Rueben's Ramblings

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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The futuristic, post-apocalyptic series Fallout will debut online on Amazon Prime on April 11.

This series, based on the immensely popular retro-futuristic video game franchise, sees vault dweller Lucy (Ella Purnell) struggle to adapt to the twisted and dangerous world of the irradiated wasteland and offers the first glimpse of Moldaver (Sarita Choudhury) and Ma June (Dale Dickey).

The cast includes Michael Emerson, Walton Goggins, Kyle MacLachlan, Leslie Uggams and Chris Parnell.

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On April 11, the INSP series Elkhorn will debut at 9 PM.

Reeling from an unimaginable loss, 25-year-old Theodore Roosevelt (Mason Beals) abandons New York politics and journeys to the lawless Dakota Badlands, where he establishes the sprawling Elkhorn Ranch and attempts to remake himself into a cattleman.

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The PBS series Mr. Bates vs The Post Office will debut on April 7 at 9 PM.

When money started to seemingly disappear from local branches, the government-owned Post Office wrongly blamed their own managers for its apparent loss. For more than a decade, hundreds were accused of theft and fraud, and many were even sent to prison – leaving lives, marriages and reputations in ruins.

But the issue was actually caused by errors in the Post Office’s own computer system – something it denied for years. Revealing a shocking David vs. Goliath fight for justice, this is the true story of the decent ordinary people who were relentlessly pursued, coerced and controlled by a powerful corporation, and their ongoing battle, against seemingly insurmountable odds, to right so many horrific wrongs.

Toby Jones stars as the title character Alan Bates.

The cast includes Lesley Nicol and Ian Hart (among others).

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On April 5, the new Apple TV+ drama Sugar will debut its first three episodes online.

Colin Farrell stars as John Sugar, an American private investigator on the heels of the mysterious disappearance of Olivia Siegel, the beloved granddaughter of legendary Hollywood producer Jonathan Siegel. As Sugar tries to determine what happened to Olivia, he will also unearth Siegel family secrets; some very recent, others long-buried.

The cast includes Amy Ryan, Anna Gunn, James Cromwell, Nate Corddry, Dennis Boutsikaris and Kirby Howell-Baptiste.

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