Rueben's Ramblings

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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The limited series The Suspect will debut online on Sundance Now on November 3.

This five-part thriller, based on the best-selling novel by acclaimed crime writer Michael Robotham, stars Aidan Turner (Poldark) as Joseph ‘Joe’ O’Loughlin, who appears to have the perfect life – a beautiful wife, a loving daughter and a successful career as a clinical psychologist. But nothing can be taken for granted – even the most flawless existence is only a loose thread away from unravelling.

All it takes is a murdered girl, a troubled young patient and the biggest lie of his life. Caught in an increasingly complex web of deceit, Joe risks everything as he embarks upon a search for a killer that will take him into the darkest recesses of the human mind.

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The new 3-episode series Karen Pirie will debut on BritBox on October 25.

Newly-promoted Karen Pirie (Lauren Lyle from Outlander) is tasked with reopening a murder investigation that has been the subject of a controversial true-crime podcast. When teenage barmaid Rosie Duff was found brutally murdered in a St. Andrew’s graveyard in 1996, suspicion fell on the three students who discovered her body. But with a lack of forensic evidence, no charges were brought and the investigation floundered.

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On October 21, the 8-episode limited series From Scratch will debut online on Netflix.

In this sweeping romance, an American woman (Zoe Saldana) loves and loses a Sicilian man she meets in Italy.

Based on actress Tembi Locke’s best-selling memoir.

The cast includes Danielle Deadwyler and Keith David.

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On October 21, the Amazon drama The Peripheral will debut online.

The series is centered on Flynne Fisher (Chloe Grace Moretz), a woman trying to hold together the pieces of her broken family in a forgotten corner of tomorrow’s America. Flynne is smart, ambitious, and doomed. She has no future; until the future comes calling for her.

The Peripheral is master storyteller William Gibson’s dazzling, hallucinatory glimpse into the fate of mankind – and what lies beyond.

The series also stars Eli Goree, J.J. Feild, Jack Reynor and Melinda Page Hamilton.

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