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new and noteworthy tv: 1/6-1/19

January 5, 2020 No Comments

Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector

With a lapse in new tv I’ve managed to wrap up the latest season on streaming for Ramy (great elements), Tuca & Bertie (didn’t grab me with its layers like BoJack did), Mindhunter (still good but not as strong for me as the first season), and Glow (enjoyed where they went and the variance of episodes) as well as the series finale of Madam Secretary (fictional political escapism pretty well done). I’m working through the 5th season of Schitts Creek which I won’t hit before the 6th premieres on Tuesday. I’m also super ready for the new season of Ink Master on Tuesday, this theme is ‘Rep Your Region’ with four regional teams.

With not a ton of info on new shows if I were to recommend one show it would be Sex Education (Netflix) which returns for its second season, the first was one of my favorites of 2019 (stay tuned for the full list) great characters and moments.

One Day at a Time (Pop) Promo special, Tuesday 1/7 – With the move to POP for its fourth season here’s a look, this was a good show and I’m glad it got picked up after Netflix dropped the ball.
FBI: Most Wanted (CBS) Series Premiere, Tuesday 1/7 – A spin-off from the FBI show, which never grabbed me.
AJ and the Queen (Net) Series Premiere, Friday 1/10 – RuPaul stars as as drag queen who travels in her RV with an 11-year old stowaway, sure.
Giri/Haji (Net) Series Premiere, Friday 1/10 – Tokyo detective goes to London to search for his brother who is in some Yakuza trouble.
Medical Police (Net) Series Premiere, Friday 1/10 – Two American doctors as a Brazilian pediatric hospital need to find the cure to a killer virus.
Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector (NBC) Series Premiere, Friday 1/10 – Based on the book (don’t ask me why they didn’t just call it ‘The Bone Collector’), after being paralyzed by a serial killer this former forensic criminologist is dragged back in, these always have potential of being decent procedurals.
The Outsider (HBO) Series Premiere, Sunday 1/12 – Based on Stephen King’s novel, and investigation takes an irregular turn into the supernatural.
Sanditon (PBS) Series Premiere, Sunday 1/12 – An adaptation of Jane Austen’s unfinished novel.
The New Pope (HBO) Series Premiere, Monday 1/13 – A sequel to ‘The Young Pope.’
68 Whiskey (Para) Series Premiere, Wednesday 1/15 – Army medics in Afghanistan in this comedy-drama, might be worth a look.
Everything’s Gonna Be Okay (Free) Series Premiere, Thursday 1/16 – Humor to deal with the myriad of problems that deal with a brother being responsible for his half sisters, this network tends to skew a bit young but might be an interesting mix.
Little America (Apple+) Series Premiere, Friday 1/17 – An anthology series looking at immigrant experiences.
9-1-1: Lone Star (Fox) Series Premiere, Sunday 1/19 – A spin-off of 9-1-1 which never grabbed me, this one focuses on Rob Lowe as a character who moves from NY to Austin with his son.
Avenue 5 (HBO) Series Premiere, Sunday 1/19 – Hugh Laurie stars as a captain of a cruise space ship that comically deals with problems on the way to Saturn.
Vienna Blood (PBS) Series Premiere, Sunday 1/19 – 1900s Vienna pairs a doctor with an inspector to look at crimes.

Additional streaming:

Jamtara (Net) Series Premiere, Friday 1/10 – This Indian tv show brings a group of young men into a phishing scheme that gets complicated by politicians and police.
Ares (Net) Series Premiere, Friday 1/17 – In this Dutch psychological horror series a student secret society brings secrets.

Returning streaming: The Brokenwood Mysteries (Acorn, 1/6), Ackley Bridge (Acorn 1/13), Grace & Frankie (Net, 1/15), Sex Education (Net, 1/17).

The procrastinator lists mostly scripted items that may not be on your regular season pass, though notation does not imply recommendation. Times noted are typically PST.

new and noteworthy tv: 8/12-8/25

August 11, 2019 No Comments

Excited for the new season of Lodge 49 and Mindhunter but otherwise plugging away on my overfilled streaming plate plus the series finale of Elementary plus intrigued by the first of BH90210 and Bulletproof to keep going though not Two Sentence Horror Story.

Our Boys (HBO) Series Premiere, Monday 8/12, 9pm – Filmed in Israel and based on the true story of murder and the events that led to the outbreak of war in Gaza, initial reviews are positive.
The Terror (AMC) Season Premiere, Monday 8/12, 9pm – I didn’t dabble on the first season of this where they were at sea but people had good things to say so intrigued for the second season which starts a new at Japanese internment camps.
Why Women Kill (CBSAA) Series Premiere, Thursday 8/15 – A look at three generations of women betrayed, not much advanced review but worth a look with leads like Lucy Liu, Ginnifer Goodwin and Kirby Howell-Baptiste.
The Righteous Gemstones (HBO) Series Premiere, Sunday 8/18 – From Danny McBride a look at a famous televangelist family with John Goodman playing the patriarch, worth a shot.
I Ship It (CW) Series Premiere, Monday 8/19, 9:30pm – Musical comedy about a fangirl who gets a job on her favorite show.
On Becoming a God in Central Florida (Show) Series Premiere, Sunday 8/25 – Kirsten Dunst stars as a woman who works at a water park while trying to make it to the top of a pyramid scheme, no reviews yet of this 90s set dark comedy.

Other streaming releases:

45RPM (Net) Series Premiere, Friday 8/16 – Spanish romantic drama on the launch of a rock ‘n’ roll label in ’60s Madrid.
Apache: The Life of Carlos Tevez (Net) Series Premiere, Friday 8/16 – Latin American drama on Tevez’s rise to soccer stardom.
Better Than Us (Net) Series Premiere, Friday 8/16 – Russian political drama where a family becomes owners of a cutting edge robot.
Green Frontier (Net) Series Premiere, Friday 8/16 – Latin America thriller about a Bogota-based detective uncovering magic and other turmoil.
This Way Up (Hulu) Series Premiere, Wednesday 8/21 – UK comedy about a woman trying to pull her life back together after a nervous breakdown.
Love Alarm (Net) Series Premiere, Thursday 8/22 – Korean romantic drama where an app tells you if someone in the vicinity likes you.

Returning streaming: Sacred Games (Netflix, Thursday 8/15), Find Me in Paris (Hulu, Friday 8/16), Mindhunter (Netflix, Friday 8/16), Riviera (SundN, Thursday 8/22), 13 Reasons Why (Net, Friday 8/23), Hero Mask (Net, Friday 8/23),

new and noteworthy tv: 4/9-4/15

April 8, 2018 No Comments

Trying to knock out some of the random premiering shows sitting in my queue so I don’t have to keep recording them. Gone are Alex, Inc., Splitting Up Together, Siren, Krypton, The Last O.G., Deception, Champions, Life Sentence, McMafia, Shoot the Messenger, and finally dropped Good Girls which had some potential but not enough with a tough backlog. Finally wrapped The Punisher and hoping to quell my need for completion when I find something is just dragging, but let me get through the latest season of Orange is the New Black first while taking break for more enjoyable Mindhunter (which I also finally wrapped, good but didn’t enjoy it quite as much as some raves I heard), Jessica Jones, Sneaky Pete, and The Tick.

In Contempt (BET) Series Premiere, Tuesday, 10pm – Legal aid office, sure.
Bosch (Am) Season Premiere, Friday – Excited to see what trouble he’ll get into this season.
Lost in Space (Net) Series Premiere, Friday – Danger, Will Robinson, with Parker Posey as Dr Smith I can’t help but hope this is a fun one.
Rellik (Cin) Series Premiere, Friday, 10pm – UK police detective tracking down a serial killer who has left him emotionally and physically scarred.

The procrastinator lists items that may not be on your regular season pass, though notation does not imply recommendation. Times noted are typically PST.