Rueben's Ramblings

The Sundance Now drama Next of Kin will air all 6 episodes of its debut season online on June 21.

The show follows whip-smart General Practitioner Mona Shirani (Archie Panjabi from The Good Wife), who lives a charmed life at the heart of a loving family in London. Unfortunately, she is left grief-stricken when her beloved brother is brutally murdered while working for a medical charity overseas. As the death brings buried family secrets to light, Mona is drawn into a tangle of betrayal, conspiracy and murder. One way or another, she must find a way to protect herself, her family and her career as they are all put at risk.

The cast includes Jack Davenport (Pirates of the Caribbean franchise).

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On June 21, the new ABC drama Take Two will debut at 10 PM.

This upbeat detective series that follows Sam Swift (Rachel Bilson from Hart of Dixie), the former star of a hit cop series whose epic breakdown is broadcast to the public and sends her to rehab. Desperate to restart her career, she talks her way into shadowing lone-wolf private investigator Eddie Valetik (Eddie Cibrian from Third Watch) as research for a potential comeback role. Though Eddie resents the babysitting gig, high-spirited Sam uses the skills she learned as an actor playing a cop and proves herself to be surprisingly valuable.

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The new drama Yellowstone will debut on the Paramount Network (formerly Spike TV) on June 20 at 9 PM.

Kevin Costner stars as John Dutton, who controls the largest contiguous ranch in the United States, under constant attack by those it borders – land developers, an Indian reservation, and America’s first National Park. The series is an intense study of a violent world far from media scrutiny – where land grabs make developers billions, and politicians are bought and sold by the world’s largest oil and lumber corporations. Where drinking water poisoned by fracking wells and unsolved murders are not news: they are a consequence of living in the new frontier. It is the best and worst of America seen through the eyes of a family that represents both.

The ensemble cast includes Cole Hauser (Rogue and Pitch Black), Dave Annable (Brothers & Sisters), Gil Birmingham (Siren and the Twilight franchise), Gretchen Mol (Boardwalk Empire), Ian Bohen (Teen Wolf), Jill Hennessy (Crossing Jordan), Josh Lucas (Sweet Home Alabama), Kelly Reilly (Black Box and Sherlock Holmes), Luke Grimes (Brothers & Sisters and Fifty Shades franchise), Michaela Conlin (Bones) and Wes Bentley (American Horror Story).

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The new OWN drama Love Is _____ will debut on June 19 at 10 PM.

Show Synopsis: Michele Weaver (Illicit) and Will Catlett (Black Lightning) star in this new drama about a couple from seemingly opposite worlds, who chase their dreams and learn to follow their hearts.

The cast includes Wendy Davis (Army Wives), Clarke Peters (The Wire), Idara Victor (Turn: Washington’s Spies), Kadeem Hardison (A Different World), Tyrone Brown (The Affair) and Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing (Hunter Street).

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On June 17, the new EPIX drama Deep State will air at 9 PM.

The 8-episode drama centers around Max Easton (Mark Strong from Kingsman: The Golden Circle), an ex-spy whose past comes back to haunt him when he’s summoned away from his new life in the Pyrenees by George White (Alistair Petrie from The Night Manager), head of covert MI6/CIA team “The Section.” White convinces Max to return to the field to avenge the death of his estranged son Harry (Joe Dempsie from Game of Thrones and Skins).

But the stakes are soon raised when Max finds himself at the heart of a covert intelligence war, immersed in a widespread conspiracy to profit from the spread of chaos in the Middle East. The cast also includes Anastasia Griffith (Damages and Once Upon a Time).

Here is a trailer for and a behind the scenes look at Deep State:

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The new CBS All Access drama Strange Angel will debut online on June 14.

Based on George Pendle’s book, the series is inspired by the real life story of Jack Parsons, exploring the dramatic intersection between genius and madness, science and science fiction. Jack Parsons (Jack Reynor from Sing Street and Macbeth), a brilliant and ambitious blue-collar worker of 1930s Los Angeles, started as a janitor at a chemical factory but had fantastical dreams that led him to birth the unknown discipline of American rocketry.

Along the way, he fell into a mysterious world that included sex magick rituals at night, ultimately becoming a disciple of occultist Aleister Crowley. Parsons used Crowley’s teachings of self-actualization to support his unimaginable and unprecedented endeavor to the stars.

The cast includes Bella Heathcote (The Man in the High Castle), Elena Satine (The Gifted), Rupert Friend (Homeland) and Rade Serbedzija (The Saint and Shooter).

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