Rueben's Ramblings

The new OWN drama Love Is _____ will debut on June 19 at 10 PM.

Show Synopsis: Michele Weaver (Illicit) and Will Catlett (Black Lightning) star in this new drama about a couple from seemingly opposite worlds, who chase their dreams and learn to follow their hearts.

The cast includes Wendy Davis (Army Wives), Clarke Peters (The Wire), Idara Victor (Turn: Washington’s Spies), Kadeem Hardison (A Different World), Tyrone Brown (The Affair) and Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing (Hunter Street).

Here is a trailer for Love Is _____ :

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On June 17, the new EPIX drama Deep State will air at 9 PM.

The 8-episode drama centers around Max Easton (Mark Strong from Kingsman: The Golden Circle), an ex-spy whose past comes back to haunt him when he’s summoned away from his new life in the Pyrenees by George White (Alistair Petrie from The Night Manager), head of covert MI6/CIA team “The Section.” White convinces Max to return to the field to avenge the death of his estranged son Harry (Joe Dempsie from Game of Thrones and Skins).

But the stakes are soon raised when Max finds himself at the heart of a covert intelligence war, immersed in a widespread conspiracy to profit from the spread of chaos in the Middle East. The cast also includes Anastasia Griffith (Damages and Once Upon a Time).

Here is a trailer for and a behind the scenes look at Deep State:

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The new CBS All Access drama Strange Angel will debut online on June 14.

Based on George Pendle’s book, the series is inspired by the real life story of Jack Parsons, exploring the dramatic intersection between genius and madness, science and science fiction. Jack Parsons (Jack Reynor from Sing Street and Macbeth), a brilliant and ambitious blue-collar worker of 1930s Los Angeles, started as a janitor at a chemical factory but had fantastical dreams that led him to birth the unknown discipline of American rocketry.

Along the way, he fell into a mysterious world that included sex magick rituals at night, ultimately becoming a disciple of occultist Aleister Crowley. Parsons used Crowley’s teachings of self-actualization to support his unimaginable and unprecedented endeavor to the stars.

The cast includes Bella Heathcote (The Man in the High Castle), Elena Satine (The Gifted), Rupert Friend (Homeland) and Rade Serbedzija (The Saint and Shooter).

Here is a trailer for Strange Angel:

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The two-hour debut of Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger will debut on Freeform on June 7 at 8 PM.

The drama focuses on Tandy Bowen (Olivia Holt from Kickin’ It) and Tyrone Johnson (relative newcomer Aubrey Joseph) – two teenagers from very different backgrounds, who find themselves burdened and awakened to newly acquired superpowers which are mysteriously linked to one another. Tandy can emit light daggers and Tyrone has the ability to engulf others in darkness. They quickly learn they are better together than apart, but their feelings for each other make their already complicated world even more challenging.

The cast includes Andrea Roth (Rescue Me), Gloria Reuben (ER), Miles Mussenden (Army Wives), James Saito (Eli Stone) and J.D. Evermore (Rectify).

Here is a trailer for Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger:

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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).

Here is a trailer for Reverie:

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