BOO! It is back. Well… not Pennywise, not yet. But if the first and last ten minutes of this new Stephen King prequel series teach us anything, it’s that you don’t need Bill Skarsgård to show Derry, Maine as a full-blown nexus o...

The title that just won’t die, go figure. This version of Lazarus stars Bill Nighy and Sam Claflin, and although it’s a British production, it’s helmed by one of America’s most prolific authors, Harlan Coben. The premise is simple: a p...

Based on a short story by Katherine Heiny, DMV is CBS’s new workplace comedy starring Harriet Dyer, Tony Cavalero, and Tim Meadows. The first two episodes establish a world built around everyone’s favorite pastime: waiting in line and ...

The Resurrected is a Taiwanese revenge-thriller on Netflix. We cover the first two episodes (“Execution Day” and “Resurrection Day”). Shu Qi and Sinje Lee play Wang Hui‑chun and Chao Ching, two grieving mothers who resurrect Chang Shih...

On this podcast, we cover the pilot of The Chair Company on HBO, created by Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin. Tim plays Ron, a mall development manager whose chair collapses post-speech, setting off an absurd chain of paranoia, corporate dr...

The Last Frontier on Apple TV+ is a high-stakes thriller from Blacklist creator Jon Bokenkamp. The first two episodes (“Blue Skies” and “Winds of Change”) focus on U.S. Marshal Frank Remnick (Jason Clarke) in Fairbanks, as he’...

Monster: The Ed Gein Story kicks off with “MOTHER!,” a chilly, wild plunge into the story of the Plainfield Ghoul. Charlie Hunnam does his best to embody the infamous serial killer. From his awkward voice to his fascination with Nazi p...

A severed hand, a missing billionaire, and a suspicious trophy wife. The pilot (“Sheryl”) of Hotel Costiera on Prime Video sets two tracks: a season-long mystery about the hotel owner’s missing daughter and a one-off circumstance invol...

Chad Powers is Hulu’s new sports comedy, born from Eli Manning’s 2022 walk-on prank at Penn State. Glen Powell stars as Russ Holliday, a disgraced former quarterback who fakes the new identity “Chad Powers” to earn a second shot at his...

Disney+’s Marvel Zombies spins the “What If… Zombies?!” timeline into a full-season undead romp. Five years after the outbreak, Kamala Khan teams up with Kate Bishop, Ironheart, and an AI-Natalie stuffed bear for a road trip through a ...

FX and Sterlin Harjo team up again for The Lowdown. We dig into the first two episodes—“The Sensitive Kind” and “The Devil’s Mama”—of this Oklahoma dark comedy/noir. Ethan Hawke’s battered “truthstorian” Lee Raybon chases the skeletons...

Though this miniseries may have taken the fact it's a dark comedy with the title Black Rabbit a little too literally, judging by the lack of lighting, Netflix’s latest is an intriguing blend of restaurant drama, heist thriller, and tho...

Tempest is a new K-drama on Disney+/Hulu. After a presidential frontrunner is assassinated mid-speech, his widow—former diplomat Seo Mun-ju (Jun Ji-hyun)—steps into the race and quickly lands in the crosshairs. Enter action hero Baek S...

The Girlfriend is a psychological thriller on Prime Video, adapted from Michelle Frances’ novel. It stars Robin Wright as Laura, a high-powered gallery owner, whose world starts unraveling when her son Daniel brings home Cherry (Olivia...

Task is HBO’s latest gritty crime thriller from Mare of Easttown creator Brad Ingelsby. Set in suburban Philly, the 65-minute pilot “Crossings” kicks off a tense cat-and-mouse story between a disillusioned fed (Mark Ruffalo) a...

Peacock returns to the Office-verse with The Paper. Set in a Toledo, Ohio newsroom, the 32-minute pilot introduces a new cast (besides Oscar) and follows Ned Sampson, a freshly minted editor in chief with big ideals, as he tries to dit...

Jonas Pate walked outside with his family one day in Wilmington, North Carolina, and said… let’s make a band. Then he X-Factor-auditioned 5,000 kids and pieced together The Runarounds. Now that same band is playing fictional versions o...

The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox is now streaming on Hulu. In this podcast, we discuss the first three installments (“Amanda,” “Ci vediamo più tardi,” and “The Guardian of Perugia”) of K.J. Steinberg’s limited series, which dramatizes t...

The Terminal List: Dark Wolf rewinds the clock to chart Ben Edwards’ (Taylor Kitsch) path from SEAL to CIA operative. Set in 2015 during the real-life Inherent Resolve campaign, the series gives us Iraq, covert missions, bomb...

Netflix’s Long Story Short, created by BoJack Horseman’s Raphael Bob-Waksberg, is a time-hopping animated family comedy. We follow the Cooper/Schwartz/Schwoopers across key milestones in the first two episodes, “Yoshi’s Bar Mi...

After years of silence, USA scripted TV is back with a one-off legal-drama throwback based on John Grisham’s 1995 novel The Rainmaker. After a young paralegal gets canned from a big firm, plan B lands him at an ambulance-chasing, B...

Jason Momoa leads this Hawaiian historical epic about rival kingdoms, brutal power struggles, and the rise of Kamehameha the Great. In this podcast review of Chief of War, we cover the first four episodes—Kaʻiana’s journey from retired...

In space, no one can hear you scream—but on Earth, we can! Alien: Earth, FX’s ambitious new prequel series from Noah Hawley (Fargo, Legion), crash-lands into the Alien universe with hybrid synths, trillionair...

Time flies when you’re time traveling. It’s been 11 years since Outlander first premiered on Starz, and the prequel is here to keep the franchise’s blood pumping. Blood of My Blood follows the stories of Jamie and Claire’s par...

Set in postwar 1946 London, Bookish follows bibliophile Gabriel Book, who runs a secondhand shop and solves crimes through his encyclopedic literary knowledge. Created by Sherlock's Mark Gatiss and historian Matthew Sweet, thi...