If you've spent as many years writing about streaming shows and movies as I have, you'll have started to discern quite obvious patterns in the ways that the best streaming services create new shows. Whether that means strip-mining genres for new stories, or trusting authors to make them fresh shows, there are a bunch of approaches that clearly work.
Prime Video's new show Sterling Point seems to almost be a greatest-hits album for these tactics – it mixes genres up, has a hit author behind it, a beautiful young cast and some big twists to share. Its first trailer has me pretty convinced that it'll also do major numbers when it drops on 5 August.
