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Sirens on Netflix. Pictured: Simone (Milly Alcock) and her imperious boss/bestie, Michaela (Julianne Moore).

Sirens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxSpZ9khchU  A working-class woman becomes alarmed at the bizarre relationship between her sister and her billionaire boss in cutting dark comedy Sirens As billionaires continue to grow ever richer at the expense of everyone else, television viewers are becoming fascinated by the wealth gap between the haves and the have-lesses. That’s been apparent in the…

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Hacks on Crave1. Pictured: Hannah Einbinder and Jean Smart.

Hacks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb_KVf-5y78  Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder dish on the fourth season of critically acclaimed comedy Hacks A dream has come true on Hacks, with the fourth season introducing Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) as the host of her very own late-night talk show. As one of the rare women to hold the spot, Deb is now…

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Carême on Apple TV+. Pictured: Antonin Carême (Benjamin Voisin) and his love interest, Henriette (Lyna Khoudri).

Carême

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d4aZI-S0S0  New drama focuses on Antonin Carême, history’s first superstar chef Legendary French chef Antonin Carême was a fascinating character. Abandoned as a child, the Parisian rose from obscurity to become head chef for French stateman Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, serving both Tsar Alexander I and Napoleon. Known as “the king of chefs and the…

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Your Friends & Neighbors on Apple TV+. Pictured: Jon Hamm stars as wealthy guy Andrew Cooper.

Your Friends & Neighbors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVRFMd6dEOE&t=2s  Jon Hamm stars as a wealthy guy who turns to burglary when his life crumbles in Your Friends & Neighbors When Andrew “Coop” Cooper (Jon Hamm) loses his job as a hedge fund manager, it is really just the cherry on top of an already crap cake. His ex-wife Mel (Amanda Peet) is in…

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The Handmaid’s Tale on CTV Drama. Pictured: Elisabeth Moss as June Osborne.

The Handmaid’s Tale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyVDq2bQlnU  June (Elisabeth Moss) leads a revolution in the sixth and final season of The Handmaid’s Tale When the television series adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s cautionary dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale premiered in 2017, the United States had just entered an unprecedented era, with New York businessman and reality TV host Donald Trump at the…

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Duster on HBO Canada. Pictured: Jim (Josh Holloway) behind the wheel of his cherry-red Plymouth Duster.

Duster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih01iblDuHg  The latest from J.J. Abrams follows a 1970s getaway driver (Lost’s Josh Holloway) recruited by the FBI to take down a crime syndicate J.J. Abrams’ pedigree is well established, as creator of such TV series as Felicity, Lost, Alias and Fringe, and director of Star Wars and Star Trek movies. Not surprisingly, any new…

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Bad Thoughts on Netfilix. Pictured: Tom Segura.

Bad Thoughts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrCciU8nD98  The Twilight Zone meets Black Mirror with a dark comedic twist in comedian Tom Segura’s Bad Thoughts Rod Serling’s classic anthology series The Twilight Zone has influenced generations of television writers, and a new Netflix series mines similar (albeit sillier) territory. Created by standup comic Tom Segura, Bad Thoughts is described as “a six-episode…

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Nonnas on Netflix. Pictured (left to right): Gia (Susan Sarandon), Teresa (Talia Shire), Antonella (Brenda Vaccaro), and Roberta (Lorraine Bracco).

Nonnas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDJxJd3FzDY  To honour his late mother, a Staten Island man opens an Italian restaurant where the food is prepared by four local grandmothers Tutti a tavola a mangiare! Celebrate Mother’s Day this year with a reservation at Nonnas. Vince Vaughn (Bad Monkey) stars in the heartwarming new Netflix film as a man whose grief sparks…

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MobLand on Paramount+. Pictured: Conrad and Maeve Harrington (Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren, at centre) rely on family fixer Harry Da Souza (Tom Hardy) to clean up messes and sort out sticky situations.

MobLand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKGgw7Ob5f4  Inside the gritty gangster hit from director Guy Ritchie Whether MobLand first came to its cast members as a script or a concept, what immediately drew them in was the calibre of talent associated with the series. A Guy Ritchie project based on proposed prequel to Ray Donovan, written by Black Mass screenwriter Jez…

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Miss Austen on Masterpiece on PBS. Pictured: Keeley Hawes as Cassandra Austen.

Miss Austen on Masterpiece

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-05wBhN6Vg  The sister of literary giant Jane Austen is the focus of this new Masterpiece series In the literary world, the name Austen typically invokes images of women in billowing attire atop a breezy English cliff or traversing a John Constable-worthy pastoral landscape with book in hand, perhaps unwilling to — but about to —…

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