The best of TV and streaming this week

BBC4’s ‘Corridors of Power’ rakes over US foreign policy failures; HBO series ‘Fantasmas’ is bold but at times baffling; 1970s-set drama ‘Las Azules’ follows an all-female Mexican police unit; BBC documentary ‘Atomic People’ talks to survivors of the A-bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Netflix’s ‘The Decameron’ adapts Boccaccio’s classic; ‘Time Bandits’ is a reboot of Terry Gilliam’s 1981 cult classic — reviews by Dan Einav

Corridors of Power TV review — what happens when US foreign policy fails
Examining the country’s responses to global conflicts, this sweeping series highlights repeated mistakes and inaction
Fantasmas TV review — Julio Torres’s vision is weird and occasionally wonderful
The six-part HBO series is a colourful but meandering odyssey through the kinetic mind of its creator
Las Azules TV review — Mexico’s first female police unit battles the bad guys
Set in the 1970s, a polished new Apple series focuses on female cops combatting crime — and rampant misogyny
Atomic People TV review — survivors reveal the bomb’s human fallout
A new BBC documentary gathers harrowing testimony from living witnesses of the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Time Bandits TV review — Apple’s charming reboot of a fantasy cult classic
Terry Gilliam’s 1981 film is remade as a 10-part series following the surreal journey of a quirky cadre of interdimensional thieves across different epochs
The Decameron, Netflix review — black comedy sends up the Black Death
A new adaptation of Boccaccio’s pestilent classic amps up the camp and offers lashings of bodily fluids