Well another light week where I should be catching up on movies but find myself recovering from a cold and just catching up on tv including a continued binge of old shows Happy Endings and an episode or two of Beverly Hill, 90210. Hulu has opened some new doors and some of them are old.

• Flack (Pop) Series Premiere, Thursday, 10pm – Anna Paquin plays her hand as an American PR agent in London whose personal life is less than well managed.
• Go! Vive a tu Manera (Net) Series Premiere, Friday – Elite performing arts school, sure.
• Workin’ Moms (Net) Series Premiere, Friday – Canadian comedy coming our way.
• Oscars (ABC) Sunday, 5pm – And the award goes to…. a movie I haven’t seen.

Returning streaming: The Oath (Crack, Thursday), Rebellion (Net, Friday), Suburra (Net, Friday)

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

Well I wrapped up The Mindy Project which with binge viewing may have added to the consternation on a few of the plot lines but overall I found it super fun. Moving on to Happy Endings as my background watching, a few of the cast had made some appearances in Mindy so I was thinking about it.

• The Other Two (Com) Series Premiere, Thursday, 10:30 – Initial buzz on this comedy about two older siblings coming to terms with their 12 year old brother hitting it big is positive.
• Black Earth Rising (Net) Series Premiere, Friday – Political thriller of the case against a Rwandan general and those impacted by uncovered secrets might be thrilling.
• Four More Shots Please! (Am) Series Premiere, Friday – Four Indian women who deal with work, life, romance, and all other things.
• Kingdom (Net) Series Premiere, Friday – No word on this take on corruption turned horror with a plague that makes peeps crave flesh.
• Australian Open (ESPN) Saturday/Sunday 12:30am – Who will be triumphant?
• Rent (Fox) Sunday, 8pm – The latest tv version of a broadway show.

Returning streaming – Club de Cuervo (Net, Friday), Medici: Masters of Florence (Net, Friday).

• The Passage (Fox) Series Premiere, Monday, 9pm – Some good and middling reviews of this story of a lab based virus that could save or end society with hopes pinned on one girl that Mark-Paul Gosserlaar taking care of her.
• Roswell, New Mexico (CW) Series Premiere, Tuesday, 9pm – This will feel a bit familiar for fans of the old series Roswell, or the book series these are both based on but not a lot of great buzz on this aliens living among us series.
• Wayne (YTP) Series Premiere, Wednesday – No word yet on this which means I can continue to ignore YouTube Prime, for this story of dirtbiker trying to get back a car.
• Deadly Class (Syfy) Series Premiere, Wednesday, 10pm – Here’s hoping this new series about an elite prep school where crime families send their kids is good bad and not just bad, could be the exact sort of campy show I enjoy.
• A Discovery of Witches (SundN) Series Premiere, Thursday – The latest supernatural look at witches, vampires, and who knows what else apparently also based on a book.
• Butterfly (Hulu) Series Premiere, Friday – No advance word on this three part miniseries about a split couple raising a son who identifies as a girl.
• Black Monday (Show) Series Premiere, Sunday, 10pm – This Wall Street crash comedy with Don Cheadle apparently misses some of its marks.

Returning streaming: Grace & Frankie (Net, Friday), The Punisher (Net, Friday)

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

Midseason is upon us and along with things like the return of Project Runway All Stars and Gotham there are some new reality shows including Tidying Up with Marie Kondo (Net) and The Masked Singer (Fox). And of course a host of NYE specials. Somehow I’m still not quite caught up on tv let alone going to see a movie. This might be my worst movie seeing year yet.

Returning streaming: A Series of Unfortunate Events (Net, Tues), Call My Agent (Net, Wed), Young Justice (DC, Fri).

Well we’re wrapping up the season and other than yet another Netflix International release, Selection Day an Indian coming of age story, there’s not much new to note. I have been felled by a somewhat traditional Christmas cold so I’ve been tuning into streaming. Lot of Mindy Project with a dash of Big Love, Homecoming, Downton Abbey, and Casual.

I wrapped up The Kominsky Method which was enjoyable based on our two leads, and based on end of year wrap ups floating around started Homecoming and Big Mouth. The holidays should offer some downtime for backlog and perhaps an actual movie.

• Overthinking with Kat and June (YT) Series Premiere, Wednesday
• Boru (Wolf) (Net) Series Premiere, Friday – Turkish tales of heroes in 2014.
• Derry Girls (Net) Series Premiere, Friday – 90s Northern Ireland teens, initial buzz is positive for this comedy.
• Diablero (Net) Series Premiere, Friday – Mexican horror fantasy thriller.
• Perfume (Net) Series Premiere, Friday – German murder mystery.
• Vanity Fair (Am) Series Premiere, Friday – Adaptation of the novel a woman clawing her way out of poverty to the heights of English Society, looks like mostly well done.
• Watership Down (Net) Series Premiere, Sunday – The bunnies are back, not enough buzz yet to tell.

Returning streaming: Marvel’s Runaways (Hulu, Fri).

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

Ok I really need to figure out what to do about the glut of Netflix series that keep launching. I mostly plan to ignore them unless someone tells me what to watch, which means I don’t usually have any advance info on some of these listed below. Alas should still be pretty quiet until the new year. Time to start looking at best of lists!

• Champaign ILL (YT Prem) Series Premiere, Wednesday – A rapper and his entourage in this new comedy from the creators of Happy Endings.
• Hymn of Death (Net) Series Premiere, Friday – A Korean tragic love story in 3 parts.
• The Protector (Net) Series Premiere, Friday – It’s a lowly shopkeeper’s destiny to protect his town from mystical Immortals.
• Tidelands (Net) Series Premiere, Friday – A woman returns home to her small fishing village after jail to find there are some other hidden secrets.

Returning streaming: Wanted (Net, Thursday), Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, special ep (Net, Friday), Cuckoo (Net, Friday), Fuller House (Net, Friday), The Travelers (Net, Friday)

Well a long weekend and a discount code got me onboard with Hulu. And of course rather than immediately dropping into Handmaid’s Tale I did a little Mindy Project and Casual. Sometimes you just have to balance out the drama of Fortitude, Patriot, Downton Abbey, Big Love, Rectify, and even Sabrina with a little comedy. I’m about to wrap a couple of those up so should have a little room over the next holiday for a couple more good ones plus catching The Little Drummer Girl which I’ve yet to dive into. And this week a few more series with very little word which mostly seems to mean for streaming that they’re global imports that we’re not paying much attention to.

• 1983 (Net) Series Premiere, Friday – This alt history thriller centers around secret conspiracies in Poland.
• Baby (Net) Series Premiere, Friday – Two teens start living a double life in Rome.
• Memories of the Alhambra (Net) Series Premiere, Saturday – Looking for the creator of an augmented reality game.
• Nightflyers (Syfy) Series Premiere, Sunday, 10pm – An adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s novella about a spacecraft looking for alien life.

Returning streaming: F is For Family (Net, Friday)

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