Cruel Intentions

Cruel Intentions

Set at a fancy Washington D.C.-area college, the kind of place where the country’s VP sends their kids, two rivalrous step siblings vie for social power in the Greek system in this soapy, sexed-up, modern-day adaptation of the 1999 film.  Critics are not on board, but one of the original actors is — Sean Patrick

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Best new drama is Interior Chinatown Jimmy O Yang

Interior Chinatown

Silicon Valley star Jimmy O. Yang plays a background actor on a cop show who stumbles into a real-life criminal conspiracy involving his family’s secret history in this heightened reality comedy-drama, which was adapted from the best-seller of the same name by Charles Yu.  From Adrian Horton at The Guardian:  “It’s a provocative and at

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Ted Danson Man on the Inside

A Man on the Inside

Ted Danson stars in this deeper-than-a-sitcom mystery comedy about a widower who goes undercover as a spy in a senior home to investigate some missing heirlooms, which opens a whole new chapter in his life.  It comes from The Good Place creator, Mike Schur and its based on the Oscar-nominated documentary Mole Agent — so

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new yellowstone landmen jon hamm

Landman

Just in time for the wind down of Yellowstone, its maestro Taylor Sheridan co-created this new slow-burn series about Texas oilmen and the fixers, rig-workers, billionaires, and Mexican drug cartels that intersect their world, with an undercurrent about their larger cost to the bigger world.  Billy Bob Thornton, Jon Hamm, Demi Moore, Andy Garcia, and

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Dune: Prophecy

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 their connection to the Jesuits,

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The Day of the Jackal

Eddie Redmayne plays a killer for hire who ends up on the radar of a British intelligence officer (Lashana Lynch), who must pursue him across Europe in this tense thriller based on Frederick Forsyth’s novel (previously adapted into two feature films). The 10-episode series drops with five episodes today, and also stars Charles Dance, Richard

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Ireland IRA drama on FX and HUlu

Say Nothing

Based on the award-winning nonfiction best-seller by Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing weaves together four different decades and timelines of the history of Ireland’s IRA resistance movement, from hunger strikes to the abduction of a 38-year-old mother to the spillover into US politics. Expect to hear about this one come awards time.  From TIME’s Judy

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Silo S2

A critics’ favorite about an apocalyptic future returns for a second season, following Earthy’s surviving 10,000 people who as they live underground due to the toxic state of the planet.  Rebecca Ferguson returns as Juliette, who visits a neighboring underground silo where a revolution took place and gets to the bottom of why the planet

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A comedy about diplomats at a climate summit starring Cate Blanchett

Rumours

If you’ve finished The Diplomat and need a comedic antidote, this horror satire about a group of G-7 leaders arrives to streaming just in time. Cate Blanchett leads as the German Prime Minister hosting her fellow world leads at a summit to address a climate-related crisis, which devolves into gossip and bog people being excavated

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Goodrich

When his wife heads to rehab, Andy Goodrich (Michael Keaton) has to take on his nine-year-old twins alone, and ends up leaning on his grow-up daughter from his first marriage (Mila Kunis) in this smart and ultimately feel-good comedy-drama about a man’s parental reckoning. “Watching Goodrich isn’t like playing tourist in an upscale world —

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