A high-adrenaline espionage thriller set against South Korea’s vibrant nightlife and sleek bullet trains, Butterfly stars Daniel Dae Kim as a former spy whose daughter is sent to assassinate him in this six-episode Amazon Prime series based on the graphic novel series created by Arash Amel. “Viewers just looking for an easy distraction might find
Decades after her father’s disappearance, a powerful LA divorce lawyer returns to Ireland to discover that she wasn’t abandoned after all, as she begins to uncover secret relatives, local crime rings, horse racing cons, and family betrayals. Alicia Silverstone stars in the taut six-episode drama that traipses across the moody and cinematic backdrops of modern-day
Alien gets a timely, thought-provoking prequel series that taps into our current angst about AI and corporate overlords. Set in 2120, in a world run by five mega-companies, a deep-space vessel with experimental life forms crashes to earth, leaving it up to the first human-AI hybrid, Wendy, and rival corporate soldiers to contain an outbreak.
A prequel to the Outlander series that stands on it own, Blood of My Blood is a romantic historical drama that tells the alternating love stories of the future Jamie Fraser’s parents in 18th-century Scotland and Claire Beauchamp’s parents in World War I England. Grounded in actual historical events and shot in the Scottish Highlands,
Imagine being dropped into the alternate versions of your life — those roads not taken — using a new psychiatric therapy? That’s the premise of this inventive, six-episode comedy that tries out a different genre with each episode and each life, from a relationships reality show to a satire to a domestic drama. Station 19’s
A deeper and darker second season of the hit Addams family show finally arrives for August binge-watching, with an all new supernatural mystery, a quicker pace, and more of the family. Wednesday investigates a new series of murders and makes new friends, and Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones), Gomez (Luis Guzmán), and Pugsley (Isaac Ordonez) play a
A light and smart “com without the rom” for anyone in the midlife crisis years – or viewers staring down parenting challenges, career pivots, and an identity shift. Platonic follows former lawyer turned stay-at-home mom (Rose Byrne) as she rekindles her friendship with a recently divorced brewery owner (Seth Rogen), and the tricky navigation of
A hidden gem that debuted on the Roku Channel in 2022, The Newsreader is an 80s-set drama that follows a veteran Australian news anchor (Anna Torv) as she’s paired up with a handsome young reporter (Sam Reid) to cover everything from the Challenger explosion to Halley’s Comet to the AIDS crisis. Blackmail, workplace romance, racism,
An American woman with literary ambitions lands at Oxford University, the place of her childhood fantasies, but ends up in a steamy romance with a man who isn’t part of the dream. Part romcom, part melodrama, the adaptation of the novel of the same name by Julia Whelan has earned decidedly mixed reviews for its
Weaving together history, indigenous lore, and a showdown between free will and prophecy, Apple’s nine episode epic Chief of War stars Jason Momoa stars as a high-ranking chief of Kauaʻi who rebels against the bloody war that unified the Hawaiian Islands in the late 18th century. A sweeping and layered character drama that will appeal