Rueben's Ramblings

On March 17, the HBO Max sci-fi thriller limited series DMZ will debut online.

Alma Ortega (Rosario Dawson), a medic, becomes a symbol of hope in a demilitarized Manhattan Island while trying to also find her lost son during the Second American Civil War. The show is about a fractured people who are coming together. They have a Civil War between the Free States of America and the United States of America. It takes place eight years into that DMZ where the rule of law is basically dictated by the most powerful person at any possible time and that can change from block to block.

The cast includes Benjamin Bratt.

Here is a trailer for DMZ:

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The Apple TV+ drama series The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey will debut online on March 11.

Based on the novel by Walter Mosley, the series focuses on a lonely 93 year old man (Samuel L. Jackson) with dementia, who is temporarily able to remember his past and uses the time to investigate the death of his nephew.

The cast includes Dominique Fishback, Walton Goggins and Damon Gupton.

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On March 10, the HBO Max original series Theodosia will debut online.

Based on the critically acclaimed 4-book series best-selling author Robin L. LaFevers, the series is set in 1906, centering on Theodosia Throckmorton [aka Theo] (Eloise Little) as she gathers an eclectic team that includes her younger brother Henry (Frankie Minchella), along with friends Will (Nana Agyeman-Bediako) and Egyptian Princess, Safiya (Yasmina El-Abd), to fight a powerful secret society bent on destroying the world with ancient Egyptian dark magic.

Here is a trailer for Theodosia:

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The new NBC drama The Thing About Pam will debut on March 8 at 10 PM.

The series will be focuses on the 2011 murder of Betsy Faria (and the 2019 podcast) that resulted in her husband Russ’s conviction, although he insisted he didn’t kill her. His conviction was later overturned. This brutal crime set off a chain of events that would expose a diabolical scheme deeply involving Pam Hupp (a nearly unrecognizable Renee Zellweger).

The series will also star Josh Duhamel and Judy Greer.

Here is a trailer for The Thing About Pam:

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The Netflix drama series Pieces of Her will debut online on March 4.

Based on Karin Slaughter’s best-selling novel, the series follows what happens when an afternoon outing explodes into violence and a young woman’s view of her mother is forever changed.

The show stars Toni Collette, Omari Hardwick, Terry O’Quinn, Gil Birmingham, David Wenham, Bella Heathcote and Joe Dempsie.

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The Hulu drama The Dropout will debut the first 3 episodes of its freshman season online on March 3.

The series follows the story of Elizabeth Holmes (Amanda Seyfried) and Theranos, the technology company the college drop-out founded that was set on revolutionizing the healthcare industry, making her the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire who lost everything in the blink of an eye.

The ensemble cast includes Anne Archer, Alan Ruck, Dylan Minnette, Elizabeth Marvel, Kate Burton, Kurtwood Smith, Laurie Metcalf, LisaGay Hamilton, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Michael Ironside, Michaela Watkins, Naveen Andrews, Sam Waterston, Stephen Fry and William H. Macy.

Here is a trailer for The Dropout:

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The new Showtime anthology series Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber will air at 10 PM on February 27.

The anthology series tells the story of one of Silicon Valley’s most successful and most destructive unicorns: Uber. The season pivots on Travis Kalanick (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Uber’s hard-charging CEO who was ultimately ousted in a boardroom coup, and his sometimes tumultuous relationship with his mentor Bill Gurley (Kyle Chandler), the plainspoken, brilliant Texan venture capitalist who bets his sterling reputation on Uber’s success – and then has to live with the consequences.

The ensemble cast includes Ben Feldman, David Krumholtz, Elisabeth Shue, Hank Azaria, Kerry Bishe, Richard Schiff, Rob Morrow and Uma Thurman.

Here is a trailer for Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber:

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The CW spin-off drama All American: Homecoming will debut on February 21 at 9 PM.

The series follows tennis star Simone Hicks (Geffri Maya) as she pursues her athletic career at a historically Black college. She’s joined by Damon Sims (Peyton Alex Smith), a talented baseball player who’s also navigating the highs, lows and sexiness of unsupervised early adulthood.

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On February 21, the new NBC drama Endgame will debut at 10 PM.

A pulse-pounding high-stakes two-hander about Elena Federova (Morena Baccarin), a recently captured international arms dealer and brilliant criminal mastermind who orchestrates a number of coordinated bank heists throughout New York City for a mysterious purpose. Her antagonist is Val Turner (Ryan Michelle Bathe), the principled, relentless and socially outcast FBI agent who will stop at nothing to foil her ambitious plan. The gripping heist drama reveals how far some people will go for love, justice and the most valuable commodity in the world: the truth.

The cast includes Jordan Johnson-Hinds and Noah Bean.

Here is a trailer for Endgame:

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