Rueben's Ramblings

On February 27, the new Amazon Prime drama House of David will debut online.

The series follows the once-mighty King Saul (Ali Suliman) as he falls victim to his own pride. At the direction of God, the prophet Samuel (Stephen Lang) anoints an unlikely, outcast teenager as the new king. As Saul loses his power over his kingdom, David (newcomer Michael Iskander) finds himself on a journey to discover and fulfill his destiny, navigating love, loss, and violence in the court of the very man he’s destined to replace. As one leader falls, another must rise.

Ayelet Zurer stars as Queen Ahinoam, Saul’s trusted wife and Martyn Ford as Goliath.

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On February 23, the new drama Grosse Pointe Garden Society will debut on NBC at 10 PM.

The series follows four members of a suburban garden club who find their lives intertwined by scandal, mischief and a shared secret – a murder no one wants to talk about. As dark truths begin to rot their lives under the surface, they struggle to remain as perfect as the flowers blooming in their garden above.

The ensemble cast includes Melissa Fumero, Aja Naomi King, Ben Rappaport, AnnaSophia Robb, Nancy Travis and Matthew Davis.

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The new drama Suits LA will debut on NBC on February 23 at 9 PM.

Ted Black (Stephen Amell from Arrow and Heels), a former federal prosecutor from New York, has reinvented himself representing the most powerful clients in Los Angeles. His firm is at a crisis point, and in order to survive, he must embrace a role he held in contempt his entire career. Ted is surrounded by a stellar group of characters who test their loyalties to both Ted and each other while they can’t help but mix their personal and professional lives. All of this is going on while we slowly unravel the events that years ago led Ted to leave behind everything and everyone he loved.

The series also stars Josh McDermitt, Bryan Greenberg and Lex Scott Davis.

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The new drama A Thousand Blows will debut online on Hulu on February 21.

Show Synopsis: Inspired by the true life stories of a group of characters battling for survival in the brutal East End of London in the 1880s. Hezekiah Moscow (Malachi Kirby)and Alec Munroe (Francis Lovehall), best friends on the run from Jamaica, find themselves thrust into the criminal underbelly of London’s thriving bare-knuckle boxing scene.

As Hezekiah finds fortune and fame through the art of pugilism, he attracts the attention of the infamous Queen of the Forty Elephants, Mary Carr (Erin Doherty), who sets about exploiting his talents to further her criminal enterprise. Meanwhile the menacing and self-declared emperor of the East End boxing world, Sugar Goodson (Stephen Graham), determines to destroy Hezekiah whose ambitions to fight in the West End threatens everything he has built. What ensues is a battle of the old world against the new.

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On February 20, the new limited series Zero Day will debut online on Netflix.

Robert De Niro stars as respected former U.S. President George Mullen, who, as head of the Zero Day Commission, is charged with finding the perpetrators of a devastating cyber attack that has caused chaos around the country and thousands of fatalities. As disinformation runs rampant and the personal ambition of power brokers in technology, Wall Street and government collide, Mullen’s unwavering search for the truth forces him to confront his own dark secrets while risking all he holds dear.

The ensemble cast includes Angela Bassett, Bill Camp, Clark Gregg, Connie Britton, Dan Stevens, Gaby Hoffman, Jesse Plemons, Joan Allen, Lizzy Caplan, Matthew Modine and McKinley Belcher III.

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The new CW drama Good Cop/Bad Cop will debut on February 19 at 9 PM.

This one-hour procedural dramedy centers around Lou (Leighton Meester) and Henry (Luke Cook), an odd couple sister and brother detective team in a small Pacific Northwest police force. They must contend with colorful residents, a serious lack of resources and their very complicated dynamic with each other and with their police chief, Big Hank (Clancy Brown), who just happens to be their father.

Philippa Northeast co-stars.

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On February 17, the Britbox limited series A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story will debut online.

This 4-part series follows the story of Ruth Ellis (Lucy Boynton from Bohemian Rhapsody), her lifestyle as a young nightclub manager, her violent relationship with the man she then killed in cold blood, her arrest, trial, and subsequent legal battle to get her release before she was hanged.

The ensemble cast includes Toby Stephens, Toby Jones, Juliet Stevenson, Jessie Carter, Laurie Davidson and Arthur Darvill.

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On February 6, the first in-house, live-action comedy series The Z-Suite will debut its first two episodes online on Tubi.

The eight-episode comedy follows advertising maven Monica Marks (Lauren Graham from Gilmore Girls), and her loyal right hand executive Doug Garcia (Nico Santos from Superstore and Crazy Rich Asians) have long been at the top of the Madison Avenue world. But after a record scratch blunder, they are suddenly canceled, pushed out and replaced by the agency’s rising Gen Z employees led by social media manager, Kriska Thompson (Madison Shamoun from All American and The Lake).

Refusing to go quietly, Monica launches her biggest campaign yet– getting their careers back and taking down the eager team of Gen-Zers who are just getting comfortable in their new roles. May the best generation win.

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The limited series Apple Cider Vinegar will debut online on February 6 on Netflix.

In the glossy world of health and wellness, a charismatic woman’s (Kaitlyn Dever) meteoric rise is threatened by her web of lies about surviving cancer.

The cast includes Alycia Debnam-Carey, Aisha Dee, Ashley Zukerman and Tilda Cobham-Hervey.

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On February 3, the new NBC drama The Hunting Party will debut at 10 PM

This high-concept crime procedural is about a small team of investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.

The cast includes Melissa Roxburgh, Sara Garcia, Nick Wechsler, Patrick Sabongui and Josh McKenzie.

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