Rueben's Ramblings

On January 28, the new Netflix 8-episode drama In From the Cold will debut online.

A mom’s (Margarita Levieva from Revenge) life turns upside down when she must choose between putting her family at risk and returning to her past as a bioengineered Russian agent.

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On January 26, the new Syfy series Astrid & Lilly Save the World will debut at 10 PM.

High school is hard enough when you’re different, but when outcast BFFs Astrid (Jana Morrison) and Lilly (Samantha Aucoin) accidentally crack open a portal to a terrifyingly quirky monster dimension, it gets a lot more complicated. It’s up to them to vanquish the creepy creatures and save the world, becoming the badass heroes they were meant to be. That is, if they can survive the horrors of high school.

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The HBO period piece drama The Gilded Age will debut at 9 PM on January 24.

The series begins in 1882 with young Marian Brook (Louisa Jacobson) moving from rural Pennsylvania to New York City after the death of her father to live with her thoroughly old money aunts Agnes van Rhijn (Christina Baranski) and Ada Brook (Cynthia Nixon).

Accompanied by Peggy Scott (Denee Benton), an aspiring writer seeking a fresh start, Marian inadvertently becomes enmeshed in a social war between one of her aunts, a scion of the old money set, and her stupendously rich neighbors, a ruthless railroad tycoon and his ambitious wife, George (Morgan Spector) and Bertha Russell (Carrie Coon).

The ensemble cast includes Audra McDonald, Donna Murphy, Nathan Lane, Taissa Farmiga, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Debra Monk, Bill Irwin, Amy Forsyth, Katie Finneran and Blake Ritson.

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On January 24, the new drama Promised Land will debut on ABC at 10:01 PM.

The series is an epic, generation-spanning drama about two Latinx families vying for wealth and power in California’s Sonoma Valley.

The cast includes John Ortiz, Bellamy Young and Christina Ochoa.

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On January 20, the new AMC+ series La Fortuna will debut online.

Álex Ventura (relative newcomer Alvaro Mel) is a young diplomat who ends up becoming the leader behind a collective effort to recover an underwater shipwreck seized by Frank Wild (Stanley Tucci), a treasure hunter.

Clark Peters also stars.

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