Rueben's Ramblings

The new Apple TV+ drama Dark Matter will debut online on May 8.

This sci-fi thriller series is based on the book by Blake Crouch that follows Jason Dessen (Joel Edgerton), a physicist, professor and family man who – one night while walking home on the streets of Chicago – is abducted into an alternate version of his life.

Wonder quickly turns to nightmare when he tries to return to his reality amid the mind-bending landscape of lives he could have lived. In this labyrinth of realities, he embarks on a harrowing journey to get back to his true family and save them from the most terrifying, unbeatable foe imaginable: himself.

The cast includes Jennifer Connelly, Alice Braga and Jimmi Simpson.

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On May 5, the new drama MaryLand will debut at 9 PM on PBS.

The series follows Becca (Suranne Jones from Vigil and Gentleman Jack) and Rosaline (Eve Best from Nurse Jackie and House of the Dragon), two sisters that were distanced, but that through tragic events, learn to love and respect each other again.

Stockard Channing also stars.

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The new 4-part Australian rural noir crime drama Scrublands will debut online on both AMC+ and Sundance Now on May 2.

Based on Chris Hammer’s award-winning and bestselling crime novel, the captivating series follows a country town grappling with the aftermath of a horrible crime, still trying to come to terms with it a year on.

Viewer discretion is advised given the subject matter.

Jay Ryan, Luke Arnold and Bella Heathcote co-star.

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On May 2, the new Netflix drama A Man in Full will debut online today

Facing relentless foes and sudden bankruptcy, Atlanta real estate tycoon (Jeff Daniels) must claw his way back to the top when his empire begins to crumble.

The series also stars Diane Lane, Lucy Liu, Sarah Jones, William Jackson Harper, Aml Ameen and Tom Pelphrey.

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On May 2, he limited series The Tattooist of Auschwitz will debut online on Peacock.

Show Synopsis: Inspired by the real-life story of Jewish Holocaust survivors Lali and Gita Sokolov. Lali (Jonah Hauer-King) arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1942, and shortly after arrival, he was made one of the tätowierer (tattooists), charged to ink identification numbers onto fellow prisoners’ arms.

One day, he meets Gita (Anna Próchniak) while tattooing her prisoner number on her arm. They experience love at first sight, and so begins a courageous, unforgettable, and human story. Under constant guard from a volatile Nazi SS officer Baretzki (Jonas Nay), Lali and Gita became determined to keep each other alive.

Harvey Keitel plays the older version of Lali and Melanie Lynskey also stars.

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On May 1, the new Hulu series Shardlake will debut online.

Drenched in mystery, suspense and deception, this four-part drama, based on the first novel in C.J. Sansom’s internationally popular Tudor murder mystery series, is an eerie whodunnit adventure, set in 16th century England during the dissolution of the monasteries. Shardlake’s (Arthur Hughes) sheltered life as a lawyer is turned upside down when Cromwell (Sean Bean) instructs him to investigate the murder of one of his commissioners at a monastery in the remote town of Scarnsea.

The commissioner was gathering evidence to close the monastery and it is now imperative for Cromwell’s own political survival that Shardlake both solves the murder and closes the monastery. He leaves Shardlake in no doubt that failure is not an option. Cromwell insists that he is accompanied by Jack Barak (Anthony Boyle) to Scarnsea, where the duo are met with hostility, suspicion and paranoia by the monks who fear for their future and will seemingly stop at nothing to preserve their order.

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On April 30, the first two episodes of the new FX on Hulu series The Veil will debut online.

The series explores the surprising and fraught relationship between two women who play a deadly game of truth and lies on the road from Istanbul to Paris and London. One woman has a secret, the other a mission to reveal it before thousands of lives are lost. In the shadows, mission controllers at the CIA and French DGSE must put differences aside and work together to avert potential disaster.

Elizabeth Moss and Josh Charles star.

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On April 25, the Netflix YA genre series Dead Boy Detectives will debut online.

Based on the comics by Neil Gaiman, the 8-episode series follows Edwin Payne (George Rexstrew) and Charles Rowland (Jayden Revri), “the brains” and “the brawn” behind the Dead Boy Detectives agency. Teenagers born decades apart who find each other only in death, Edwin and Charles are best friends and ghosts who solve mysteries.

They will do anything to stick together – including escaping evil witches, Hell and Death herself. With the help of a clairvoyant named Crystal (Kassius Nelson) and her friend Niko (Yuyu Kitamura), they crack some of the mortal realm’s most mystifying paranormal cases.

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On April 19, the Roku Channel series The Spiderwick Chronicles will debut online.

Helen (Joy Bryant) and her children, 15-year-old fraternal twins Jared and Simon (Lyon Daniels and Noah Cottrell) and their sister Mallory (Mychala Lee) move to their ancestral home, Spiderwick. Jared discovers a boggart and realizes that magical creatures are real. The only one to believe him is his great-aunt Lucinda who implores Jared to find the pages of her father’s field guide to magical creatures and protect them from the murderous Ogre, Mulgarath (Christian Slater).

Jack Dylan Grazer also stars.

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On April 14, the new HBO series The Sympathizer will debut at 9 PM. The series can also be watched online on Max.

Based on the Viet Thanh Nguyen Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, this espionage thriller and cross-culture satire about the struggles of a half-French, half-Vietnamese communist spy during the final days of the Vietnam War and his new life as a refugee in Los Angeles, where he learns that his spying days aren’t over.

The cast includes Robert Downey, Jr., Hoa Xuande and Sandra Oh.

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