Rueben's Ramblings

The mind-bending drama 1899 will debut online on Netflix on November 17.

In 1899, European immigrants traveling to the promised land encounter a terrible nightmare after finding another migrant ship adrift on the open sea.

The cast includes Aneurin Barnard, Emily Beecham and Andreas Pietschmann.

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On November 16, the limited series The Santa Clauses, based on the box office movie franchise The Santa Claus, will debut online on Disney+.

Scott Calvin (Tim Allen) is on the brink of his 65th birthday and realizing that he can’t be Santa forever. He’s suddenly starting to lose his Santa magic; and, more importantly, he’s got a family who could benefit from a life in the normal world, especially his two kids who have grown up at the North Pole. With a lot of elves, children and family to please, Scott sets out to find a suitable replacement Santa while preparing his family for a new adventure in a life south of the pole.

Elizabeth Mitchell is back as Carol; David Krumholtz as Bernard the Elf as well as Kal Penn and Laura San Giacomo.

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The EPIX drama Rogue Heroes will debut on November 13 at 9 PM.

This series is a dramatized account of how the world’s greatest Special Forces unit, the Special Air Service (SAS), was formed under extraordinary circumstances in the darkest days of World War II. Based on Ben Macintyre’s best-selling book of the same name, the series centers on David Stirling, an eccentric young officer who is hospitalized after a training exercise gone wrong. Convinced that traditional commando units don’t work, Stirling creates a radical plan that flies in the face of all accepted rules of modern warfare. He fights for permission to recruit the toughest, boldest, and brightest soldiers for a small undercover unit that will create mayhem behind enemy lines. More rebels than soldiers, Stirling’s team is every bit as complicated, flawed, and reckless as it is brave and heroic.

The cast includes Alfie Allen, Dominic West, Jack O’Connell and Sofia Boutella.

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On November 11, the half-hour anthology series Circuit Breakers will debut online on Apple TV+.

The show is about middle-schoolers in the near future that uses science fiction as a backdrop to tell universal stories about growing up.

Each installment features a sci-fi twist on kid relatable stories, with the intent of kids and families asking themselves how they would act in each unique situation.

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The limited series The English will debut online on Amazon on November 11.

An Englishwoman (Emily Blunt) arrives into the West in 1890 looking for revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son, and meets an ex-cavalry scout (Chaske Spencer) and member of the Pawnee Nation by birth with whom she discovers a possible shared history.

The cast includes Rafe Spall, Stephen Rea, Toby Jones and Ciaran Hinds.

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On November 11, the new series Mammals will debut online on Amazon.

The show follows the story of Jamie (James Corden), a chef whose world implodes when he discovers shocking secrets about his pregnant wife, Amandine (Melia Kreiling). Jamie finds himself hunting for answers with the help of his brother-in-law Jeff (Colin Morgan). Through this hunt, the cracks in Jeff’s marriage to Jamie’s sister Lue (Sally Hawkins) also widen.

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On November 10, the new series The Calling will debut online on Peacock.

The drama tells the story of NYPD Detective Avraham Avraham (Jeff Wilbusch), whose belief in mankind is his superpower when it comes to uncovering the truth. Guided by a deep sense of spirituality and religious principles, Avraham is left to question his own humanity when a seemingly routine investigation turns upside down.

The cast includes Steven Pasquale, Michael Mosley, Stephanie Szostak, Karen Robinson, Ben Shenkman, Constance Zimmer and Chris Sullivan.

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The new period drama Dangerous Liaisons, based on characters from the box office movie, will debut on November 6 at 8 PM on Starz.

This modern take on a classic story takes audiences through wonder and terror, beauty and degradation, seduction and deception in pre-revolutionary Paris. Driven to right the wrongs of their past, the young couple’s survival depends on their skills of seduction and manipulation of not only the French nobility but of each other.

Alice Englert and Nicholas Denton portray the notorious lovers: Camille who is taken in by the current Marquise de Merteuil (played by Lesley Manville) navigates her own path in a world of men, using the power of secrets to take back control, and Valmont who will stop at nothing to regain his title that was recently taken from him. Their on-again off-again love story is the heart of the series.

The series also stars Carice van Houten, Hakeem Kae-Kazim and Tom Wlaschiha.

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On November 6, the new 6-part series Mood will debut online on AMC+ and it will debut on BBC America at 10 PM.

Sasha Clayton (Nicole Lecky) dreams of becoming a major recording artist, but right now she’s a bedroom artist: spending her days smoking weed and stalking her ex-boyfriend (Jordan Duvigneau) on Instagram. When she is kicked out of her family home for drunkenly trying to burn her ex’s house down, Sasha becomes homeless and is forced to fend for herself, sofa-surfing with local drug dealer Saleem (Mohammad Dalmar).

Everything seems to change when she meets and moves in with Instagram influencer and party girl Carly (Laura Peake), who introduces her to the exciting world of making money and becoming ‘famous’ on social media. But as the gap between her online presence and her dream of being a singer continues to grow, Sasha finds herself struggling to escape this new influencer world that is more complex and darker than she could have imagined.

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