By Dave B.

​In All of Us Are Dead (Netflix), a group of high school students attempting to escape their school and find safety during a zombie outbreak. This is made more difficult by the fact that the school is ground zero for the infection. Interpersonal strife, an unquenchable thirst for revenge, and a constantly mutating virus further make survival nearly impossible.

By Dave B.

​In Squid Game, a degenerate, but kind father is given the opportunity to change his life forever. All he has to do is win a series of children’s games against several hundred other similarly desperate people. The catch? If you lose, you die.  

By Dave B.

Las Vegas has been overrun by zombies. The surviving heroes of the desperate, doomed struggle to save the city find themselves down on their luck. When they’re presented with the chance to make the score of a lifetime by robbing a casino vault, they can’t resist and head into the heart of the infested city. But they soon discover that they’ve underestimated their enemies, both living and dead.

By Dave B.

What if great power doesn’t come with great responsibility? That’s one of the questions posed by Jupiter’s Legacy (Netflix) as it follows a family of superheroes searching for their place in the world. Sworn to uphold a code that stipulates they will never kill, a new generation of heroes find themselves at odds with rules and responsibilities that don’t fit their current world. Society balances on the precipice as hidden threat surfaces to shatter the foundations of the world. 

By Dave B.

In the third season of Netflix’s animated comedy Disenchantment, Princess Bean is beset by enemies on all sides as a conspiracy to overthrow her father, King Zog, results in her being burned at the stake as a witch. Through harrowing escapes and intrigue, Bean and her allies experience love, loss, and betrayal while doing their best to protect the kingdom of Dreamland from a plethora of nefarious plots. 

By Dave B.

As a slacker and his two friends hide from the police in a Tokyo train station bathroom stall, an odd event occurs. They emerge from their hiding place and discover that everyone in the station, and the city, has disappeared. As the friends navigate an abandoned Tokyo, they stumble across a series of games that test their teamwork, intelligence, physical abilities, and loyalty. They quickly discover that the cost of losing is death and non-participation is not an option. As they struggle to escape and discover the purpose behind this new reality, their bonds of friendship are tested and they learn the truth of themselves that they hide from the world.

By Dave B.

Far in the future, with humanity on the brink of extinction, specially trained teams journey to the early twenty-first century to reshape the flow of history so that the cataclysms that led to such a wretched future never come to pass. These Travelers have their consciousnesses implanted into individuals moments before they were historically recorded as dying and receive orders from the future to carry out large and small tasks that are designed to help humanity’s development. But history is not necessarily easy to change. Will the Travelers succeed at forging a new path for humankind? Or will they discover that all of their efforts are in vain and that human destiny can’t (or shouldn’t) be changed?

By Dave B.

When her mother is killed, young Beth Harmon is sent to an orphanage in Kentucky where she encounters the two things that will most impact her life: chess and tranquilizers. As Beth gains fame for her brilliant and bold chess game, she spirals deeper and deeper into a drug and alcohol fueled darkness that threatens to destroy her career and her life. 

By Dave B.

The Babysitter: Killer Queen (sequel 2017’s “The Babysitter”) takes place two years after the original and finds the protagonist, Cole, as a high school junior who is ostracized by his peers and thought insane by his family. The reason? Despite his harrowing fight for survival against the blood cult, there’s no evidence supporting that anything untoward took place. When his family finally tires of Cole’s unwillingness to recant his account of events, they plan on having him institutionalized. Upon discovering this, Cole flees with his best friend to a boathouse where he hopes to clear his head and come up with a plan. But Cole’s past catches up to him when the cult, revived from the dead and assisted by new acolytes, again come hunting for his blood.

By Dave B.

The second season of Umbrella Academy finds the siblings separated after their narrow escape from Season One’s apocalypse. They’ve each landed at different points in time in early 1960s Dallas, Texas. As they try to reunite, they soon discover that they haven’t avoided doomsday, at all. It’s followed them into the past.