Rueben's Ramblings

The 6-episode streaming series Frontier will debut online on January 20 at Netflix.

This is an action-packed adventure drama that follows the chaotic and violent struggle to control wealth and power in the North American fur trade in the late 18th century.

The cast includes Jason Momoa (Game of Thrones and The Red Road), Landon Liboiron (Hemlock Grove), Zoe Boyle (Downton Abbey) and Greg Bryk (Bitten).

Here is a trailer for Frontier:

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On January 18, the new History Channel series Six will debut at 10 PM.

The eight episode series follows members of Navy SEAL Team Six, modern American warriors, whose covert mission to eliminate a Taliban leader in Afghanistan goes awry when they uncover a U.S. citizen working with terrorists.

The cast includes Walton Goggins (Justified), Barry Sloane (Revenge), Kyle Schmid (Copper), Juan Pablo Raba (Narcos and Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D), Edwin Hodge (Chicago Fire), Dominic Adams (Devious Maids) and Nadine Velasquez (Major Crimes).

Here is a preview (which includes behind the scenes sneak peeks and interviews with cast) for Six.

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The Young Pope is the new HBO 10-episode series that will debut on January 15 at 9 PM.

Young and charming, Lenny Belardo, aka Pius XIII (Jude Law), is the first American Pope in history. His election seems to be the result of a simple yet effective media strategy on the part of the College of Cardinals. But appearances can be deceiving – above all, in the Vatican, where the leaders of the Church have chosen the great mystery of God as the compass guiding their existence. And Pius XIII proves to be the most mysterious and contradictory of them all.

The cast includes Diane Keaton, Sebastian Roche and James Cromwell.

Here is a trailer for The Young Pope:

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On January 13, the new Netflix streaming series A Series of Unfortunate Events will debut online.

The eight-episode first series is based on the internationally best-selling series of books by Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler) [Patrick Warburton] recounts the tragic tale of the Baudelaire orphans – Violet (Malina Weissman), Klaus (Louis Hynes), and Sunny (Pressley Smith) – whose evil guardian Count Olaf (Neil Patrick Harris) will stop at nothing to get his hands on their inheritance. The siblings must outsmart Olaf at every turn, foiling his many devious plans and disguises, in order to discover clues to their parents’ mysterious death.

The cast includes Don Johnson, Joan Cusack, Catherine O’Hara and Alfre Woodard.

Here is a trailer for A Series of Unfortunate Events:

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The new 8-episode FX drama Taboo will debut on January 10 at 10 PM.

Set in 1814, Taboo follows James Keziah Delaney (box office star Tom Hardy), a man who has been to the ends of the earth, comes back irrevocably changed. Believed to be long dead, he returns home to London from Africa to inherit what is left of his father’s shipping empire and rebuild a life for himself. But his father’s legacy is a poisoned chalice, and with enemies lurking in every dark corner, James must navigate increasingly complex territories to avoid his own death sentence.

The cast includes Oona Chaplin (The Longest Ride), Franka Potente (Copper), Jonathan Pryce (Pirates of the Caribbean franchise) and Edward Hogg (Beowulf) [among others].

Here is a trailer for Taboo:

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The new NBC series Emerald City will debut for two hours on January 6 at 9 PM.

Swept up into the eye of a tornado, 20-year-old Dorothy Gale (newcomer Adria Arjona) is transported to another world – a mystical land where an all-powerful ruler (Vincent D’Onofrio from Daredevil) governs over one kingdom, has outlawed magic, and faces not only the wrath of a growing cauldron of witches but a looming disaster brought on by a mythical force.

The cast includes Oliver Jackson-Cohen (Dracula), Isabel Lucas (Home and Away) and Joely Richardson.

Here is a trailer for Emerald City:

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