Rueben's Ramblings

On August 21, the new Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon will debut on HBO at 9 PM.

Based on the George R.R. Martin “Fire & Blood” series, set 200 years before the events of the series Game of Thrones, the series tells the story of House Targaryen.

The Targaryen’s include Bethany Antonia, Emma D’Arcy, Ewan Mitchell, Matt Smith, Paddy Considine, Milly Alcock, Phia Saban, Phoebe Campbell and Tom Glynn-Carney.

The series also stars Bill Paterson, Fabian Frankel, Graham McTavish, Olivia Cooke and Rhys Ifans.

Here is a trailer for House of the Dragon:

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The Netflix drama Echoes will debut online on August 19.

Identical twins Leni and Gina (played by Michelle Monaghan as adults) have secretly swapped lives since they were children. But their world is thrown into disarray when one sister goes missing.

The ensemble cast includes Matt Bomer, Jonathan Tucker, Ali Stoker, Daniel Sunjata, Karen Robinson and Michael O’Neill.

Here is a trailer for Echoes:

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On August 18, the Marvel Universe series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law will debut online on Disney+.

The latest installment finds Tatiana Maslany starring as Jennifer Walters (aka She-Hulk), a lawyer who specializes in superhuman-oriented legal cases.

The cast includes Jameela Jamil, Josh Segarra, Mark Ruffalo, Renee Elise Goldsberry and Tim Roth.

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On August 16, the new period piece drama Leonardo will debut on The CW at 8 PM.

The series recounts Leonardo da Vinci’s (Aidan Turner) extraordinary life through the works that made him famous, through the stories hidden within those works, revealing little by little the inner torment of a man obsessed with attaining perfection.

The cast includes Giancarlo Giannini, Freddie Highmore and James D’Arcy [among others].

Here is a trailer for Leonardo:

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The small screen series adaptation of the box office movie A League of Their Own will debut online on Amazon on August 12.

This version will tell the story of an entire generation of women who dreamed of playing professional baseball, taking a deeper look at race and sexuality, following the journey of a whole new ensemble of characters as they carve their own paths towards the field, both in the League and outside of it.

The cast includes Dale Dickey, D’Arcy Carden, Kelly McCormack, Nick Offerman, Abbi Jacobson, Alex Desert and Melanie Field [among others].

Here is a trailer for A League of Their Own:

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On August 12, the Apple TV+ drama Five Days at Memorial will debut online.

The limited eight-episode series is based on actual events and adapted from the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sheri Fink. It chronicles the impact of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath on a local hospital. When the floodwaters rose, power failed, and heat soared, exhausted caregivers at a New Orleans hospital were forced to make decisions that would follow them for years to come.

The cast includes Vera Farmiga, Michael Gaston, Robert Pine, Cherry Jones, Julie Ann Emery, W. Earl Brown, Cornelis Smith, Jr., Adepero Oduye and Molly Hager.

Here is a trailer for Five Days at Memorial:

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The Sandman, the small screen adaptation of the Neil Gaiman graphic novel, will debut online on Netflix on August 5.

Based on the popular comic book, the series will be focused on when the Sandman, aka Dream (Tom Sturridge) – the powerful cosmic being who controls all our dreams – is unexpectedly captured and held prisoner for over a century, he must journey across different worlds and timelines to fix the chaos his absence has caused.

The ensemble cast includes Boyd Holbrook, Charles Dance, David Thewlis, Gwendoline Christie, Jenna Coleman, Joely Richardson, the voices of Mark Hamill and Patton Oswalt, Stephen Fry and Kirby Howell-Baptiste.

Here is a trailer for The Sandman:

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The Apple TV+ drama Surface will debut online on July 29.

The series stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Loki and The Morning Show) as Sophie, a woman who has suffered a traumatic head injury that has left her with extreme memory loss, believed to be a result of a suicide attempt. As Sophie embarks on a quest to put the pieces of her life back together with the help of her husband and friends, she begins to question whether or not the truth she is told is in fact the truth she has lived.

The cast includes Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Francois Arnaud, Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Stephan James.

Here is a trailer for Surface:

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