Reader's Digest Australia August/September 2025

TV THE NOUN PROJECT (TV ICON). APPLE TV+ PRESS (5) Government Cheese Starring David Oyelowo DaviD OyelOwO is Hampton Chambers, a businessman pursuing the Amer- ican dream in 1969’s sun-drenched San Fernando Valley. He also happens to be a smooth-talking, suit-wearing ex-con unexpectedly sprung early from lockup. The skilled thief doesn’t get his expected sappy homecoming: His skeptical, put-upon wife (Simone Missick) boots him to the garage, and his now-teenage sons (Evan Ellison and Jahi Di’Allo Winston) have devel- oped their own sets of quirks. Plus, he owes thousands to a backwoods crime family of seven brothers—but there’s a plan. The enterprising Chambers had a grand time in the prison machine shop drawing blueprints for a self- sharpening drill. “The Bit Magician,” he’s convinced, will “make me a mil- lionaire.” Can he cash in? (Streaming on Apple TV+ April 16) — Mara Reinstein illustration by TimMarrs READERSDIGEST.com.Au | AuGuST/SEPTEmBER 2025 115 reader ’ s digest The RD LIST read, watch, listen