By Dave B.

The hard-drinking, irreverent, super-powered antiheroine is back for her third and final season on Netflix. In this 13-episode season, the eponymous Jones is estranged from her sister following Trish taking it upon herself to end the threat posed by Jessica’s mother, once and  for all. After undergoing a radical procedure, Trish has gained superpowers of her own and is determined to bring justice to New York City. The siblings are forced to work together to defeat a non-powered, but brilliant serial killer, named Salinger. 

By Dave B.

In the second season of Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger (Freeform) Tyrone (Aubrey Joseph) and Tandy (Olivia Holt) are coping with the repercussions of defying prophecy yet still saving New Orleans in last season’s finale. Tyrone, still on the run from the police for crimes that he didn’t commit, has decided to challenge the local gangs in a bid to rid his community of criminality. Tandy has thrown herself into pursuing her dream of becoming a dancer, while confronting the reality of the type of man her late father truly was. But both teens soon realize that their city faces a new threat. One that feeds on their fears and threatens to destroy New Orleans’ only hope for survival: the seemingly unbreakable bond that exists between Tandy and Tyrone.

By Dave B.

The second season of American Gods (Starz) begins nearly immediately after the end of the first season’s epic finale. As the modern gods of high technology plot their revenge, Mr. Wednesday and Shadow prepare for war, gathering the ancient gods into an alliance and forging weapons for the fight ahead. Meanwhile, Mad Sweeney and Laura (Shadow’s dead wife) try to free themselves from Mr. Wednesday’s machinations and the African gods debate whether or not the upcoming war will benefit them and their people.

By Dave B.

The Rookie (ABC) is a police procedural that follows the first year on the Los Angeles police department of three rookies. John Nolan (Nathan Fillion) is “the world’s oldest police rookie”, having decided to join the force after thwarting a bank robbery while in the midst of a divorce-induced midlife crisis. Through situations both harrowing and mundane, the rookies find their idealism tarnished, but not broken, by the realities they face trying to police Los Angeles’ chaotic and eclectic streets.

By Dave B.

​In The Highwaymen (Netflix), Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson play Frank Hamer and Maney Gault, two over-the-hill former Texas Rangers credited with ending Bonnie and Clyde’s bloody rampage in 1934. While Hamer and Gault track the murderous couple, they confront their own blood-soaked pasts as they prepare for the final confrontation with their prey.

By Dave B.

In Amazon Prime’s Hanna (a television adaptation of the 2011 film of the same name), baby Hanna is liberated from a secret CIA facility in Romania and raised in the deepest part of the forest by her father, Erik. He trains Hanna’s mind and body to be perfect weapons, capable of dispatching any enemy without hesitation. But Hanna, as many 15-year olds are wont to be, is rebellious and wants to see the world outside of the forest for herself. Her father reluctantly agrees, but before they can end their years of solitude, they must find and kill Marissa, the woman in charge of the secret CIA eugenics program than created Hanna, and the architect of the death of Hanna’s mother. 

By Dave B.

In Triple Frontier (Netflix) a squad of former U.S Army Rangers hatches a risky plan: steal tens of millions of dollars from a Brazilian drug lord and execute him to break his harmful hold on the Triple Frontier, a largely lawless region of South America. From jump, things don’t go according to plan. As small errors grow into larger ones, the battle-hardened, but slightly over-the-hill group of ex-soldiers find their former oaths tested and their personal honor broken as they try to move millions of dollars over the Andes mountains to the Pacific Ocean.

By Dave B.

In Hereditary (2018, currently on Amazon Prime), a family recovering from the death of their matriarch is rocked when they are hit by an unexpected tragedy. Familial bonds are strained as the Graham family secretly blame each other for what has occurred, but are unable and unwilling to talk through their pain. Their weakened internal dynamic leaves the family vulnerable to malevolent forces hell-bent on fulfilling their own ancient agenda. 

By Dave B.

Famine sweeps the land. Nobles conspire for the throne against the Crown Prince. And the King is dead. But then he isn’t. That’s the backdrop of the Korean drama, Kingdom (Netflix). As usurpers consolidate their control of the kingdom, the Crown Prince is forbidden to see his ailing father and flees, seeking answers as to how to heal the King and allies with which to save himself. What the Crown Prince discovers on his journey will shake not only the foundations of power in his kingdom, but also threaten the very existence of his country.

By Dave B.

​In Beasts of No Nation (Netflix), civil war has engulfed a West African country. Agu is a young boy living a happy life with his family in a town declared neutral territory by the warring parties. When the war escalates and the town is invaded by rebels and government forces, Agu finds himself alone, wandering the jungle, looking for a safe haven when he is abducted by a rebel group.  He becomes trained, indoctrinated, and abused on his way to becoming a deadly child soldier in a gruesome conflict.