Rueben's Ramblings

On February 10, the new Amazon series The Collection will debut online.

The series is a gripping family saga where scandal and betrayal plague the Sabine family’s relentless pursuit of success. Set in a post-war Parisian fashion house, the Sabines have been tasked with restoring the city’s supremacy as the haute couture capital. The series explores the grit behind the glamour of a rising business run by two clashing brothers. Paul (Richard Coyle from Coupling and Crossbones), is the face and the business sense while Claude (Tom Riley from Da Vinci’s Demons), is the creative genius. They’re nothing without each other but their rivalry, deception and the hateful bargains they made to survive the Nazi occupation could threaten to topple this “first family” of fashion’s empire at any moment. The season explores the constant question, will their tenuous relationship and the ghosts of their past destroy their meteoric success?

The cast includes Mamie Gummer (Emily Owens, MD and The Good Wife) and Frances de la Tour (Harry Potter franchise and Outlander)

Here is a trailer for The Collection:

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The small screen adaptation of the box office film Legion will debut on February 8 on FX at 10 PM.

The series is about David Haller (Dan Stevens from Downton Abbey), a troubled young man who may be more than human. Diagnosed as schizophrenic as a child, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. Now in his early 30s and institutionalized once again, David loses himself in the rhythm of the structured regimen of life in the hospital: breakfast, lunch, dinner, therapy, medications, sleep.

David spends the rest of his time in companionable silence alongside his chatterbox friend Lenny (Aubrey Plaza from Parks and Recreation), a fellow patient whose life-long drug and alcohol addiction has done nothing to quell her boundless optimism that her luck is about to change. The pleasant numbness of David’s routine is completely upended with the arrival of a beautiful and troubled new patient named Syd (Rachel Keller from Fargo). Inexplicably drawn to one another, David and Syd share a startling encounter, after which he must confront the shocking possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees are the result of him being a mutant.

Here is a trailer for Legion:

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On February 6, the new FOX drama APB will debut at 9:01 PM.

This series focuses on sky-high crime, officer-involved shootings, cover-ups and corruption in the over-extended and under-funded Chicago Police Department. Enter billionaire engineer Gideon Reeves (Justin Kirk from Tyrant and Weeds), who – after his best friend is murdered in a botched attempted robbery and the killer remains at large – demands justice. Putting up millions of dollars of his own money, he makes an unprecedented deal to take charge of the troubled 13th District – and reboot it as a technically innovative police force: better, faster and smarter than anything seen before. With Gideon himself having created the department’s cutting-edge technology, this eccentric yet brilliant outsider challenges the city’s police force to rethink everything about the way they fight crime.

The cast includes Natalie Martinez (Kingdom and Under the Dome), Caitlin Stasey (Reign), Ernie Hudson (Ghostbusters), Taylor Handley (Vegas and Southland) and Tamberla Perry (Boss).

Here is the trailer for APB:

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On February 2, the debut of the small screen adaptation of Training Day will air on CBS at 10 PM.

Detective Frank Rourke (film actor Bill Paxton) is the maverick head of the Special Investigation Section that hunts the city’s most dangerous criminals, and one of the finest investigators the department has ever produced. But, when the LAPD brass notices Rourke’s penchant for operating in a gray area to fight the war on crime, they assign Kyle Craig (relative newcomer Justin Cornwell), a heroic, untarnished cop, to pose as Frank’s trainee to spy on him and report on his off-book methods.

The members of Frank’s loyal team include Rebecca Lee (Katrina Law from Arrow), a formidable officer with killer aim and a dark past, and Tommy Campbell (Drew Van Acker from Pretty Little Liars and Devious Maids), a former pro surfer who follows Frank’s orders without hesitation. The team’s cases find Frank and Kyle often crossing paths with Detective Valeria Chavez (Christina Vidal from Code Black), one of the LAPD’s top investigators. Providing Frank with intel is his girlfriend, Holly Butler (Julie Benz from Dexter and Angel), a well-connected, unapologetic Hollywood madam.

While LAPD Deputy Chief Joy Lockhart (Marianne Jean-Baptiste from Blindspot and Without a Trace) coolly puts Kyle in danger in her mission to take down Frank, Kyle’s schoolteacher wife, Alyse (Lex Scott Davis from the made-for-TV movie Toni Braxton: Unbreak My Heart), worries her husband’s resolve to avenge the murder of his father, a cop, may be his undoing.

Here is a trailer for Training Day:

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