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Hello hello hello!
It's a beautiful day outside, the sun is shining, and we've got an excellent week of TV and comics coming at you this week. I just had my first day at my new gig and am feeling ready to go.
Here's to a successful week for all—until we meet again.
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📺 New shows
☀️ It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia S17 (FX) — 9 July
Our friends from Philly are back. My wife and I just did a complete series rewatch last year, which was a complete and utter joy. Charlie and Frank are two of the greatest characters in modern TV and it's going to be a sad, sad day when it eventually has to come to an end—but today is not that day!
👼 Too Much S1 (Netflix) — 9 July
Lena Dunham returns to TV (at least behind the camera) with Too Much. I believe it's semi-autobiographical, similar to Girls in that way, about someone who leaves New York for London after a break-up and then falls in love again. Megan Stalter, aka Kayla from Hacks, plays the lead and is joined by a fantastic cast of character actors and recognizable faces.
🌌 Foundation S3 (Apple) 10 July
Foundation is one of those shows that I really, really, really want to watch, but just haven't gotten around to it yet. I've read the first book and really enjoyed it—although I struggled to imagine it working on screen, but apparently it does!
🔪 Dexter: Resurrection S1 (Paramount) — 13 July
And the third Dexter spin-off series from the folks at Showtime, who never know how to let a good idea die gracefully. I loved the original series and didn't hate the series finale like most people, but never got around to watching New Blood, or the newer prequel series Original Sin.
📝 What else?
- Ballard S1 (Amazon) — 9 July
- Quarterback S2 (Netflix) — 8 July
Tuesday
- Stick (Apple) 1:8
- Hell Motel (Shudder) 1:5
Thursday
- Poker Face (Peacock) 2:12
- Murderbot (Apple) 1:10
- Revival (Syfy) 1:5
- It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (FX) 17:1-2
- Too Much (Netflix) S1
Friday
- Smoke (Apple) 1:4
- Foundation (Apple) 3:1
Sunday
- Rick & Morty (Adult Swim) 8:8
- The Gilded Age (HBO) 3:4
- Dexter: Resurrection (Paramount) 1:1-2
No new music to report on this week. Try again next week.
🦸 No. 1's
🌳 Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring (IDW)
The follow-up to one of 2024's best comics from writer/artist Patrick Horvath taking place a decade after the events of the first mini-series as the world enters the internet era and it becomes much harder to be a cozy, serial killing bear.
🐗 Wild Animals (Mad Cave)
A gritty crime thriller from the mind of Ed Brisson and art by Andy Kuhn about a guy who's been beaten down by life and is now out for revenge after losing his parents.
🦹 The UnChosen (Image)
The first creator-owned series from David Marquez as both writer and artist. It has some X-Men meets manga vibes going on as it follows a 13-year old dealing with the great powers they can't quite control.
🍀 Fantastic Four (Marvel)
New number one to lead to the new FF movie. Still Ryan North writing, but he's joined by Humberto Ramos on art.
🌕 Fantastic Four: First Steps (Marvel)
A movie tie-in... only including it here because it's written by Matt Fraction...
📝 What else?
- The Power Fantasy #10 (Image)
- Farmhand #23 (Image)
- FML #5 (Image)
- I Hate Fairyland #23 (Image)
- Uncanny Valley #10 (Image)
- Free Planet #3 (Image)
- Transformers #22 (Image)
- Radiant Black #35 (Image)
- Absolute Superman #9 (DC)
- Uncanny X-Men #17 (Marvel)
🎥 New movies
🦸 Superman
This feels like a make or break moment for James Gunn and DC Studios. At the early buzz has not been great. First there was the issue with the trailer that seemed weird; Gunn said it was as intended, and then removed it and said it wasn't ready? Then Daily Beast accidentally published their scathing review before the embargo was lifted and subsequently removed it, but it did not sound good at all... Superman is just a hard character to do right and I'm not sure that many people care to see him on screen anymore.
🇵🇸 To a Land Unknown
To a Land Unknown has been going through the film festival circuit and building up a decent amount of buzz as a nominee at Cannes and TIFF among 40+ others over the course of the last year. It's a movie about two displaced Palestinian refugees who are trying to leave Athens, but get tangled up in some sketchy situations.
🥶 Sovereign
I'm not too sure about this one, but Nick Offerman is in it and plays the lead as someone deep in the sovereign citizen movement who indoctrinates his kid and ends up going head to head with the local police chief.
📝 What else?
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