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Queenie

Hulu, June 7, 2024

Jun 05, 2024 TV Web Exclusive

“Loud, brash, confrontational, bitchy,” is how the titular character in Queenie describes herself. That sounds intriguing, except that Dionne Brown, who plays Queenie, a Jamaican British 25-year-old woman working as a social media assistant at a London newspaper, delivers that description in “She’s Royal,” the sixth of eight episodes in the debut season of the series. By that point, Queenie has proved she is anything but those four descriptors.

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Camden

Hulu, May 29, 2024

May 29, 2024 TV Web Exclusive

For a destination that has drawn music lovers from across the globe to its mythical musical environment for decades, Camden should get ready for an even bigger influx of fans after Camden.

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Ripley

Netflix, April 4, 2024

May 08, 2024 TV Web Exclusive

Matt Damon made Tom Ripley look talented in the 1999 film, The Talented Mr. Ripley. But the vindictive, conniving con man comes across as a much better hang when portrayed by Andrew Scott in Ripley, the new Netflix adaptation.

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Hacks (Season Three)

Max, May 2, 2024

Apr 30, 2024 TV Web Exclusive

Season Three of Hacks is free of the formulas that make lesser shows so much more hack-y

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Under the Bridge

Hulu, April 17, 2024

Apr 17, 2024 TV Web Exclusive

The allure of the ‘90s continues with Under the Bridge, an eight-part limited series based on the late Rebecca Godfrey’s 2009 true-crime book of the same name, about Reena Virk, 14-year-old Indian-Canadian girl who went to a party and never returned home, only to be found dead over a week later.

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Sugar

Apple TV+, April 5, 2024

Apr 05, 2024 TV Web Exclusive

Colin Farrell joins the pantheon of time honored gumshoes with Sugar, which premieres with two episodes on this new series. The leading man’s eponymous John Sugar is a private investigator with quips hard boiled enough to satisfy the cravings of any noir diehard.

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Parish

AMC/AMC+, March 31, 2024

Mar 30, 2024 TV Web Exclusive

On Parish, Esposito is in the literal driver’s seat. His titular character, Gracián “Gray” Parish tries to maintain his ordinary, family man life after long abandoning his shadowy past as a mob getaway driver. But Gray’s ability to handle Formula 1 worthy hairpin turns is needed for one last job. Sadly, the series can’t outrun such clichés any more than Gray can escape his mob origins.

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Palm Royale

Apple TV+, March 20, 2024

Mar 20, 2024 TV Web Exclusive

This 10-episode comedy pivots around a Barbie-esque Maxine Simmons (Kristen Wiig), a Tennessee beauty queen married to a clueless but happy pilot, Douglas (Josh Lucas), with a good family name, of which Maxine plans to make the utmost use. She is desperate to join the Palm Royale country club and become a member of the city’s exclusionist and unfriendly high society—no matter what the cost.

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The Girls on the Bus

Max, March 14, 2024

Mar 12, 2024 TV Web Exclusive

The timely The Girls on the Bus is a political drama focused on four women, of different generations, covering the race for the White House on the campaign trail for the Democratic National Convention from varying perspectives for dramatically divergent outlets. The 10-episode series is based on co-creator and writer Amy Chozick’s 2018 memoir about her experience reporting on Hillary Clinton’s campaign for presidency, Chasing Hillary.

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