There’s not a lot of hope in sci-fi these days, and it’s been like that for quite a while. The ever popular Battlestar Galactica reboot, though it was an amazing show, was guilty of this, are most modern sci-fi series like The Expanse and Black Mirror too. Their themes seems to be that because present day is so cruddy,
surely the future will be cruddy too. And those shows have a point. In
the whole of human history there’s never been a time when mankind’s been
able to get over our petty disagreements and squabbles — which gets
reflected in our sci-fi.
That’s why I find the FOX series The Orville, created by Seth Macfarlane of Family Guy fame so interesting. In it, it’s a few hundred years in the future and
things are pretty great. We still have our problems, but they’re mostly
solved and mankind instead devotes its time to less destructive pursuits
like exploring the galaxy.
The Orville
Over the years MacFarlane hasn’t hidden the fact that he’s a huge fan of Star Trek, going so far as to have a small acting role in Star Trek: Enterprise. And his love for Star Trek shows in The Orville, which is the closest thing to the original Star Trek since the original Star Trek, even more so than Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Sometimes I think sci-fi’s “hopelessness” is because the creators of
sci-fi TV series and movies strive towards realism, and sometimes their
definition of “realism” is that dark=real. And that’s great, but things
don’t have to be “dark” to be real. Even the latest incarnation of Star Trek with Star Trek: Discovery is following this model where things are dark and dreary and the universe is a dangerous and forbidding place.
And I love “dark” — I’m a fan of The Expanse and Black Mirror and probably would be a fan of Discovery too if I subscribed to CBS All Access. But while there’s a lot of
series that show just how the future might be just as worse as the
present, there’s only one modern sci-fi show I can think of that follows
the mold of the original Star Trek series and says that the future will be bright, shiny and better than the present. And that show is The Orville.
The cast of The Orville
Originally advertised as a sort of “Galaxy Quest the TV series as brought to you by the guy who created Family Guy,” The Orville turned out to be a sci-fi show with a lot of heart and good intentions
about the crew of the ship of the same name as they explore the galaxy.
Not all episodes of The Orville are perfect, there’s a few clunkers in the first season. But overall I’d say that the first season of The Orville was better than the first seasons of things like The Next Generation or Deep Space Nine which is saying a lot.
There’s one episode in particular that I think surmises the first series of The Orville as a whole. As the ship zooms through space the Orville the crew are on the bridge all watching an old episode of Seinfeld and are trying to explain to an alien crew member why it’s funny. It’s a small moment in a show that has nothing to do with Seinfeld, but I can’t imagine this scene happening on any other modern sci-fi show, only on The Orville, which is part of the reason why it’s so special.
The Orville did well enough in the ratings that it’s been
picked up for a second season that’s set to start this winter. Now
whether or not the show was picked up because FOX liked it, or they
wanted to keep MacFarlane happy at FOX and not jumping ship like a few
other series creators did this year to other venues like Netflix or
Amazon Prime doesn’t really matter. Regardless of whyThe Orville got picked up, the fact is that it did get picked up made me very happy.
You have plenty of time on catching up on the first season of The Orville since the second doesn’t start until December 30.
The first new network show of the fall season Rel premiered
last Sunday on FOX, with regular episodes scheduled to premiere Sunday,
September 30. Last season that network did much the same thing with The Orville, premiering the first episode to coincide with the start of the NFL. But, whereas The Orville had an interesting first episode, Rel did not.
I really dug The Carmichael Show on NBC which was co-created by Jerrod Carmichael and co-starred Lil Rel Howery — and Carmichael is co-producing Rel which was created by Howery. But whereas The Carmichael Show was a series with bite, Rel is a relatively toothless.
I giggled a few times during this first episode about Rel, a nurse
who’s wife’s left him and taken the kids to Cleveland after she slept
with Rel’s barber, but overall the first episode felt like a standard
sitcom with lots of jokes that come out of all the obvious places. I’ll
give Rel one more try when the series returns in a few weeks
since you never can be sure if the first episode is any indication as to
where the show’s going to go from here, but otherwise I’ll probably be
done with this one by the end of the month.
The Deuce
The Deuce
The second season of the David Simon/George Pelecanos series The Deuce premiered on HBO last Sunday and makes a jump in time five years in
time from the first. Mostly gone are the grimy streets of New York City
1972 which have been replaced with nicer ones circa 1977. The grime
might not be visible, but it’s still there hidden behind closed doors.
Prostitutes and drug dealers still abound, but now they ply their trade
more quietly and not in the open.
It’s a good time for people like ex-prostitute turned porn
star/producer Eileen (Maggie Gyllenhaal) who’s off the streets and is
now making money shooting dirty movies. Even people like Vincent (James
Franco) who once made a living day-by-day tending bar now runs a
successful establishment, even if behind doors the mob is really pulling
the strings.
I thought the first season of The Deuce was interesting, if I
lost interest in it towards the end. It might have been too dark and
depressing for me, even if that’s how it really was in early 1970s New
York. In the second season much of the darkness is gone, replaced with
an interesting sort of late 1970s glamour.
The characters are still the same characters from the first season, they’re still prostitutes, pimps and drug dealers. But it’s like as long as they don’t look like prostitutes, pimps and drug dealers everything’s going to be okay, even as mayor elect Ed Koch and his decades long stint of cleaning up the streets looms on the horizon.
American Horror Story: Apocalypse
American Horror Story: Apocalypse
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about horror movies that used to turn
up on TV from time to time but really don’t anymore. I remember seeing
things like Dawn of the Dead and The Evil Dead on
basic cable abet edited for content, but still on cable. But these days
those movies almost never turn up on TV. Sure, maybe they’ll run on some
premium channel now and then or make some special appearance in
October, but for the most part those movies have been absent from public
view the last 20 years.
I think I know the reason why, it’s because newer versions of those
movies have been made, and when there’s screen time to show a horror
movie the channels always go for the remakes.
And that’s what the latest American Horror story series American Horror Story: Apocalypse feels like to me, a remake.
Nuclear war and WWIII was a big subject of movies and TV shows in the
1970s and 1980s. There were things like the made-for-TV movie World War III, The Day After, and Threads that approached the subject matter with a bit of gravitas and there were also movies like Hell Comes to Frogtown, Radioactive Dreams and, while not directly about nuclear war, Night of the Comet that approached it in a more silly and fantastical manner.
But in the 1990s, 2000s and much of the 2010s fiction about nuclear
war was passé and was mostly replaced with movies and TV series about
zombies. However, as we enter a new age of fear of the “bomb,” comes American Horror Story: Apocalypse about just that.
Here, it’s seemingly a normal day in downtown L.A. when unexpectedly
alerts begin going out and sirens wail of approaching nuclear doom. What
follows is panic and chaos on the streets, but for a select few there
are safe havens that exist, safe havens that come with a price.
Other than the costumes, the first episode of American Horror Story: Apocalypse felt like bits of Miracle Mile, The Day the World Ended mixed with the colors and styling of a 1960s Hammer Films production.
Which makes me wonder, while I thought the first episode of American Horror Story: Apocalypse was interesting, if the episode is essentially one long “homage” of
movies like these that have come before, why not just watch Miracle Mile, The Day the World Ended and virtually any of the Hammer Films from the 1960s instead?
A third and final volume of the collection of the Star Wars newspaper comic strips is released this week. This collection covers 1982 to 1984, with the entire run of strips having been published from 1979 to 1984.
The concluding volume that reprints for the first time the classic
Star Wars newspaper strip in its complete format. The only edition to
include each Sunday page title header and bonus panels in meticulously
restored original color. Featuring nine key stories from Star Wars
Legends written by Archie Goodwin and illustrated by Al Williamson.
Movies
Captive State movie trailer
What To Watch This Week
The Dark Crystal
Sunday
The Bedford Incident_ The Bedford Incident from 1965 airs this week on Sony Movie Channel. Most of this flick just is okay, but it has one heck of a brilliant ending!
Monday
Mothra Insomniac theater — the Japanese giant monster classic Mothra airs very early Monday morning on TCM.
The Dark Crystal The Jim Henson and Frank Oz fantasy epic The Dark Crystal also airs on Sony Movie Channel this week. I remember being seriously creeped out by this one as a kid.
Tuesday
Sicario: Day of the SoldadoSicario: Day of the Soldado got hammered by the press last summer, though it did decent enough at the box office. It gets released on digital Tuesday.
We seem to be living in the age of the spin-off series. If it’s not the NCIS… variety on CBS then it’s the Chicago… series on NBC. That’s not to say there’s not a few spin-offs on cable and streaming too. There, you’ve got things like Better Call Saul and Fear the Walking Dead on AMC which are spin-offs from Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead respectively and Star Trek: Discovery on CBS All Access which is a spin-off from the Star Trek TV franchise.
There are really two ways that TV creators can handle the spin-off.
The first way is to essentially remake the original show, but put it in a
different local with different characters. The stories essentially
remain the same, it’s just the small details that change. Most spin-offs
are like this from NCIS… to Fear the Walking Dead and even most of the Star Trek series too.
The second way is to take characters and situations from the original series and place them into a new story which Better Call Saul is a great example of.
Mayans MC
The new series Mayans MC on FX is a spin-off of Sons of Anarchy, which is kind’a, but not quite, a spin-off of The Shield. The Mayans are a California based motorcycle gang, like the Sons of Anarchy motorcycle gang, except the Mayans are latino.
To me, Mayans MC feels like a continuation of Sons of Anarchy in that the same people are working on the show behind the scenes, namely Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter, and both deal with essentially the same things — bad guys riding motorcycles doing bad things. Now, maybe Mayans MC will diverge from Sons of Anarchy in some way at some point in the future — though I doubt it.
I could never get into Sons of Anarchy since everything on
the show was so heightened. On the one hand, the show seemed to be set
in a California very much like our own but on the other there were
machine gun shootouts every day, murders and drug and gun running that
would’ve been national news headlines with the FBI busting up the gang
in a matter of weeks. And after one episode I think Mayans MC will probably just like Sons of Anarchy in that regard.
I think that fans of Sons of Anarchy are probably going to love Mayans MC but I’d be surprised if the show brings in any new fans.
The Purge
The Purge
I am a The Purge virgin.
So far, there’s been four The Purge movies that have
collectively made over $400 million at the box office. Yet I, the
self-described “movie nerd” who digs horror flicks, hasn’t seen a single
one of them. I think the reason is simply because I generally don’t see
horror movies in the theater, and The Purge movies never turned up on any of the cable channels I subscribed to. So I come at the new ten episode The Purge mini-series on USA with fresh eyes.
Honestly, I think seeing some of the movies would’ve helped
understanding what was all going on in the TV series. I’m assuming all
explanation about what the purge is was described in them, but for the
TV show all we get is a little on-screen announcement of what’s about to
happen. Why the purge exists in the first place or why people let this
happen… we don’t get any explanation about that whatsoever.
There are essentially three stories in The Purge TV series.
The first of which is of a brother searching for his sister who’s joined
a cult who’s goal is to get purged. There’s also a couple spending the
evening at a swanky party riding out the purge. And there’s a business
woman doing sneaky things of which we’re not quite sure of during the
purge.
The first episode was very much the first chapter in a longer story,
and as such it was a bit hard to make heads or tails of how the season
would play out. I suspect that The Purge TV series is going to be a ten hours long story about a purge, which the movies seem to be able to do in an hour an a half.
Watching the first episode I kept thinking that I was missing
something. That people who had seen all the movies were going, “Oh, this
is just like that part from the second movie!” Or, “This guy’s doing
that thing because of what happened in the first one.” Or, “This
character’s just like that other character from the fourth one.” I, on
the other hand, was a bit confused. I’m sure that if I watched the whole
series I’d be less confused at the end, I’m just not sure if I’m
willing to invest ten hours in it.
The whole idea of a The Purge TV series at this point is a bit odd. The movies are still making money, In fact, the last The Purge movie was released just a few weeks ago in theaters and was the highest grossing movie of the bunch. Maybe it’s because The Purge movies are more of an anthology series of films rather than a
continuous series means that splitting off to a TV series makes sense?
But I don’t get it.
A 30th anniversary edition of the seminal work by Alan Moore and
Brian Bolland gets the “absolute” treatment in a new edition from DC
this week. At just 64 pages the nearly $50 retail seems a bit high to
me, then again there are the standard editions out there of The Killing Joke that can be bought new for $15.
This edition collects BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE with Bolland’s
reimagined colors and the original edition’s colors, a story from BATMAN
BLACK AND WHITE and Joker artwork from Bolland’s long career with DC,
including never-before-published artwork.
Movies
Halloween trailer
What To Watch This Week
Rel
Sunday
The Deuce The second season of the critically acclaimed HBO series The Deuce begins airing this week. The first season took place in an early 1970s era NYC where prostitution and vice was rampant, while the second is set in 1978 where, I’m assuming, prostitution and vice were just as rampant.
Rel The first new network show of the 2018–2019 is Rel also debuts this week. I was excited about this one when I first heard about it, I really liked the actor Lil Rel on The Carmichael Show, but all the commercials I’ve seen about Rel makes it look like a stinker to me.
Monday-Friday
The X-Files Starting Monday at 6AM BBC America will be airing five solid days of The X-Files in what looks like episode order starting with the first one and including airings of both feature films too.
Wednesday
American Horror Story: Apocalypse The eighth (!!!) season of American Horror story looks to deal with the, well, apocalypse on FX. I really dug the first season of this show but, because I think it’s so stylized, haven’t been able to get into later seasons of the show since.
Clear and Present Danger HDNET MOVIES will be airing Harrison Ford’s final appearance as Jack Ryan in this thriller from 1994 today.
Friday
The Predator What looks to be one heck of a ride, the fourth film in the sci-fi horror genera The Predator opens in theaters this Friday.
Solo: A Star Wars Story Solo: A Star Wars Story was the one of the movies I had the most fun at this summer and is available for digital download Friday. This one is a must-buy for me, if to see the deleted scenes alone.
Cool Sites
Stellarium Web Online Planetarium:
Stellarium Web is a free open source planetarium running in your web
browser. It shows a realistic sky, just like what you see with the naked
eye, binoculars or a telescope.
It’s going to be a long fall. Usually, when the weather starts
changing and the nights start getting longer I look forward to staying
in and checking out the new series on TV. But this fall isn’t looking
too good. Sure, there’s a few things to watch, but not enough for my
taste and only a handful of series on network TV. The template the
networks have taken for the 2018–2019 season is to debut a lot of
lame-looking sitcoms and tired cop/hospital/lawyer procedural dramas
that all seem to have been done before.
The good news is it isn’t all bad, there are quite a few new
series on cable and streaming services to look forward to. The bad news
is that most of these series don’t start airing until much later in the
year and even then quite a few not until 2019. Oh well, there’s always
horror movies marathons come Halloween to fill the gap.
New series
The Passage
On FOX the vampire thriller The Passage starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar is set to put a lot of stakes into the
hearts of the undead ghouls in the one network show I want to check out
in January. While the novel the series is based on took place mostly in a
future overrun with the blood-suckers, this new TV show looks to moved
things back a bit to the pre-apocalypse when these vampires were just
being created in the lab.
Manifest on NBC about a plane that takes
off one day but lands five years later with everyone on board not
realizing the time-jump departs September 24. I think I’d be more
looking forward to this show if it didn’t look like a clone of many
other series before it, especially Lost.
Matt Weiner’s follow-up series to his uber-successful Mad Man entitled The Romanoffs is set to debut on Amazon Prime October 12. I’m not totally sure how
this one’s going to go, but reportedly this anthology series will focus
on characters who think they’re related to the Russian royal family the
Romanoffs.
After the animated Star Wars: Rebels series on Disney ended earlier this year comes the new series Star Wars Resistance also on Disney October 13. This one is set to take place around the time of the current film series but before the events of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Nightflyers
SYFY is once again trying their hand at traditional sci-fi series with Nightflyers,
based on the George R.R. Martin book of the same name. Not at all
looking to cash in on Martin’s name and the fact that he wrote Game of Thrones and therefore SYFY can promote Nightflyers as such, here, it’s the near-future and as the ship of the same name
explores the solar system it uncovers something that threatens everyone
abroad the ship. Nightflyers does sound a bit derivative of things like Event Horizon (1997), except that the novel the series is based on was written way back in 1980.
The Netflix series Another Life has an
astronaut (Katie Sackhoff) leading a mission to find the origins of an
alien artifact, but this artifact might be deadly and the mission
one-way. Maybe the cast of Another Life and Nightflyers can team-up since their two shows sure sound a lot alike.
The iconic comic book mini-series then film Watchmen will become an HBO TV series of the same name sometime next year.
There’s not a whole lot that is known about this one, other than
apparently it doesn’t totally follow the story of the comics but instead
takes place in the same comic universe.
And as for new shows this season, that’s about it. I’m sure I’ll
checkout some of those lame-looking sitcoms hoping to be surprised with
something interesting, but I’m not holding my breath.
Returning series
Fortunately, there are a few returning shows this year to look forward to.
The Good Place
Returning network shows that will premiere this year include The Good Place,
the sitcom about a group of people lead by Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen
Bell) stuck between heaven and hell returns to NBC on Thursday,
September 27 and The Orville on FOX that is Seth MacFarlane’s love-letter to the classic series Star Trek squeaks into 2018 with its second season debut on Sunday, December 30.
Two Netflix superhero series return this year too. First up is the second season of Iron Fist which drops September 7. Then, sometime later in the year, comes a third season of Daredevil who appear last season on The Defenders. I honestly don’t really remember what happened in the second season of Daredevil since it aired more than a year and a half ago at this point. Weren’t there lots of ninjas?
Doctor Who
Doctor Who returns for its 11th season of
the modern incarnation of the character October on BBC America here in
the US. The big news with Doctor Who is that after 55 years and
more than a dozen versions of the character, this time the lead will be
played by a woman, Jodie Whittaker. Personally, I still like Peter
Davison’s version of the character the best, no matter how many Matt
Smith fans out there I have to go all “Sharks and Jets” with.
The Sundance series Deutschland 86 will
return for its second season October 25. The first season was about an
East German spy played by Jonas Nay infiltrating West Germany in order
to steal military secrets and had tinges of The Americans to it. The third season looks to pick up three years from there and just a few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The British sci-fi series Black Mirror will
serve up more creepy goodness sometime this winter on Netflix. Even
after four seasons I still really dig this show and I think it’s
partially because even though there’s already been those four seasons, Black Mirror is an anthology series so each episode is a story unto itself. And to
date there’s been just 20 episodes of it produced in total, which is
less than how many episodes of a modern network series are produced in
just one year, so the show is still fresh.
Star Trek: Discovery
A second season of Star Trek: Discovery returns to CBS All Access this January. The first season of Discovery got good enough reviews from Trek fans, if those were the only people seemingly watching it, and the
second season looks to bring in the big guns to the show, namely the USS
Enterprise along with its Captain Kir… errr… I mean Captain Pike (Anson
Mount).
The Netflix phenomenon Stranger Things will
return for its third season summer of 2019. Last time we left the
plucky kids of Hawkins, Indiana seemingly having beaten the evil forces
that had emerged from the “upside down,” but if other sci-fi shows have
taught me anything it’s that every victory against evil is just
temporary. Until the final episode of the series, that is.
My favorite superhero series The Punisher also returns to Netflix sometime next year. The first season ended with
Frank Castle (Jon Bernthal) having totally accepted the mantel of the
skull wearing vigilante by blasting all the baddies to smithereens with
the second season looking to pick up from there.
The Terror
A surprise to me this spring was just how much I dug the first season of the AMC series The Terror about an ill-fated expedition to the Arctic the 19th century. The
second season will reportedly have a new story and focus on Japanese
Americans during the second world war since the first season ended with
pretty much the entire cast dead. That’s not a spoiler since the first
season was based on a real-life expedition that ended in tragedy and I’m
not sure you can consider a historical fact a “spoiler.”
A third season of the critical darling then critically derided True Detective will debut on HBO sometime next year four years after the second. The
third season looks to “one-up” the first since that told a story over
two time periods by telling a story over three.
Shows that I think will premiere sometime in 2019
Mindhunter
My favorite series of the 2017–2018 season , Mindhunter is set to begin its second season on Netflix next year. This show about
the creation of a serial killer hunting unit within the FBI in the
1970s was one of the most well-written and acted shows on TV in recent
memory. Plus the series is co-produced and had a few episodes directed
by David Fincher which is always a good thing.
The sci-fi drama The Expanse will leave its
home of three seasons on SYFY and move over to the Amazon Prime service
next year. The third season ended on a high note, so I’m extremely
excited to see where the show will go from here.
Another sci-fi drama, this time Westworld,
is set to debut its third season on HBO. Now, I won’t even pretend to
say that I understood what all happened in the second season finale of Westworld, I don’t think it was quite on the level of the final episode of Lost or anything, but I suppose time will tell.
I have this certain rule about movies. That rule, if I ever see that
there’s a scene in a movie where a character is casually walking away
from an explosion happening right behind them, I won’t see that movie.
The first time someone walked away like that in a movie it was probably
pretty cool, but over the years it’s become so lame it’s cliched and is
an indication of the overall quality of said movie. I really haven’t had
to worry about this with TV series since television budgets don’t
really allow for effects like this, until recently. That was when I saw
one of the posters for the Amazon Prime Jack Ryan TV series. There, the title character is walking away from an explosion that’s so immense it’s occurring over the horizon that would have to be so gigantic it would have been atomic in size.
And does Jack Ryan notice what’s happening behind him? Not at all.
Jack Ryan poster
Ultimately, I decided to give Jack Ryan a pass because, as Pee-Wee Herman so eloquently put it, “I’m a rule-breaker…”
The character of Jack Ryan was originally created by author Tom Clancy in his novel The Hunt for Red October (1984) and has been a feature of many books since. On screen Alec
Baldwin appeared as Ryan in the movie version of that novel, then
Harrison Ford in two films, Ben Affleck one and Chris Pine one too.
I’m a fan of the Jack Ryan character in general so I come at this new
TV version as such, and as a fan I’m on the lookout for certain things.
The history of the character is that he’s an analyst for the CIA who’s
not a guy who goes out into the field to do things, he’s more
comfortable tabulating statistics behind a desk. What happens is that
Ryan’s thrust into situations he’s not prepared for — be it trying to
find out if a Soviet submarine captain wants to nuke the US or defect or
stop a terrorist attack his family is at the center to name a few.
With something like The Hunt for Red October, the only
really Ryan’s even in the mix is because he’s one of the few people who
knows of the special submarine in that movie and the background of its
captain. And since he’s the only one with any knowledge whatsoever, he’s
sent to try and figure things out. It’s not because he an expert
marksman, has six-pack abs or knows eight silent ways to kill a man that
he’s chosen to go, it’s because he has a little knowledge but still
knows more than anyone else.
Wendell Pierce and John Krasinski in Jack Ryan
I don’t need much from the latest Jack Ryan TV series from
Amazon, except the character should be somewhat true to this. Otherwise,
if he’s going to be a Jason Bourne/James Bond/Captain America
superhero, why make a Jack Ryan thing and not just make up a brand new
character? I say let Jack Ryan be Jack Ryan.
Now comes the TV series version of the character in Jack Ryan, this time starring John Krasinski in the title role.
This version of of the character is more in-line with the Affleck one, they’re both young, single and brash. This Jack Ryan uncovers large sums of money moving through accounts overseas, and when
it turns out Ryan is onto something he’s put onto a plane by the head
of his department James Greer (Wendell Pierce) where the two end up at a
CIA black site in order to interrogate suspects in moving the money.
But there Ryan is thrust into being a man of action when the compound is
attacked by terrorists in order to free these suspects.
I thought Jack Ryan was interesting, if it wasn’t quite
strong enough to hook me just yet. The characters are thinly drawn —
Ryan’s biggest characteristic is that he cares too much and Greer is
one-note gruff. I also thought the plot was a sort of mish-mash of
things that had come before like Zero Dark Thirty and 24.
I wish we could get a Jack Ryan TV series that was a little
closer to the characters from the Baldwin/Ford films, but that doesn’t
seem to be in the cards these days. It seems as if every character like
that on TV or in the movies has to have almost superhuman abilities,
they are a perfect physical specimen, never get tired and are never
afraid. Which is how I felt about this latest Jack Ryan character. That
character didn’t feel like a character, he felt like a real guy and I
think the series would’ve been better if he did.
Can I also mention I couldn’t tell if the audio mix on the first
episode was off or if it was something about my setup? I practically had
to turn my TV speakers up to 11 to hear it when anyone was talking.
This could’ve also been a stylistic choice to have everyone mumble and
talk under their breath which was a bit maddening. It would be nice to
hear what people are speaking now and then to catch what’s all going on.
True Detective season 3 commercial
Movies
First Man trailer
What To Watch This Week
Tuesday
Mayans MC The spin-off series of the super-successful FX series Sons of Anarchy about a group of terrorist motorcycle riders running guns, murdering people and selling drugs in small-town California debuts this week.
The Purge A ten episode mini-series based on the The Purge film franchise begins Tuesday on USA. Since The Purge is now a TV series, does that mean there’ll be no more The Purge movies? We couldn’t be that lucky.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom One of the biggest hits of the summer is set to be released on digital download this week.
Friday
Iron Fist A second season to the Marvel series begins this Friday on Netflix. The first one got ugly reviews so here’s hoping the second does a bit better.
