Not your typical British detective series, HBO-Channel 4 production follows a Scotland Yard detective who heads home to Kingston, Jamaica, only to end up back in London in an explosive international missing persons case. Created by the Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James, who mined his own personal story for the series, the six episodes weave
Set in England during WWII, a London mother (Saoirse Ronan) sends her 9-year-old son away to save him from the German blitzkrieg in the English countryside, but the boy becomes determined to find his way back home in what becomes a treacherous journey that sheds light on rarely seen perspectives from the war. Director Steve
Falling somewhere between a filmed play and a movie, Denzel Washington is the producer behind this adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play directed by Malcolm Washington and starring John David Washington, Danielle Deadwyler, and Samuel Jackson. Set in 1936 Pittsburgh, it’s the story of how a family ends up torn over the fate of
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 Break binge watch
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
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
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
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
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,
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