Echo Valley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQiZ5zMhliw Julianne Moore and Sydney Sweeney star as a mother and daughter caught up in crisis in Echo Valley Each relationship comes with its own particularities and complications, but few have been as elusively captured on screen as the complicated bond between a mother and her adult daughter. From jealousy to pride and protectiveness, a…

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The most anticipated new shows of the summer Art Detectives Acorn TVArt-loving DI Mick Palmer (Stephen Moyer) and straight-talking DC Shazia Malik (Nina Singh) lead the Heritage Crime Unit, solving murders linked to art and antiques — from forged paintings to Viking gold — in this gripping new British crime series. June 9, Acorn TV …

Murderbot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEioDeOiqEs&t=4s Alexander Skarsgård is a cyborg grappling with emotions it doesn’t understand in sci-fi comedy Murderbot When a security cyborg manages to override its settings, finally freeing itself from servitude, it decides to name itself Murderbot. The moniker is catchy, hinting at a dark agenda, but rather than go on a killing spree, this robot,…

Government Cheese

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fQf2o2kEMQ An ex-con brims with hope when he returns to his family in surrealist comedy Government Cheese To post-Second World War Americans, the term “Government Cheese” has a certain connotation. The processed cheese was provided to welfare beneficiaries, seniors receiving social security, as well as food banks and churches. With a taste that lands somewhere…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Étoile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CNVhn5wA0Y The creators of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel take on the world of ballet in Étoile When an actor does a scene for Gilmore Girls and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, the note they most often receive is, “Faster.” The rapid-fire, tongue-twisting dialogue that Sherman-Palladino and her husband Daniel Palladino have become known…

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