Gays in the military series on Netflix

Boots

The final project from iconic TV producer Norman Lear, Boots is a drama with comedic undertones that follows a bullied high school student in the 1990s who enlists in the Marines while staying in the closet. It raises questions about masculinity and identity, friendship and brotherhood, and the institutionalization of hazing and homophobia, but it

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The Lost Station Girls

A riveting French true‑crime drama about a police investigator who spent two decades chasing the mystery of several young women who were attacked or murdered near a southern France train station, and the one teenage girl who vanished without a trace. The series is more of a careful investigation than a whodunnit, and it exposes

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The Gold

The Gold

PBS and Masterpiece are behind this fast-paced and stylish retelling of Britain’s most brazen heist — in which six small-time thieves broke into a Heathrow security depot and stumbled onto £26 million in gold — it’s part crime saga, part legal thriller, and a history lesson about how the robbery reshaped the underworld.

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Marketing competition series Jimmy Fallon

On Brand with Jimmy Fallon

A crash course in modern marketing, Jimmy Fallon hosts this new business-themed competition series that lines up contestants to compete to create the best campaigns for major brands.  With everyone worried about their jobs these days, it taps into the tension of Shark Tank and the lessons and how to of Project Runway — with

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Chad Powers

After being kicked off his college football team for his bad behavior, a quarterback uses a disguise to try and undercover his way onto a different school’s team in this much-hyped series starring (and co-created by) Glen Powell.  It was inspired by Eli Manning’s 2022 comedy short for ESPN, and it co-stars Steve Zahn, Toby

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moms stalker

20/20

The kick-off of the new fall season of the ABC newsmagazine begins with a truly shocking story, “He’s Right Behind You,” about a mother of three who became the target of an elusive stalker in an “extremely evil and extremely personal” plot. The story unfolds with body cam footage from police as they pursue their

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English Teacher on FX is back with controversy

English Teacher S2

FX’s critically-adored sitcom returns with a new school year, as English teacher Evan is once again dropped headfirst into the latest high-school culture wars—from climate-change protests and a student-written COVID-era play to thorny debates over military recruitment and phone bans—while trying to balance his own public crusades with an increasingly fraught romance. This season expands

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Netflix drama Wayward teens

Wayward

A psychological thriller about a young police officer (Mae Martin) who gets drawn into the dark secrets of Tall Pines Academy, a cultish Vermont boarding school for “troubled teens” that’s led by an authoritarian headmaster (Toni Collette).  The six-episode drama was created by and stars Martin, who has a personal connection to the material, and

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House of Guinness

Set in 19th-century Ireland and New York, the edgy, eight-episode historical drama tells the story of the four heirs to the iconic brewery as they navigate their joint inheritance, deep family secrets and the political upheaval of the Irish nationalists versus the British establishment. Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight bring the gritty, soapy saga to

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Minx

The streaming series about the intersection between feminism and smut could endear even the most skeptical. And what it might lack in delicacy, it certainly makes up for in swagger.

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