Rueben's Ramblings

On June 6, the YouTube Red original series Impulse will debut online.

The series follows 16-year-old Henrietta “Henry” Coles, who discovers she has the ability to teleport. The first time she realizes this, she is in a truck with her high school’s Golden Boy, who tries to rape her. She has a seizure and teleports, in the course of which she inadvertently crushes him, leaving him a paraplegic. The series is based on the novel of the same name by Steven Gould.

The cast includes Maddie Hasson (Twisted), Missi Pyle (Galaxy Quest), Sarah Desjardins (Van Helsing and Unleashing Mr. Darcy), Enuka Okuma (Rookie Blue), Craig Arnold (Heartland), David James Elliott (JAG) and Callum Keith Rennie (Jessica Jones and Battlestar Galactica) [among others].

Here is a trailer for Impulse:

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The two-hour series premiere of Dietland will air on June 4 at 9 PM on AMC.

This darkly comedic series, based on the Sarai Walker best-selling novel, consists of 10 episodes and follows Plum Kettle (Joy Nash), ghost-writer for the editor of one of New York’s hottest fashion magazines, as she struggles with self-image and sets out on a wildly complicated road to self-acceptance. At the same time, everyone is buzzing over news reports about men, accused of sexual abuse and assault, who are disappearing and meeting untimely, violent deaths.

The cast includes Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife), Robin Weigert (Deadwood), Adam Rothenberg (Ripper Street) and Marc Blucas (Necessary Roughness) [among others].

Here is a trailer for Dietland:

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On June 4, the Facebook Watch series Five Points will debut online.

The 10-episode series, executive produced by Scandal star Kerry Washington, follows five students at a South Side Chicago high school who each experience a life-changing event from a different point of view.

The cast includes Hayley Kiyoko (CBI: Cyber), Madison Pettis (The Fosters), Spence Moore II (A.P. Bio), Nathaniel Potvin (Alexa & Katie) and Ray Cham, Jr. (Mech-X4).

Here is a trailer for Five Points.

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The new NBC drama Reverie will debut on May 30 at 10 PM.

Sarah Shahi (Person of Interest) stars as an ex-hostage negotiator and expert in human behavior who gets recruited by her former boss (Dennis Haysbert from 24 and The Unit) to help rescue people who have lost themselves in a highly advanced virtual reality system.

The cast includes Sendhil Ramamurthy (Heroes and Covert Affairs), Jessica Lu (Awkward) and Kathryn Morris (Cold Case).

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On May 29, the new WGN America drama 100 Code will debut at 10 PM.

This tense crime thriller follows the hunt for a serial killer who targets young, blonde and blue-eyed women, found dead in fields of flowers. Through a special arrangement with the NYPD, Detective Tommy Conley (Dominic Monaghan from Lost) is permitted to observe and advise the Stockholm PD, as he suspects a connection between a series of murders in New York and a death in Sweden.

Upon arrival in Stockholm, he is paired with Mikael Eklund (Michael Nyqvist from Abduction and John Wick), a Swedish cop with an aversion to American culture. Both detectives despise each other, but the two are quickly forced to resolve their differences as the mysterious killings continue. With the vicious killer still at large, Conley and Eklund embark on a hunt that leads the duo down a path of no return.

Here is a trailer for 100 Code:

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On April 13, the new Cinemax drama Rellik will air at 10 PM.

Richard Dormer (Game of Thrones) stars as Gabriel Markham, a relentless U.K. police detective bent on tracking down the serial killer who left him physically and emotionally scarred after an acid attack.

The cast includes Jodi Balfour (Bomb Girls), Paterson Joseph (Timeless) and Ray Stevenson (Divergent franchise).

Here is a trailer for Rellik:

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