Rueben's Ramblings

On November 15, the new TNT series Good Behavior will debut at 9 PM.

Downton Abbey’s Michelle Dockery (she played Lady Mary) stars very much against type as Letty Dobesh, a thief and con artist, who is released from prison and reunited with her 10-year-old son, who is being raised by her mother. While she regularly sees her substance-abuse counselor, whose motives for helping her are questionable, she soon overhears a hitman being hired to kill a man’s wife and sets out to prevent it, which puts her on a collision course with the killer to the point of starting a relationship with him.

Here is a trailer for Good Behavior:

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The new drama Sweet/Vicious will debut on MTV on November 15 at 10 PM.

Newcomers Taylor Dearden and Eliza Bennett star in this offbeat superhero story.

Hell-bent on bringing justice to those who get away with abuse on their college campus, Jules and Ophelia take on double lives as wannabe vigilantes.

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The Netflix 10-part drama The Crown will debut online on November 4.

The drama tells the inside story of Queen Elizabeth II’s early reign, revealing the personal intrigues, romances and political rivalries behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th Century.

The cast includes Claire Foy (Wolf Hall) as Queen Elizabeth II and Matt Smith (Doctor Who) as Prince Phillip as well as John Lithgow, Jared Harris and Jeremy Northam.

Here is a trailer for The Crown:

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On October 28, Good Girls Revolt is the latest streaming series to debut on Amazon.

In 1969, while a cultural revolution with a soundtrack to match swept through the free world, there was still one place that refused to change with the times: newsrooms. The series follows a group of young female researchers, Jane Hollander (Anna Camp from Pitch Perfect and True Blood), Patti Robinson (Genevieve Angelson from Backstrom) and Cindy Reston (Erin Darke from Kill Your Darlings), at “News of the Week,” who simply ask to be treated fairly. Their revolutionary request, led by lawyer Eleanor Holmes Norton (Joy Bryant from Parenthood) will spark convulsive changes and upend marriages, careers, sex lives, love lives, and friendships.

The cast includes Chris Diamantopoulos (The Starter Wife and Silicon Valley), Grace Gummer (Extant and Mr. Robot), Hunter Parrish (Weeds and Hand of God) and Jim Belushi (According to Jim).

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The new CBS medical drama Pure Genius will debut on October 27 at 10 PM.

James Bell (Augustus Prew from Klondike and The Borgias) is a Silicon Valley billionaire who dreams of building a hospital with ultimate cutting-edge technology to treat rare and incurable diseases. He partners with a maverick surgeon, Dr. Walter Wallace (Dermot Mulroney from My Best Friend’s Wedding), who leads the effort in clearing out the bureaucracy of medicine, and focus on forward thinking, advancing technology, and saving lives—at no cost to the patient.

The cast includes Odette Annable (House and Brothers & Sisters), Reshma Shetty (Royal Pains), Aaron Jennings (Aquarius and Bones), Ward Horton (Annabelle) and Brenda Song (Scandal and The Social Network).

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On October 16, the new USA Network drama Eyewitness will debut at 10 PM.

When two innocent teen-aged boys secretly meet up in the forest, they bear witness to a shooting and barely escape with their lives. Desperate to keep their relationship a secret and in fear of being found by the perpetrator, they remain silent but soon learn that what has been seen cannot be unseen and when you witness a horrible event it changes everything, forever.

The cast includes Julianne Nicholson (The Red Road), Gil Bellows (Ally McBeal), Warren Christie (Alphas and Motive) and relative newcomers Tyler Young and James Paxton.

Here is a trailer for Eyewitness:

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The new EPIX drama Berlin Station will debut on October 16 at 9 PM.

The series revolves around Daniel Meyer (Richard Armitage from The Hobbit franchise and Hannibal), who has just arrived at the CIA foreign station in Berlin, Germany. His mission is to uncover the source of a leak who has supplied information to a now-famous whistleblower named Thomas Shaw. Guided by jaded veteran Hector DeJean (Rhys Ifans from The Amazing Spider-Man), he learns to contend with the world of the field agent — agent-running, deception, the dangers and moral compromises.

The cast includes Richard Jenkins (Olive Kitteridge and Jack Reacher), Michelle Forbes (The Killing and Battlestar Galactica), Tamlyn Tomita (Teen Wolf and The Day After Tomorrow) and Leland Orser (Ray Donovan and the Taken movie franchise).

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On October 13, the new USA Network drama Falling Water will debut at 10 PM.

The mind-bending drama follows the story of three unrelated people, who slowly realize that they are dreaming separate parts of a single common dream. Each of them is on a mysterious and highly personal quest — one is searching for his missing girlfriend (David Ajala from Beowulf), one is searching for a lost child (Lizzie Brochere from The Strain and American Horror Story), one is looking to cure his catatonic mother (Will Yun Lee from Hawaii Five-0) — and it is the clues found in their collective dream that come to guide them.

The cast includes Zak Orth (Revolution).

Here is a trailer for Falling Water.

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