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Oh wow, this is an amazing series! First episode had me in tears.

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Goosebumps: The Vanishing

Disney+ | 10 January | Season 2 | 8 Episodes

"Goosebumps: The Vanishing,” the new chapter of the thrilling anthology series, premieres January 10 on Disney+ and Hulu. The season begins when twins Devin and Cece Brewer are sent to spend a summer in Gravesend, Brooklyn, with their divorced dad. A threat is stirring, and they quickly realize that dark secrets are among them, triggering a chain of events that unravel a profound mystery. As they delve into the unknown, Devin, Cece and their friends — Alex, CJ and Frankie — find themselves entangled in the chilling tale of four teenagers who mysteriously vanished in 1994

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Interior Chinatown

Hulu on Disney+ | 19 November | Season 1 | 10 Episodes

There’s something going on in Chinatown. Watch the official trailer for #InteriorChinatown now and stream all episodes November 19 on Hulu and with #HuluOnDisneyPlus.

Based on Charles Yu’s award-winning book of the same name, the show follows the story of Willis Wu, a background character trapped in a police procedural called Black & White. Relegated to the background, Willis goes through the motions of his on-screen job, waiting tables, dreaming about a world beyond Chinatown and aspiring to be the lead of his own story.

When Willis inadvertently becomes a witness to a crime, he begins to unravel a criminal web in Chinatown, while discovering his own family’s buried history and what it feels like to be in the spotlight.

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The Agency

Showtime (Showmax?) | 29 November | Season 1 | 10 Episodes

Martian (two-time Academy® Award nominee Michael Fassbender) is a covert CIA agent, ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London Station. When the love he left behind reappears, romance reignites. His career, his real identity and his mission are pitted against his heart—hurling them both into a deadly game of international intrigue and espionage.

Based on the series The Bureau (2015).

Bad Sisters

Apple TV+ | 13 November | Season 2 | 8 Episodes

The return everyone’s dying for. Season 2 of Bad Sisters premieres November 13.

A delicious blend of both dark comedy and thriller, “Bad Sisters” follows the lives of the Garvey sisters, who are bound together by the premature death of their parents and a promise to always protect one another.

Say Nothing

Disney+ | 14 November | Season 1 | 9 Episodes

Spanning four tumultuous decades during The Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Dolours Price comes from an IRA family. Her father’s been to prison for planting bombs and her mother hides guns in the garden. When the city of Belfast erupts into violence, Dolours swears she’s not going to get involved.

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Landman

Paramount+ | 17 November | Season 01 | 10 Episodes

A modern-day tale of fortune seeking in the world of West Texas oil rigs.

Set in the proverbial boomtowns of West Texas, Landman is a modern-day tale of fortune seeking in the world of oil rigs. The series is an upstairs/downstairs story of roughnecks and wildcat billionaires fueling a boom so big, it’s reshaping our climate, our economy and our geopolitics.


Where has Billy Bob Thornton been recently? Feels like ages since we’ve seen him.

A Man on the Inside

Netflix | 21 November | Season 01 | 8 Episodes

Retired professor Charles (Ted Danson) feels life has nothing new in store for him. A year after his wife’s passing, he’s become stuck in his routine and grown distant from his daughter. But when he spies a classified ad from a private investigator, he’s inspired to roll the dice on a new adventure, going undercover to solve the mystery of a stolen family heirloom.

From creator Mike Schur (creator of The Good Place; co-creator of Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine Nine), A Man on the Inside is based on the documentary The Mole Agent, a 2021 Oscar® nominee for Best Documentary feature.

Senna

Netflix | 29 November | Limited Series | 6 Episodes

Nothing moves faster than a lifetime. Senna, the limited series about the driver destined to be a hero, streams on November 29 only on Netflix.

Fictional miniseries based on the life of Ayrton Senna da Silva, the Brazilian racing legend who won the Formula One World Drivers’ Championship three times.

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The Sticky

Prime Video | 6 December | Limited Series | 6 Episodes

The Sticky is a comedy-drama series about Ruth Landry, a maple syrup farmer who, in defiance of a heartless system, assembles a team to undertake the Canadian heist of the century. The target: the country’s multi-million dollar maple syrup surplus.


Canadians take their maple syrup as seriously as they take their hockey, right @murfle?

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Dune: Prophecy

HBO / Showmax | 17 November | Season 1 | 6 Episodes

Ten thousand years before Paul Atreides joined the Fremen to lead an uprising on Arrakis to take down House Harkonnen, two sisters (Valya and Tula Harkonnen) create the mysterious all-female order called the Bene Gesserit. In Dune Prophecy, the siblings combat forces that threaten the future of humankind.

Power lies in the shadows in this HBO sci-fi epic based on best-selling books and hit films. Set ten thousand years before the ascension of Paul Atreides, witness the creation of the female order, the Bene Gesserit.

https://www.showmax.com/watch/asset/series/dune-prophecy-s1-coming-18-nov/7fbceab5-0698-3cd3-a890-e3ef718dba15

Oh nice! They’re doing a movie based on the great Canadian maple syrup heist? Sweeeeet (and sticky)

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Agreed, I love his acting and I am looking forward to this story. I enjoyed Yellowstone, its spinoffs and I just enjoyed Territory. This looks like it is in a similar lane.

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Oooo yes, as a life time fan of Herber’t universe and having read ALL them books. Going to love this. Maybe one day they will make a series or movie based on the machine crusade.

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Black Doves

Netflix | 5 December | 6 Part Mini-Series

Helen, who embarks on a passionate affair with a man who has no idea what her secret identity is. Caught in the crosshairs when her lover falls victim to the dangerous London underworld, Helen’s employer’s call in Sam to protect her.

Keira Knightley, Ben Whishaw, Sarah Lancashire as you’ve never seen them before. Black Doves, a six-episode spy thriller, coming December 5th.

Paradise

Hulu on Disney+ | 28 January | Season 1 | 9 Episodes

Paradise is set in a serene, wealthy community inhabited by some of the world’s most prominent individuals. But this tranquility explodes when a shocking murder occurs and a high stakes investigation unfolds.

Secret Level

Prime Video | 10-17 December | 15 Part Anthology Series

Secret Level features original stories set within the worlds of some of the most beloved video games. From the creative minds behind LOVE, DEATH + ROBOTS, each of the 15 episodes is a celebration of games and gamers.

Games that inspired the 15 epic stories include Armored Core, Concord, Crossfire, Dungeons & Dragons, Exodus, Honor of Kings, Mega Man, New World: Aeternum, PAC-MAN, various PlayStation Studios games, Sifu, Spelunky, The Outer Worlds, Unreal Tournament and Warhammer 40,000.

Secret Level will be available exclusively on Prime Video in over 240 countries and territories worldwide starting on December 10, with additional episodic drops until December 17.

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Taylor Sheridan is on a roll it seems.

Loving this show

Love Yellowstone, Lioness, Tulsa Kings and all the rest.

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I am unable to not say that in Afrikaans in my mind.

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