New Releases

The breakout college-set comedy from Mindy Kaling returns for a third season — taking us into the four roommates’ sophomore year after leaving off on a Season 2 cliffhanger.  You should probably watch the final episode of S2 at least before jumping into S3.  This one is aiming to be a Thanksgiving  …

The series prequel to the recent big-screen Dune movies is set 10,000 years before their events, and follows two sisters up against forces that threaten the future of humankind — leading to the creation of the influential religious and political sect known as the Bene Gesserit. (For some context on  …

Adapted from the now-iconic 1989 novel by Laura Esquivel and bringing a bold and sweeping interpretation to the Golden Globe-winning 1992 film, Like Water for Chocolate is a mystical romance about a passionate young cook named Tita who is trapped with her tyrannical mother and in love with a young r  …

HBO’s new six-episode comedy series marries real-life Floridians sharing their crazy stories about the Sunshine State with reenactment by an eclectic rotation of actors — like Randall Park, Sam Richardson, Anna Faris, Ego Nwodim, Jake Johnson, and Juliette Lewis. From the New York Times’ Margaret L  …

It’s been a while since Entourage skewered Hollywood’s sausage-making egos and idiosyncracies, but HBO’s latest workplace comedy (from Veep creator Armando Iannucci) arrives perfectly-timed to take on the behind-the-scenes world of a superhero franchise movie. The wackadoodle of the characters and t  …

Colin Farrell stars as mob boss Oz Cob (The Penguin), who’s ready to seize his big chance to grab power in Gotham in this immersive 8-episode miniseries that jumps off the Batman movie of 2022, but largely stands alone and will lure in non-DC Comics fans with its cliffhangers and scene-stealing fema  …

After losing her job at an ad agency, Lene spirals into a midlife crisis, certain she’s washed up and done for. After a few too many, she posts a sexy pic in traditional folk costume on InsideFans, and her life takes a big turn in this Norwegian HBO comedy-drama that’s the perfect chaser after binge  …

A stirring documentary about three quadriplegic gamers who discover a new mission in life in the wake of their sudden disabilities, and show us all how to embrace humor, camaraderie, and purpose to find their inner resilience.

The prequel to Game of Thrones based on George R.R. Martin’s book Fire & Blood, House of the Dragon follows the conflict within House Targaryen 200 years before the events of HBO’s Thrones series that led to a war of succession. As it’s been two years, you’ll need a catch up on Season 1.  Here’s  …

The 29-year-old breakout star of Hacks gets day under the lights with her own stand-up special, and bookends the hour long special with her “origin story” and birth at the beginning and her grandmother’s funeral at the end, with an effective treatise on climate change in between.  And impressive arc  …

An imaginative all-star HBO comedy from the creator of Los Espooky’s, Julio Torres plays a version of himself in a riff on the Greek myth of the Golden Fleece in Fantasmas, except he’s on a quest for an earring he lost in a New York dance club. His Poseidon-like adventure involves dream sequences en  …

A Sundance darling starring Dakota Johnson follows a 30-something who comes out as a lesbian and begins to date women for the first time with the help of her best friend (Sonoya Mizuno).  From Indiewire’s Kate Berland:  “…a generous examination of female friendship, a dead funny skewering of L.A.  …

A four-part CNN/BBC Studios series that sheds light on the political context, tensions and paranoia of the 1980s Cold War through the stories of three double agents: A Russian whose intelligence helped Thatcher to forge a relationship with Mikhail Gorbachev, an MI5 officer, and the CIA’s Aldrich Ame  …

Succession and Game of Thrones were the clear inspirations behind this three-part comedic docuseries, which follows a tension-fueled power struggle between a former elephant trainer, a kettle-corn vendor, and a GM as they vie for the chance to run the Texas Renaissance Faire after its 86-year-old fo  …

Jessica Lange stars as a Broadway star reconciling her life choices as she deals with the early symptoms of dementia in this HBO drama co-starring Pierce Brosnan, Kathy Bates, Lily Rabe, and Jesse Williams. Tony winner Michael Cristofer directs. From Peter Travers at ABC News: “…a snappy, stirring  …

A start-up cautionary tale for our times, told through the eyes of the founders, Movie Pass, Movie Crash sheds fresh light on the Black innovators behind MoviePass and the reckless role of their privileged “saviors” in bringing down the phenomenon that aimed to bring back the theatrical film busines  …

But not the thirsty you’re thinking of, this is one big bar crawl around the world.  In time for summer, consider this a vicarious vacation travel series hosted by actress Shay Mitchell (best known for Pretty Little Liars) that drops you into stunning destinations to teach you the cultural importanc  …

Part documentary, part dramatized true story, the three-part Spanish series investigates the aftermath of the 1998 rape of a 13-year-old girl by a 63-year-old man, how authorities refused to believe her accusations, and the role her mother played in pursuing justice.

A moving, often thrilling four-part docuseries and American history lesson that focuses on an underdog Memphis record label that began as a country music store and rose up to launch the some of the most influential soul music artists of the 60s and 70s — until several forces intervened in its succe  …

Jumping off Beyonce’s big “Cowboy Carter” release and the conversation it kicked off about Black musicians in the world of country music, CNN delves deeper into the overlapping worlds of Nashville’s country scene and the rise in the diversity of its most famous music genre.