Einav

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The Penguin TV review — Colin Farrell mines vulnerability from his villain in Batman spin-off
The HBO/Sky Atlantic series focuses on mafia footsoldier Oz Cobbleport as he tries to take over Gotham City
The Grand Tour: One for the Road TV review — a misty-eyed final adventure
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May bid farewell to two decades of vehicular high jinks with a last journey through Zimbabwe
Slow Horses season 4 review — Hugo Weaving joins Apple’s slick spy series as a cult leader
The actor is terrifically sinister, while Kristin Scott Thomas continues to shine as a devastatingly dry MI5 deputy
Nicole Kidman spits venom in The Perfect Couple on Netflix — review
She plays a matriarch presiding over a family rich in secrets and lies in this murder-mystery
The Zelensky Story, BBC review — from actor to Ukraine’s war-tested leader
A new three-part documentary has first-hand access to the president and his wife, Olena