By Dave B.

The third season of The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu) finds June on a mission to fight back against the tyrannical regime that has destroyed her life. Finding herself in a new home with an unorthodox Commander, June displays a newfound ruthlessness as she organizes the oppressed Handmaidens and Marthas to carry out an audacious plan that will strike straight to the heart of Gilead’s most powerful families. 

By Dave B.

They Come Knocking is Blumhouse’s latest entry into its Into The Dark horror anthology. In it a father and his two daughters go on a road trip to lay to rest the ashes of their wife and mother. However, their grieving is interrupted when a group of strangers (creepy as hell kids) demand to be let into the family’s trailer. After being denied, the kids disable their vehicle, leaving the trio stranded with no cell service and fighting to survive a force that they can barely comprehend.

By Dave B.

Based on the classic satirical novel of the same name, Catch-22 (Hulu) follows Yossarian and his bomber squadron as they fight their way up through Italy in the final act of the European campaign of WWII. For Yossarian and his compatriots, it seems as if the war will never end as the number of missions they must fly in order to be sent home is constantly raised. Yossarian tries every trick that he can think of (except for some of the most obvious ones) to try to avoid the missions and postpone what he sees as a pointless death in a war that is nearly won.

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.