Photo courtesy of Patrick Harbron / Huluīoth are reluctant to return, but professional reasons force their hands, and they wind up investigating a fresh new mystery in town, while the locals lock arms against them. Both Sharp Objects’ reporter protagonist Camille (Amy Adams) and Castle Rock’s lawyer lead Henry Deaver (André Holland) trace their personal scars back to childhood, when a close family member died under mysterious circumstances. Both shows center on an emotionally damaged protagonist returning to the small, insular, judgmental town where they grew up.
“Twin TV shows” don’t get nearly the same amount of cultural attention, though, maybe because so much of television operates around familiar, predictable trends - if one year sees four different procedural dramas about a troubled detective with a maybe-love-interest partner and a peculiarly quirky way of solving crimes, that just sounds like a slow year for detective procedurals.īut July 2018’s two biggest TV series debuts, HBO’s Sharp Objects and Hulu’s Castle Rock, may redefine the idea of twin TV shows. Whether it comes from studios trying to ride each other’s publicity coattails, or just parallel evolution as different producers chase the same ideas through the zeitgeist, it’s still fairly common to see, say, the dystopian evil-twin fantasies Double and The Enemy coming out in the same year, or White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen - both White House invasion action movies - fighting for supremacy at the box office. Expect to see the 2002 figure skating scandal (out of Salt Lake City), a weed-smuggling scandal surrounding an Indycar driver, a horse hitman committing insurance fraud, a basketball point-shaving scheme, and more bad boys who fell from grace.Īmong The Stars: Season 1 (Disney+ series) - This show takes space fans behind the a vital NASA mission of fixing the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), a tool that hopes to reveal the universe’s origins, although the job comes with a $2 billion price tag.No matter how splintered the cinematic landscape gets, the “twin films” phenomenon keeps resurfacing. In case you missed these streaming picks from last Wednesday:īad Sport: Season 1 (Netflix series) - Sports and crime intersect in this show, which dives into personal accounts from athletes, coaches, and law enforcement.
The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon - Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Nicole Holofcener, Victoria Beckham, Holly Humberstone This week, Nora’s adjusting to New Mexico when she receives a letter from home that makes her question everything. This week, “Take Your Son to Work Day” means that Dean goes to work both Bill and Lillian with very different results.Īmerican Horror Story: Double Feature (FXX, 10:00pm) - The White House receives an unexpected visitor, who’s got a horrific plan in mind.Īwkwafina Is Nora From Queens (Comedy Central, 10:00pm) - Awkwafina’s semi-autobiographical series is deep into its second season, in which she gazes into the future with starry eyes. Don Cheadle narrates the usual tween ordeals and also the experience of being part of a Southern Black family. The Wonder Years (ABC, 8:30pm) - This reimagining adopts a different perspective (from the Fred Savage-starring original show) with the focus on an African-American family and their home base in 1960s Montgomery, Alabama. Astra attempts to fix circumstances with her powers.īatwoman (CW, 9:00pm) - Season 3 arrives with Batwoman fending off Gotham’s threats while Batwing assists, and Luke can’t get used to his suit. Expect plenty of supernatural journeys (with a personally affecting touch) through alternate dimensions with witches, aliens, and ghosts onboard.ĭC’s Legends of Tomorrow (CW, 8:00pm) - Season 7 sees the Legends stranded in 1920s Texas after they defeated the alien intrusion. Stine’s BOOM! Studios comic book series of the same name. Just Beyond: Season 1 (Disney+ series) - This horror-comedy anthology bases itself on R.L. The title of the source material ( Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company that Addicted America, the book by Beth Macy) tells you a lot, but this trailer promises an intense ride, and the cast includes Michael Stuhlbarg and Kaitlyn Dever, who’s all over TV now and making Justified‘s Loretta proud here.
Here, he takes on Big Pharma as a physician whose patients are dying off amid an opioid epidemic, and Rosario Dawson portrays one of the heroes who want to take the makers of Oxycontin down. Dopesick: Season 1 (Hulu series) - Michael Keaton (who is still the greatest Batman in history, so don’t mess with him in any role) finally comes to TV beyond cameo mode.