Plus: Godzilla and Ted show finale and a handful of crime procedurals
2024 is accelerating, and 2024 TV is following suit. This week, some big name players will come to grace our TV screens, and really play off each other good TV to really make our new year shake and roll.
Like Jodie Foster who, along with Callie Reese, brought back the best parts and the promise of them True Detective Season 1. Night countrythe fourth True Detective The season, written by Issa Lopez, will be set in frozen northern Alaska during a full month (or so) of nighttime. Oh yes!
Alaqua Cox will finally get her chance to shine as Marvel’s Echo sound echo, the most gritty MCU show yet. Perhaps best of all, Marvel is placing this as a new Spotlight series, meaning no prior MCU knowledge is necessary.
Here are the rest of the best new and final TV shows this week.
New shows on Netflix
Trust: The Game of Greed
Type: Game show
release date: January 10 with four episodes
Hosted by: Brooke Baldwin
ejaculate: Eleven people will “test human nature”
If you were offered a quarter of a million dollars, would you try to take an equal share? trust Here to find out, giving 11 strangers the chance to try and keep more for themselves. Netflix describes this as “the ultimate test of human nature,” but let’s call it what it is: an idea that’s fun enough for a reality show to see just how greedy these 11 people are.
New shows on Hulu
sound echo
Type: Brave MCU
release date: January 10 with all episodes
Showrunner/Creator: Marion Dyer
ejaculate: Alaqua Cox, K. DeVere Jacobs, Vincent D’Onofrio
Echo (Alaqua Cox) makes her first appearance hookWhere she learns the unfortunate truth about her surrogate father, Kingpin (Vincent D’Onofrio). sound echo She will pick up her life after the end hookwhere she attempted to take over the Kingpin’s empire and become the superhero we know.
New offers on Max
True Detective: Night Country
Type: A chilling murder mystery
release date: January 14 with one episode
Showrunner/Creator: Issa Lopez
ejaculate: Jodie Foster, Callie Reese, John Hawkes
Just when you think you’re out, the vortex pulls you back in. the new True Detective It takes us back to the first part in the mood: two laconic and dedicated detectives solving a murder mystery, with Lovecraftian horror and some kind of creepy nonsense guiding their way. SPOILER-FREE REVIEW: We have our first really great show of the year.
New shows on AMC Plus channel
Mr. Speed
Type: Murder mystery
release date: January 14 with one episode
Exhibitors/Creators: Scott Frank and Tom Fontana
ejaculate: Clive Owen, Alfre Woodard, Dean Winters
Sam Spade (Clive Owen) is back, and he looks very different from what we know of him – for the most part. The character first appeared in a novel by Dashiell Hammett Maltese falcon, before appearing in other stories, including the film adaptation of the same name with Humphrey Bogart as Spade. Now it’s Clive Owen’s turn, and the new AMC Plus show has brought him back to his black happy place, only now with a little modern polish and some… True Detective-Murders to boot.
New offers on peacock
Ted
Type: A saucy introduction
release date: January 11
Showrunner/Creator: Seth MacFarlane
ejaculate: Seth MacFarlane, Alana Ubach, Scott Grimes
He remembers Ted? Seth MacFarlane as a foul-mouthed, talking teddy bear? Well, he’s back, with a preview of the years before TED movies. Set in the ’90s, the Peacock show will focus on what it’s like to be a 16-year-old, even if you have a magical teddy bear who loves drugs and swearing.
New offers on Apple TV Plus
Criminal record
Type: Procedural crime
release date: January 10
Showrunner/Creator: Paul Ruttman
ejaculate: Cush Jumbo and Peter Capaldi
Two detectives are brought together by chance and are tasked with solving an impossible case. It’s a tried and true formula, and Criminal record is no exception. This time it will bring in some cameos, though: Cush Jumbo as the young detective at the beginning of her career, and Doctor WhoPeter Capaldi as a war veteran determined to protect his reputation.
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Finale
Image: Apple TV Plus
Type: The world of kaiju
release date: January 12
Exhibitors/Creators: Matt Fraction and Chris Black
ejaculate: Anna Sawai, Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell
Big monsters! Alternate dimensions! Adventure around the world trying to outsmart mysterious organizations! Kurt and Wyatt Russell play the same character! Godzilla like himself! monarch Season 1 had it all – and the Season 1 finale is here to deliver (and help explain why everyone is chasing all those kaiju).
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