Rueben's Ramblings

On January 27, the Netflix series Lockwood & Co. will debut online.

A girl (Ruby Stokes) with extraordinary psychic abilities joins two gifted teen boys (Cameron Chapman and Ali Hadji-Heshmati) at a small ghost-hunting agency to fight the many deadly spirits haunting London.

Here is a trailer for Lockwood & Co.:

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The new series Wolf Pack will debut online on Paramount+ on January 26.

The series follows a teenage boy and girl whose lives are changed forever when a California wildfire awakens a terrifying supernatural creature and drives it to attack a highway traffic jam beneath the burning hills. Wounded in the chaos, the boy and girl are inexplicably drawn to each other and to two other teenagers who were adopted sixteen years earlier by a park ranger after another mysterious wildfire. As the full moon rises, all four teens come together to unravel the secret that connects them – the bite and blood of a werewolf.

The cast includes Sarah Michelle Gellar, Rodrigo Santoro, Armani Jackson, Bella Shepard, Chloe Rose Robertson and Tyler Lawrence Gray.

Here is a trailer for Wolf Pack:

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On January 22, the new FOX drama Accused will debut at 9 PM.

This series is a collection of 15 intense, topical and exquisitely human stories of crime and punishment. Each episode is a fast-paced provocative thriller, exploring a different crime, in a different city, with an entirely original cast. Told from the defendant’s point of view through flashbacks, the show holds a mirror up to current times with evocative and emotional stories.

Among the cast who will be feature include Aaron Ashmore, Abigail Breslin, Aisha Dee, Ian Anthony Dale, Jack Davenport, Jill Hennessy, Kyle Schmid, Malcolm Jamal Warner, Margo Martindale, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Megan Boone, Michael Chiklis, Molly Parker, Rachel Bilson, Rhea Perlman, Robert Wisdom, Wendell Pierce and Whitney Cummings.

Here is a trailer for Accused:

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On January 15, the HBO drama The Last of Us will debut at 9 PM.

The series takes place 20 years after modern civilization has been destroyed. Joel (Pedro Pascal), a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl (Bella Ramsey), out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal and heartbreaking journey as they both must traverse the U.S. and depend on each other for survival.

The cast includes Anna Torv, Ashley Johnson, Gabriel Luna, Merle Dandridge, Graham Greene, Jeffrey Pierce, Melanie Lynskey, Nick Offerman and Storm Reid [among others].

Here is a trailer for The Last of Us:

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The new Hallmark Channel drama The Way Home will debut on January 15 at 9 PM.

This is a new family drama that follows the lives of three generations of women – Kat Landry (Chyler Leigh), her 15-year-old daughter Alice (Sadie Laflamme-Snow) and Kat’s mother Del (Andie MacDowell), who are all strong, willful and independent. More than 20 years prior, life changing events prompted Kat to move away from her small, Canadian farm town of Port Haven and she remains estranged from Del to this day. Alice has never met her grandmother and is unaware of the reasons for their fractured family.

With Kat’s marriage coming to an end and having just been laid off from her job, she decides to return home after receiving an unexpected letter from Del urging her to come back. Although Alice is none-too-thrilled, Kat and her daughter arrive at her family’s farm, though the reunion isn’t what Kat had envisioned. As the three generations of women slowly work on finding their footing as a family, they embark on an enlightening – and surprising – journey none of them could have imagined as they learn how to find their way back to each other.

Here is a trailer for The Way Home:

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