17 September
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THE MORNING SHOW Season 2 Director: Mimi LederStarring: Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Steve Carell, Karen Pittman, Desean K. Terry, Hasan Minhaj, Julianna Margulies, Will Arnett, Nestor Carbonell, Greta Lee, Ruairi O’Connor The Morning Show became a huge hit for AppleTV+ The first season ended on a cliffhanger and it’s now back for Season 2. The second season picks up eight months after the fallout of Alex and Bradley’s big announcement on The Morning Show. Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon continue to thrive in these richly complicated characters who find themselves in a very different professional headspace. Steve Carell is also backRead More →

20 August
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WHAT IF…? Director: Bryan AndrewsStarring: Jeffrey Wright, Haley Atwell, Samuel L. Jackson, Chadwick Boseman, Michael Rooker, Josh Brolin, Stanley Tucci, Dominic Cooper Marvel has ventured into animation with their latest Disney+ series, What If…? The story continues to play into the idea of a multiverse that’s posed in Loki and teased in future Marvel Cinematic Universe movies. There’s a celestial being known as The Watcher that poses as the series narrator. He introduces the audience to alternate realities to some of our favorite MCU movies in a “What If” style fashion. The first episode poses a question as to what would have happened if PeggyRead More →

05 August
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MR. CORMAN Creator: Joseph Gordon-LevittStarring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Debra Winger, Arturo Castro, Juno Temple, Hugo Weaving Joseph Gordon-Levitt not only stars in Mr. Corman, but he’s also one of the writers, directors, and the creator of the new AppleTV+ series. He stars as Josh Corman, a fifth-grade history teacher. The series picks up on the first week of school with Mr. Corman having a conversation with his students about being lucky or unlucky in life. This existential quandary comes into his home life as he starts feeling a quarter life crisis wondering where his life is going and what role will he play in it. InRead More →

22 July
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TED LASSO Season 2 Created by: Jason Sudeikis, Bill Lawrence, Joe Kelly, Brendan HuntStarring: Jason Sudeikis, Brendan Hunt, Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein, Jeremy Swift, Phil Dunster Jason Sudeikis went from making audiences laugh on Saturday Night Live to making them laugh, tear up, and feel all the emotions with his AppleTV+ series Ted Lasso. It’s back for a second season and trust me when I say “Believe” in Season Two. The first episode finds Ted and his coaching team for the AFC Richmond soccer team in a bit of a pickle as they continue to have a tied record. They find themselves inRead More →

15 July
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SCHMIGADOON! Creator: Cinco PaulStarring: Cecily Strong, Keegan-Michael Key, Kristin Chenoweth, Alan Cumming, Dove Cameron, Aaron Tveit, Ann Harada, Jane Krakowski, Fred Armisen, Ariana DeBose As a lover of Broadway and Saturday Night Live, I was instantly drawn to Schmigadoon! The series is led by Cecily Strong and Keegan-Michael Key as Melissa and Josh, both medical professionals who have been married for years, but they’re hitting a bit of a rough patch. They head off to a couples retreat in the middle of the woods to reconnect, but after crossing a bridge, they find themselves in the middle of an old timey town called Schmigadoon. JoshRead More →

17 June
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PHYSICAL Creator: Annie WeismanStarring: Rose Byrne, Rory Scovel, Dierdre Friel, Della Saba, Paul Sparks, Geoffrey Arend Rose Byrne is a jack of all trades. She can handle any genre or medium with ease from broad comedies like Bridesmaids to horror like Insidious to gripping TV dramas like Mrs. America. She leads the new dark comedy series Physical for AppleTV+ Her character Sheila Rubin is mentally spiraling downhill. We hear all the negative self-talk in her head, the judgmental comments about herself and others that you would never say out loud. Her life takes a sudden turn when she sees a jazzercise aerobics style class inRead More →

08 June
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LOKI Director: Kate HerronStarring: Tom Hiddleston, Owen Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Sophia Di Martino, Wunmi Mosaku, Richard E. Grant. Loki has been a Marvel fan-favorite villain since he made his appearance in Thor in 2011. Ten years later he’s starring in his own television series aptly named Loki. Tom Hiddleston returns as Loki and the series picks up after the events of Avengers Endgame. We saw him grabbing the Tesseract in the time shift during Endgame and he’s transported to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. There he’s taken into custody by the Time Variance Authority for screwing up the timeline we’ve grown familiar with in theRead More →

03 June
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LISEY’S STORY Director: Pablo LarraínStarring: Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Joan Allen, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Dane DeHaan, Ron Cephas Jones As a massive Stephen King fan, I know how possessive we can be over the adaptations of his work. Luckily, King wrote all eight episodes of the new limited series Lisey’s Story. He views his book “Lisey’s Story” as one of the most personal ones he’s ever written given the fact he wrote it after a near-death experience. He thought he had died and watched his wife pack up his belongings. That ignited the spark for this story with Clive Owen playing Scott Landon, a celebratedRead More →

04 May
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MARE OF EASTTOWN Creator: Brad InglesbyStarring: Kate Winslet, Jean Smart, Evan Peters, Guy Pearce, Julianne Nicholson, David Denman Kate Winslet and Guy Pearce won rave reviews for the HBO mini-series Mildred Pierce in 2011. They’ve now reunited ten years later for the new HBO limited series, Mare of Eastown. Winslet stars as the title character, Mare Sheehan. She’s the detective sergeant in the small community of Easttown, Pennsylvania. It’s been one year since the disappearance of young girl. All eyes are on Mare who hasn’t cracked the case yet and pressure is building. Her home life is crumbling as her ex-husband is set to beRead More →

30 April
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THE MOSQUITO COAST Creator: Neil CrossStarring: Justin Theroux, Melissa George, Gabriel Bateman, Logan Polish Forty years ago, Paul Theroux’s bestselling novel “The Mosquito Coast” was released and it would later be turned into a movie with Harrison Ford. Theroux’s characters are back in a new adaption for AppleTV+. Justin Theroux stars as Allie Fox. He’s an inventor of gadgets and is always thinking a step ahead of everyone around him. Along with his wife, son, and daughter, they live a bit off the grid living a very self-sufficient and renewable lifestyle. That all changes when they learn their compound is facing foreclosure. His wife, MargotRead More →