TV gets real this March with COVID Diaries NYC, Falcon And The Winter Soldier, and a Real World Homecoming
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Few shows gripped audiences at the start of quarantine like Tiger King. The true crime wave has only continued to crest over the last (socially distanced) year, with the debuts of Night Stalker: The Hunt For A Serial Killer and Crime Scene: The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel, as well as Starz’s Seduced: Inside The NXIVM Cult. This March, Netflix will stoke true-crime fans’ interest with a look at Murder Among The Mormons, while Peacock makes its first foray into the genre with John Wayne Gacy: Devil In Disguise.
March’s TV offerings include as many opportunities for escapism as stark looks at reality. Paramount Plus (a rebranded CBS All Access) will offer its own spin with The Real World Homecoming: New York, with the reunited cast from the first season of the reality TV giant. In more uplifting and compelling form, HBO presents a docuseries devoted to Tina Turner, while the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg will tell her story in her own words via a documentary airing on Starz early in the month. If that all gets to be too real, you can always follow the adventures of The Falcon And The Winter Soldier, The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, or the high-flying new animated series Invincible.
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“Netflix is expanding the world of the first two live-action Pacific Rim movies—and, in turn, its own anime slate—with this new series created by Greg Johnson and Craig Kyle.”
I know this is such a nitpick, but man does it annoy me when non-Japanese animation, no matter how inspired by Japanese animation, is called anime.
Not to nitpick your nitpick, but the Pacific Rim show is being animated by Polygon Pictures… a Japanese animation studio.
And TMS animated a ton of 80s and 90s American TV cartoons, including much of Batman, Topcraft (before it was folded into Ghibli) animated The Last Unicorn, etc, etc. I still don’t call those anime–they were essentially farmed out to those studios (though, I admit, it’s a debatable issue).
“to fight anti-patriotism group Flag-Smashers”Er, what? Are the badies flag burning hippies in this?
“Scroobius Pip”Admit it, you just made up that name.
Good, I’m not the only one who went straight to the comments upon seeing that name. I’m going to check out the show just to find out what a Scroobius Pip looks like.
It makes ‘Norbert Leo Butz’ sound positively quaint.
came here for this.
“Murder Among The Mormons” — oh, I recognize this! The CourtTV show “Masterminds” did a tight half-hour on the guy who was behind this. Guy was a forger who finally got ballsy enough to create some John Smith writings, and then when his scheme started falling apart, sent some bombs to the dudes who were on to him.Should be pretty good, though I hope they don’t stretch it out into too many episodes.
Debris sounds a bit like the first season of “The 4400″…
Reminded me of the late and no-so-great Revolution, only because it seems destined to meander to nowhere near its original premise before quietly being cancelled.
I feel like there’s a series like this with a broadly similar premise (disappearances, people who disappeared coming back and acting weird, spooky lighting, strange technology, etc) every few years, and not a single one ever makes it beyond one season– and most don’t even seem to make it to a full season.
L O S T seems like the only ‘mythology’ show that told a complete story. We stopped watching any of them because they never last more than a season or two.
I was thinking more like Roadside Picnic, aka Stalker.
I thought it sounded like a documentary on French cheese making.
D’oh! The Real World Reunion is not going to be on MTV? I was looking forward to it, but we already have too many streaming channels.
Boy, they are running out of new ways to milk the Sherlock Holmes canon, aren’t they.
Have you ever tried to milk Sherlock Holmes though? It’s not easy.
“Anti-Patriotism group Flag-Smashers” is ripped straight out of a Dinesh D’Souza fever dream and you can’t tell me otherwise
ripped straight out of a Dinesh D’Souza fever dream and you can’t tell me otherwiseSure I can.
“a cinematic experience akin to a Marvel movie that’s played out over six 40- to 50- minute episodes” sounds incredible. If “Endgame” had a bathroom break at the top of every hour and it might have been the best movie ever. Now, if only I didn’t have to wait a week between episodes…
The first season of the Real World represents the brief moment when that show, and reality TV in general (nascent as it was), had a smidge of soul and social conscience. I’m as interested to take a look as I am not able to watch it because I’m not subscribing to yet another fucking thing. Maybe it will show up on Amazon at some point.
Huh. I really wasn’t expecting thoroughly mediocre Solar Opposites to get a second season.
Hi. Let’s pretend I’m a thirteen year old boy for the duration of this comment. Much appreciate the picture of Ms. Turner. Thank you.
I’m so fucking excited about Invincible that I don’t even mind braving a slideshow to express it to strangers.