It’s Florida, Man

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 Lyons: “…the show’s melody is ‘Get a load of this!’

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Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

A stirring, intimate documentary that reveals the lesser known story about one of Hollywood’s most enduring icons, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story brought our writer to tears.  As Felipe Patterson describes it, it’s a story that manages to be inspiring and heartbreaking, and “a testament to the human capacity to overcome the insurmountable.”  Read his

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Sweetpea british murder drama

Sweetpea

You can count on Starz to bring the edge that might be missing from your endless Netflix scrolls. Their new dark British dramedy is about a young outcast (Ella Purnell) who, while being dismissed by her peers, embraces her inner savage and secret new role as a killer.  More original than its plot would indicate,

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Lonely Planet

Laura Dern plays a newly single novelist struck with writer’s block who heads to a retreat in Morocco hoping for a cure, and as you can guess, she finds one in the handsome young stranger (Liam Hemsworth) who throws her for a few loops in this Netflix romance that has all the ingredients of a

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Cate Blanchett plays a celebrated TV journalist who receives a new novel in the mail, one that appears to feature her as the main character—ultimately  disclosing a dark chapter from her past. The seven-episode psychological thriller, written and directed by Academy Award-winner Alfonso Cuarón (Roma, Gravity), brings together an impressive cast: Kevin Kline, Sacha Baron

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The Inheritance tv show on Britbox about siblings cut out of the will.

The Inheritance

After their father dies unexpectedly, his three adult siblings discover that their dad had dementia, that he had recently married, and that he left everything to his new wife, Susan, who was previously married to dad’s best friend. As they each try to unravel the mysteries and process all the news, tensions boil and hard

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Abbott Elementary Season 4 Quinta Brunson

Abbott Elementary S4

The Emmy-winning sitcom that brought back must-see TV broadcast (and Hulu) is returning with a much-anticipated new season, and creator and star Quinta Brunson has teased a new romance, a big Ava story, a “Will Smith-inspired dance” … and an It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia cross-over. Also some surprise guest appearances, piggy-backing off of previous

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Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal

La Máquina

Twenty-three years after Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna teamed up for their cult classic Y tu mamá también, the duo are back on screen together in this six-part comedy-drama they cooked up about an aging boxer (Bernal) and the showboat manager (Luna) trying to reboot his career – just as his ex-wife (Eiza Gonzalez)

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Solar Opposites Halloween

Solar Opposites Halloween Special Part 2

Kicking off the month-long Huluween, the streamer’s adult animated comedy about aliens who crash landed in suburban America gets back into the spirit with its second Halloween Special (“The Hunt for Brown October”).  They’re still trying to decide whether Planet Earth is “awful or awesome,” but now that two of them are married — and

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The Franchise

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 their costumes, the chaos, the clueless arrogance of production newbies are all captured with

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